You played it to the beat

I had quite forgotten how refreshing it is to have a couple of extra days away from the mind-numbing "delights" of being tied to the bloody work laptop - I booked yesterday and today off, in anticipation of having something to celebrate courtesy of "London's premier gay literary salon" Polari's thirteenth birthday bash on Wednesday. The ghastly new COVID restrictions put paid to that.

But hey ho, I have had a chance, without feeling my usual drained self on a normal weekend, to get some pruning-back and tidying done in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers...

...and now I am in the mood for a party! In my dreams.

Let's get the whole weekend shebang started with a faboo mashup - and Thank Disco It's Friday!

Yazoo vs Adele vs Gnarls Barkley - Crazy situations rolling in the deep [Ariel Perazzoli Mashup]

Have a great weekend, peeps!

Craziness

Phew! What a scorcher!

In common with many parts of the Northern hemisphere, the UK is experiencing a heatwave. I adore it when it's sunny, but today was one of those overcast, stifling ones that makes one uncomfortably sweaty without the benefit of topping-up the tan...

...and it's going to continue. Forecasters have predicted no real rain in sight for weeks yet. Echoes of that long, hot summer of 1976, methinks!

I love it, but I think we need one good overnight thunderstorm to clear the air, before we start throwing off all our clothes (like that charming young lad in the pic above - only with considerably less aesthetic merit).

Time for some music most appropriate for the situation, methinks - and eminently suitable for a Sunday chill-out:

Postmodern Jukebox feat. Hannah Gill & Casey Abrams – Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)

Postmodern Jukebox. We love them!

Circus is coming to town

As it is a Monday (boo, hiss) and we all need a bit of "jollying up", here is the new video [featuring none other than Justin Trousersnake, heavily disguised] for the first single by Gnarls Barkley from their forthcoming album The Odd Couple.

Gnarls Barkley - Run

Run
Yeah its still the same
Can’t you feel the pain
When the needle hits the vein
Ain’t nothing like the real thing
I’ve seen it once before
And oh it’s something else
Good god

Cool breeze come on in
Sunshine come on down
These are the tear drops of the clown
Circus is coming to town
All I’m saying is sometimes I’m more scared of myself
You better
move
I said
move

Runaway
Runaway
Run children
Run for your life
Runaway
Runaway
Run children
Here it comes
I said run
Alright

Yeah I’m on the run
See where I’m coming from
When you see me coming run
Before you see what I’m running from
No time for question asking time is passing by
Alright

You can’t win child
We’ve all tried to
You’ve been lied to
It’s all ready inside you
Either you run right now
Or you best get ready to die
You better
move
I said
move

Runaway
Runaway
Run children
Run for your life
Runaway
Runaway
Run children
Ooh
Here it comes
I said run