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Starting Saturday September 6th The Daily Telegraph Newspaper is offering readers a unique nine-part souvenir DVD collection celebrating the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The DVDs all Feature rare archive footage and exclusive new interviews and unseen footage of her life from childhood to the present day.

Having enjoyed The Churchill DVDs, The Margaret Thatcher DVDs and all the other factual DVDs such as “That Was The Year” and “Days That Shook the World” I bet these will be absolutely fascinating & I’d really like to get them, I can imagine that these will be in great demand & will soon be snapped up on Ebay so I may go and get them with the paper instead, of course if they are in great demand I’ll have to go and get the paper from WHSmith really early.

More info here:

DVDs in the collection are

* Duty & Destiny
* The Diana Years
* Childhood
* A Lifelong Romance
* Politics of Change
* Head of the Commonwealth
* Queen & Country
* A Golden Celebration
* A Family Album

A man entered the bus with both of his front pockets full of golf balls and sat down next to a beautiful blonde. The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets.

Finally, after many such glances from her, he said, ‘It’s golf balls’.
Nevertheless, the blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking deeply about what he had said.

After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked;

Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow?

The object of this fun little game is to click the ball with the mouse pointer so that it changes colour - Have fun, lol

http://mazzanet.id.au/ball.php

Oasis’ hotly anticipated forthcoming album, entitled “Dig out Your Soul”, is Released on 7th September 2008. I am a big Oasis fan and have got all their albums including Definitely Maybe, What’s The Story, The Masterplan, Be Here Now, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and Heathen Chemistry, and I can hardly wait to get it.

So far I have only heard four of the tracks and I really like what I hear so far, The tracks just seem to get better & better the more I listen to them.

Anyway here is the track-listing for the forthcoming album.

1. Bag It Up
2. The Turning
3. Waiting For The Rapture
4. The Shock Of The Lightning
5. I’m Outta Time
6. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
7. Falling Down
8. To Be Where There’s Life
9. Ain’t Got Nothin’
10. The Nature of Reality
11. Soldier On

Here are four tracks courtesy of YouTube from the Live performance in Seattle on Aug 26th 2008

The Shock Of The Lightning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCUzarqiWso
To Be Where There’s Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSKUCDQ2nKE
Ain’t Got Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0_WRbTG84Q
Falling Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXhUCc1udao

Lately I’ve also been listening to the Chemical Brothers Latest album “Brotherhood” It contains all the greatest hits plus a few songs from the last album “We Are The Night” including Saturate & Do It Again. It’s really great. Here is the track-listing

Disc: 1
1. Galvanize
2. Hey Boy Hey Girl
3. Block Rockin’ Beats
4. Do It Again
5. Believe
6. Star Guitar
7. Let Forever Be
8. Leave Home
9. Keep My Composure
10. Saturate
11. Out Of Control
12. Golden Path
13. Setting Sun
14. Chemical Beats

Here are a few tunes courtesy of YouTube

Galvanize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hzVV2Nwfs
Hey Girl Hey Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hHsYOLETqE
Do It Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNMZS7Rfuw
Setting Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Y7fMbbaP8
Saturate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agb-oFZjuGM
Star Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBgf2ZxIDZk

You can pick up a copy of JOTTINGS by veteran actress Lizz Smith for £2.99 when you buy the Times newspaper from WHSmith this week.

It is a collection of stories that Liz has written over the years. Sometimes they explore the darker side of life and what may occur out of the public gaze: a rich and lonely housewife neglects her child and the nanny subjects her charge to unpleasant and adult scenes; a man’s wish for fame catapults him into prison and mistaken notoriety; an unhappy wife loses her only friend and is haunted by her.

Other stories are more amusing: the sexy, man-eating woman who runs the mobile library: moving through the fog of 1950’s London with the help of a blind man; a scheming daughter who plans to take her mother’s money has a surprising comeuppance.

All in all Liz’s stories are unexpected, original and revealing of a writer who is fascinated by relationships and the barriers we erect between our public and private selves, and having seen some of her interviews I imagine this will be a great book.

From Sunday September 7th The Times Newspaper is doing a collection of Classic DVDs from the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock which runs until Saturday with DVDs being picked up each day when you buy the paper from WHSmith - This sounds like a fantastic offer - I’d like to get all of these as I am a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock films - So far I’ve got “The Birds” “Psycho” “Marnie” “North By Northwest” “Rear Window” & “Vertigo” so they should be a wonderful addition. The DVDs on offer in the series are:

Sunday - The 39 Steps [1935]
John Buchan’s classic novel gets the Hitchcock treatment. It features an innocent man named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) who is forced to go on the run, along with A beautiful, icy blonde named Pamela (Madelaine Carroll) in order to uncover the mystery of The Thirty Nine Steps and clear his name, along the way he finds himself embroiled in a chaotic world in which no one is what they seem….

Monday - The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]
Taut, twisting thriller in which a dying man reveals an assassination plot, a child is abducted,
and a man must choose between his family and his country…

Tuesday - Sabotage [1936]
An innocent boy (played by Desmond Tester) unwittingly delivers a bomb onto a bus that is
stuck in traffic, and a terrorist uses his business as a front for his subversive activities in this adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent”.

Wednesday - Secret Agent [1936]
This film is based on a W. Somerset Maugham spy story and features a novelist who has his death faked by British Intelligence, before embarking on a perilous and eccentric mission….

Thursday - Young and Innocent [1937]
A stylish thriller with a simple premise: a man finds the body of a young girl and runs to get help. Two young witnesses take him for the killer, and he faces a fight to prove his innocence…

Friday - Jamaica Inn [1939]
This Brilliant Hitchcock adaptation of a Classic Daphne Du Maurier tale is a superbly atmospheric tale of thieves and cutthroats set on the rugged Cornish coast. An orphan girl goes to live with her uncle, but discovers that he is the head of a gang of bloodthirsty wreckers.

Saturday - The Lady Vanishes [1938]
tale which takes place aboard a trans-continental express, where a young woman befriends an English governess who promptly disappears. Seeking an explanation, she is accused of hallucinating, but the more questions she asks, the deeper the mystery becomes…

Lately I have been listening to The Verve’s latest album “Forth” there are some brilliant tracks on it. It starts off with lively tracks such as “Sit and Wonder”,”Love is Noise” and “Rather Be” meanders a bit in the middle with tracks like “I see Houses” and then picks up the pace again at the end with tracks like “Valium Skies” “Appalachian Springs” and the two bonus tracks “Mover” and “Chic Dub”. I think it is a great album.

Here is the Track-listing:

01. Sit And Wonder
02. Love Is Noise
03. Rather Be
04. Judas
05. Numbness
06. I See Houses
07. Noise Epic
08. Valium Skies
09. Columbo
10. Appalachian Springs
11. Mover [bonus track]
12. Chic Dub [bonus track]

I’ve finally got round to adding a gallery of all the photos I took during last weeks Music Festival, they can all be found here:

http://whizzbang.biz/musicfest08.html

There was a Best of British Comedy Audio CD in the Observer newspaper, Sadly I missed it because I was otherwise engaged, and I would have really liked to have got it. So I’m off hunting for it on Ebay.It sounds really good & features all these classic sketches:

Monty Python - Parrot Sketch,
Mark Thomas - The War On Terror,
Arnold Brown - The Secret of Comedy,
Jo Brand - Hastings,
Pete & Dud - Tarzan,
Bill Hicks - What Is Pornography?,
Lenny Henry - Delbert Wilkins,
Rory Bremner - John Major, The Queen,
Jasper Carrott - Australian Insurance Forms,
Monty Python - The Four Yorkshiremen,
Peter Cook and Cast (featuring Rowan Atkinson) - The End of the World