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Kate Winslet

Music Monday - Blink-182

Blink-182 - I Miss You

For a timely post here at Zotime... it can happen.

If you haven't heard, Travis Barker, the drummer of Blink 182, was badly burned and almost died in an airplane crash last week that left four others dead. I thought that this would be a great time to post one of favorite songs by them.

Blink 182 was formed in 1992. The band is a pop punk band who's video's are pretty humorous. The band has several hits such as What's My Age Again, All the Small Things, Adam's Song and The Rock Show.

Miss You is one their best songs as it expands their range into something besides the typical punk domain. It also shows that the band has grown and evolved from their early years. The song is all acoustic with Travis Barker using brushes instead of sticks that gives that scratchy snare drum sound. The video is shot in mostly black and white but I have not a clue what it is about.



Hello there, the angel from my nightmare
The shadow in the background of the morgue
The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley
We can live like Jack and Sally if we want Where you can always find me
We'll have Halloween on Christmas
And in the night we'll wish this never ends
We'll wish this never ends

(I miss you I miss you)
(I miss you I miss you)

Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness Comes creeping on so haunting every time
And as I stared I counted Webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides
Like indecision to call you
And hear your voice of treason
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight
Stop this pain tonight

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (miss you miss you)

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)

Resetting an iPod

I had my iPod freeze up on me yesterday in the on position. Whatever I tried I could not shut the thing off. So I went on the Apple site and looked up the manual hard reset procedure.

If yours ever get stuck try this...

Toggle the hold switch on and off
Then push the center button and menu button at the same time.
Hold the two buttons down for a few seconds the screen will go dark and the Apple icon will be seen.
After a few more seconds the screen will light up again to the main menu screen.
At that point you should be able to shut down the iPod if you need to.

If not you you may want to try it again or seek professional help.

The Lions Suck.. Again!

I know that this isn't news for some of you, but I've lived in Michigan since the early part of 1970's. Since then the Detroit Lions have had twelve head coaches. I've attached their coaching record... need I say more?

Don McCafferty 6 - 7
Rick Forzano 15 - 17
Tommy Hudspeth 11 - 13
Monte Clark 43 - 61
Darryl Rogers 18 - 40
Wayne Fontes 66 - 67
Bobby Ross 27 - 30
Gary Moeller 4 - 3
Marty Mornhinweg 5 - 27
Steve Mariucci 15 - 28
Dick Jauron 1 - 4
Rod Marinelli 10 – 24

I remember when the Lions used to be mediocre, but at least they were mediocre. I used to scream at the TV set when the lions used to loose. For the last few years the Lions have brought indifference for the team.

I think that if the Ford family will not sell the team, then they need to start over from scratch. Millen, Marinelli and the rest of the coaching staff as well as the scouting department… all gone. That is the only way to change the mindset of this team.

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Kate Hudson

Music Monday - Seether

Seether - Rise Above This

Seether, a group from South Africa, has been around since 2001. They have only recently become popular with such hits as Fake it and Broken which became popular with the addition of Amy Lee of Evanescence lending her vocal talents on an alternate version of the song.

The video of Rise Above This is a tribute to lead singers Shaun Morgan's brothers suicide.




Take the light, undarken everything around me
Call the clouds and listen closely I'm lost without you
Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this

Hate the mind, regrets are better left unspoken
For all we know, this void will grow
And everything's in vain, distressing you though it leaves me open
Feels so right, but I'll end this all before it gets me

Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Call your name every day when I seem so helpless
I've fallen down, and I'll rise above this, rise above this doubt

I'll mend myself before it gets me
I'll mend myself before it gets me
I'll mend myself before it gets me
I'll mend myself before it gets me

Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Forty eight ways to say that I'm feelin' helpless
I'm Falling down, falling down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this,
Rise above this, rise above this doubt

So you want to date Itchy....

These are the ten rules that you will need to adhere to...

Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose his compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my pnumatic nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four: I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Mackinac Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like clean up the garage?

Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine: Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a out of shape, balding, middle-aged, dim-witted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and an open field behind the house. Don't trifle with me.

Rule Ten: Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over the desert dunes near Baghdad. When my Gulf War Syndrome starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Say the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car... there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

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Another week another chance for you to be funny....

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Kirsten Dunst

Music Monday - Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox - No More I Love You's

Annie Lennox arguably possesses one of the finest voices in the world. Her tone, intonation, and range put her in very select company. She is one of the few people to win a Grammy, BRIT, Golden Globe and an Academy Award.

This song just happens to be one of my favorite songs by her and gets very little play time on the radio these days. It's from her Medusa album in which she covers songs that she liked. I can’t seem to be able to load her actual video for it but I was able to find something that an artist shot pictures to reflect his interpretation of the song.

It has some nudity in it, so if you wish not to see any, please do not click the youtube link.



Do bi do bi do do do oh,
Do bi do bi do do do oh,
Do bi do bi do do do oh,
Do bi do bi do do do oh,
Do bi do bi do do do.


I used to be lunatic from the gracious days
I used to be woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh but now...

I don't find myself
bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry

No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word

The lover speaks about the monsters

I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire,despair,desire,so many monsters
Oh but now...


I don't find myself
bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry

No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word

They were being really crazy
They were on the come.
And you know what mammy?
Everybody was being really crazy.
Uh huh.
The monsters are crazy.
There are monsters outsides.

No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word

Outside the word


No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word


Outside the word

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Renee Zellweger

Music Monday - Jet

Jet - Look What You've Done

From the guitar driven band that brought you Cold Hard Bitch and Are You Gonna Be My Girl comes this Beatles inspired song. This soon to be classic breakup song retells the hurt that is imposed to the one that is still in love. The video is totally of the rocker as I still can't figure out what the director was fishing for.

I still think that this is a political song. But you guys be the judge.



Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to prove

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems like such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Give me back my point of view
'Cause I just can't think for you
I can hardly hear you say
What should I do, well you choose

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems like such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to do

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems like such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

... In Bed

Norm and I were sans kids yesterday. Itchy was at a band competition and Scratchy was gone on a sleepover, so that left us with time to do things that we wanted to do… which for us meant to go shopping for flooring or other home décor stuff. Norm suggested that we go shopping for furniture for the living room. It’s hard for us to shop for anything as we have very different tastes in furniture. After we looked and didn’t find anything we liked again we were both getting hungry and tried a new (to us) Chinese restaurant. It’s been highly recommended by many of our friends, and we agree that it was better then the place we usually go for Chinese. It was more upscale, and the service was outstanding. We liked most of the food but we both agreed that the next time we're going to order the main dishes to be spicier. I guess they didn't want to assume that we would like spicy food.

Anyways... getting back to the reason for this post... when we get the fortune cookies, Norm and I have always played a game with the fortune to get a laugh. The game is to read it to each other with the addition of the phrase “… in bed” at the end of the fortune.

Yesterdays fortunes for us were…

A routine task will turn into an enchanting adventure… in bed.
We would often be sorry if our wishes came true… in bed.

Next time your eat Chinese and get a fortune cookie, play the game and add … in bed at the end of the fortune to get a laugh.

Politics to Me - John McCain (The Speech)

John McCain had his big moment in front of the nation last week as he accepted the Republican nomination for President. He's not polished as much as Obama and sometimes has difficulties with the teleprompter, but he did have some great moments.

John McCain gave a very moving recounting of his capture and time spent in a North Vietnam POW camp and how that fact made him love this country. It was the first time I had heard of the story told so in depth by him. It worked for me.

What I had been hoping for was that John McCain would go back to the 2000 McCain... the Maverick McCain, and he did. After being constantly compared to Bush and that a republican presidency would be just another four years of Bush/Chaney, he hammered back. He reiterated what made him so believable and popular to many back in 2000.

John McCain IS a maverick, and he has ruffled many republicans with his views. I remember just last year that most would have thought that he would never be the republican nominee as he would never win the primary. Now that he has done that, you've seen how he has come out and been forceful and critical of not only of the democrats but also of his party.

The attached link is what Factcheck.org had to say about McCain’s speech. He did stretch the truth a few times, but remember this is what Factcheck stated about Obama’s speech.

This should be an exciting two months leading up to election day as the two main candidates crisscross the country and better explain to us why they should be the next President of this great country.

Zotime Site of the Month

Ok, so it’s been a few months since I last posted a Zotime Site of the Month, but I just haven’t been able to find a site that I liked.

Therefore, I’m back to taut a pretty cool site if I do say so myself.

This month we feature Bankrate.com… this site has all things financial covered. Want to know the best mortgage rate, home equity loan, or car loan in your area… boom, it’s there. Want to know the best rate for a CD, credit card, or money market account… yes, they have that as well.

This kind of powerful financial information as well as some good advice and news is well packaged in this easy to navigate website. To add to the value of the website Bankrate.com also offers an assortment of calculators. Tax, investment, mortgage rate, retirement and personal finance are just some of the calculators offered. Best of all, the whole website is free. So if you have a few minutes checkout Bankrate.com… Zotime said so.

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Politics to Me - Sarah Palin

So, John McCain decided to contrast his strengths and showed again his political maverick attitude by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Who is she? She was born in Idaho and moved to Alaska with her father and mother who were both teachers. She played sports in high school and was captain of the basketball team. She won a local beauty contest and finished second in the Ms. Alaska competition. She won a free education with her second place finish and went to school where she majored and graduated with a degree in Journalism and Communications with a minor in political science.

Why would he do this? Remember, the Republican Party is supposed to be the conservative party and not the progressive party. Too many times in the last few elections, that line has been blurred and crossed.

I read a few blogs and I’m not shocked with what I read… She’s inexperienced, she’s just a pretty face, she doesn’t know anyone in Washington, and she’s not Hillary. I’m glad that he choose someone that is not mainstream as it shows what made McCain so loved when he first became a senator. He used to always ruffle the feathers of the republican party as he would extend the olive branch across the isle and work with them to pass important bills into law. His other VP candidates included Joe Liberman and Tom Ridge not your standard bearer for all things Republican… heck, Liberman isn’t even a republican

So let’s talk about her faults… her experience I’ll grant you is that of a small town mayor who then becomes Alaska’s Governor where she has only been in office for 1 ½ years, but what has she done in that last year and a half?

1. Her first action as Governor was to stop the building of a gravel road to a mine from Juno a decision made from the previous republican administration (this move ruffled fellow republican’s feathers)

2. She used her veto power and cut the second largest construction spending in Alaskan history by nearly 15%. Among the cuts was the “Bridge to Nowhere”

3. In response to high oil and gas prices, she gave back $1200 to every person in Alaska, which she paid for by the surplus in her budget caused by the high oil prices. (Not borrowing money from China so that we give it to the populace to buy products from China)

4. Palin objected to the decision of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republican United States Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears as an endangered species. She filed a lawsuit to stop the listing amid fears that it would hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat off Alaska's northern and northwestern coasts.

She’s just a pretty face… what’s so wrong with that. I don’t remember the qualifications for VP stated that you needed to be Quasimodo. Last time I checked, politics held charisma as a major trait to hold.

She doesn’t know anyone in the Washington beltway…duh… she lives in Alaska, it’s not Delaware where you can just take the train to work. Besides, I don’t think it’s a good thing to know Washington during this day and age.

She’s not Hillary Rodham Clinton… how ‘bout that… of course she’s not HRC… she’s a republican and therefore believes in republican values… she’s is fiscal responsible, she is opposed to same sex marriage, is for drilling for oil in ANWR, strongly supports the 2nd amendment and is pro life.

So in conclusion… was it a good choice? Apparently the people think so as McCain shot past Obama to take a 2% point lead and received seven million dollars in contributions the day after the appointment. I on the other hand think that this was not the safe choice, but then again that was always one of the strength and weaknesses of McCain. He never does things like what Republicans want to do it.

Politics to Me - Barack Obama (The Speech)

So Barack Oboma had his big moment in the spotlight last week. His speech (as always) was spectacular. The one thing that you have to agree on is that Barack knows how to really deliver a public speech. So what did he say… more important how much of it was truth.

Check out what Factcheck.org had to say about it.

It might be interesting.

Itchy and Scratchy Go Back to School

They're at it again... like 75 million other kids. Our two have climbed back on the school bus for another year of learning and growing.

I'm hope they like millions of others will be challenged again this year to expand their comfort level and broaden their knowledge of science and math. As a new generation of scientist and engineers will start their training and love of the sciences.


I hope that yours will enjoy the year as much as mine hopefully will.

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Liv Tyler

Music Monday - The Killers

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

Great song to workout to as it has a good lively beat and keeps me moving while I'm sweating. The Killers have two versions of the video out just like they do for Mr. Brightsides. The First version that was shown in the UK and has the band walking down a London street singing the song. This version was directed by Anton Corbijn, and features a surreal, dream-like sequence where The Killers, dressed as cowboys, are attacked by scantily-clad female warriors armed with boomerangs. You know that's got to rock.



When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier...

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
If you can hold on
If you can hold on