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did you see there was a new series of pogs, brilliantly called "series 1" out a 12-18 months ago? They must've sold like flying shit, because I could get ten packets for £2 - which is how much they're supposed to be. Six pogs and a slammer in each pack, it's not surprising they didn't take off again... I nearly completed the collection after buying that amount a few more times. I think i needed like 5 pogs and 4 slammers (because of the box thing...) but i do have quite a lot of swaps :P ... Actually I just realised I left a whole stack of them at my ex-girlfriends... NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo...

those crisps got me through JUNIOR SCHOOL! ... I guess it was all a matter of time... but seriously, that's a 50% inflation!

oooh... not a good plan dude :P they never put a full collection in one box, especially for the kinis.

Brand New are an amazing band live... if you're a fan, most probably. They're know how to write lyrics, and Deja Entendu is a whole album of yum because of it. TDAGARIM is good but a bit disjointed for me. I keep hearing of people who went to GIAN last time... there were, like, 7 of my favourite (at one point or another..) bands including mewithoutYou. I've only met two other fans and they were the guys who introduced me.

.. so the only bad drivers around are... everyone but [insert name of person posting who is fantastic] :P I don't drive. If I did, there would be blood.

I can't find them anymore. I used to get one every time I went to leeds to see my now ex-girlfriend My dad told me something about that book. I'm already into chess, so I'll definitely look into it.

Yup I've only read Money by ol' Amis Jr. I think I read the beginning of another of his books but it didn't seem as gripping as Money. Which ones do you recommend?

Do dude I used to write loads and I stopped ironically when I began learning about how to write. Then i started writing recently, and I quite like how my last one turned out, even if it could be called "editing" rather than writing. You know every november there's a(n inter)national writing competition where you have to write a thousand words (i think) every day for the month of november. I remembered about it this year on the 2nd of november >_< Yeah I can see the autistic possibilities, except the narrator describes things in ways which would be abstract to the seriously autistic; "slightly dreary" and "left something to be desired" are too vague for autism, but the conversing and paint on his hand and his general weirdness fits it well! I demand you do more, i'm afraid.

.. what, so all brazillians are criminals now? so you think if you caught a 15 year old girl stealing you're shit it's justice to rape her? but she didn't rape anyone repeatedly? she's fifteen, a minor. People are talking about the absence of justice, or debating what it is, but it certainly isn't punishing an individual for the misbehaviour of others. Criminality isn't going to go away with punishment. You might stop one individual from doing anything again by fucking them up, but that won't act as a deterrant. You need to look at the source of the crime, at why criminals do what they do, and address that, rather than treating these people as if they're some other breed roaming the planet. I think it's fair to say that a large proportion of criminals would behave differently if they were raised in a different environment. You can't say that if you were brought up on teh streets of brazil you would definitely be a fine upstanding citizen.

Yeah i've read Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson, it's mental to think HST actually did that to poor Jack. I got it for 99p from Penguin's 75th anniversary celebration of something or other, where they had 75 pieces of work from different authors, either a single story or a collection of them. I got about six of them but lost a few more.

The future is a scary place dude. Big life changing moments drop a bombshell every couple of years. I've been in the habit of staying up all night quite a lot. Staying up, playing games all night, like you unable to stop until i get to the end. Watching entire series of american dramas in one sitting. It's alright when you're happy with who you are, it just gets scary when you don't know who you're changing into... Maybe remembering that you were once different, too. Plus staying up for more than 36 hours straight you'll start to trip out a little, and the paranoia flickers in. Sometimes I think I get a bit of a kick out of it though :P MY DAY. Yesterday it was filled wiht youtube, writing and smoking. Today it was supposed to be filled with studying Godot and Beckett I awake to realise I have NO IDEA where my copy of the play is, and despite tidying, i still can't find it. Going to pinch it off of flatmate... Washing up needs to be done too. I promised i'd do it yesterday but i needed to not put myself in any danger in anyway. I HEAR RUMBLES. EDIT: ok just went and saw Shorty had already done the washing up. Now I feel guilty.

The guy who plays Woolcott in the second series also played the kid who killed Wild Bill in teh first. To be fair it isn't obvious as they did a good job with make-up, but it did bug me a little.

David mitchell is ace Love his explorative narrative style. I've only read Cloud Atlas (awesome) and number9dream (awesome), I think I have Black Swan Green in a pile somewhere, but I've not invested in Ghostwriter (isn't it? or ghostwritten). How do they fare. Iun; I'm currently reading Three Men In A Boat in small chunks and it's quite good! Fairly timeless observations. Also started Jack Kerouac's On The Road, but my course and my laziness means my reading's been going slow. If any of you have facebook, there's this application which is called Visual Bookshelf and it's a neat way to show off what you've read and what you're reading, and what you want to read. I would whole-heartedly recommend The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Neffenegger (spellingwtf) to everyone and anyone. A Million Little Pieces by James Fray has one of very, very few scenes in it which made me wince. Good stuff. I think that's his name, anyway. Not really appropriate to make a seperate topic about this i guess, and seeing as a couple of Hemmingway's semi-short stories have been mentioned already, do many people on here read short stories? What do you enjoy? Have you read any othe Dostoevsky? I've got The Idiot Sitting here, having read about ten pages of it sometime in summer and I couldn't get into it. I've got Crime and Punishment (saw it for 20p, how could anyone not buy it?) and not read that either. I've seriously got a shelf of books i brought with me to uni that I hadn't read, and another twenty sitting on the floor by my door that I got mostly from charity shops that I've always wanted to read.

interesting. There's a lot of sensual experience going on and a lot of it surprises the character, as if he's not seen these things before. How the "owner of the eyes" talks to him depicting the main character's fixation on those eyes. Lots of noticing and little inner thought going on. The main character strikes me as a daydreamer... I mean, he looks at the ceiling and he's dissapointed that it's the same as it was before? He strides through his dreary world with gusto, content in his own little world to some degree. Interaction with others scares him because he doesn't want to be a hassle? Doesn't want to affect what they do, and because he stopped to look at the fence he ends up with paint on his hands... I like it. Lots of room for interpretation I don't believe you should alter it, considering the whole point was the freewriting aspect. Do you write much?

wahey, was wondering when we'd see a return of this thread, what with having the regular smoking, theological and wanking threads returning recently. Disregarding the randomness of the universe under a microscope and merely adhering to the whole action/reaction idea, sometimes it's easy to think that your brain makes a specific decision in a moment in time, based upon everything that's led up to that moment, and no matter how many times you rewound time (thus rewinding and losing the memory of the actions you did choose), your brain will make the same choice again. Surely we would only alter anything we do if we had true knowledge of what the reaction would really be. But I like to think i'm Romantic in thinking that there is some importance in my life. Even if this is just some psychological aid I adhere to in order to carry on living, I like to think that there is such a thing as control and choice. Last time there was a thread like this, or maybe the time before, I posted a quote from Angel, where Gunn says that we never know when fate is put into our hands or when it's out of our control, but we simply must live each choice as if it is one of those rare moments where your choice affects your destiny. After all, if you entirely succumb to the idea of fate, you live a very pessimistic and nihilistic life, where you just do nothing all the time, safe in the knowledge that fate already has its plans for you and there's nothing you can do to change this. Fate is often idealised as some sort of vessel for hope; the hero is fated to save the world, so he gets his arse up and goes out and learns how to use a sword - because he knows that he will be able to master it. Not knowing your fate means when faced with the option of going out and training, or staying in and watching videos on youtube, it's a lot easier to take the short-term path - which ironically in some ways leads you to having to face the notion of fate a lot quicker than if you invested hope in the importance of your life. I'm quite interested (but not interested enough to research, just enough to speculate and philosophise about) how each and every sensual and mental process you experience shapes and builds upon your mind, and as a consequence the irreversable nature of it all. The unavoidable decay and deterioration of our physical bodies combined with an increase in knowledge of paranoid stressors is, to me at least, quite a fear-breeding thought. But this fear itself actually comes from the whole question, the possibility that I might actually be fated to live a hellish life. So to sum it up, as I fear I'm rambling hugely; "life is a test and I got no marks". I get depressed by the idea of fate when my current life is sucking, and scared of the notion of free will and an undetermined future when it's going well. So I believe in the physics of one system and really hope to the spheres that the other one doesn't apply to my brain.

You like deadwood? I really enjoyed the first season, second one less so and gave up with the third. Bugged me a little that they used the same actor for two different roles.

a couple more awesomes are on newgrounds in amongst compilations. Awesome Rising, Awesome Dug.. And there's a Pac Awesome somewhere too.

Yeah, but is it really christmas?

i've never been very good at larger innovations. I did your typical 'mix tape' and made a kick-ass cover for it by hand. Worked out the exact number of days we had been together and did stuff with that. So yeah, number of days could be cool. A thousand tiny gifts or something? I don't know. The other thing I did was draw a story on a whole series of post-it notes and have a sort of follow-the-clues game around her house. Perhaps little gifts near them too. I also sporadically, over the two years we were together, drew a picture or wrote a thought, a diary entry or a poem (emooooo) in a notebook on random pages... Would've been romantic 'cept I was going to give it to her if/when we broke up as a token of good will. Instead she broke my heart with her imperfections and I prefer to keep it myself to alter and present to the next girlfriend on a special day instead

I won't deny agreeing with you :P But I do disagree about that being the be all and end all. You can be entertained without it having any true soul. That's why you can enjoy your so-called 'bad movies'. That's why you are allowed to like films that everyone else thinks is shit. Because it entertained you. the 'soul' of a film is not always the importance or the meaning or the significance or anything deep. Sometimes it's... a niche thing, a quirk that makes it different. Sometimes it's the absurdity of the situation. Sometimes it's the does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin approach, which is why I like Saw and just about every zombie film ever. The point is that this crux of the argument, this soul, is not how artsy the film is. An author writes a book with his own interpretation and visualisation of what happens, the reader builds their own, different world and meaning from the same book and then the critic goes on to uncover their own, and probably overlook what the author originally intended. One of my favourite movies is The Yellow Submarine because one time it was on on my birthday, despite being far too young to appreciate all the aspects of teh movie, I have my own feelings attached to it now. My point is that the abstract way people are drawn to some films and not others is fascinating. I love just pondering on what must've happened to a person who loves House of Wax and Pi. You are far more serious with your movies, and demand everyone else to appreciate those that need to be appreciated. I enjoyed watching Kill Bill, both parts. Moreso back-to-back. You can switch your brain off and transcend into a lower level of consciousness while bathing your senses in violence and apathy. I can't be dealing with Mulholland Drives all the time. As someone probably once said, the plural of anecdote is not fact. If cinema is art, then remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Don't be quick to generalise. There's no wolf coming.

... ok so looking for a picture for you I ended up at GlaDOS's myspace account, then watched angry german kid, now i'm looking at videos of misheard song lyrics while reading about star wars kid on wikipedia. Sometimes the utter awesomeness of the internet just amazes me. ... Still not found the picture, sorry.

I made a mini point n' click on my gameboy camera once! It was ACE! You could put these 'hotspots' on certain parts of the picture. It was an escape the room sort of thing, except with zombies in the drawers.

Average ratings from teh same site you cited from; 85%. Cream of the crop? 78%. You're basing your argument on the total of 31 reviews and ignoring the other 175 positive ones... "A movie that will separate the true cinema lovers from ... well, just about everyone who has another set of values." The film is not about art. It is not about film being a medium to express some sort of subtle point, or abstract emotion. It is a film about films. It's just about the pop-culture references. It is about style, not soul. About charicatures, not characters. Some critics found that the plot in Reservoir Dogs was not supported strongly enough by the dialogue... I never told you what I'd rate Kill Bill. I do not think it is perfect either, but your two-level rating system just... annoys me!! :P So if I tell you a film I like, you'll be able to do all that math? Short Cuts. Go! As I said above, it was also the larger proportion of the critics who also rated it positively... Quit trying to tell me that it's not about the number of people, or quit pretending it's not just an opinion sometimes. And I know english is not your first language, I was trying to be helpful. You study films, I study english. Go figure!

You confuse me. You say that you are allowed to like shit films so long as you know they're shit, so does that mean that you're allowed to dislike good films so long as you know they're good? Because that's what you're doing here. Kill Bill is a whole bunch of winks and nods to an array of types of cinema - on purpose. Also you usually argue about some sort of universal truth that films have that you are in tune with. Why is this so different? Surely something being widely accepted as a critically good film means more than what you think of it, and surely you ought to recognise when you are wrong if you're so good at spotting how wrong everyone else is. If you don't get a film, or if you don't like it, that's fair enough. But stop preaching and start teaching. N'stuff. it's "incomprehensive", btw.

yeah, i've often slept from sunrise to near sunset, so light isn't a problem -- nor is noise, as the traffic outside my window will confess. It's aaaall about the physical vibrations :P