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Valentines shmalentines, this year February the 14th holds a new and unique place in my heart, and gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling inside for an entirely different reason (did you see what I did there ;p ). Hot Fuzz is out, and it’s out now, go and see it, see it now. “…by the power of Grayskull…”
Now I know telephone sales people are ‘people too’ and all that, but hey if I want you to phone me I’ll ask you to, and if I haven’t asked you to then you have to expect me to be a little dismissive and often rude that you’ve decided to interrupt my life unasked to offer me the ‘opportunity’ or ‘specially select’ me for a ‘fabulous new offer’.
I’m not usually a fan of candid style comedy where one or more of the people isn’t in on the joke, but a friend of mine sent me the link to this one, and lets face it it’s pretty damn funny, I think I’m going to make a few notes and be ready for my next ‘special call’ (you’ve been warned telemarketers)
Now I don’t know about anyone else, but all I really did over Xmas was a whole lot of nothing, with occasional bouts of nothing in front of either the TV or PC, all the while eating and drinking like I’d only discovered food and drink a few moments before (oh and visited the family but that was more of the same just in a different location).
It seems not all of us were as happy to do the human equivalent impression of the bastard offspring of pig and sloth and instead spent their time in a much more useful and creative manner (in my opinion anyway which here is all that counts) , especially Missed Manners who documents his activities here:-
What I Did Over Christmas Vacation.
Right I’m going off to make sure everyone knows I want sweets for Xmas next year, and then consider which scene from which film or book I’m going to tackle. I suppose it depends on how much help I think I might get, and amount of sweets.
Speaks for itself this one.
I realised the other day, that I still hadn’t gotten around to watching series 4 of Family Guy (I got the boxed set for Xmas) so that might be a ‘job’ for the weekend.
For a little bit of Friday fun for everyone who hasn’t got the dvd’s, and missed them when they were on TV (although they’re probably being re shown somewhere if you have a good look around) here’s an 80’s themed clip.
I used to read a lot more often than I do now, and even though these days I seem to spread my spare time much more thinly there’s still nothing quite like sitting down and escaping the world for a while with a good book. That being said I think I might start to add reading recommendation’s here (I’m not sure why I never have before, must be the aforementioned neglecting my brain through lack or reading), for those of you who might share my tastes or opinions (or are willing to ‘take my word for it’ even if you don’t).
I’ve (literally) just finished reading ‘Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild, Wild Surf by John Bennett’, which was recommended to me by my girlfriend (who rather handily works in a library and being the sweetheart she is brings me home anything she thinks I might find interesting), and now I can heartily recommended it to the rest of the reading world.
Sixteen-year-old Felix is bored and stressed. He’s stressed about his ‘A’ Level results, stressed about working for that mad old bag Mrs Pretzel, stressed about what the future holds. He’s also feeling mighty guilty about the possibly fatal combination of laxatives and scrabble tile (Z, ten points) he fed to Mrs P’s spaniel, Vespasian. But it’s not the stress or the guilt that initiates the bizarre quest that takes him half way around the world on a stolen debit card – it’s curiosity. Felix is very curious about a statue he finds in the permanent clearance sale at ‘The House of Crap’ – a statue depicting a fat man and a sea otter in sexual congress. “Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild, Wild Surf” is the story of where Felix’s curiosity takes him, to Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco; on a journey that challenges his preconceptions about the world, his plans for the future and his relationships with his family. Will he get home before his little sister discovers what he’s up to? What’ll happen to Vespasian? Will he get the passes he needs to get into University? Whatever!
It seems that Tom F Wilson’s ‘Question Song’ has had over 900,000 views on YouTube, if you haven’t seen it, or liked it and like me watch it all the time, watch it again and be sure to tell anyone you know who might find it amusing (even those who won’t) and see if we can break the 1,000,000.
Another great clip posted over at Gutterzombie a few days back
Now I know this firmly puts me in the ‘big geek’ corner (like there was really any doubt) but as the title says, How much do I want Megatron
The answer is lots!! I never managed to own any of the cool Transformers when I was a kid, and Megatron was always at the top of my want list, but here we have a re-designed model with die-cast metal parts which when in robot form will stand around 13 inches tall, and comes with accessories like the mace he used during that damtop battle with prime (if you didn’t think I was a geek before, you do now).
If I still believed in Santa (although thinking about it I’m not sure I ever did, which would explain my dislike for the holiday seaaon I imagine) I’d be writing him a letter right now and behaving my ass off, hmm, perhaps a quick note to the north pole and a few cookies can’t hurt.
Tom Wilson posted the link to this one himself on his myspace page with the wish to pass it along, so as he asked (and it’s damn funny) here you go.
The Daughter Song
As I was putting it up I may as well add the previous song of his I mentioned a few posts back (and the fact I can’t stop singing it I may as well get it stuck in your heads too).
The Question Song
