Ozzie's Planet proudly presents My Yearbook 2005

Best Book:	"Namedropper" by Emma Forrest
Best CD:	"Change Of Track" by Locomotive Breath
Best Concert:	Mötley Crüe in Oakland, California
Best Single:	Here we go again, why don't I just remove this category?
On the TV:	Third Watch was aired for the last time... It's been a great time. I will definitly miss the show!!!
The Sexiest Man:	My own, thank god!
Best Moment:	Sweden Rock Festival - what a buzz it was!! And Dublin on the erection of Phil's statue of course.
Worst Moment:	The Sunday after Sweden Rock Festival...
Awesome Internet Experience:	Not much really. Internet has been as common as the phone used to be (and is of course).
Best Gig:	Shame to name it a gig, but Dare at the Point was brilliant. Too bad they weren't allowed to be in the spotlight.
Best Record Sleeve:	"Change Of Track" by Locomotive Breath
Drink of the Year:	White wine :-)
Best Movie:	Hmm, tricky indeed. Must think some more about it...
Eyes of The Year:	Oh, Nikki Sixx of course ;-)
Best Ian Gillan Tune of The Year:	Clearly Quite Absurd (Deep Purple)
The Place of The Year:	Sweden Rock
Best Metal Club:	None.
Nicest Person:	My boss.
Asshole of 2005:	Someone at my office.
To summarize:	Ups and downs, but mostly ups!
Final words:	Been a great year with lots happening. Been in the States for the first time and it was nothing like I ever expected. Can't understand why it took me so long...

Rapture...

Listening to Ian Gillan & Deep Purple and their new album "Rapture Of The Deep" and it's absolutly brilliant. Feels like a Gillan solo album and this is clearly what I have missed in my life.

It's strange though to be a "ordinary listener" after being "part of the family" for such a long time... I do miss it some times specially when I hear Ian's beautiful voice in Clearly Quite Absurd... I remember how much fun we used to have, all of us. How I'd show up at a show and the party begun. Those were the days...


After all we said today
The strangest thought occurred
I feel I ought to tell you
But it's clearly quite absurd
Wouldn't it be wonderful
If you could read my mind
Imagine all the stuff
That we could leave behind
How many words you waste
Before you're understood
Or simply sow some seeds
You'd do it if you could
Let me take a moment
Of your time
Inside you mind
I know what you're thinking
But I don't know what to say
The turmoil and the conflict
You don't have to feel that way
Look into my eyes
And feel my hand upon your heart
Holding us together
Not tearing us apart
How many words we waste
To justify a crime
Compare it to an act of love
That really takes no time
Why not take a moment
Of your time
Inside your mind

I don't like Xmas

Just to make it clear, I don't like Christmas. I
don't like how people change because of a stupid
weekend. All of a sudden you HAVE to do this and
that and things just gotta be PERFECT and I loath
it. Totally.
I don't mind getting presents for people I like
but I hate those wishlists where you can't buy
anything that's not on the damn list. What's up
with that? Where's the imagination?
And then there's the food. All the bloody food
that has to be on the table to be consumed in one
day. More food that you eat for a week usually.
Now it has to go down in a certain amount of time
so you can get a pause before you dig into the
next dish. Why?

It's really one of the few subjects in life my
dad and myself agree on - Christmas should be
spent somewhere far away from everyone else,
preferably in a cottage in the Alps or something.
Plenty of show, Glüwine and nice company. I'm
sure they'd have a tree with beautiful lightning
and and it'd be a blessing staying there.

Imagine just for once not being part of this, to
NOT watch all the traditional tv-shows....
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