I Love my car

**jakartajive** · 24-05-2008, 10:27 AM

Whilst watching Channel 5 last night (I know! It's all hedonism and wild abandon round these parts these days . . . am I to blame for the fact that my wife seems to find it easy to unwind to the attrocitainment that is CSI? I think not!), there was a trailer for a typical Channel 5 doc about men who love their cars a little bit too much, if you get me.

Anyhows, the background music was just a snippet of a gorgeous, aching, soaring LA-sounding cut with the lyrics "I love my car".

Anyone any idea what it is and where I might find it?

**Col Wolfe** · 24-05-2008, 10:56 AM

didn't catch the trailer but will definitely tune into the doc...!

**Magoorty** · 24-05-2008, 11:24 AM

I don't know what L.A sounding means, but there's a Belle and Sebastian tune called 'I Love My Car'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vAFGn6XvV8

**jakartajive** · 24-05-2008, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Magoorty

I don't know what L.A sounding means, but there's a Belle and Sebastian tune called 'I Love My Car'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vAFGn6XvV8

That's the badger. Lovely track. Reminds me of Have you ever lost a number? by Nils Lofgren / Grin in its simple gorgeousness.

LA-sounding in that it had that sun-bleached Mark Eric kinda vibe to it, from the clip I heard.

Any idea what it's available on?

**Magoorty** · 24-05-2008, 12:33 PM

Yep, B-side on the 'I'm Waking Up To Us' e.p
Also the whole e.p is on the 'Push Barman To Open Old Wounds' compilation.

**highland cow** · 24-05-2008, 12:41 PM

Might want to check out Lou Christie's "If My Car Could Only Talk" and Queen's "Im In Love With My Car" - two very odd records.

**piglit'n'rolf** · 24-05-2008, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by highland cow

Might want to check out Lou Christie's "If My Car Could Only Talk" and Queen's "Im In Love With My Car" - two very odd records.

I really like that queen track - In fact always did like the things that Roger Taylor sang on. Thought he had a good voice.

**casserole** · 24-05-2008, 10:18 PM

I like cars. You can see from my pic. But these guys are just wrong...So very wrong.

He added: "There are moments way out in the middle of nowhere when I see a little car parked and I swear it needs loving."

Oh yeah, there is nothing like a bit of soot on the ol' todger!

**cellardweller** · 25-05-2008, 10:23 PM

in our consumer culture, we apparently fetishise almost everything, & certainly disengage our sensory selves from the natural world... who'd have thought it eh? plastiphilia anyone? :P

nooooooo!

**djr** · 26-05-2008, 03:30 AM

What was that mid-80s mod band The Direct Hits tune about their car that even the police girls admired? I'll have to find that CD to remember......

**ginghamkitchen** · 26-05-2008, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by cellardweller

in our consumer culture, we apparently fetishise almost everything, & certainly disengage our sensory selves from the natural world... who'd have thought it eh? plastiphilia anyone? :P

nooooooo!

I don't think it's necessarily an indictment on modern society - since time immemorial dirty men having been sticking their cocks in the unlikeliest of places.

**Brass Monkey** · 26-05-2008, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by ginghamkitchen

I don't think it's necessarily an indictment on modern society - since time immemorial dirty men having been sticking their cocks in the unlikeliest of places.

donuts?
hoovers?
Margaret Thatcher?

**jakartajive** · 26-05-2008, 11:14 AM

dogs
watermelons
apple pies

**babycart** · 26-05-2008, 11:32 AM

A hole in the ground.
A barrel with a sailor in.
A skate.

**Tom B** · 26-05-2008, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by jakartajive

dogs
watermelons
apple pies

Reminds me of the Egyptian saying "a woman is good, a boy is better, but a watermelon is divine"

**jakartajive** · 26-05-2008, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by Tom B

Reminds me of the Egyptian saying "a woman is good, a boy is better, but a watermelon is divine"

This puts the look on your avatar's face into a whole new perspective!

**casserole** · 26-05-2008, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by jakartajive

This puts the look on your avatar's face into a whole new perspective!

Thats the first time I have ever laughed out loud reading a post.

**cellardweller** · 26-05-2008, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by casserole

Thats the first time I have ever laughed out loud reading a post.

you should come here more often

(sorry, couldn't resist)

melonfuckers lmao

**ginghamkitchen** · 26-05-2008, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by babycart

A hole in the ground.
A barrel with a sailor in.
A skate.

A hole in a toilet wall.
Goats.
Chickens.
Sheep.
Camels.
Paris Hilton.

**Joe M'geek** · 26-05-2008, 03:33 PM

hollowed out cucumber that's been in the microwave for 15 seconds, with a rubber band round it

**ginghamkitchen** · 26-05-2008, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Joe M'geek

hollowed out cucumber that's been in the microwave for 15 seconds, with a rubber band round it

Woah there! We're starting to drift into the confessional and instructional!

Expect a downturn in forum traffic over the next few days, and a run on salad...

**babycart** · 26-05-2008, 03:44 PM

**highland cow** · 26-05-2008, 03:56 PM

**cellardweller** · 26-05-2008, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Joe M'geek

hollowed out cucumber that's been in the microwave for 15 seconds, with a rubber band round it

that's not a delia smith recipe is it?

whats the rubber band for? does it play tunes as well?

**Joe M'geek** · 27-05-2008, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by cellardweller

whats the rubber band for? does it play tunes as well?

Stops it splitting when you get stuck in

Or so I've heard

**beddoes** · 28-05-2008, 02:44 AM

Mary

Oh, wait a minute.

**Dr Victor X Storm** · 31-05-2008, 10:04 PM

woah - did anyone actually watch this show? It was pretty extreme in a 'weird old man rubbing one out on a Trans-Am's hubcaps' kind of way

**Rich45s** · 31-05-2008, 10:13 PM

Doppler Effekt did a rudey song about plastiphilia. Bloody good.

And according to Pop Bitch, the dude from this programme, had it off with airwolf too.

Airwold got sold to a German medical unit, and then crashed killing all on board which Popbitch hypothisizes was because it couldn't take the shame of being bummed by a weirdo

**billybuck** · 01-06-2008, 12:06 PM

Dogs? Cucumbers? Chickens?

pffft, all becomes meaningless when you can go to these lengths..........

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2870071.html

Woman married Berlin Wall
A Swedish woman with a fetish for inanimate objects has revealed she's been married to the Berlin Wall for 29 years.

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the concrete structure in 1979, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who has been diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality, claimed she fell in love with the wall when she first saw it on TV as a child.

She began collecting "his" pictures and saving up for visits. On her sixth trip in 1979 they tied the knot before a handful of guests.

While she remains a virgin with humans, she insists she had a full, loving relationship with the wall.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who lives in Liden, northern Sweden, said: "I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy.

"The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he's too thick - my husband is sexier."

While the rest of mankind rejoiced when the Berlin Wall was largely torn down in 1989, its "wife" was horrified.

She's never been back and now has only model to remind her of "his" former glory.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who has shifted her affections to a nearby garden fence, said: "What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband."

**Dr Victor X Storm** · 01-06-2008, 07:52 PM

that's the topic of the programme next week - Objectaphiles. I think it's called "The Woman who married the Eiffel Tower" but it covers other people who have full loving relationships with national monuments, buildings, bits of fence etc