Back in 2012 my granddad asked if I could use the internet to find him a song from his younger days that he hadn't been able to find a recording of on CD locally. The song was called "Wishing It Was You" by an artist called Connie Francis (I'd never heard of her). I spent hours trawling the internet but couldn't find it, so I reached out to the owner of the only Connie Francis fansite I could find to see if they could help, and a few weeks later they replied with an mp3 of the song attached. My granddad was delighted when I gave him the CD.

I lost my granddad 2 years ago and was thinking about the above story earlier today for some reason. I still have the mp3 in my email and was going to upload it to Youtube to share it with you all, but the internet in 2023 is much different than it was back then. It's obviously already on Youtube these days, but I was kinda shocked to see that it has been viewed over 10 million times

Been reading up on Connie Francis and listening to her other music, her Wiki page is pretty interesting, definitely paid her dues

Awesome! Thanks for sharing BLS

Hopefully the General isn't a track we've already heard from the locker leaks just given a new name

Cruel Intentions was watched many times in my house as a young horny teenager I'm tempted to go watch it again now lol.

I'm not surprised Reese is worth $400m to be honest, though not sure how accurate these internet "net worth" posts actually are? I can think of plenty of big movies she's been in without even needing to Google it - #1 being Legally Blonde (and its sequels), Sweet Home Alabama, Walk The Line, Little Nicky, obv Cruel Intentions and Election too. I seem to remember she was also a guest on Friends as well? I think she's a decent actress, enjoyed just about everything I've seen her in tbh

Latest movie I watched was "Underwater". I watched it once before and enjoyed it so thought I'd give it another watch. Has that "Alien" vibe y'know? Kristen Stewart even looks like Ripley in Alien 3 with the shaved hair. Wouldn't surprise me if she's worth $400m too, she's been in tons of movies and again I seem to recall enjoying the majority of them.

Can confirm that this model works too. Had a buddy reach out a few years ago asking if I wanted to go see the Stones since it was only £40 for a lucky dip ticket. I jumped on that deal but doubt I would have if it were full price as I wasn't that bothered about going, especially with all the other expenses like train tickets, hotels, time off work etc.

Ended up having a great night and even got to see Richard Ashcroft (The Verve) open for them too which was amazing - I think they'd finally just put that whole Bittersweet Symphony royalties issue behind them at the time.

Edit to add: I wasn't near the front, I was seated at the back of the arena/stadium, but yeh it is lucky dip so we could have been randomly given seats anywhere.