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Don't think that, go against the cliche of shit film putting you off something! It really is very good. Dipping into Wind Up Bird Chronicle, which I've been reading for about 4 years on and off. I love it so much, something about Murakami's prose I find incredibly enjoyable to read, even though I've forgotten half the plot / characters. Love how long it's taken me to finish, i'm about 450 pages in.

Picked this up for 2.50 from CEX. It's great fun! Always been more of a Jak fan than a Ratchet fan. Think I got about half way through this and my ps2 broke. Playing through it again now.

Boss photo. I love it when clubs actually have photographers who do a good job. Hot group also.

Showed me!

So I've finally got around to getting into this. I watched the second episode and was instantly hooked, not sure why the pilot didn't do it for me. Anyway, halfway through s2, it's utterly fantastic, as many on here have been saying for years. Reminds me of Dexter a lot of the time, but a bit more consistent, bit more edgey, probably a bit better. Think the 4th season is starting soon. Don't want to rush 2 and 3 too much though.

Second album is such a good follow up. I loved the first but worried that his (/their?) second wouldn't be different and interesting enough. But the synthy stuff certainly works well enough / adds enough. Missed out on buying tickets to see live, boo. Point for discussion: many bands use place names, particularly in the US for song titles or album titles (calgary, preth, minnesota, off Bon Iver, for example) yet I can barely think of any British bands who name songs after places in the country. It's a shame!

Love it. Sure it's been asked but - is this a cinema jobby or a tv movie? Rooting for the latter...

Barely remember it, RIP all the same.. but - what the fuck!!! That video is ridiculous. Actually a kids show? Shown at normal kids show time of day? I literally can't see how you could follow that as if they were talking about actual musical instruments. Genius, outrageous.

No obvs, (and I only skimmed the thread, wasn't referring to anything said in thread, rhyme) just saying that when people say that their funeral isn't important then that's silly, as obviously it's important to others, I'm not saying anyone should be planning it or anything. Don't think anyone really plans their own funeral anyway really? Aside from vaguely the type of funeral and maybe the coffin or whatnot.

Been to too many funerals considering I'm still young-ish. Hoping to balance out the funerals - weddings inbalance (I've only been to one wedding) in the next next few years, touch wood. And yeah I cry sometimes, depending on who's it is / whatever. People who say they don't care about their own funeral? Pretty selfish. It's for the friends and family that are left as much as it's for the person who's died.

I concur. Think Belludrei looks a bit too similar by comparison though. In case I haven't written in this thread before, these are all awesome. Obviously. I plan to pick my hypothetical team when they're all done.

Good effort chairman. Before and after months of working out photos are immensely satisfying! My fave part was the dance at the end. The skills were pretty great too, but mainly the dance. This. I've been eating incredible amounts the past few months, my metabolism is ridiculous, progress is so slow.

Bought myself the strawberry flavour one, also from Holland and Barrett half price a while ago,tasty and worked nicely... but then I went back to get another one and they had bannanna - it's horrible!!! Tastes like medicine, eurgh. Didn't even get it half price either, gutted.

Massive generalization, just as many people would say the same thing about sixth form. It's all just based on chance, where you meet the people you connect with, or find stunning, surely.

Moving on from weeing bulbasaur, have a top brithday!! Hope you're enjoying Six Feet Under too!

Yeah, I'll have to get on that at some point. Been given my reading list for final year of my english degree, such a horrific amount of reading to do! Gonna read Oliver Twist next I think. And hmm, I'll let ya know if the end makes up for it. To be honest it took no time at all to read (big font and easy to read) so if you find a cheap copy at any point it's probably worth it, as it's generally praised by more intelligent people than me..

Nearly bought one of his in stones the other day, but couldn't work out which book was the first in the series, fool. Almost finished Farenheit 451, which is alright, not as good as I'd hoped, my least fave of the big dystopias. Picking up for the ending, though I've found the rest of the book a bit simplistic / not very well drawn or detailed world / slightly irriatting main character / slightly unconvincing premise.

This is a good point. Might look into it, would be amazing. I'd love to do a road trip across America when I'm older and a bit more monied. In my mind it would be exactly like Thule Trail

Good thread / interesting posts. The familiarity thing is interesting... When I went off to uni I was happy enough to move on to hanging out with new people, but while I made friends there, I've come to appreciate how good my friends from home are. Get on very well and am very close to a bunch of them, I guess I'm pretty lucky to have that, and to still be close to them after all this time. Though maybe we're all just close because we've had similar childhoods and stuff and can relate. At uni I have more of a mates thing. Get on well with a lot of people, but I don't have the closeness with any, maybe one or two, but then they're pretty unreliable, blah. And then I'd consider my Dad one of my best friends (I'm so cool). Only close family I have, so it's a relief we get on well. Plus family gives a kind of reliability in friendship which is important. Question to all: Are your closest friends the same or opposite sex? I find it a lot more easy to have close personal chats with girls than guys - though guy friendships are alot more straightforward and reliable, I've found. Though that then makes it weird with girlfriends, as the ones I've had I probably haven't been as close to as my the girls that I've been friends with for years. Awk.

As amazing as that would be, insurance for a 20 year old would kill the idea of that being a cheap thing to do.. I spent shitloads when I went too. Did expensive places (Genoa, Nice, Paris, Amsterdam - varying prices on accomodation + Alcohol), had to pay for a couple of hotels when hostels were booked up, then had to pay extra fares for a bunch of the trains which weren't convered by the ticket... lame. Might try Eastern Europe if I do it again, probably the way to do it cheaply...

Pretty fantastic goal to be fair, great counter attack. Pity Hernandez was a bit off last night... caught out by the offside trap about 5 times, could have had a couple of good opportunities if he was a bit more alert.

Summer is approaching! Are you a traveller? Do you wish you'd done more? Advice on cheap-ish travelling appreciated. I went interrailing a couple years back but it was killer expensive, boo.

To be honest I only knew him through the Jamie XX remix album and via an LCD Soundsystem that mentions him, but still, the man clearly had talent, is a shame. RIP. EDIT: Always wondered who the Who Will Survive in America singer was (pretty obvs really)

Dawwwww your kids are adorable!!! I like that it looks like his t-shirt says 'like fat' in the photo where he's chowing down on spagetti

Awk: You did - I remember we've chatted about it before, I'm a Harpy boy like yourself - your mum taught me general studies! Don't worry I'll forgive you. And yeah the Roman ruins are pretty cool! Haven't been for a while, I'll have to go again sometime.