I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

It was a perfect summer day, weather wise, over here in northeastern New York. Few storms around to our north and west, but dry here. Got to 81 F, today, so not too hot and not too chilly...lovely! In fact, if I had a car, and the cash to spare, I'd tell you EXACTLY what I'd be doing tonight: Drive-in cinema!

Yeah, I'd be getting some take out--pizza or Chinese, a cooler full of cold drinks and a bag of movie-theater butter flavour microwave popcorn, and a nice (or rubbish) double feature, sitting in my car, fending off the mosquitoes and watching the shadows of moths sometimes floating across the screen, as they cross through the projector lights.

What's playing at The Glen tonight? On Screen One: Get Smart and The Incredible Hulk. On Screen Two: Kung Fu Panda and You Don't Mess With the Zohan---and, the nice thing about this theater, is that it's set up so if you don't like the second feature on Screen one--why, just drive 'round to the other side and watch what's on Screen two!

It'd definitely be screen one all the way, for me--I LOVED "Get Smart" when I was wee! (It was a US sit-com about secret agents...it was great! I used to pretend I was "Agent 99." And, I always like these comic-based films, like Superman and Spiderman and such, so "Hulk" is a good second flick--tho', because it's second feature, I suspect that it's not all that good...2nd features often aren't...but sometimes they do surprise you and are wonderful, you never know.

One of the reasons I seldom use Yahoo any longer, is the ridiculously huge amount of rude junk mail I get--not to mention the scams and possible viruses.

For instance, I just got this in my in-box:

"I'm lying on my bed getting wet, just thinking about you..." Okaay then...I hope he's just got a leak in his roof.

Oh, and love the one's addressed to "Nancy," that offer to enlarge my "penis." I'm an old maid, not a transvestite...I never get to have that much fun.

While I'm praying for anything regarding eppy 11 to turn up on YouTube (hopefully), I thought I'd pick on David Tennant some more. I mean, why not? It's not like I have any better to do, today...it's more entertaining than doing the washing up and hoovering, at least.

What people REALLY mean, when they say this about David Tennant:

"I sometimes call him 'David Ten-inch."
TRANSLATION: "My God his feet are enormous!"

"He's a very intense actor"
TRANSLATION:
"His farts are incredibly concentrated and powerful!"

"Thousand of British girls and women--and some men, think he's the sexiest actor on television."
TRANSLATION:
"British girls and women--and some men, don't get out very much."

"David always gives a very energized performance."
TRANSLATION:
"The man REALLY needs to stop swilling down 30 cups of black coffee before he starts work in the morning."

And, finally:

"I'm sure David very much appreciates, deep down, all the affection that his fans have shown him."
TRANSLATION
"My gawd, that's one hyper-active little puppy he has in his pants."

With apologies to Mr. Tennant--just a bit of fun. (& again, NO fan-girls, the man WILL NEVER read my blog, so no more "I love you David's" in my comments box, ey?) Seriously, he's a brilliant actor, nearly as good as Derek Jacobi, James Stewart or Olivier, almost.

"Who me? I wasn't staring down your blouse, Catherine, your chest simply happened to be looking directly towards my eyes, that's all..."

While I'm taking a break from sorting out the front room, thought I'd listen to more tunes. Two different internet radio stations, two different mixes:

Accuradio:

TITLE/ARTIST (Decades: 70's mix--nice station, very few adverts and you can skip songs your're not too keen on.

(They started off the mix with several songs from when I was 18/19 years old...)

My Life/Billy Joel
Old Time Rock & Roll/Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band
Bad Girls/Donna Summer "toot-toot-yeah-beep-beep!" Disco lives! Disco foreva!
Turn the Beat Around/Vicki Sue Robinson
Sweet Seasons/Carole King
Wildfire/Michael Martin Murphy
Back Home Again/John Denver
Mandy/Barry Manilow
Disco Inferno/The Trammps
Saturday/Chicago
An Old Fashioned Love Song/Three Dog Night
Hotel California/The Eagles
Rhiannon/Fleetwood Mac
Take it Easy/The Eagles (GREAT "road-trip" song!)
Jet Airliner/Steve Miller Band
Long Train Runnin'/The Doobie Brothers
Stairway to Heaven/Led Zepplin
Da Do Ron Ron/Shaun Cassidy (Yikes! I STILL know all the words, over 30 years later!)
Boogie Oggie Oggie/A Taste of Honey

Pandora Radio:

(Currently unable to obtain a license to play in the UK--but supposedly they hope to be able to afford it some time in the future--according to their website... "In the UK, to be a licensed service for all the music we want to play on Pandora, we are being asked to pay per track/stream rates which equate to over 80% of our gross revenues. This licensing framework does not enable any entity to grow an economically viable ad-supported Internet radio business. These rates apply to all Internet radio, or so we have been told. You would have to ask those other companies about how they are still streaming to the UK."

Soluble in Air/Mystery Jets
Mumbles/Bridges and Powerlines
Everyday I Love You Less and Less/Kaiser Chiefs
Sam's Town/The Killers
Ruby/The Kaiser Chiefs
Fire Island, AK/The Long Winters
Don't Stop Believin'/ Journey
Refugee/Tom Petty
Feelin'/The La's
In the Future When All's Well/Morrisey
I Kinda' Got Lost/Chris Bell
Please/The Brokedown
Everybody Wants You/Sioan
Heartbeat/Humble Pie
Deeper Shade of Blue/Steps
Oohh Ahh (just a little bit)/ Gina G
Challengers/The New Pornographers
I'm Always in Love/Wilco
In The Frame/ Rob Laufer
Can't Get You Outta' My Head/Kylie Minogue
Get together/Madonna
Before/Pet Shop Boys
Pandora's Box/Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
This is Where I Belong/The Kinks
19th Nervous Breakdown/The Rolling Stones
Friends of Mine/The Zombies
Freedom/The Housemartins
The Prisoner/ The Clash
If Anyone Falls/Stevie Nicks
Our Earth Was Once Green/Runrig
Flirting with Time/Tom Petty
Toy Soldiers (live)/Carbon Leaf
I Believe in You/Big City Rock
Las Vegas/Deacon Blue
Peter Collard/The Whitlams
Touch Too Much/The Arrows
I Want You to Want Me/Cheap Trick
Lost Horizons/Gin Blossoms
Waiting/Freezer Door
Love on the Moon/The Sutherlands
Roamin'/Fat Mistress
It's Your Thing/Isley Brothers
Bellicose/My Dad Versus Yoursm

I woke this morning, dying for a hamburger. What's with that????

Very strange.

Don't have any hamburger, so I guess it's just good ol' honey-nut shredded wheat for me, this morning, LOL.

Nice day, today. Not a cloud in the sky, not too hot, not too cold. Good day for a drive (I know, I know, global warming, carbon footprint, yadda-yadda-yadda...but I don't have a car anymore, so I can indulge in such fantasies.)

"Carbon Footprint." That's the new power-word among the trendy set, these days. People and their posh words. Why don't they just say it like it is---"QUIT HOGGIN' ALL THE PETROL AND DESTROYING THE OZONE LAYER, YOU IDIOT!"

Ah, well.

Got some mellow 70's tunes on the radio. Love my 1970's music. I ALWAYS had a radio on, from the time I got my first radio at 10, until the early 1980's. I used to be able to name every single top ten hit, from every year of the 1970's.

Of course, now that I'm in my upper-40's and edging into early senility, can't really do that, anymore.

Oh, here's an irony: I'm being put on Procrit shots, to help me feel less fatiqued and more alert....except...the Procrit comes with a warning not to do any activity that requires you to be alert and needs you to concentrate, because it makes you kind of dopey.

So...doesn't the one thing, cancel out the other thing?

Have a great Saturday, all!

Seems CBS News, over here on my side of the Big Pond, made a really huge boo-boo, not too long ago.

They reported that there's been an increase of earthquake frequency, and that it may be linked to global warming. Mind you, with zero scientific EVIDENCE to back this up, not sure how anyone could begin to make this as link. Sounds good though, doesn't it?

Seems they withdrew the story very quickly--with no comment--after a few calls into the network's HQ by members of the scientific community, pointing out the fact, that the Earth was more active in 1900, than it is now, and also the total lack of any research, to base this conclusion on.

Later it was revealed that the source was some New Age "scientist" called Tom Chalko, who recently published a report titled, "Can the Earth EXPLODE?"

Seems Chalko is big on something called, "bioresonance."

"What the heck is THAT?" you may ask. Beats me, but it sure sounds good, doesn't it?

"I can't believe it! My agent is making me practice my snogging while I'm on hold!"

In 1986, the BBC launched the Dr Who USA tour, to great fan-fare.

At some point, it made its way to our neck of the woods, and our local fan club was asked to both host the exhibit and also to act as "helpers." It was sooo-exciting, as a fan, to attend this.

Now, my memory being fuzzy, I was always under the impression that this was in '87, but I suppose it must have been '86, according to the source I found.

As part of my duties, I had to hand out brochures and assist with the souvenier stand.

For our efforts, we were awarded a special peek inside the trailer. As one entered the "Tardis" door on towards the rear of the trailer, one was greeted by a Tardis console.

Strangely enough, only this past weekend, while going through a box of old family photos, I found my journal (what was left of it after my roof where I was living at the time, collaspsed in an ice storm, and leaked water all over my bedroom)...and there was two pages devoted to my time at the exhibit--unfortunately, more than half those pages suffered severe water damage and are illegible now (my mum sometimes hung onto the oddest things of mine to keep--thought I'd thrown that journal out, years ago!)

Anyway, what I could read, was a blurb about being allowed to touch the console--which I gather, wasn't normally allowed--in fact, I seem to remember it being specially protected, but I may be wrong. so, I guess I must have looked enthralled, because one of the guy's running the exhibit for the BBC, pulled me aside and, smiling, told me it was okay for me to touch it. Believe it or not, I was absolutely chuffed. No one else in our group was allowed this privledge, and I'm not sure why I was singled out, but I'm glad I was.

I wish I could say that I remember the rest of the displays....but I think I was still so over the moon about the console thing, that I didn't take the rest of it in very well--tho' I remember the Cyberman mask and the Dalek, of course--those were pretty unforgettable.

As we exited the trailer, I was startled to see a film crew there. Aparently a crew from "Breakfast" had shown up, and, being the first to exit the exhibit, I was motioned over to be interviewed--and I haven't a clue what I said, but I'm sure, being totally unprepared, I probably sounded an idiot, ha-ha.

The trailer went on it's merry way...tho' I still have that photo of me.

But, someone recently found the trailer in a scrap yard, and here's a website that shows what it looked like, in it's entirety. It was all hand-air brushed, with the Tower of Rassilon, I think as it's main feature. The entrance and exit doors were made to look like the Tardis door---it was really cool.

http://www.drwhoexhibitions.co.uk/usatour.htm

Yes, I had the tee shirt....and the bag, for years, 'till they wore out.

Someone send out the anorak police, and tell them to bring the padded truck.

I'm thinking of taking the Genesis song, "Illegal Alien" and re-wording it to,"I'm a Whovian, I'm a hopeless Whovian..."