Coffin Nail
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The Thick of It Specials.
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So glad this thread got bumped up despite the massive quandry it's causing me. It's like 'Daddy or chips?'....
Dogma. I bought my son a Silent Bob bobblehead for Christmas.
The film nerd gene has been passed from mother to son.Goodfellas/Casino/Raging Bull/Taxi Driver/Bringing Out the Dead. In fact, I don't think Scorsese has ever made a movie I didn't like.
Has anybody ever seen Italianamerican? Where he interviews his parents?? It's lovely.
Barton Fink/Fargo/The Man that Wasn't There/Blood Simple....same goes for the Coens.
Double Indemnity
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Bowling for Columbine
Borat
Annie Hall/Radio Days
Crash
Singing in the Rain
Shawshank Redemption
The Pianist
Cinema Paradiso
Seven
Silence of the Lambs
Trainspotting
Wizard of Oz
Usual Suspects
Sin City
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather1+2
JFK
Nil by Mouth
Twelve Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Colour Purple
Life of Brian
I think that's more than enough to be going on with.
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Valley of Elah-Tommy Lee Jones delivers a powerful and moving performance.
His son goes AWOL from the army when he returns from a tour of duty in Iraq.
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Hob-Nob??
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In the Hollywood Movie version of your life; who would play you?
Who would play you in the cheaper TV version??
Hollywood--Sherilyn Fenn
TV--Liza Tarbuck
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Welcome Jim. Your trips to the library will never be the same again.
Grab yourself a comfy chair and help yourself to Jaffa Cakes.
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Good call Johnny, I guess we should include whole albums as well.
I bought two albums with Boots record tokens (remember them???)
Hedgehog Sandwich --Not the Nine O'clock News & Hunky Dory--David Bowie.....both on tape.
I still have them.
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What was the first record/cd/download that you bought using your own money?
Mine was Message in a Bottle by The Police.
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What was the first gig you ever went to, when & where??
I got taken to Wembley in 1983 to see David Bowie's Serious Moonlight tour. Our English teacher at school was a Bowie devotee and took a gang of us. Talk about a more innocent time, they'd never be able to do that now, it's such a shame.
The first gig I went to without adult supervision was 1984 (I think) Siouxie & the Banshees at Manchester Appollo.
Man I'm getting old!!
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The Talented Mr Ripley.
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Yes the very same! A very talented guy imho, not only a great songwriter/lyricist but an author,actor and screenwriter too! The Ass saw the angel was his first book.
Wow. Very good to know. My TBR list just gets longer and longer.
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First time poster:)
1. Watershipdown by Richard Adams, the book that made me love books as a youngster.
2. The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar, makes me smile and laugh out loud.
3.The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks, what a twist!
4.Requiem for a dream by Hubert Selby, not a pretty book but it made a lasting impression.
5.And the Ass saw the Angel by Nick Cave, not an easy book to read but the imagery is incredible.
(Not in any order.)
Is that the musician Nick Cave?
If it is I had no idea he'd turned to writing novels.
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Has anyone else noticed any novels where the sole intention of the author is to get picked up by Hollywood?
They're begging to be a screenplay.
Instead of chapters they should write: EXT. MISTY CHURCHYARD. MIDNIGHT.
For the life of me I can't remember an example now.
I loathe it when authors are showing off on the research front.
I can't get peeved when authors over comma......I do it all the time. I have to hand my finished scripts over to my chum who's an English graduate. Fortunately she's a lot less numpty than I am.
There are things on this thread that I've never noticed.....but you can bet I will now.
(Nasty, pointless sex scenes. ICK ICK ICK!!)
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In no particular order;
The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allen Poe
Rebecca--Daphne Du Maurier
Middlemarch--George Elliot
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Hancock.....The Will Smith movie not Tony's half hour.
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West Wing Season 2
I only recently got into the West Wing. I've just caught up to season 3 on demand, it's brilliant.
Who knew politics could be so entertaining.
BTW fab avatar.
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I usually have at least three on the go. One for fun, one for work and one for info.
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I got stuck into Therese Raquin--Emile Zola and it's getting quite exciting.
The translation sounds a bit iffy to me sometimes though.
And as spring's rapidly approaching and it's time for the green fingered to get a wriggle on, I've done a couple of chapters of Joe Swift's Allotment Book.
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Kill Bill prt2 and Sin City (again!)
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Every now and again I get that way, especially when it's something uninspiring.
I get that way that my eyes are looking over the words but taking in nothing. Then you catch yourself and have to turn back and reread it.
Whenever that happens, I leave it alone and do something else. Or find a book in your pile that you're really looking forward to and start that instead.
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If you don't consider yourself a collector, what's the most you've spent on one book??
I can't say specifically but some of my film books were
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Agnostics and athiests...please, this is just a game.
I love this game on the Actors Studio so I've pinched it.
When you get to Heaven what would you like God to say to you??
''Hey, you made it. Sorry and slugs and tomato blight chuck, your laptop's all set up, that book you were reading when you expired is on your bed. Help yourself to tea and Jaffa cakes.'
Your turn.
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A catchphrase from Buzz Lightyear...or the length of my tbr and wish list since joining this lovely forum.
Not only in my own favourite genre, but classics and general must reads also....not to mention books that I've read before years ago and I now want to revisit.
My next visit to the library is going to be very interesting. I have twice the choice of books I fancy now, and I got the maximum then!!!! (Maximum fines too:blush:)
It's good to know that if I live to be a hundred I'll never get to the end of my list.
thank you bookies, for reminding me of reads long forgotten and introducing me to new ones.
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I have the Greek comedy/tragedy masks on the bit between my back and my butt.....the way things are going it'll end up behind my knees. I got it done when I graduated 10 years ago.
I have a bar code with my son's date of birth on it, on my shoulder blade.
Quite fancy a clematis design next.
I was doing stand-up in a really rough pub in Accrington one night and I said that women in Accrington only have tattoos on the base of their spines to cover up the scars from when they had their tails removed at birth.......ooops. Had to make a quick getaway that night:blush:
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