Stuff We Really Like by Music

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Lego

A classic. Lego started to be produced in 1949 and has gone from strength to strength. It's original as the day it was created. Doesn't matter how old you are — you always have time to play with some lego. 

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The Terminator The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the year 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor.

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Scott Walker Born Noel Scott Engel and one of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, Scott Walker was known as Scotty Engel when he cut obscure flop records in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s in the teen idol vein. He then hooked up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the Walker Brothers. They weren’t named Walker, they weren’t brothers, and they weren’t English, but they nevertheless became a part of the British Invasion after moving to the U.K. For more info: http://tinyurl.com/p2j5y

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Questions How far east can you go before you’re heading west?  Where does your lap go when you stand up? Why is there always one teaspoon left after the washing up?

Why do you always lose one sock in the wash? Were stairs made to go up or to go down? Do they have the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary? And is there another word for ‘thesaurus’?

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Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane’s idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a packet of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops. The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an imprint of ‘Bodley Head’ with the books originally distributed from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone.

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Nice, France Lovely in late September. Nice Biscuits Lovely dunked in tea.

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Moondog Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916— September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog’s talents only in the final decades of Moondog’s life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes, all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as ‘The Viking of 6th Avenue’.

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Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome 'Mel' Blanc (May 30, 1908 — July 10, 1989) was an American voice over actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc was best known for his work with Warner Bros. during the so-called 'Golden Age of American Animation' (and later for Hanna-Barbera productions) as the voice as such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Tweety Bird.

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Football Mascots A person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbol especially to bring them good luck. From the French ‘mascotte’, from ‘masco’ witch, magician, charm, which comes from Medieval Latin ‘masca’ meaning witch and spectre. So mascots are descended from witches and magicians, people who carried charms and cast spells both lucky and not so lucky. But whatever mood we’re in, whatever our club’s highs and lows, mascots cheer us up—from Arsenal’s Gunnersaurus to Yeovil’s Jolly Green Giant, from Elvis with his jellied-eel ears at Southend to Toby Tyke, the Yorkshire Tyke at Barnsley. All these characters are kind and funny, and, in case you couldn’t guess, they’re scheming and artful too. But most of all they’re the proud symbols of our clubs—they keep us smiling and lift our spirits.

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Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ Comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team in 1979.

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James Brown’s Mick Jagger once said of James Brown supporting the Rolling Stones on their first US tour, “It was a bad idea. I mean, how can anyone follow that?”

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Dinosaurs Dinosaurs is a television sitcom and is initially set in 60,000,003 BC with the years, months and days counting toward zero. In the first episode, Robbie asks his father if he ever questions what they are counting down to.

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Hide and Seek ...here I come!

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Tying Knots A simple length of rope or string transformed into a life-saving, weight-bearing, firm-holding, slack-giving, memory-jogging device by way of just a few neat little tucks and turns. Utterly simple, yet cunningly complex. And essential.

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The Twits by Roald Dahl Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other. They also enjoy being cruel to animals, which they do by luring birds to glue-smothered trees so they can be baked into bird pie, and tormenting their pet monkeys, Muggle-Wump and his family, by getting them to stand upside down, one on top of the other. They hate children, and Mrs. Twit often carries a walking stick in her right hand that she uses to hit children and animals.

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Robert Brownjohn Robert Brownjohn was singular in both talent and character. During his relatively short career—a working life that lasted little over two decades—he attained a unique position in the worlds of design and advertising. Not only did he effortlessly bridge the fields of still and moving imagery, he also moved easily between abstract visual thought and commonplace graphic idioms. Rather than being governed by rules or formulas, his method of design was grounded in pure intelligence.

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Ghostbusters Ghostbusters is a supernatural comedy film franchise created in 1984. The first film, Ghostbusters, was released on June 8, 1984 by Columbia Pictures. It became a pop culture phenomenon, leading to two sequels, three animated television series, a novel, a comic-book series, video games, action figures, a theme park attraction, and other merchandise.