Play - It's A Hard Knock Life (2004)

Obscure and some may say disturbingly addictive pop shite version of Annie's Hard Knock Life. This was performed by Play - yes - Play that famous group that went on to... erm... serve in McDonalds probably. Anyway - listen to it, tap your feet, don't tell anyone. Do you want fries with that?

Lyrics:

It's a hard knock life...
It's a hard knock life..

It's a hard-knock life for us
It's a hard-knock life for us

Stead of treated,
We get tricked
Stead of kisses,
We get kicked
It's a hard-knock life!

Got no folks to speak of, so
It's the hard knock row we hoe
Cotton blankets ..steada wool

Empty bellies ..stead of full!
It's a hard-knock life

Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin?
Don't it seem like there's never any light??
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?
It's easier than puttin' up a fight

No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy
No one cares if you grow...or if you shrink
No one cares when your eyes get wet and weepy
From all the cryin' you would think this place would sink
Ohhh.. ohhh

Empty belly life! ((empty belly life))
Rotten smelly life! ((No no no no))
Full of sorrow life! ((full of sorrow life...))
No tomorrow life!

Santa Claus we never see...
Santa Claus what's that? Whos he?

No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage

It's a hard-knock life for us
It's a hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage
It's a hard-knock life
It's a hard-knock life
It's a hard-knock life! 

GeekStuff - reactable: multi-user electronic music instrument

The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. 

Seu Jorge - Life on Mars from Life Aquatic

One of my favourite songs - Life on Mars by David Bowie being played in one of my favourite films - Life Aquatic. 

Elmo and the Goo Goo Dolls

Sell outs :) 

New Borat Album - Out Now!

Excellent - must buy it. 

Bette Davis Eyes: Kim Carnes

My wife's favourite music video.

Lyrics:

Her hair is Harlowe gold
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please ya
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
She knows ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes