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New posting interface..... me no likey!!

And for those of us who needed cheering up on this cold Friday morning, I give you Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog singing "Islands in the Stream."

Because leobrat posted another vid of theirs in her last post, I hit YT to find this and figured I'd post it here so we could all relive the sheer perfection that was Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov......

My favourite routine of theirs, to the Rolling Stones Out of Tears:

So, I've finally updated my iPhone to the latest OS - and I now remember why I loathe doing this, as it makes me anxious to the point of vomiting in case something goes wrong and my iPhone gets irretrievably effed up.

So, to calm my nerves as I wait for my apps and music to transfer over, I do what every sane person does - go on YouTube!!

From last Tuesday's DWTS, here are husband and wife professional duo Jonathan and Anna dancing a waltz they choreographed for the friend Julia, a dancer who was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. It's just gorgeous.



And from last weekend's ACM Awards, here's Miranda Lambert singing over you. No video I can find shows Blake introducing her, but his intro was lovely: "Here to perform the most important song of our lives together is the most important person in my life, Miranda Lambert Shelton.”



Speaking of Blake, here he is closing the show with Lionel Richie - You Are is one of favourite Lionel Richie songs, and I will admit to squeeing like a crazy person when I heard they'd done this as a duet!!

Finally managed to locate a working link for this..... Miranda Lambert's new video for the song "Over You"; which she wrote with her husband Balke Shelton about his brother Richie, who died in a car accident when Blake was 15.

It's gorgeous.

And I may have cried.

Home Internet is still dead. Woe!

But have spoken to (surprisingly efficient) support peeps who confirmed that no we're not getting a signal and will be sending an engineer out to investigate. No-one's appeared yet, but the fact they're returning our calls is a huge tick in the Win column!

Thank goodness for my iPad (I love my daddy...) - may not be able to dl stuff but I can still surf the web and look at stuff on YouTube, which is how I wound up watching DWTS clips earlier, and I watched JR Martinez and Karina dance their rumba earlier on.

Holy moly, he made me cry. I'm actually rooting for Karina (who I do not like!) to win the MBT.

Here's a link (I hope it works!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn79KU1uRmg

This was story week - the contestants had to pick a year that was most important to them, pick a song, and tell a story with their dance. JR and Karina danced to Tim McGraw's If You're Reading This, dedicating it to all fallen soldiers. For those of you who aren't familiar with JR's story, he was a soldier in Iraq and suffered horrific burns over 40% of his body when his humvee hit a land mine. He's had over 30 operations and skin grafts; he's since become a motivational speaker and also an actor, playing Brot Munroe on the recently cancelled All My Children.

This dance was just gorgeous - full of emotion (you could see Karina was actually sobbing for real as they started after the VT) but he just danced it so well - had lots of hip action, lovely lines - and the rumba is such a hard dance for a celeb male because they've so little to do in it!
I feel the need to find screencaps and make an icon....

Am continuing my stroll down Memory Lane in Springfield, and just found a clip that has me dancing around my room with glee - after weeks of will they won't they UST, Dylan and Bridget FINALLY get romantic - until she tells him that she wants Peter back! Link is below (wouldn't let me embed!?) - D/B stuff starts at 5.50 mark and is quite short, follow-up doesn't seem to have been uploaded (not in descriptions anyway, but i haven't watched them yet...)

http://youtu.be/tC-1UlBAjPA

I keep saying it, but God i miss this show.

Just found this on YouTube, it's the promo for the Emmerdale fire, which airs this Thursday and sees two of the villagers perish in the inferno.

Trailer itself doesn't give much away, which is more than can be said for one of the tv listings magazines, which has published the names of the victims..... (not giving anything away, but it's exactly who I thought it would be. And there's one character who I'm very disappointed it isn't!!)

So, having seen Peter from Popstars: The Rivals eliminate himself live on air all those years ago, to the wardrobe malfunctions of Lilia and Karen on Strictly Come Dancing, you'd think you'd know all about the perils of live TV, right?

Wrong. 

Watch this clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKb0BR-giCA - it's the finale of Australias Next Top Model which took place yesterday, in which the presenter ANNOUNCES THE WRONG WINNER. 

I can't work out if its excruciatingly embarrassing or the most glorious stuff-up I've ever seen.