Minor 49′er
I’ve been tagged by Young Mr Ayling to do this bloody 7×7 meme. He’ll pay, oh yes, he’ll pay. Maybe not now…
Anyway, without further ado…
Seven Things To Do Before I Die
1. See a Labour government
2. Meet Elvis Costello
3. Go to New York
4. Eliminate the need for sleep
5. Hear the lamentations of my enemies’ women
6. Wembley Stadium
7. Attain immortality
Seven Things I Cannot Do
1. Long division
2. Listen to Leonard Cohen
3. Eat broccoli
4. Or cauliflower
5. Not have the telly or the radio on
6. See the point
7. Take it any more
Seven Things That Attract Me to… the Mrs
1. Sleepy
2. Sneezy
3. Bashful
4. Grumpy
5. Dopey
6. Happy
7. Doc Martens
Seven Things I Say
1. In a minute
2. For fuck’s sake
3. Mañana
4. I’m never drinking again
5. You’ll never go bust appealing to the lowest common denominator
6. I’m not a scouser
7. Say that again, you’re breaking up
Seven Books That I Love
1. Crime and Punishment
2. London Fields
3. Catch-22
4. The Man Who Was Thursday
5. Foucault’s Pendulum
6. Our Man in Havana
7. The Selfish Gene
Seven Movies That I’ve Loved (at different times and in no particular order)
1. Brazil
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
3. Hobson’s Choice
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Hudson Hawk
6. The Conversation
7. Seven
Seven People To Tag (in no particular order)
1. Jarndyce
2. Nosemonkey
3. Jim Bliss
4. Rochenko
5. Larry
6. Bag of Bears
7. Snooo
That’ll teach them to mess with me.
Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
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Here you go then - hadn’t posted anything today, so you caught me at a good time.
Hudson Hawk though? Christ - so you’ll be queuing up for the first screening of The Da Vinci Code then, I gather? (Then again, you did pick Foucault’s Pendulum, so I might just let you off…)
“I’ll torture you so slowly, you’ll think it’s a career.”
Get to knack with your Da Vinci Code.
“Rome - I had my first bare-handed strangulation here. Communist politian. God, I miss Communism!”
Hudson Hawk is a much misjudged masterpiece. It’s actually now in profit as well, amazingly enough. It’s one of the few Bruce Willis movies worth a damn. Apart from Pulp Fiction and Sin City. And the bit where he cries in Armageddon - comedy platinum that.
Dan Brown to Umberto Eco is like JK Rowling to JRR Tolkein: arse. Hmm, not quite having it on Hudson Hawk mind.
Umberto Eco is clearly a man with a huge brain. And my gosh don’t he know it (am not-so-secretly-jealous since I have just failed in my attempted second reading of Foucault’s Pendulum).
What, no Conan?
Done. You bastard.
Misery loves company, mate. Misery loves company.
Your wish is my command.
I love spreading misery - it’s so satisfying
Well I’ve done it. But it just goes to show that memory loss is a dreadful thing - I can only recall things that happened in my childhood and things that happened 30 seconds ago. Everything else is a bit of a blur.
Elvis Costello is a hero of mine, but I did see him once at Dublin airport getting on the same flight as me back to Manchester. I think I did the right thing by ignoring him, while sneaking the occasional look and thinking “that really is him!”.
I don’t know what else you should do in that situation. Go up to him, say “I really love Blood And Chocolate” and ask for his autograph? Elvis is renowned for being a it grumpy in those sorts of situations.
And Gav comes across as such a happy cove….
Darn.
Justin, re: Declan MacManus, be careful what you wish for.
Jaysus, I finally got around to doing it. Thanks for that, J. Trying to count to seven doesn’t sit well with sleep dep.
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