Despite the sound of it, the Musical Baton meme has nothing to do with orchestra conductors or marching bands and twirling/juggling.
Natalie has generously passed me the Musical Baton, which will give you an insight into my musical tastes (supposedly). Anyway, there are some questions I need to answer…
Total volume of Music on my Computer:
0.00 Gb (0 items lasting 0 hour 0 minutes 0 seconds)
With a 4Gb hard-drive and a 56k modem, I can hardly afford the space or time to download music.
Song playing right now:
N/A
See answer above for explaination
Last CD I bought (as opposed to downloaded/copied):
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2
Five songs I listen to a lot/mean a lot to me:
- Night and Day – U2. The first song I dedicated to my wife (wasn’t even my girlfriend at the time)
- Surfing with The Alien – Joe Satriani. Inspired me to take up the guitar… now all I need is some time to pick it up again.
- Redemption Song – Bob Marley. The song which started my love of reggae
- Kick Start My Heart – Mötley Crüe. I’m yet to hear a better driving song.
- Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton/Damage. Always loved this Clapton song, and when Damage release a version just before my wedding with the “long brown hair” in place of the original’s “long blonde hair”, it made for a perfect song for use as a wedding song.
Five people to whom I am passing the baton:
This is where I’ll depart from this memes convention… instead of making this meme a chain-letter type thing, I’d like to see this meme spread based on a “opt-in” system. So, if there are five or more people willing to take on this baton, please let me know via the comments where I can go to get an idea about your musical tastes.
A reader of this blog was somewhat disappointed that I didn’t write anything about the Logies… to be specific, he was disappointed that I didn’t write about Anthony Callea’s performace during the evening. There’s a couple of reasons for this.
- I didn’t watch the Logies… therefore I didn’t see the performance
- After the attention my last Anthony Callea related post got, I thought it better that I not say anything to upset the hoardes of Anthony Callea fans that trawl the web for people speaking ill of the love of their life
- I haven’t really had the time to blog about anything
But all that said, I’m more than happy to post the review T-man provided.
So, I present to you T-man’s view
* of Anthony Callea’s performance at this years Logie awards evening:
We’ve all seen it, some of us have even been it. I’m talking about that kid who at every family get together does that thing. At some time during the night uncle Albert will say, “Johnny, are you going to do that song/dance etc that you do that we all enjoy?” and Johnny being a young kid seeking attention will get up in front of the family and do his bit and everyone will clap and laugh and say how cute it all is. When does it stop being cute? When do you grow out of that role? Well I caught a small bit of the Logies last night and saw that maybe the answer is never. On stage, dwarfed by the set was one Anthony Callea, doing his trick, again he sang the Prayer, a song no self respecting teenager would listen too if it wasn’t on Australian Idol, and the audience sat back and politely clapped with that ‘isn’t he cute’ type of enthusiasm. And all I could think of was that kid who continually does his act at the family get togethers. At least he wasn’t miming, well I don’t think so anyway.
* I don’t necessarily share the view, but then again, I might.
