‘Baby It’s You’ by Promises (1978)
For a long, long, long time now, maybe quite a few years, I've always had this song on my mind, which I've whistled to myself on the odd occasion. It had stayed with me from whenever it was popular, or from when I had heard it. I couldn't remember the name of it, and I couldn't remember the lyrics, except 'baby it's you…' That's it. On the odd occasion that I remembered it while web browsing and subsequently tried finding a song to download called 'baby it's you', I was never successful, it constantly eluded me.
Two days ago, I remembered again and decided to search in earnest. I looked up lyrics with those 3 words in them, trying to find something that seemed to fit what I could remember. My research finally met with some results! After a few uncertain websites that pointed me in the direction of a number of artists, I finally found reference to the song 'Baby it's you' by Promises. The lyrics seemed to fit, so I had to download it. Unfortunately, the file-sharing software I use was unable to help me. No one else had the song by Promises, so I searched for a web-based download of it.
Top 1000 Songs Of The Last 30 Years
Ok, I found the most awesomely wonderful site that I could ever find – The Top 1000 Songs Of The Last 30 Years. I'm in heaven!
Most of the list are songs I've never heard of, and I'm really, really surprised about the top 100 of those songs, as most of them I've never heard of before.
Anyway, if you're not into downloading songs off the internet for free, and would prefer to buy them from the shop or over the internet, then this site isn't for you. Don't go there. 
29 March 2003 – Bruce Springsteen concert
My apologies for getting this to you later than I said I would. I didn't get home from the concert until after 1am this morning, and I was just too knackered to write about anything, so I just crashed and fell fast asleep. Today I was relaxing around Auckland – I took a few photos from the Sky Tower and other locations around the city. (I'll put them onto the photo page later. They include photos from yesterday and today.) Right now I'm at the airport waiting to catch a flight back to Wellington, so I'm taking the opportunity to write about the concert.
On 3 occasions last night, I was 10 feet from 'the Boss'. How do I describe the feeling? For 18 years, I've been listening to his music, reading articles about his life, his feelings, and the reasons for his music. I've been watching video clips, and wondering what it would be like to see him live. The wondering is over, and the reality is that it's soooo much better than seeing video clips! (Duh!)
15 January 2003
Today has been a VERY strange day. Here's the strangeness in order of appearance…
Strange event 1:
The overseas woman I've mentioned before… she who seems to like being known as 'cyberslut' (but she's not one really)… her and I realised today that there's a certain kind of love that's developed between us, and our online relationship has moved into an interesting new phase.
Strange event 2:
I did a naughty thing. Last night I said to someone else who I've been chatting to for a few months that I'll phone them tonight and we'll chat, and talk about her wanting to finally see me on the weekend, after she's cancelled prior attempts twice. But I've decided, after talking about it with a friend (cyberslut), that I shouldn't lower myself by chasing up on her after she's treated me the way she has in the past, by cancelling twice, etc. And now, after the day's events, I'm convinced that I don't need to call her. If she gets upset, that's not my problem. I'm harsh… that's strange.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I thought I'd get something written before Christmas, and here I am. Writing something.
I've had a most interesting 6 weeks. I've been working after hours shifts during that time. Two weeks from 12:30pm – 8pm, then two weeks from 5:30pm – 1am. Then I had a week of annual leave. For the first time since coming to NZ I took a week off work and didn't actually go flying somewhere else in the world. I stayed at home and did absolutely nothing! It was really nice to not have to go anywhere, not have to wake up early or be subject to traveling. I stayed home, played a new computer game, slept in or stayed up really late, had lunches with friends, went for drives in the sunshine, read, or just thought about things. It was truly a nice week of not working. And then last week I was back at work doing a graveyard shift, from 12:30am – 8am. And then someone on the weekend shift wanted a break, so I volunteered to do their shift as well, which means I just did 12 hours on Saturday (8pm – 8am) and the same again tonight. It's almost 7am now, and only 1 hour to go before I can go home. I'm going to sleep all day… and then come into work again tomorrow.
