get outta my dreams

Posted on February 20, 2008 by JH

Billy Oceaner yes, get into my car.

I can’t get that damnable song out of my head today. For some reason, whoever runs the loudspeaker at Ringwood East Station seems to be a great fan of Billy Ocean. Barely a day passes without one of the many gems from Mr Ocean’s ouvre being blasted into my unwilling ear-drums.

In a way, I’m kinda grateful. There’s something about a song, for example, like “Caribbean Queen” that reminds you that life is not all sweetness and light, bringing you back down to the cold hard reality that is Connex. It puts me in the correct frame of mind.

If it’s not Billy Ocean, it’s Billy Joel. Strangely, I’ve not yet heard Billy Bragg. BB would be really appropriate, what with all those songs about big corporations oppressing the working man and woman. Hello Connex.

Aphrodisiac
On another issue, it seems a lot of Ralph magazine readers’ dirty sweaty dreams have been full of our beloved Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, no doubt in various compromising positions. They’ve voted her Australia’s second sexiest woman, just behind Jennifer Hawkins.

Strange really, she’s WAY sexier than J. Hawkins. Jennifer Hawkins is just a life-size Barbie. Now, Barbie might be good-looking but she’s not sexy. Julia may be ginger and have a voice like a fish and chip shop owner from Altona, but she’s got that certain something.

You can’t tell me Kevin Rudd hasn’t thought about it on one of those long nights in cabinet “developing policy”.

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9 Responses to “get outta my dreams”

  1. jojo, on February 20th, 2008 at 5:16 pm Said:

    lol..there really is something wrong with you isnt there???

  2. JH, on February 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pm Said:

    What? The Billy Ocean thing?

    By the way, don’t tell Em about that “ginger” crack. She’s having an existential crisis, god knows what she might do.

  3. a/m, on February 20th, 2008 at 7:26 pm Said:

    you’re right on the money hendo - voice like a fish and chip shop owner from altona. i’ve always thought (outer) suburban, but that nails it nicely. connex deliberately spray the station platforms with crap music to keep the young punks prone to violence and antisocial activity away…

  4. Em, on February 20th, 2008 at 7:51 pm Said:

    Yeah, I am right on the ginga crack, I can take it, I have been afflicted with gingervitis all my life, I have very thick (and rather freckly) skin.

    If you need me I’ll be under my bed crying and singing a Billy Joel Idol Bragg Ocean medley and plotting your downfall.

    :lol:

  5. JH, on February 20th, 2008 at 7:55 pm Said:

    Now I AM worried.

  6. JH, on February 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm Said:

    a/m: I think JG is actually from Altona, that’s why I mentioned it. Her voice is actually pure Labour Party/ACTU. If Martin Ferguson was a woman, he’d sound like our Jules.

    (there’s a scary thought).

  7. Andrew (ajh), on February 20th, 2008 at 9:19 pm Said:

    I am hoping your tongue is firmly planted in your cheek (about Julia not Billy)

  8. Jaykay, on February 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm Said:

    No, no, no, no, no JH!! Please, don’t even go there :shock:

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