The Planets Bend Between Us

Not literally, obviously. That would surely indicate personal possession of some sort of massive gravitational force by both you and I.
I find that idea almost laughable, since I gave up having an orbiting celestial body a long time ago.

Unless you know something I don’t?

No – remember just one month ago, when the grass was brown, the skies were blue and Snow Patrol (amongst others) came to entertain us in South Africa? Well, while they were here doing CokeZeroFest and opening the IPL at Newlands, they also filmed their new video for The Planets Bend Between Us.
Cape Town fundi’s will recognise Bo Kaap, the broken freeway and possibly other more generic Cape Town venues, all beautifully presented and then vandalised and/or torn up by a terrifyingly large pair of hands.

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I happen to know that Snow Patrol’s lead singer Gary Lightbody does actually possess a massive gravitational force. That’s why every time he sticks his arms up in the air, the city rotates around him. Thankfully, he is a Rochdale FC fan and therefore doesn’t get to stick his arms up in the air very often. Gary also likes watching vintage episodes of Airwolf and eating grapes.
Thus ends my list of fake Gary Lightbody facts. If you have any of your own, please let me know by commenting below.

Or maybe you should just enjoy the video and the song.

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4 Comments

  1. Posted May 20, 2009 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    Crapsticks i’m late, i’m late…

    i guess this assures my space on your ‘most annoying people on twitter’ list.

    or have you done that already too?

    joyanne´s last blog post was: Little Travellers Spread Hope Around the World (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  2. Posted May 20, 2009 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    Joyanne > Can’t do that list. Would be too damaging.

  3. Posted May 20, 2009 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    Cool video. The problem with no dsTV means no music videos. God bless interwebs.

    Simon Gerber´s last blog post was: Advertising. Sometimes it doesn’t need to make sense (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  4. Posted May 21, 2009 at 8:59 am | Permalink

    Simon G > Yes – the internet has a lot to offer. More, in fact, than DSTV. (Sport aside).

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