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Posted May 22, 2008
Hi
A friend showed me this on youtube. Absolute genius! 
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA
If there weren't loads of copyright issues involved I'd say link it to one of the many hootoo entries on tea.
Kaz.
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What if you haven't "got religion?"
Posted Apr 24, 2008
Sorry for the total lack of time sensitiveness in this entry. I have been thinking about this and wondering whether it was right to discuss on here for ages. I decided to post it here when I heard a debate on the radio this afternoon about whether this church in Wales should be allowed to set up a bar on the premises. Anyway. Here's what I was going to say.
Went to church the Christmas just gone. Although I'm not really a proper Christian and none of my family is particularly religious anymore (I used to go to church quite regularly when I was at primary school) I have always felt quite welcome at my local village church. Not so this Christmas. It was very odd. I sat there and there was hardly anyone in the congregation I knew. The whole approach had changed. It was very orientated towards the children and that's fine but it meant that the rest of us felt pretty out of it. I think there was only one carol sung. The rest were more modern songs, which again I don't have a problem with, but I looked at the song sheet and some of the lyrics were so overwhelmingly pro-Israel I did not feel I could sing given my feelings about the problems in the Middle East. In many ways it is a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other to my mind, but when reporters talk to ordinary Israelis on the news, they seem to have so much (both materially and otherwise). You compare this with footage of the ordinary Palestinians and they have nothing. It seems so unjust to me.
I sat there in the church and felt like they may as well have been speaking double-dutch. Maybe Christianity is not the way forward to me, yet I still have a feeling there must be something "out there".
My old piano teacher is a Buddhist and she lent my mother a book by one of the senior Buddhist teachers. My mother said that one of the things in the book was basically to not concern yourself with things you cannot change but to do the right thing yourself. On the face of it that sounds quite selfish, but in many ways it makes sense because it means you do not dwell on things you can do nothing about, but do the best you can in your own life to do the right thing. It dawned on me that if I became a Buddhist it would be a real challenge because I often worry unnecessarily and it would force me to be more positive person. To me it always seems like God is used as an excuse to get out of helping others instead of the other way round. I am thinking of the kind of comments you hear where they say, God will save him/her or God will help us in doing.....
Of course there are genuinely good people who are Christians (I know several who have helped me in the past and I thank them very much) I admire them enormously. But, I feel that maybe religions like Buddhism give us more responsibility to solve things ourselves.
Kaz
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Latest reply: Apr 24, 2008
My Hootiversary
Posted Feb 11, 2008
I forgot when my hootiversary is again! 
think it must be January somewhen. How do I find out? I've been on this site for ages- its about time I celebrated!
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Crowded House live at brighton Centre & December 2007
Posted Dec 9, 2007
Saw Crowded House on Friday night at Brighton Centre. Still can't quite believe it. The whole family went, and when I booked tickets I had no idea we would be 2 rows from the front at the side! 
so great view!
The audience were taking a while to get into it so me and my sister followed a couple of people people down the front by about four songs in during Whispers and Moans, then loads of people seemed to come to the front. Lots of banter, as there was when I saw Neil and Tim two years ago (doesn't seem that long ago). Especially Neil joking about the very orange sickly-looking juice Nick was drinking "We'll have medical bills for years to come..." (it did look quite disgusting). Personal highlight was hearing Fingers of Love after they spotted a lady who had been holding a sign up all night with a request on it for the song. Also the opening with Private universe, which was amazing. Set list went a bit like this:
Private universe, It's Only Natural, Don't stop Now, Fall at Your feet, Heaven that I'm making, English trees, Whispers and Moans, A sigh, Silent House, Don't dream it's over, Chocolate cake, She walked her way down, When you Come, Distant Sun.
ENCORES:
Pinapple head, Love this life-(I think-an old song but I hadn't heard it before-lovely 
)
Lester (By audience request)
Weather with you- Neil had fun conducting us towards the end, getting us to do some woo's from each side of the audience "that's stereo ladies and gentlemen!"
Fingers of Love
Four Seasons in one day
Better be home soon-we all sang along with the lights turned off, Neil commenting that people used to have lighters, but now it's mobiles-at which point everyone got theirs out. I looked round and there were all these little lights round the auditorium, like stars, from the phones.
My sister ended up right at the front standing up. At the end she came back only to tell me that as Neil left the stage she got to shake his hand 
Couldn't take pics from where I was as my camera phone is pants, but am totally gutted as if I had given my phone to my sister she could've taken the pics for me!
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Latest reply: Dec 9, 2007
anyone see Spooks on Tuesday?
Posted Dec 6, 2007
I was watching Spooks on tuesday (4/12) and when Harry and Adam were standing by that tractor in the field, endless farmer/worzel jokes started popping into my head as Harry peered through those binoculars! missed loads of dialogue as couldn't stop giggling.
Anyone else see it?
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Latest reply: Dec 6, 2007
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