It’s soooo meta. And cool.
Or maybe not. but funny all the same.
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Film pop quiz, hotshot…
Aug 14
I’ve been tagged by Jan to do this follow up to the 100 books meme, using the Channel 4 list of top 100 films (which is probably a bit more realistic than the AFI one).
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Not a book geek, alas
Aug 7
There’s this Facebook/Livejournal/blog meme passed to me from aamused, kiri (and no doubt others), saying:
“The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.”
(Note that the BBC’s own list of the top 100 books as voted for by the British public are very different to what you see below)
Alas, it’s going to be a tough one for me to fill out, since the pleasure of books is something I seem to have lost as the years have gone by, thanks to my lack of an attention span. Time was, I could start a book at 9pm, and finish it only to realise it was dawn outside and it was 5am. Nowadays, I glance at my watch when watching a sitcom…
But here goes with the book meme, and the list of books I have/haven’t read…
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You’re in a mid life crisis
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Your ears aren’t what they once were and you have resorted to doing online hearing tests.
The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 12kHz |
| Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear! |
Bah. Time to buy a Ferrari. If I can hear it coming.
What movies have I seen?
Dec 23
Despite describing myself as a film geek, I haven’t actually seen that many films. At least, recently. But let’s see how many I have seen…
Apparently, if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. (What about those of us who’ve never had a life to begin with ?!)
Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, and see how many you’ve seen…
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Meme baby four more times!
Jan 26
Finally, someone’s tagged me to do a meme! About time too! Thanks to Mr Mark Boulton…
Four Jobs I’ve Had
1. Paper boy (I had to get up every Saturday to the tune of Dave Lee Travis. God help me)
2. Chinese takeaway marketing, sales and finance executive (aka the dude at the counter)
3. Traffic light co-ordinator on a major Hollywood film
4. Glass-collector at a rock club, with Mosh. Imagine being paid every Saturday night to be in a rock club watching leather-clad babes (and dudes) swinging their long hair towards the ceiling.
Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
1. Aliens
2. The Matrix
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Chungking Express
Four Places I’ve Lived
1. Tywyn, Wales, UK
2. Hamburg, Germany
3. Bradford, Yorkshire, UK
4. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Four TV Shows I Love
1. Spaced
2. Pinky and the Brain
3. (sotto voce) Doctor Who
4. The Simpsons
Four Places I’ve gone on holiday to
1. Hong Kong SAR, China
2. Luxor, Egypt
3. Siem Reap, Cambodia
4. San Francisco, USA
Four of My Favorite Dishes
1. Sushi
2. Snow peas (could eat them all day with rice)
3. Beef and mushroom
4. Mashed potato
Four Sites I Visit Daily
1. Bloglines
2. BBC News
3. Media Guardian
4. Boing Boing
Four Places I Would Rather Be Now
1. In bed, wrapped up warm.
2. San Francisco
3. London
4. Up in the snow, looking at all that whiteness!
Four Bloggers I Am Tagging
1. Geofftech
2. It Always Rains in Wales
3. Skarlett
4. I am Woman, me
(late addition, just because he wanted someone to tag him: your turn, qwghlm !)
