I pinched this off Damo’s blog:
Seven Things to do before I die
1. Visit Japan
2. Get married / have kids
3. Work for myself
4. Learn another language well enough to visit a country and only speak the native tongue for 3 days
5. Drive an Aston Martin
6. Score in a competitive football match – Sunday League would do
7. Write a book
7 things I can’t do
1. Swim breaststroke properly (can’t do the legs)
2. Eat garlic
3. Hit the “supertax” bracket
4. Stop whinging about crap things
5. Support a football team that actually wins anything
6. Claim to be a virgin
7. Hurt an animal. People, yes. Animals, no
7 things that attract me to blogging
1. Technically being published without the awkward bit of having to write anything that’s actually any ******* good
2. The undying devotion of you lot
3. I can class it as “educational” when I **** about with Javascript, HTML and CSS
4. Lots of them are about people’s sex lives
5. Earns me brownie points when I help people with theirs
6. It’s an outlet. If I didn’t do it I’d probably have killed someone by now instead
7. Actually finding people on the net daft enough to meet me
7 things I say most often
1. Muppet(s)!
2. This job would be a lot easier without bloody customers ******* things up
3. ****
4. Cock-knocker
5. -ish
6. ****
7. Do I look like I give a ****?
7 books I love
1. Last Chance To See – Douglas Adams
2. Hitchhiker’s “trilogy” – Douglas Adams
3. The first 5 Harry Potter books (number 6 was a bit crap)
4. My set of late 1890’s medical texts
5. The World War series – Harry Turtledove
6. Discworld series – Terry Pratchett
7. The Chinaman – Stephen Leather
7 films I watch over and over again
1. Blade (once I get a working R1 DVD player again)
2. Aliens
3. Bad Taste
4. Detroit Rock City
5. Die Hard
6. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
7. Ice Age
ha ha ha ha ha.
You had your first date in Whitley Bay? and you’re still together? wow!
On a more serious note, I have lost my password to my site so my blog page will change drastically over the next few days. Arse.
D’OH!
The password thing, not the Whitley Bay/date thing.
Everyone keeps telling me about that Pratchett dude. I’m going to have to get one of his books one day.
And ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ was bloody great.
Babs – Pratchett’s novels are (at worst) “very good”. The only one I’ve not enjoyed was “Carpet People” which was one of his very first and aimed at kids. He’s done two kids’ series since then, plus a new run of “Discworld for Kids” ones which are pretty good. Read the Discworld ones in order, though, if possible. And don’t skip Good Omens that he wrote with Neil Gaiman. It’s superb.
As for Lock/Stock, also check out Snatch (same team) and Layer Cake (directed by the producer of the first two). However, I’ve been told to avoid Revolver (Guy Ritchie again) as it’s complete self-indulgent ****.
I was under the impression that Pratchett was getting a bit samey and I don’t normally say that sort of thing. I loved the early books, especially the first one, Guards Guards and Eric and feel that some of his more recent stuff has not been so good*. However, I am reading Going Postal now and I think it is a real return to form. Hurrah!
*I more or less ascribe this to the decreasing use of asterisks in his writing
Housse – I was just going to say that GP is positively littered (or should that be lettered – haha) with postscripts. I’ve not been realy disappointed with a Pratchett in ages, though I still rate Pyramids as a favourite and it’s ancient now.
One of the few books to make me laugh out loud was ‘Mort’ byu Terry Pratchett. That said, his books are wearing a bit thin, for me at least.
Two of my mates from Cambs were up in Whitley this weekend. They went to the worst nightclub around, then the next night went to the club with the poles in it with the big girls dancing on them. Classy weekend out.
Mort’s a good one. I like all the subtle references to other stuff in the books as well.
Mmm… big girls dancing on my pole…