The Monday List

Ten Music Videos That Are Homages To Classic Films
Material Girl - Madonna (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Don't Cry - Asia (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Ghost Of You - My Chemical Romance (Saving Private Ryan)

It's Raining Men - Geri Halliwell (Flashdance)

From Yesterday - Thirty Seconds to Mars (The Last Emperor)
No More Words - Berlin (Bonnie and Clyde)

Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters (Airplane!)

California Love - 2Pac  (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome)

Pick A Part That's New - Stereophonics (The Italian Job)
Put Yourself In My Place - Kylie Minogue (Barbarella)

Great Random Moments In Musical History

No 7: One of the members of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band neglects to read the memo saying today's the day when they pose for a press shot on their hotel balcony, all looking really cool in their shades...

Rock Stars Who Look Like Dinner Ladies

No 22: Jack White

The Monday List

Ten Place Names That Sound Like Old Actors
Sandy Balls
Wootton Bassett
Ogbourne St George
Hartley Wintney
Hooton Roberts
Nately Scures
Preston Candover
Hurstbourne Tarrant
Chaddesley Corbett
Newton Longville

(Thanks to Bill Shipton for the concept)

Planet Sad's Ridiculously Manly Film Still Of The Day

Proving girls can be ridiculously manly too, here's Rihanna with an unfeasibly large bazooka, or something. This is either a still from Battleship (one of the favourite games at Planet Sad Towers, along with Ker-plunk!, Buckaroo and a round or two of Whose Arse Is It Anyway? through the kitchen serving hatch) or a revenge mission on Chris Brown - you decide...

Rock Stars Who Look Like Dinner Ladies

No 21: Ian Astbury, The Cult

The Monday List

Ten Sitcoms You've Probably Completely Forgotten About
The Squirrels
Atletico Partick
Chalk
Breezeblock
Brighton Belles
Happy Families
A Soft Touch
Heartburn Hotel
Piggy In The Middle
Roy's Raiders

Amazing Anglo-Austrian Lookalikes

Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing and Oscar-winning Inglourious Basterds nemesis Christoph Waltz

Maybe they could team up for a sort of sequel to Frost/Nixon called Soup/Nazi or something?

Planet Sad's Ridiculously Manly Film Still Of The Day

Here's a ridiculously manly still from The Avengers, so this must be Steed and Emma Peel - what do you mean, it's not that Avengers? OK, well in that case, at a guess this is Thor fighting off a tank with the sheer power of shouting, and Captain America doing something too manly to contemplate while wearing lovely, lovely boots. Which just leaves us to ponder the age-old question: Gareth Hunt  - Avengers actor or Cockney rhyming slang?

The Monday List

Ten Animated Music Videos (That Aren't Take On Me or Sledgehammer)

You Know I Love You... Don't You? - Howard Jones
Fell In Love With A Girl - White Stripes
And She Was - Talking Heads
Starlight - Supermen Lovers
Points of Authority - Linkin Park
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
Go With The Flow - Queens Of The Stone Age
Innuendo - Queen
Warrior's Dance - The Prodigy

Roy Hodgson Is Very Disappointed In You