Wednesday, 28th May 2003
100: The final stage
[Part nine is here.]
- I can't act; never did Speech & Drama or the like at school. It therefore takes an awful lot for me to notice a good acting performance - such as William H. Macy in Fargo, Al Pacino in The Godfather, Natalie Portman in Léon, Kevin Spacey in American Beauty or Edward Norton in Primal Fear.
- My favourite actors are James Stewart, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman. Notice any overlaps?
- I have a good sense of direction; if I know vaguely where I'm going I can usually tell which road to take when I'm driving. Er. Without looking at the signposts, I mean.
- I'm very good at putting things out of my mind when I don't want to think about them. This can backfire sometimes.
- My books, CDs, etc. are not alphabetised and I cannot imagine who would do such a thing. Books and CDs organised by author and artist, fine, but for the rest I just recognise them by their colour.
- I don't know what my blood type is.
- I honestly don't see what the big deal is about New Year's Eve.
- There are words that I cannot stand. 'Recalcitrant', 'minutiae' and 'infinitesimal' are all valid examples. I'm sure there are more, but I try to forget them.
- I don't have any kind of fear about needles. I find that I'm able to relax enough that injections don't hurt - no one believed me when I told them that getting my ears pierced didn't hurt a bit.
- My 'childhood movie' that I watched over and over again - assuming that "Rupert And The Frog Song" doesn't count as a movie - is "Labyrinth". I still love it. I only found out a couple of years ago what a cult following it has.
Comments
my books are ordered by height -- is that okay?
i'm with you on new year's eve. obviously i don't mean i'm with you physically on new year's eve -- unless by some staggering coincidence you were the stamford arms in london last december 31st. i generally let my friends organise it and just follow them, i don't care where we go.
labyrinth, in general, rocks -- but david bowie should really not wear tights.
Hmmm....Bowie in tights.....
Labyrinth does indeed rock, as does Rupert and the Frog Song.
Relax, you are safe from my wrath - ordered by height is okay, because that's ordering them for an aesthetic reason rather than so that you can find any given book within 0.2 milliseconds.
walks off singing: "You remind me of the babe..."
re 94:
i have perfected this art. recently, i've been pretending i don't even go to uni! what four assignments?
I am SO relaxed right now. its the Magic Formula for Eternal Happiness: lax out for 85% of the time, and go absolutely feralnuts a couple of nights a month.
what babe?
Sounds like a better formula for happiness than the one that was in all the papers a couple of months ago :)
The babe with the power
o thats another formula to supplement your Eternal Happiness: dont read the paper or watch the news, it only tells you about bad stuff you cant do anything about. you're better off buying a muffin for that homeless guy.
what power?
Through extensive archive-reading, aided by coffee and ignoring what I am supposed to be doing at work, I have calculated that 44 of your 100 things are statements that I either agree with or that apply to me.
Particularly no. 5.
Now, using advanced mathematical techniques and a very big abacus, I have worked out that this total equates to 44% of your entire list or, to put it another way, eleven-twentyfifths of the list. (I didn't get that B in GCSE Maths for nowt, you know.)
Just thought you might like to know. Great blog, btw.
So if I match eleven of your 25 Things, we'll be even? Hmm, let's see... sorry, only six. But I think that's not too bad considering how specific some of yours are!
Now, that comes out as...borrows Mark's abacus... gives up and uses calculator instead* ...30%. Not too bad!
Thanks for the compliment as well :D
* I know I'm doing A-level Maths, so? (Yes, and Further maths. Thank you.) Taking A-level maths is a sure way to rob you of your mental aritmetic skills ;)
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