Bachman
male, 45 |
complex things
here / there
member since 02.03.2009
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First there was 1:14:07!
then there was 1.06.59!!!!
Now - 1.00.55
Speak your brains!
"Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."
Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....
What do you know about tweetle beetles? Well...
When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.
And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND...
When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.
AND...
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
It's a bad old world. But it can't be all bad if it includes a good swally, Smokey Robinson, Beethoven, "Spaced", Antoni Gaudi, "This is Spinal Tap", astronauts, Kanye West, fresh garlic, The Beatles, Public Enemy, The Marx Brothers, Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections", Woody Allen, Jeremy Paxman and critical news reporting, "Fight Club", PG Wodehouse, Mahler, roasted flat field mushrooms, Neil Young, Johnny Cash (especially the "American" recordings with Rick Rubin), "Shaun of the Dead", George Orwell, Lee Child novels which simply aim to entertain, Picasso, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, early Summer, bananas, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", the healing power of Rioja, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, The Buzzcocks, the fact that George W Bush is legally prevented from standing for a third term, Mark Rothko, Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo", the smell of freshly cut grass, birdsong, "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys, properly served Guinness, Bill Hicks, the work of Alan Moore, Frank Capra, Chris Morris, the Lakes, Dales, and Peaks, Led Zeppelin, random play facilities on an MP3 player, Jackson Pollock, early to mid period Stevie Wonder, just about anything on Motown, ND raging against the dying of the light, and the Pet Shop Boys (an ungrateful nation shrugs its shoulders with indifference - what is WRONG with you people!?). And seeing Jarvis Cocker, and hearing him speak, makes me proud to be British.
Things I can't stand, and believe me, this is not an exhaustive list, include people who talk loudly on their mobile phones on public transport - its not only rude, we're also not interested in your amazingly dull lives, and it's arrogant to think that we might be, you sickos; laziness; "can't do" attitudes; right wing thinking (an oxymoron if ever I heard one); people who think that they have the answer to everything for whatever political/religious reason -here's a newsflash - the world and beyond is just too complex for that, so just give it up; hard sums; avocado; overrated things (Van Morrison and Jennifer Aniston spring most readily to mind, along with Oasis - the bastard hybrid of the worst bits of The Beatles and Slade) and the term "genius" being bandied about without enough thought (though I am probably as guilty of that as anyone else). And bad poetry, especially on people's profiles. If I want bad poetry, I will go to Hallmark. And I don't believe world peace is possible, but the torture and killing of Westlife would be a good start. And whilst the branding iron and rope and pliers are still hot/warm/hot, let's do the same to Chris Moyles (people outside the UK won't know who Chris Moyles is. They don't have any concept of how lucky they are).
I think I need to see my doctor, cos I am convinced I am spending FAR too much time on here!
Last film seen - Sherlock Holmes. If you know absolutely nothing at all about Conan Doyle's creation and think Sherlock Holmes is a badly spelled construction company, you may enjoy it. But i thought it was meh. And meh is blah, to the power of 10. it is less Guy Ritchie than most Guy Ritchie (though still with too many colourful geezers oi oi oi for my liking). but that doesnt prevent it from being very pedestrian, with no sense of menace, or of the sinister; the deduction seems laboured rather than quicksilver, the plot is bollocks. put simply - it is not very good.
Last gigs - ABC, with orchestra. Sound mixer should have been shotand Martin Fry is FAR too Vegas now. Other than that, went to see Madness - absolutely fantastic.
Last album bought - some more Floyd, Animal Collective, and the OST of "The Untouchables"
Last rented - "The Taking of Pelham 123" which is just a lot of SHOUTY noise, and "Terminator: Salvation" which is largely just a lot of SHOUTY noise.
Am still steadily working through "The West Wing" - the greatest TV show ever made.
Currently reading "England, England" by Julian Barnes.
Remember, kids - if life is worth living, it's got to be run, as a means of giving, not as a race to be won. |
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