Drinking all night, collecting elves, dressing up in other peoples' clothes, singing badly in the car, writing songs no-one will ever hear, buying stuff i don't need, saying yes when i should say no....Getting on and off planes, chasing love against a headwind, breathing in and out, giving off the wrong impression, dreaming the impossible dream, laughing as the shit comes down, wasting precious time...
God. i have some questions...Failing that Stephen Fry.Or these guys, they look like fun.....
Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Brighteyes, The Cure, Editors, Kylie, The Killers, Depeche Mode, Arctic Monkeys, The Subways, Futureheads, Hard-fi, The Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Long Blondes, Pheonix...so many bands so little time....Glasgow rocks!
AMELIE - Just the sweetest movie i've ever seen. And I like garden gnomes.HEARTBREAKERS - Gene Hackman is brilliant as the chain-smoking millionaire being hussled by Sigourney Weaver and her sidekick daughter Jennifer Love-Hewitt.ELF - Oh, how i laughed.LA CABINA (The Telephone Box) - some weird Spanish film about a guy who gets trapped in a phonebox. Workmen appear with tools but they can't set him free. A crowd gathers and watch him fascinated as he gets more and more panicked, one's a baker with a tray of cakes and they're all eating these as they enjoy the spectacle. Eventually the whole telephone box with him in it is lifted onto a lorry..the last scene is him being driven into a huge warehouse filled with more telephone boxes containing dead people in various states of decomposure. I've only seen it once when I was a kid but it's haunted me every since. I've yet to meet someone else who's seen it. Maybe it was a bad dream....TRANSAMERICA - A bitter sweet off-beat road movie about a transexual guy finding his son. Soundtrack is pretty cool too.Saw III - I hate horror movies but it was raining cats and dogs outside and it was the only film I didn't have to wait more than an hour to see. It's great if you like watching someone having their arms, legs and head slowly screwed off by a torture machine (it was constructed by a psychopath who wants to teach everyone a lesson in forgiveness, hmmm tough love). The most frightening thing about this movie though, is that people actually pay money in the name of entertainment to watch people being terrified and mutilated. I worry about us humans, I really do.
A few blood cells short of a plasma.
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks. Best opening line:"It was the day my grandmother exploded."The End of Faith by Sam HarrisThis book changed the way i regard religion, in particular the Muslim religion.I always thought it was best to respect other people's beliefs regardless, but how can you tolerate a religion that advocates the murder of innocents? The main thrust of Harris's argument is that with today's weapons of mass destruction, we can't afford to tolerate such beliefs. We wince when we read about the latest suicide bomber blowing up a bus in the Middle East, but how long will it be before these religious warriors get their hands on weapons which have the ability to reach us in our cosy Western homes? Maybe then we'll wake up, but by then it could be too late.I'm not racist or a bigot, if I have to label myself then I'd say I was a humanist. I believe the human race has so much potential but religion is suffocating us, holding us back. I find it puzzling and frightening that so many millions of people around the world; Catholics, Muslims, Mormons...can suspend reason in favour of the teachings of ancient books which have no basis in fact. Books which have inspired some of the worst atrocities in human history, such as the Spanish Inquisition and 9/11. And when you question this? The answer you invariably get is: "I have faith." Well, I call it ignorance. And anyone who thinks it's harmless are ignorant too.SPACEMAN by Robert Olen ButlerWHIT by Iain Banks
I need a hero... and he's gotta be big and he's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be larger than life...