Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer? The old test card girl with the blackboard and cuddly toy. Have had it for ages but now everyone thinks I nicked it from Life on Mars!
Q. How many televisions do you have in your house? Five that I know of. Four of those are mine. Admittedly one is very old and doesn't get used, another is stuck in the kitchen 'cos I'm not sure where to put it (none of the housemates want it) and another is about to blow up (which may solve the previous problem).
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right or left handed? Right handed.
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? I've had the piss taken a few times...
Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted? The afore mentioned TV I think, it's massive - takes up the whole of my kitchen table!
Q. Have you ever been knocked out? No, but I did faint once after being stabbed in the arm repeatedly with a medicine coated cocktail stick.
BULLSHITOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? No, 'cos I'd go mad trying to do all the things one's supposed to do but puts off and end up actually missing all the good stuff like hanging out with friends, being silly and spontaneous.
Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Probably wouldn't change it but have never liked the double 'k' sound in Mark Corden - makes saying the two words separately quite difficult.
Q. What colour do you think looks best on you? Judging by my wardrobe, several colours at once! Probably a pale blue.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item? Not that I recall.
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for £100? Yeah, have done it when drunk for a laugh so why not?
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for £200,000? Sure, I could get one of those little brass fake ones like Pete the Feet!
Q. Would you never blog again for £50,000? Yep, hardly do it anyway. Does Facebook count..?
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for £250,000? Hell yeah!
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for £1,000? Yeah, I eat vindaloo - bring it on!
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for £1,000,000? No.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket? Car and house keys.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good film? No! A world of no! I couldn't stand it! My ex loved it and I seriously think that was the beginning of the end for us after 18 months of being happy!
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house? Carpet throughout. Very distressed carpet after Saturday's party.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower? Stand. Has honestly never occurred to me to sit down in the shower...
Q: How many pairs of flip-flops do you own? None, but I do have some fabulous sandles (fab to me, everyone else hates them) and to my shame a pair of Crocs - I know they're hideous but they are sooooo comfy in summer!
LASTOLOGY
Q: Last person who texted you? My mate Neal.
Q: Last person who called you? My dad for a chat last night.
Q: Person you hugged? Probably Jon and Amanda as I left their house last night - I'm very huggy. If not them then certainly most people who came to my birthday party on Sat!
FAVOURITOLOGY
Q: Number? How can one have a favourite number? I made one up once messing around with the date and my birthday at school when very bored but it's now my password to most things online so won't be posting it here!
Q: Season? Winter - big coats ahoy!
Q: Colour? A good fierce red.
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone? There are a few old friends I've lost touch with or don't see nearly as much as I'd like, especially EH, who I was very close to at one stage. Also, my ex Kelli who I email and speak to occasionally but haven't seen in many years as she lives in the States.
Q: Mood? Good, vaguely annoyed at myself for doing this instead of getting on with some work. Console myself that I feel dreadful and am generating environmentally-dangerous levels of mucus and coughing my guts up. Fun.
Q: Listening to? Radio 4 as ever! A programme about how great mix-tapes were. That could actually count as irony for me...
Q: Watching? Bought Doctor Who - The Time Monster and watched it last night. Have recently finished Season 5 of West Wing and was shocked to discover it's not as mind-numbingly tedious as I remember. It's no Aaron Sorkin but it's better than most TV still.
Q: Worrying about? Money - have none, owe lots, don't seem to be earning any right now...
Q: Wearing? Blue trousers, white short sleeved shirt with blue and lime green stripes. It looks better than it sounds!
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning? Shower (I stood up), then the computer.
Q: What can you not wait to do? Get a new job doing something I love - I really want to work in film/TV and am hoping the film I've just made will help open some doors for me.
Q: Do you smile often? Lots. :)
Q: Are you a friendly person? Too friendly sometimes!
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicise those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE, add and strikeout the books you read but didn't like / started but didn't finish.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
28 read and a few given up on... Not too good - any recommendations from the list?
Concertinaed The ever lovely mewcat and I went to see James' "One More for the Cash" tour at the Academy last night and they were fantastic! We were about three people from the front of the stage (about a foot away from the band depending on how much the people behind us were pushing forwards) and had a great time.
Believe it or not though folks, despite my rock and roll exterior, I'd never actually been in a crowd at the front of a gig before. Yes, it's true - no moshing for me, no spilled drinks, headbutts, crushed feet (my poor shoes), or bums in the face as someone crowd surfs over me. All of these wondrous things I experienced for the first time yesterday, along with the frankly charming tradition of passing water through the crowd from the front to stop people dehydrating. Hygienic, no. But when you're in a room surrounded by 1000 people trying to recreate the Hillsborogh disaster and your shirt couldn't be more soaked if you'd jumped in a swimming pool (don't wear cufflinks to a gig - just a tip I picked up), you don't really care very much.
It was pointed out to me that not having exposed myself to this kind of abuse (exciting though it was) as a teenager is quite odd, and I was quizzed about what I'd actually gotten up to, to which I couldn't think of a satisfactory answer. I clearly looked about as out of place as your dad at a rave so I'm going to turn this round - what supposedly normal teenage activity did you miss out on? Never got pissed on streetcorners? Never had a massive crush on some popstar? Never stole your neighbour's car and went joyriding? And has this left a massive gap in your social development? Do you find yourself bluffing your way through perfectly ordinary conversations, where seemingly everyone knows about this thing but you?
No? Just me then :)
Current Mood: impressed Current Music:Oh sit down, sit down next to me!
I do for the most part and have been doing so for many years now. Not sure I can really remember what it's like to have to go out somewhere everyday for a set time and do set things that people tell me to all day.
There must be pluses to working away from home - other people to talk to during the day when you're a bit bored of work/have five mins between jobs/have given up the will to live and want to break things, for one. What else? Not working in my bedroom! For sure that drives me nuts sometimes; work and sleep space should be separate I think - especially when there's no-one there to tell you not to pick up your book or get off 'tininternet and do some work!
Having said that, I always get my work done, I do it in comfort and don't have to put up with dreary colleagues who want to talk about their children or central heating problems or what the traffic was like on the way in...
What are the pros and cons for you where you work and is the grass always greener - would you rather be at home/have an office to go to?
This is the first installment of the 'Reality Show' programme I worked on in Mexico a few years ago. they're putting the whole thing up on YouTube in little chunks. It starts out normally but soon descends into madness. If you want to see the whole thing on TV just ask me and I'll show you the DVD or stay tuned as I'm planning to show it on a big screen sometime soon.
Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few. But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky.
Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski
50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick! 51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese. 71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely. 91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that. 111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt. 131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin. 150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar.
You love anything beautiful, and you have extraordinary taste. And while it's hard for you to trust, you care deeply for those close to you. You are a social butterfly, and you have many friends. You handle stress well - and you are a master at relaxing after a hard day. Overall, you are modest, talented, unselfish, and very reliable.
This is the trailer I've made for the latest episode of my music programme, the New Grey Whistle Test. The whole thing should be online at www.ngwt.tv from this weekend.
I hate writing, it's the least amount of fun one can have by oneself.
It drives me crazy. Sitting in front of a blank screen for hours on end, debating with myself what character should do what, to whom they should do it, why they might be doing it, and whether this is just something dredged up from the murky depths of my memory and either something that happened to me or even worse, something I saw on TV once and now think is part of my personal history... Like the time I helped Dr. Who beat the giant maggots - real or imagined, your guess is as good as mine.
The point is I want to make films. Why I want to do this I have long since forgotten, but it seems to be the thread by which I cling to reality, so let's go with it I say. I'm interested in politics, sci-fi and history (yes, I realise I should just give it up and watch Babylon 5 on a loop) but seem to always come out with some proto Hollyoaks/As If/wannabe-Spaced stuff.
Well, no more! From now on I intend to write something that didn't fall off the Richard Curtis rejects shelf. Something dark and twisted and funny and philosophical.
Or maybe I've just been watching Donnie Darko again.
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