What’s up next? Movies!

Movies are different for me but that’s possibly down to them being more of a visual thing than music. I have a very definite list of favourite films that very rarely gets updated. Finding a favourite amongst them though is another story so your stuck with a few from that top bunch.

Dead Poets Society
To this day I don’t know what it is about this film that makes me like it so much. It’s slow. One of it’s main characters is a poetry teacher. It sometimes makes me cry. All things I would normally say rule out a film from being in that lucky bunch of movies I call my favourites.

I guess it’s the inspirational side of the film that keeps me coming back for repeat viewings.

Pump Up The Volume
If ever there was a film I could put on and never become bored by it then this is it. It’s not the greatest or most original storyline but I think Christian Slater’s character being the quiet and shy one at school was just to close to home.

Animal House
This one doesn’t need any explanation. When National Lampoon films were good.

I could easily list another 10 films for this list but these will do until the next time I need to pick a favourite.

I need a kick to get writing again otherwise my dyslexic brain is going to turn into a walnut.

A lot of folk have been writing about their favourite song recently and whilst most have struggled to pick one through all the years a handful are in the same boat as myself. My musical tastes change every day and my collection can only be described as eclectic at best. Generally my favourite song is the track that I listen to most but as with everything it’s the context that’s important.

Five years ago I went to the Download Festival and I stood and listened to Velvet Revolver cover Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. It was a warm sunny night and it capped a great day off and even now on evenings like that the song jumps to the front of my head. That isn’t my favourite song of the moment however.

I’ve only recently became a fan of True Blood but the shows theme tune by Jace Everett fits it perfectly. Unfortunately I need to have the opening credits played along side it though as it just doesn’t hit the same chords without it.

Am I the only one that links music to visual cues?

A few years ago I posted up a couple of TV and Film quote quizes and noone ever finished them off.

If you fancy your chances with the harder ones, and lets face it the easy ones have already been found, then why not give them a go.

Round 1 – Top 20 Film quotes

Round 2 – Top 10 TV and Top 10 Film quotes

Gun -- Dont Say its Over
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/Ij4Ku2loSJ0″

Extreme -- More Than Words
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/viQWJUoRG50

Paul Weller -- Broken Stones (Live on Jools Holland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/lK2UUKuw2bo

Guns n Roses -- Welcome to the Jungle

http://www.youtube.com/v/ysFhDfGwbys

Supergrass -- Alright
[cvideotube=o_e4PxtQ-Fw]

The Offspring -- Self Esteem
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/kgkYA1l6LrQ

Def Leppard -- Lets Get Rocked
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/B05EDye9QII

Three days from striking off another month and I miss a day.

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One month down now to work out wether to let it run on for the next month or give myself a rest

Sort of a cheeky one to say i’ve ticked off as we amalgamated our birthdays and the housewarming into one night and asked folk over. Managed to get most folk over but some were missed and hopefully a good night was had by all

Well after being stuck in the house due to illness I got to reading this book thanks to the size of it really. I was wanting to read the HP books in order but we seem to have misplaced books 2-4 so I got stuck into this one.

This one covers the next film thats due out this year at some point I think so I figured as Finn asks so many questions during these films I may as well read it so I can have an answer for him. Again I was surprised at teh quality of the writting and just hope half the little cool bits make it into the film.

I think I missed this by about 5 books last time but there was a good few months where I didnt read anything so I’ll give it a go again.

I’ll not try and read books I dont want to unlike last time as it was just a struggle.

So far this year theres been…

1. Enigma: The Battle for the Code – Hugh Montefiore
2. Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions – New Scientist magazine
3. Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
4. Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It – Simon Singh
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling

Now if ever there was a book designed for me it was this. Ever issue of New Scientist has inside its back page a sort of ‘Readers Questions’ where the readers supply both the questions and answers. The difference being some of the questions they come up with are hilarious compared the normal question you might expect from such a publication.

A damn good read when all your looking for is something that you can open on a bus and get a few pages in.