Rebekah has started watching my “Best of the Muppets” videos. Yes videos, not DVD’s… The box set has 6 VHS tapes with 6 episodes per tape and it covers pretty much the 36 biggest stars they had on the show. I don’t think you can get the same on DVD, which is a shame. Although I have noticed that they seem to be releasing the seasons DVDs… I just wonder how long it will take them to release the 5 years worth of footage. Season One is out now and it contains the first 18 episodes… oddly enough, none of them are on the box set I have!

Anyway, so much fun watching it back. I wish they would do an update one as I would definatley put it on my must watch list on a Saturday night.

Strangely enough… we also have 2 videos of Muppets compilations which both the kids love, however a few years ago when I bought the box set based on the fact that Rebekah seemed to love The Muppets compilation, she got bored of the show really quickly. I guess she didn’t take to all the incidental stuff inbetween acts. Now she loves it though, but Jacob who is about the same age Rebekah was when I first bought it, also gets bored quickly.

See Also: The Official Muppets Web Site, The Muppets Wiki

This just always makes me think…

Ten Years Time
Gabrielle

Do you have a vision?
Do you have a goal?
I’m watching you shrugging your shoulders,
Telling me you just don’t know.

Do you get emotional?
Is there something you’re passionate about?
I can tell that you’re still searching,
Still trying to work it all out.

It takes time
Take your time
Mm mm
You will know
When it feels right

(Chorus)
Where you gonna be in ten years time?
Will you be happy with the way you’ve been living your life?
Will you be alright?
And when you’re looking back to now
All the years gone by
Will there be something that you say
That you should have done right
In your life

What would you fight for?
For what do you stand?
How will you go about it?
And do you have a masterplan?

What are your demons?
How much for your soul?
Have you found religion?
And gone down that road?

Guess we all need
Something to believe
oh oh oh
Times haven’t changed
Thats how it’s gotta be

…(Chorus)…

Are you a dreamer?
Tell me all your dreams
Can you say honestly
What you want to be

What would you do,
When your back’s against the wall?
Would you stand on your two feet?
Would you admit defeat?

These are the times
You need to be strong
Don’t you know,
Don’t you know that is hard
Have you learned to find a way?
You gotta find a way to carry on

…(Chorus)…

…(Chorus)…

Where you gonna be in ten years time?
Will you be alright?
Tell me will you get it right? get it right?
Where you gonna be in ten years time?
Will you be happy with the way that you’re living your life?
Do you feel it being right? It will be alright.
Where you gonna be in ten years time?
Will you be alright?
Tell me will you get it right? get it right?
Where you gonna be in ten years time?

See Also: Gabrielle - Official Website.

While fixing the Space Bastards Models this poem came to mind…

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear —
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Might, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I had to go into the loft over the weekend in order to get some stuff that was placed at the bottom of some box, that was placed under some other boxes, at the back of the loft, behind a lot of other boxes… you get the idea. Anyway I came across some model Space Bastards. These were made for a promo campaign when the game was released.

I have two of them. One needed a slight repair due to being stored in a box with lots of nasty other things. The other was in a number of pieces. He’d been attacked while guarding my desk at the office… he might be part of the most deadly group of tyrants to have roamed the universe, but he was no match for our office cleaner, who clean took him out with the hoover!