7×7
Posted: Wed 11 January, 2006 Filed under: Resolutions, Thoughts 1 Comment »via Pix, comes 7×7
Seven Things To Do Before I Die
- Have a book of my photos published
- Go back to being self-employed
- Travel more – particularly the US and New Zealand
- Have hellspawn (now there’s a scary concept – me with a child)
- Do more charity gubbins
- Write a book or a screenplay. Get published
- See something I’ve written on TV
Seven Things I Can’t Do
- Write Lists
- Run a Marathon
- Completely cut out caffeine
- Stop Swearing but hey, you wouldn’t want me to, right?
- Knuckle Down
- Get to 12 stone in Weight
- Not be a techie
Seven Things That Attract Me to Blogging:
- Keeping on Writing
- Proving I can keep on with a project
- Immediacy
- Readers
- Using blog as a brain-dump for ideas/stress
- Photoblogging (must get round to that, I know)
- Meeting people through their blogs
Seven Things I Say Most Often:
- Fuck (and variants)
- Cunt (and variants)
- Bollocks (and variants)
- Fucking Cunty Bollocks
- For Fuck’s Sake
- Personally
- I Think So
Seven Books That I Love
- Homeboy by Seth Morgan
- Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
- anything by Chris Brookmyre
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- anything by Peter F Hamilton
- Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again
- West Wing on DVD – not a movie, but still most-watched thing
- 10 Things I Hate About You – embarassing, but true
- Split Second – Rutger Hauer, and the line “We need bigger fucking guns“. Say no more
- Nikita
- Matrix – but mainly for the lobby scene
- Tootsie – again, embarassing, but if it’s on, I just keep on watching it
- Jesus of Montreal – Weird, Canadian, Fantastic
Seven People I Want To Join In Too
Yeah, well, whoever. Times 7.
I stumbled across this blog while looking for words on Spunkmeyer muffins as man cannot live on Pizza alone. Well of all the vast accumulation of fascinating film that has been made over the last 80 years or so I thought your select 7 was a pretty uninspired, stuff that is doshed out to the masses. Get hold of theatre of blood if you can. Its sort of obscure, but brilliant. Grusome, hilarious and plain daft,at times and full of cameo appearances from a host of British actors. A boy and a girl and a bike is another classic.The landscape made a big impact on me at the time and strangely I found myself living in Hebdon Bridge 20 years after seeing it. The Snow goose with Jenny Aggutter is a weepie and beautifully filmed. The Innocents is a wierd gothic horror film full of atmostphere. The Killing of Sister George is another tragic but funny film. Beryl Read plays it to perfection. Shes a wonder in Entertaining Mr Slone too. Walkabout is a good film with lots of good shots of the Outback as is Picnic at Hanging Rock. Barbarella is Sci Fi escapism that is positively bonkers. Death in Venice is a brilliant film and a reminder not to dye your hair and walk in the pouring rain.Better get back to my muffin research.