This is one of my favourite songs. Bertie Higgins has a fantastic voice. I just love the romantic images the song conjures up in my mind.

I loved Billy Ray Cyrus. He was just so damn cute. It was a great catchy song, and just look at all the hairstyles

Aserejé by Las Ketchup. I know all the words

I am particularly fascinated by one hit wonders, especially the ones that peak high on the charts and are hugely successful for a little while and then disappear completely leaving everyone embarrassed and denying that they ever liked it. Those are the songs that define eras.

Don’t try to pretend you don’t know how to dance the macarena!

Were you a kiwi kid? Do you remember this?

I used to watch RTR every week. I remember sitting on the floor watching it while Mum would be doing the ironing behind me in the lounge.

I’ve had this song (by Falco) on near endless repeat for the past few days. I barely understand a word of it, but I like it anyway.

I realise this blog has turned into an endless string of YouTube videos in the last couple of months but there is a good reason for that. I am taking a break from procrastinating my thesis and am currently trying to get the damn thing finally finished.

More frequent and original posts should return at the end of the year

I’m not generally much into classical music, but I make an exception for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra:

…. he’s gonna love ya, hard as he can.

One of my tutors posted this on our class discussion forum:

If you are anything like me and everyone I’ve shown it to so far, your first reaction is ‘that’s so gay’. Apparently these guys were touted as Canada’s straight answer to the Village People.

But really, what is it about this that makes it homoerotic?

It can’t be just the cowboy thing, because Brokeback Mountain only came out in 2005, and I’ll bet most of us would still have thought this was gay before that came out.

It could be the moustaches. The mo just isn’t a very fashionable look anymore. But you have to remember that moustaches were once sexy – just think back to Magnum P.I.

It could be the black leather. As far as I can tell, the guys are all wearing jeans except for one guy in leather. But leather can’t be the whole story – would your first response to a group of Hell’s Angels in leather be that they are gay?

It could be the choreography. But groups like the Chippendales & Manpower Australia take their shirts off and dance to choreographed routines. And believe me, there is nothing gay about the Chippendales (I’ve been there).

It could be the fact that the guys are in a bar with their shirts off. I’ve seen that happen in pubs on Waiheke in the summer, and it wasn’t gay. Plus, remember that it’s a music video, not a documentary.

There was probably nothing even remotely gay about this video in 1979 – it was just a display of erotic masculinity. I actually think it is quite sexy even now (well, apart from the guy with the really enormous mo), and I do like the song. I especially like the little bit of choreography that starts around 2:24 (or 1:26 counting down).

There exists a video of me on YouTube.  While it is quite embarrassing to me, it may be quite entertaining for you.  That’s provided you find the early auditions of American Idol entertaining – the ones with the people who can’t sing to save their lives but who think they have a shot at becoming a popstar.

Posting it here for your amusement would just be too easy, so I am going to challenge you all to find it.  I will give you a few hints to point you in the right direction.  

1. You can find it if you figure out either the name of the song I am singing or the artist
2. You can also find it if you figure out my YouTube account name
3. You can’t find it by searching my real name
4. It is a country song
5. The guy who sings it is listed in my favourite country artists on this site
6. He has this song available for preview on his myspace page

When you find it, you can comment either here or on YouTube to get your kudos.  Just don’t post the link here in case other people want to flex their stalking muscles. 

If it is too difficult, you can email me for further clues.

Stephen and Marshmallow are disqualified because they already know where it is.  They are also prohibited from helping anyone else find it

I predict Ebs will find it first.

In my post about piña coladas, I included lyrics from Escape (The Piña Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes. For those of you who have never heard it before: Listen to Escape (The Piña Colada Song)