jayseven

(I get the SoA reference!)

I've read some and loved it - but don't want/have the spare money to dole out and buy buttloads of stuff.

Those skate vids actually had me lolling. if that were real life, I'd be super happy!

(Seriously rez? Like, real-life blind spots? Opticians/eye hospital A&E that shit.)

Like a few said above; being immortal then locked in a coffin that's chucked into the bottom of the sea/buried alive in concrete (anyone getting these vampiric references?).

I'd spend a few millennia fixing the society of earth, becoming an expert on everything, exploring our solar system once I'm smart enough and try to establish human colonies throughout (once we're all peaceful and stuff), before exploring the universe (ideally on a ship rather than the pain of just 'jumping' into space and seeing here I hit. Ofcourse I'd hate never dying, but there'd be 'new' experiences for a long time, and a lot of good could be done before the inevitable insanity hits.

Ah. I was going to say "you're looking too skinny now" so I guess the whole body dysmorphia thing has sunk in already.

Do you ever do a normal face without the starey eyes?

My boxset has (from memory) blood simple, big lebowski, barton fink, hudsucker proxy. I've got miller's crossing sitting here waiting to be watched. I've not seen probably 3 other movies of theirs, which is pretty bad.

Vote: Eddie. I know all-too-well what it's like to lose information/feel like everyone is against you, so I don't want to vote esequiel just because he's supposedly 'conveniently' lost his stuff. Shit happens like that.

Hudsucker Proxy was probably the first Coen film I saw - holds a dear place in my heart Did you get the set with four films or so?

(interesting link of questionable source material; http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101210024459AA5tjoJ )

I'm not a massive fan of the monarchy... yet I caught a glimpse of the queen in Brighton a decade or so ago (or her mum? I can't properly remember, to be honest) and was all OMGOMGIJUSTDIDSOMEEYESEEINGSTUFFOFAMAZING... Couldn't help but feel a part of history, or something equally banal. I will freely admit that I always forget which ireland has dublin and wich has belfast (belfast is northern ireland, I am currently believing). I have generally found irish people to be funny, chatty, and somewhat able to weild their accent as some sort of legitimate reason for being in a pub alone. I've not met the queen, however, so it'd be utterly stereotypical of me to really infer any further. (AND SUDDENLY ALL THE IRISH FORUMERS ARE IN ONE PLACE! :P Lol at current active users)

I'm afraid that's not allowed because, essentially, people can abuse that power too easily. If you want a title renamed then feel free to PM any mod/admin you see online to request it (I'll always be glad to help).

Theoretical, hypothetical, unreasonable. What's the most torturous, evil, twisted, mean thing that would replicate a living hell? In a book I'm reading, this guy has captured one of his enemies, beheaded him yet kept the head alive on a life-sustaining device (sci-fi, duh) that hangs from his ceiling. The head is conscious and can see and hear everything, but the tongue has been cut out. The device has the capability to heal damaged tissue. At least daily, the captor decides to take out his aggro on the head. For three years - and no end in sight. I can't comprehend how horrifying that would be to endure. But can you do better? You can invent a non-existent (yet somewhat plausible) scenario if you wish. The ability to keep someone perpeptually alive will almost be a default setting here, but I'd like to see what people think would be a realistic Hell as well. And no, I do not have any enemies in mind :P

(I like how smeagol's got a Spinal Tap reference, though :P)

Finished Bourne Identity and, for once, the film is definitely better. I grew tiresome of the Delta for Charlie, Charlie for Cain! stuff rather quickly. The conspiracy stuff was decent but ultimately it was too hammy and easy-reading for me. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell was stonkingly great fun - a perfect novel of bitesize narrative skits to read on the train to work each day. It creates a nice ambience that tingles your mind's eye's olfactory gland. Which makes no sense, I know, but the book deserves some silly hyperbole. It's given me the hope taht Black Swan Green would actually be worth attempting again, even if Mitchell's works, while fantastically envisioned and simply beautifully sewn together narratively, tend to over emphasise his knowledge of jazz and eastern culture (or his grasp of mental-level physics) to the extent where it feels he is almost showing off. Fact is, he's great. Also read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk - starts out reading a bit like Vernon God Little where we have a central character in a redneck town, but fairly quickly went all near-future on my ass and rather overstepped the whole "hey look this is actually our culture already!" didactical narrative. Palahniuk's got a good way of writing, however, and I do like how he seems to collect grown-up Paul Jennings-esque gritty short stories and weave them into a couple of characters. I never finished his Haunted because it felt too disjointed and forced, and again here he's trying his hand at a not-so-traditional form of story telling by providing all the information about the main character, Buster 'Rant' Casey, through the words and witness testimonies of others who knew or at least knew of him - on oratorial plight that intends to leave grey areas, but instead serves really to highlights Palahniuk's inability to truly construct varied voices. Still quite entertaining and thought provoking, just ultimately unnecessary and light. Now switched to The Alchemist by Iain M. Banks (it was either that or Matter, and I think I'd like to just see how Bank's SciFi is before delving into his Culture series - and even then, I'd like to do it from the start. I've already read Player of Games yeaars ago, but I can't remember it). It's hugely imaginative and demands attention - I'm only on page 40 but already he's provided a haunting vision that will stick with me, much like that scene from The Wasp Factory (hint: flies). Essentially he's envisioned the most hellish and inhumane torture I've ever come across.

Name too long. I'm-a call you "juhjohn".

7 players in the x11! Wooooo :P Will beat hammerboys 3-1. :P

Happy birthday twoz, my drinking/smoking meet-up buddy Happy birthday coolfunkperson, too!

Fuck, man. That video was intense. I love in a seaside town and a little fact associated with this place is; if the sea level were to rise 1m, then the coast would be flooded up to Old Shoreham Road!! (local thing, you'd know what I meant if you were here). Now, this wave was several metres high, and I genuinely can't comprehend how much damage it'd do. Seeing the cars lifted and tossed about like bits of styrofoam, then thinking "wow those walls are enduring a lot" just as a house drifts by... It's insane. While that video symbolises nature vs humanity and how unmatched the contest is -- it also reminds us that we now have the technology to prepare and minimalise ahead of the event now. Just imagine if that came out of nowhere, just how fucked people would be. That dude on the roof... Fuck, man. Feel like I've seen a ghost.

Nyaaaw thanks fwank :P I just realised how rude that sounds, but tbf it's how I pronounce my Rs... I've been overwhelmed with routine recently -- I still spend copious hours lurking and catching up with everything, just... yeah. Need to rant/post more. Will make the effort The interest is to "match inflation". It's less than 1% but... erg. It's still more money. Whatever. I don't think I'll ever earn enough to start paying back/pay it all back before they just decide to stop bothering me (after 25 years or whatever it is). Cheers bro - yeah this has happened to me an embarassing number of times over the last 5 years. Essentially, I always forget to account for my mobile contract each month so I end up either "oweing" the bank or going without some food for a few days every few weeks :P Better in recent days (with job and because I finally got round to reducing my contract)... But yeah I've always found that banks can actually be quite reasonable if you contact them. Thing is this letter was sent to me by my mum, and is actually like 3 months old (I should probably go see her more often...) so it's likely too late now.

Genuinely sad that 13 people forgot me :P

I hereby request: Sharpie. It's the only true proof. :P

(Personally I have been considering getting a PS3 for ages but... spending £250 for a console and one game is a bit... OTT for me. PS3 doesn't offer me anything besides Uncharted 2 - bearing in mind I already have a console, so PS3 having games I already have/can get means, essentially, why bother spending so much money on a second console?)