In this section of the site you can find either things that are fun...subjectively speaking, or things that didn't really fit anywhere else. Or things that are both.



EMBRACE PSYCHOLOGY - Get on the couch



Dr Set W.PhD is a very skilled therapist who uses an unconventional method to tell people what their psychological condition is. Here you can take advantage of her Embrace psychology method where she determinds whether you're healthy or not based on which Embrace songs you like. Don't miss the chance. Dr Set W.PhD is of course a certified psychiatrist and has been dominant in her field for many years. So there is no point in waiting any longer.

Get on the couch



The Embrace Game
Would you like to play with Embrace...maybe shower them with sunflowers? Click the image and enjoy yourself!!!
The Embrace Game

The Embrace Game - Version II
Shoot the targets Embrace are holding...ON TIME!! Look out for a trick (the cursor is invisible the first time you play...just for your training, then after you click 'try again' when you've lost you can see a cursor).
The Embrace Game - Version II


Embrace in the future, what will become of them?

One day I was walking down the street when I saw Michael J Fox coming. Having seen him on that nerdy sitcom "Family Ties" (yes, it doesn't get more American than that) and then in that excellent trilogy "Back To The Future", I had to stop him and talk to him. One thing lead to another and he agreed to borrow me the time machine. So off to the future I went and saw what will become of the Embrace dudes...here's what I saw...

 

Daniel McNamara. Danny starts a society called "Happy and Lost" for people who are tired of all the madness in the world but still happy about life.
The following is huge and lost souls who are happy with being lost join from all over the world. A lot of Embrace messageboarders become dedicated followers and travel around the world with Danny to preach his learnings.
Danny and his now wife never have any children because they are too busy taking care of their 'possy' and the rest of the Happy and Lost clan. They do however adopt a little girl who they name Juventina. Danny also takes a cooking course in the Bahamas but doesn't stay there. He travels all his life and seems very happy.
They pronounce Belgium the most cynical country on earth and plan to invade it when Danny turns 60. This photo is from their official catalouge.
Michael Dale. As soon as Embrace quit Mickey decides to work on film soundtracks and filmscores. He writes the most beautiful music imaginable for an independent British film and becomes renowned all over the world for his brilliance.
He dyes his hair purple, wears only blue clothes and decides never to use the word 'glass'.
He wins 17 oscars for his film scores by the time he's 42 and looks ready for even more.
Mickey also never has any kids because he thinks if the child isn't a musical genius it would make Mickey die out of sorrow. He stops eating bananas and avocados and sets a trend among all music fanatics never to eat bananas or avocados...the reason is unknown.
He is hailed as the greatest musician of all times. However, he never goes back to regular music as he thinks filmscores are the way of the future and that regular music will not be made for much longer.
Michael Heaton. After a couple of years of doing nothing Mike decides he can't go on this way. He starts working as a photographer and mostly takes pictures of facial hair. He then proceeds to expanding his horizons by taking pictures of facial hair among males in South America.
While in Uruguay Mike and his girlfriend have their first child, Fernando. Their second child named Violet is born in Leeds and when the children grow older Fernando teases Violet for not being born in an exotic country.
Mr Heaton gets bored out of taking pictures and decides to design necklaces...he is an instant hit...a Mike Heaton necklace is worth thousands...without any gold or silver in it. Happy and financially independent he moves to a suburban town in Kent, England and works as a shop assistent. His girlfriend writes a book about the Embrace years which becomes the best selling biography in 30 years. Fernando becomes an orchestra conductor while Violet works as a police officer.
Richard McNamara. Richard and his wife move to Trinidad where they don't make friends with Dwight Yorke. They have 5 children by the time Richard is 40.
Richard spends his days playing music for the public for very small wages. He gets the nickname 'el smilo' because even for the laidback dudes of Trinidad he's a smiley person. He also makes little statues out of coconuts which he occasionally sends to his parents so they can see he's being useful.
Life for the McNamara family in Trinidad is easy, sunny, lovely and smooth. Their youngest child Pavel however rebels against this order of calamity and moves to London to become an accountant. He still loves his family but thinks they take life too easily.
Pavel's parents don't worry too much as in worst case scenario they can have Danny leading him back on the right course. Since Richard has brought the old Embrace CDs with him Embrace are revived and Trinidad's national hymn is changed to "Hooligan".
Steven Firth. Steve becomes a media mogul and buys a castle in Newcastle. Life is very flashy for Mr and Mrs Firth but they feel it lacks substance. So Steve sells his big company to Danny and Richard's younger brother Jonathan aka J for £10 [who appreciates it highly].
He then moves with his wife to Spain to start his career as a professional artist. Steve's paintings are not easily sold initially but once a millionaire by the name of Antonio Chavez Otero mistakes him for Claudia Schiffer and buys a stack of "Steve's". Since Mr Otero is a well known art collecter everybody starts buying Steve's paintings. Otero is senile so he never realizes it's not Claudia Schiffer until Steve dyes his hair brown.
Steve and his wife have 12 children all named after people whose names starts with an S. The Firth kids all move from Spain because they get tired of standing in their father's shadow. But all of them move to Portugal.
Steve continues his bohemian life and keeps painting masterpieces. The family really want to move back to England because they miss the rest so they promote global warming in order to be able to move back to England one day. Steve's Spanish is immaculate.


Madhead Embrace Fans
The GRAND compeition to see which Embrace fan can pull the wackiest face...you may be included, you ever know...you may even have won!
Check the mad winner


The DressDoll

The dressdoll is a mad idea that came to me just like that. Mad ideas tend to pop up just like that. You get to dress every member of Embrace up! Each dude has a selection of clothing next to him and you click the item you'd like to see him in. Due to the fact that it's very time consuming making these I have limited the clothing items to three per member.
The body belongs to Juventus footballplayer Alessandro Del Piero, if you're curious. The bodyparts were not however picked from the same picture.
Start the madness!!!



Links worth following

I have decided to put links from this site on the Fun section as I find links fun and links' pages not fun...even though functional. This way you'll get to the other pages with some mental smiles that you've received from this section, hopefully.

The official Embrace website
As official sites go this is a really good one. It has an extremely active messageboard crowded with really nice people. It has many Embrace videos, it has many of Embrace's songs. Definitely worth a visit. As of 2001 it also has killer graphics, Danny's studio diary, Mike's photo gallery, Richard's DJplaylist etc etc.

The official Embrace crew website
A fun and mad site made by Embrace's road crew, or should we say HHJJ...the monitor engineer...cos I think he does most of it. Diary of what they're doing, descriptions of their jobs, pictures of them and Embrace.

Claire's Embrace site
Information packed website made by Claire who's been into Embrace since 1997...if that says something about how much info and valid info you'll be able to find. Used to be limited on the graphics but has now coool graphics as well, some of it courtesy of Mikey "Boinky" Boy (don't you like how I've forced a nickname into a nickname?)

Mary's site
An Embrace website made by Mary, evidently. It has explanation of all their album tracks and it has a fan gallery where Embrace fans from the messageboard and 'LastGas' can be seen (I'm in it too=0). Unfortunately closed down but it will be forever remembered

Last Gas
Cool and flashy Embrace site, renowned for its chatroom where lots of chataddicts hang out. Danny has been there many times and as far as we know Mickey and Richard have been there once, although, unlike Danny they didn't make their presence known. All this to show how the chat has become recognized as an unofficial official chat. Created by Chris Burns.

Embrace World
Stevo's cool and stylish Embrace site with guitar-tabs for all your guitar hungry people. It also has some HUGE images and news and that...he's updating =0) He also has a beautiful real name, Stephen Hayden, am I not right? And he's Irish...they're maaaad

Happy and Lost
Top name for a webbie taken from an Embrace b-side. A brand new Embrace webbie, stylish and cool...though it's made with Flash so you'd better go with Explorer (Netscape tends to mess up with it sometimes). So far not that big, contentwise, but I'd expect increasement on that part. Colin seems dedicated.

Lush Alcohol Saint
If you're very clever or have lots of time on your hands you know that the title is the anagram for Nicholas Southall. Who is he? A very verbal and articulate Embrace fan who isn't very humble on his site(you'll know what I mean when you get there). It's a personal site but I've added it here cos I've gotten my webbie added there (HAHA!), but, it is actually a good personal site...no Embrace though. BUT, this IS the 'fun' section.

Embrace Fan Directory
This is a site made by Mark on some of the craziest people around...Embrace fans. There are pictures of fans with information to accompany them. You will not find anything about Embrace but it's still a faboo site.

SecretSwig.com
Another site created by Mark (I'd pay to have his sparetime;) about the infamous Secret Swig, a get together of Embrace fans...say a parody of the famous Secret Gigs Embrace have been having. But there aren't any gigs here...just people having fun together and being weird...hehehe.

Embrace Fan
Created by 'DannyBoy', a site about Embrace and their fans basically. It's got a marvelous flash sunflower menu that my friends think is beautiful and it is. It's currently working its way up to complesion.

Lucky Kill
Steven Gravell aka Splinter is an Embrace fan I've gotten to know through LastGas and this is his own site, it's about his music and him basically...go check, it's freaky...in a nice wackie way.


Global Embrace - Say it in different languages!
There isn't a grand reason or meaning behind the band's name, but since they're called Embrace anyway...why not learn to say it in different languages? I can not swear that the forms are all correct as I've translated most from dictionaries. Feel free to send any contributions you have!!!
Kram/famn, Swedish Kabinti, Lithuanian
Omarming, Dutch Brate, Romanian
Baghal, Persian Narucju,Croatian
Objecia, Polish Amplexus, Latin
Abbraciano, Italian Abrazo,Spanish
Bréce, French Abraçada, Catalan

 


The End of the Backstreet Boys (BSB)
Written by Sheona "Imagination" Simpson (my Canadian soulmate), 1998-99

Yeah the BSB are modern day warlocks! casting a spell on the youths of the world they must be stopped! So off to the rescue are the Sensationally Super Setareh and her trusty side-kick the Super Smartie (Silly, that's Sheona's version, I like Smartie better coz she is) Sheona!
DUH DUH DAAA One day while listing to the radio Sheona hear that group the BSB once again so she proclaimed "That's it!!!! These evil doers must be stopped! I must contact my partner in crime (even though we don't do anything illegal!) to put an end to this madness!!!"

So Sheona contacted Setareh by the secrete BLUE phone (I know they are usually red but red is highly over used I mean come on Batman and the Commissioner had a red phone, Even the president of the United States has a red phone you know the one he picks up when he wants to drop the bombs.......So I want the phone to be blue, so if you don't like it tuff I'm the one writing this story!) While all the way over in Setareh's home when the blue phone rang she new that it was t ime to move into action!

So because they are super hero's they can fly, so off they took to rid the world of the music of the BSB! So they flew around the word taking all of the BSB CD and any other article of anything to do with the BSB, they used the CD's for solar panels to help the earth, clothing and paper products with them on it was recycled, and the videos were erased!

Then they trapped the BSB and hypnotized them into becoming math teachers! And of coarse they had time to stop off in Rome and have an ice cream! The world was once again BSB free, the young girls of the world were released from the horrible spell put on by the boys and realize how pathetic their music really was so Setareh and Sheona were made world wide heroes, and the world lived happily ever after! The End =0)


Mary Scanlon - Embrace's official photographer
You may have come across some really well taken pictures of Embrace and thought how brilliant they were. If they were black and white, chances are they were taken by a woman called Mary Scanlon, who is Embrace's official photographer. I don't really know anything about her but I thought I'd acknowledge her fantastic work...hoooray for Mary!!!
Below are a few samples of her Embrace photos. You can click the images to see a larger version of them. The last three (from left to right) are not included in the 'Photos' section.

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