The Family That Listens to Take That Together...

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I continue with the project of inflicting Take That on my family. So far it seems to be working.

Last week, the Sweetie, Ros and I were taking her to daycare, and I realized the Sweetie was humming something to himself.

Me: What are you humming?
Sweetie: (sheepishly) Patience
Me: (triumphantly) Yessssss.
Ros: What?!
Me: Daddy was singing Patience.
Ros: Let's all sing Patience!

And so we did, for the two blocks until I peeled off to the subway.

Also, Ros asked me to make her a mix CD for her daycare. Apparently the kids can take in a CD of songs they like and the teacher will play it.

Along with The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (always a favourite) and a number of kids songs, she request three Take That songs: Patience (of course), Never Forget (which she likes dancing along to when I have The Circus DVD on), and Shine.

Except, adorably, she calls Shine "Sparkle."

Clearly, she realizes that Mark Owen is the sparkliest pop singer in the English speaking world:


(Yes, I was just looking for an excuse to post that pic. Your point is?)

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One of my favourite pics of him is in one of those flowery blouses. (I have plans for a Mark pic spam coming up.)

Willowen is perfect, if ever so slightly worry making. (I live in constant fear that Rob will break Mark's heart yet again. Hopefully they've both grown up too much for that to happen again.)

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A big yay for a Mark picspam! Please do one *g* there really is no shortage of excellent pics of him, he does know how to work the camera ;) and when watching pics from the 90's I'm always amazed how perfectly he mastered the innocently provocative poses...

The Willowen love indeed is complex. And not the least cause it's so obvious how much having Robbie back in his life means to Mark. He just lights up everytime Robbie gives him even a bit of attention. Even if Robbie decides to do his own professionally after the tour, I really hope there will not be a fall out like last time. But I don't think it will happen, surely they're all too mature and old for something like that. Behind the band may not have been as close friends the first time around as they would have wanted people to believe, but pics like that icon of yours just tell a whole another story. Somehow it just feels that Mark and Robbie did share something deeb and genuine, how could you fake a picture like that? ;)

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Btw, would you mind if I add you to my friends? I don't update my own journal (only joined LJ to comment on fics etc), but that way it would be easier to keep track when you make a TT related post ;)

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Absolutely, feel free to friend me! The more the merrier. (I'll add you as a mutual friend in case I ever friendslock anything. Which I don't do too often, as a rule.)

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Great, just added you :)

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I'm rapidly filling up my laptop with lovely pics of Mark. He does know how to do provocative innocence, doesn't he?

As for Mark and Rob back in the '90s, even if some of their friendship was originally manufactured, there's clearly a lot of it that was entirely genuine. There's a pic in Take That: Take 1, with them in their Sure costume. Rob has Mark pinned on the floor, and is looking adoringly a Mark, while Mark just looks ecstatically happy. It's such a lovely, intimate moment, and I doubt they could fake the emotion in the image. And Mark's description of the image--he says it's the one image from the original days in the band he'd like a copy of--just makes it even sweeter and more intense. I do reckon they'll stay good friends. I just give a little internal wince every time Rob goes all loose cannon, as he so often does.

BTW, your Kidz icon is lovely. I adore that pic.

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That picture you described is absolutely beautiful! You can't deny the love there *g* Can't blame Mark for wanting a copy of it. I've seen the 90's tour vids on youtube and I think that pic is from one of the tours. At one point in the show Robbie and Mark keep running towards each other, then jumping up slightly and bumping at each other, and of course with Robbie being so much heavier, Mark always ends up lying on his back on the floor from the force of the collision. Robbie of course has to help him up ;)Lovely!
Didn't Gary write on that book that after seeing pics of those two, he only later realised how close they actually were...

"BTW, your Kidz icon is lovely. I adore that pic." Me too. It's those adoring looks, it's always the looks (that say more than a thousand words) ;)

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I've really got to see more of the footage from the '90s. They're such babies back then, but adorable.

I've gone through Take 1 again--oh, the agony *g*--and the big Gary quote in it is the one about Robbie breaking Mark's heart. I will never tire of reading that bit. Or looking at the pics to be honest.

And yes, there is no one on the planet who does the adoring look like Mark in the presence of Rob. ::sigh::