The Band Gazebo

Perhaps only smiley-b will care about this but found while surfing YouTube - a St Elsewhere reunion, with a clip of yes, THAT scene!



I refuse to rant about it (though it was, is and e'er will be the most heinous act of hackery perpetuated by writers on an unsuspecting audience. Bobby in the shower? Insert Moffat moment here? They got nothing on the last few minutes of St Elsewhere!) though Chad seems to have a sense of humour about it....

So I'm thinking of my het_bigbang (which I managed to map out when administering standardised tests to a classful of kids once I'd finished my other work and was bored, and before the fit hit the shan yesterday afternoon) and am now looking at YouTube for Nate links...


Hetty catches Nate reading comic books/graphic novels. We learn later in the series that Kensi has a collection. Coincidence?



Apparently, Nate has, in the past, backed into Hetty's Jag. And Kensi likes a man in a suit.

WAIT! THERE IS A VID JUST ENTITLED KENSI AND NATE? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?


It is slow to load and I cannot get sound. I am saving this for later!


Nate joins Kensi in the field, from 1x16 "Chinatown". Nate busts her chops like partners do, she threatens him with a muzzle. The topic? Being in a relationship. I have just got a whole new scene. No I don't, it won't fit in with my timeline. Damn. Hang on. I can rewrite the timeline. And get extra scenes and bump the word count. Give me pompoms.


Haven't seen this but it's called the secrets of Kensi and purports to tell her story as we know it. Again, saving for later.

So I get home from the church after attending a Confirmation preparation ceremony, and while Nimoy is getting ready for bed I do a quick facebook scan and as if punishment for being a bad mother, I lose a part of my childhood with the news that Davy Jones of the Monkees has passed away.

Obviously, I'm too young for the original broadcast. (Obviously, ok? Way obviously!) But one summer the BBC repeated all the programs, and then showed them on Saturday mornings and I used to love it when they played out with Daydream Believer because as only the very young and innocent can, I believed that he was singing about my mum.

My Flash Plugin is crashing so I can't play YouTube on the laptop and don't know if this can really link, but this is what I'll be teaching my class tomorrow....



And this is only for people of a certain age, or possibly just smiley_b



Let me know if these can/can't be seen????

Meant to post this last night but didn't have the computer turned on and can't figure out how to embed from the iPad!

RIP Etta James

So, rooting around youtube as husband is on the phone and I end up looking at Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood clips. Therefore this post is brought to you by the phrase I don't but if I did...

The official video of the duet.


A fan made video which is actually more interesting!


All their hosting moments from the 2011 CMAs together... now with added Muppets! (Because everything is better with Muppets!)


Funny skit from CMA Fest 2010


CMA Awards Opening 2010


CMA Awards Opening 2009 (hey, why not?!)


And for completist sake, 2008!

Sixteen years ago today, Sergei Grinkov passed away. He was 28 years old.

Have some skating.



Hard to believe that Daria is now 19 years old with an American accent...how the time does fly!



The quintessential G&G program.

Off for more YouTube now!

Have just finished watching Strictly's Broadway week, and great googly moogly, the disappointment that it was. OK, some of the routines were really good (Jason was, as Craig said, stupendous, and Alex and James were ethereal and beautiful and Robbie and Ola continue to amaze and surprise) but overall... Holly's tango? Blah. (Does Artem just not like her or are the Kara jealousy stories really true?) Anita and Robin were a hot mess (and I repeat, after Austin, no one should touch that music) and as for Aliona and Harry's jive to Greased Lightning, it only serves to prove that she's a shite choreographer, because there was too little dance and too much posing for my liking and a nine for a score? No. Just no.

So, in an effort to cheer myself up after that, I youtubed my favourite jives (the jive is my favourite dance) so therefore I must spam you all with them too.

ETA: OK embedding is still not working for me. I don't know what's up with that.

First, the jive by which all others, according to It Takes Two are measured - Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett, I'm Still Standing from the final of the second series. The first full house in Strictly history.

Darren and Jill jiving


Robin and Anita? This is why your music was a bad, bad idea. 2008, Austin Healey and Erin Boag, You Can't Stop the Beat
You Can't Stop the Beat

2010, Scott Maslen and Natalie Lowe, Hit the Road Jack - Scott, I could take or leave, never been overly fond of Natalie, and Lord knows I've bitched and moaned about overmarking on the show for the last few seasons. But this? This I would have given a 10 to, no question.
Hit the Road Jack

And finally, the best pro dance ever in the history of the show... Rebel Yell
More, more more

Here endeth the lesson.

Just looked at the series 6 finale of Criminal Minds. Vaguely nonspoilery thoughts ( here )

And because it's too cool not to, linked by leobrat

ETA: OK, so embedding media is not working for me. Let's try just a link Taylor Swift sings "Long Live" in the pouring rain at Gillette Stadium

Further to this morning's post...now with YouTube links!

Brad and Carrie's opening monologue for the 43rd annual CMA Awards ... the Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Kanyes was good, but keep watching... the Brooks and Dunn section had me in tears.

Little Jimmy Dickens Goes Kanye on Brad Paisley - and it's what he says as he's going offstage that makes it art, I swear.

Since cheapevilgirl's link has gone the way of the Dodo (or at least the eagle eyes of the NBC copyright department), everyone needs to have a Zack attack ... I swear, I have never loved Mark Paul Gosselaar more. (And I watched NYPD Blue til the end, I loved him plenty!)

Also? I'm sure the Jimmy Fallon makeup people had something to do with it, but seriously... there is a picture in that man's attic!