Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks Well, it was actually cloudy. Bad start. It was Sunday though, yesterday in fact. And I was lazing. Full on. Pants off. Couch on. Watching The Masters on TV. Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera battling it out for the green jacket. It's about half three in the afternoon. Tired enough [...]
Boogie Shoes - KC & The Sunshine Band Winning Streak. Back in the day this was the main TV game show in Ireland. Might still be. Contestants would go on and spin a wheel or guess something and win money. The easy part was winning. The hard part was getting on. I think you had [...]
Dancing In The Moonlight - Thin Lizzy Thirty minutes in. I think I might be drunk. A tad tipsy. High as a kite. On my way to skunks who are drunks town. In the non-literal sense. Obviously. Literally, I'm 45,000 feet in the air on the way to Miami. High flying. Fly in the sky. [...]
Made this a while ago for TV meetings and the likes. Tease on, as they say. Here's the tale of it all -> I Shot The Sheriff. Sticking it up for Paddy's Day, how wonderful. RanDumber shall be free this weekend too so keep on eye out for that. Spread the glorious gibber. Watch on! [...]
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears Harking back to my college days, oh what a lark, one thing that sticks out in my mind is texting girls on behalf of my friends. Not all the time, just some times, if they got stuck trying to woo a girl. Sometimes I still [...]
Cause - Rodriguez So yesterday a couple of lights, bombs, bells and whistles exploded off in my head. It's a been a while. Epiphany on. I was talking to a guy who asked me a simple enough question: What have you been doing lately? Rattled off the usual replies. This. That. The gibber. Grand. As [...]
Continuing on from... LonDumb - Part I LonDumb - Part II LonDumb - Part III LonDumb - Part IV LonDumb - Part V Pompeii - Bastille Eating all that paper. Not the best preparation for a flight back to America. Customs. Fully to the fore. What if they do what they did to Kailand?! But [...]
(Continuing on from... LonDumb - Part I LonDumb - Part II LonDumb - Part III LonDumb - Part IV) Walking On Broken Glass - Annie Lennox Pa Ranoid they might call me, if my name was Pa, Paddy, Pat or Patrick. Thankfully, it is none of the above. But I am paranoid. And I'm in a hotel lobby. On [...]
(Continuing on from... LonDumb - Part I LonDumb - Part II LonDumb - Part III) "Want some skunk geezer?" Pardon? "Some skunk?" Do I want a skunk? "Yeah. Want to buy?" Why would I buy a skunk? "You being funny?" Am I being funny? "You is being funny, pretty boy." Oh Jesus. So I get out of the [...]
In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield Merry Christmas RanDummies and mighty blogaruu readers! Hope you are still getting your turkey sweats on. While you do, why not enjoy this piece which I wrote for an Irish paper recently. Pants off. Trifle. On! A Hollywood Christmess Story Is that Slash? Hmm. Is he looking at me? [...]
Continuing on from LonDumb - Part I and LonDumb - Part II... Everything's Gonna Be All Right (Oliver Nelson Remix) - Barry Manilow So I'm at Will Call. On my right, a big huge queue. Chunky as funk. Balls, I'm going to be here ages. Steward nudges me inside the line. Thank you. Actually. Is this [...]
It's A Long Way To Tipperary - Little Green Cars What do you call a ponder pipe that just lays around all day? Mopey Dick. Badum. My first day in London, I was moping like no other. Woke up early. Phoned the prison. Spoke to Kailand. Told me her news - "They keep giving us [...]
Unbelievable - EMF Cab's outside. My clothes are still wet. What. The. Funk. Dryer mysteriously died the night before. Damp garments strewn all over my abode. Dry, funkers, dry!! Need to pack you, you and you. Need ye all for my trip to London. Vital I have that white t-shirt and that white t-shirt and [...]
For reasons unknown, all names shall be culled from this blogaruu. Except for mine. I'm going full on narcissistic. Tropical Hayes all the way! So it's the day after Halloween. Actually, the night. Limo pulls up outside my abode. It's time. Put on my private jet pants. Grab my bag. Scuttle out. Hop in. High fives. [...]
New York New York - Frank Sinatra So I land. Collect my bag. Walk out the airport doors. Cross the zebra crossing. And hear a guy stuck in traffic shouting at me out of his mini van window. "Welcome to New York, you're going to rock it in this city, am I right?!" Before I [...]
Angelina/Zooma Zooma - Louis Prima Blog. Book. Sitcom. Movie. You know the plan! Time to get phase three in action. So I write a script. Pick a scene. Let's shoot that. What do I need? Director? Sorted. Cast? Dancing. Location? Hmm. Actually. How about the Irish coffee shop down the street from me? Especially as the [...]
Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis It's a Sunday night. You're sick of talking to banterless clowns in dead bars. So you go to a liquor store. And end up down an alley. Trying to have a laugh with some homeless guy. Who's trying to take a drink from your brown paper bag. Life. [...]
This Must Be The Place (Viceroy Edit) - Talking Heads Mighty weekend. Went to a secret sale on Friday. Bought a pair of $200 jeans for $5. Came home. Tried them on. Drove my foot through the crotch. Down to the knee. Ripped jeans apart. Mighty. Money's Worth Hayes, they call me. Also had a [...]
Running Up That Hill (Louis La Roche Remix) - Kate Bush Some things in L.A appear will never change. Not unless I do, anyway. Such as, people calling me by the wrong name over and over. Ever growing list at this stage. The usuals still apply. Merrick. Eric. Omar. Moved on a lot to Merk. [...]
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner Let me hear you say WeHo, WeHo! Mighty Monday was had today. Why oh why, do you say? Well, let me stop speaking in rhyming riddles and calm down a second. Now. OK. So. I've been going through a bit of a power ballad phase, in [...]