It's gonna take a lot to drag me awaaaaay from you
I have always wanted to travel to Africa. Yesterday, I started to wonder why that is. All I could come up with was:
1. That waterfall scene at the end of “The Power of One” was cool
2. The idea of sitting under a tree in Botswana drinking bush tea sounds quite appealing
3. I listened to THAT Toto song a few too many times during my formative years
4. I like zebras
This would be a good time to ring everyone you know in Africa and tell them to start preparing for the massive surge in tourism that this post will, inevitably, cause. When it happens, we will know that it was nothing to do with that film about diamonds or Angelina Jolie’s fondness for all things Namibian, no, it was this post.
All there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do (to prove me wrong).
1. That waterfall scene at the end of “The Power of One” was cool
2. The idea of sitting under a tree in Botswana drinking bush tea sounds quite appealing
3. I listened to THAT Toto song a few too many times during my formative years
4. I like zebras
This would be a good time to ring everyone you know in Africa and tell them to start preparing for the massive surge in tourism that this post will, inevitably, cause. When it happens, we will know that it was nothing to do with that film about diamonds or Angelina Jolie’s fondness for all things Namibian, no, it was this post.
All there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do (to prove me wrong).
posted by I'm not Craig at 6:32 AM
18 Comments:
Must. Remove. Song. From. Head.
Between you and Jobe, I am well over my goddamn Toto quota for the year, thank you very much.
I blessed the rains down in AAAAAAAAAAAAAFRICA.
You know, I'm counting the days until one of us starts posting about poodle-rockers Europe.
It's the final countdown.....
If I could bang my head repeatedly on this desk I would in an attempt to get those two songs out of my head.
"hold the line", on the other hand, is wonderfully appropriate to my current line of work.
Love isn't always on time...
To all INC's readers: It's all these 3am conferences we keep having. The one this morning was particularly inane as Bundle and Cherub were both asleep! I suppose I should confess that the "bad music stuck in my head" theme began long before the kids arrived. Maybe there really is no hope?
Giggles
I have already blogged about Europe at http://iwanttorideit.blogspot.com/2006/12/slightly-eclectic-top-10-list.html
Rock the Night came in at number 7.
Do I win something?
Herbert
Clearly I have no idea what your current line of work is. I thought you worked in publishing.
Baffled.
Honey Bear
You look very pretty today.
thanks now i've got it stuck in my head as well. along with
ro-saaaa-naaaa-yaaaaa
i would like to go to africa too, to:
1. stay in a treehouse
2. pretend to be meryl, and perhaps john could wash my hair over a basin while on safari
3. i've always loved giraffes
you do know you can stay at werribee open range zoo in a luxury safari tent arrangement, and dine silver service on your little verandah at the front? this is one of my dreams to do, as getting to the real africa may not happen anytime soon.
hope you're well.
MG
I always wondered how to spell that song title correctly. Now I know.
Bundle shares your fondness for giraffes (pronounced 'gearffies'). I really must take the family off to Werribee soon.
We are well,thanks. Hope you and yours are all well too.
I've always wanted to go to Africa, too. But Werribee is a lot closer.
I actually very like Werribee Zoo.
Mr INC, if you organise a bit of a blogger meet under a tree in Botswana, I'll come along...
oh and peeee-essssss-a-yaaaa (sing ps to the tune of rosanna)
i meant to say thank you kind sir for nominating me for that blog awards. so thank you. i was very flattered.
x
INC - I was in publishing but then I Stuck It To The Woman by way of resigning and have subsequently been moonlighting as a receptionist. Thus telling people to please hold. The line.
Be baffled no more! shazam!
Fankoo.
And it's Girraffeeeez (signed an outraged Bundle).
Meva
It's a difficult choice, certainly.
Adam
That is where I plan to hold the first meeting of Not Craig Anonymous. Time and date to be advised.
MG
You are most welcome for the blog awards nominations, and your "ps" made me laugh for a long time
Herbert
Thanks for clearing that up. I'm vaguely relieved that it wasn't the "love isn't always on time" part that was relevant to your current line of work.
I don't even quite know why that is.
Honey Bear
Phonetics can be very tricky, can't they? You have beautiful eyes.
You should SO go to Africa. No good reason is the best reason. Ask Adam about travelling to Central America for such flimsy reasons as:
-Someone received a postcard of a nice sunset from Nicaragua six years ago
-Someone's first year uni lecturer once called "guacamole dip" "Guatemala dip" (he was German, not that that explains anything, but you have to picture it in the accent. Imagine Arnie saying: "would you like some of my Guatemala dip")... you with me...? no... ok.
Anyway, travelling to places you know absolutely nothing about but are inexplicably drawn to is totally worth it. Thanks for the song stuck in head, too. It's a nice change from "digging in the dirt, find the places we get hurt..."
Ms Rock Chick
You are absolutely right. I once went to the not particularly well known town of Carlisle (north England) solely because my brother had a crush on Belinda Carlisle and he thought it would be a good idea to send her a postcard from that town.
Seriously.
I don't think he ever sent the postcard, but the town was quite pretty.
More importantly, how on earth did you get Peter Gabriel stuck in your head? I am riding the reaction rollercoaster from stunningly confused to deeply impressed with just how 'old school' that is.
Unless, of course, some idiot like Shannon Noll has recently covered it and I just didn't know that. I hear that has been known to happen to previous good Peter Gabriel songs.
Yes well Mr Noll is one reason Peter Gabriel has been in my head but the other is that (completely coincidentally) my band has been jamming on that tune. The Dirt one. We will play it at a gig sometime soon. We have never played a cover before. I'm ashamed to say I'm a bit excited. Maybe I should audition for Captain Spalding.
I fucking love that story about Belinda Carlisle. Brilliant!! If she got that postcard I bet she will treasure it forever because that one Australian boy was the only one smart enough to make the connection.
Maybe we should start up a tour company for people who want to connect with their celebrity crush in a lateral way. We could take Paris Hilton's fans to fancy hotels, or Coldplay's groupies to Antarctica. Get it? Somewhere "cold"... Anyone?
Ok, I am as sad as your brother.
Ms Rock Chick
I applaud your band's offbeat choice for its First and Only Cover So Far. Such a refreshing change from Everlasting Love or, since this is Australia, "Like Wow Wipeout".
I should add that my brother was 18 at the time of the Belinda Carlisle thing, which is OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER.
I love the tour company idea. You and Gigglewick really out to meet and discuss joint ventures.
Am I missing something here?
"You and Gigglewick really out to meet and discuss joint ventures."
Is that a real sentence??
Okay, that should have read "You and Gigglewick really OUGHT to meet and discuss joint ventures"
Still not a sentence I would use every day, but grammatically it's all sorted.
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