Friday Five... music

1. What was the first single or album you bought?

1. ooh, i don't know if i can remember that far back ;) I know one of
the first singles was Venus by Shocking Blue (not Bananarama
thankyouverymuch)


2. Have you ever illegally taped or downloaded music?
2. of course, but i've also purchased cd's because of downloading
3. What radio station, if any, do you listen to?
3. Q104 classic rock mainly
4. Have you ever DJ'd at a club?

4. nope

5. Have you ever been involved with a pirate radio station?
5. nope

Further to a comment somewhere else

Misheard Lyrics

The site, Am I Right and also Kiss This Guy are the sites for "misheard" lyrics. The best one i know personally is one my sister, sammantha misheard years ago in the early 80's. A group of us were out and singing loudly to the car radio. When we got home, i heard her pootling about the house singing lightly "Greaseface! Greaseface!". Huh? Turns out that's what she thought they were singing in J. Geils Band's Freezeframe! I went to the "Am I Right" site and found the following misheard lyrics for the same thing which have me in fits this morning.


Breeze Way
Cheese face (!!!)
Flea Spray
Freeze brain
Freeze train
Sea spray
Squeeze play

Any particularly good ones you've heard yourself or personally know of?

Travel Agency annoyances

Am a little annoyed at the moment. I know travel agencies don't make anything off airlines now so they charge a fee if you ask them to book a ticket. However, when i first spoke to the woman at the agency a month ago, i was under the impression that they would not charge the fee if i also booked a car, hotel and cancellation insurance through them. The agent emailed me yesterday, and by the time i got it, she was gone from the office. It was just to confirm the flight details and the price, quoted *with* the fee was over a $100 more than i can get from the Air Canada website. If they're charging 100 dollars in fees, that's a lot not to mention that i didn't think i'd get charged at all. She's not in until this afternoon so i can't contact her until then. The other person working at the agency said they only waive fees for flights if i was booking a tour or cruise. I *might* continue on with this if they don't charge additional fees for the car and hotel, depending on the price of those as probably the 100 doesn't seem so bad when you spread it over the total cost of everything. It's a shame really, because they do a good job but so many people can get just as good deal or better on the net that i'm sure they're finding it difficult to stay afloat. I can get a hotel in London for 55 pounds a night for a double en suite, i can get the ticket at a very good price, the only thing that would cost me more is the car and i've seen ok prices on Autoeurope.ca. Destina.ca and Expedia.ca show up good prices but they are the price *before* taxes, not the total price which is a nuisance. I also think there's a little bit extra security booking with a travel agent who you can call and will sort out everything if something goes wrong. We'll see when i talk to her later today.

Edited: She says there's always a fee when booking an Air Canada flight (except i suppose, if i were booking a tour or cruise, i didn't ask) and she said the fee was 69 so there is still some discrepancy somewhere. She's going to look into it. I guess if you take that fee across the cost of everything it won't seem like as much. I'll see what she comes up with for a hotel too.