Five, four, three, two… FRIDAY!
Fookin’ marvellous, not only is it Friday but this weekend is supposed to be stunning and there are all sorts of fun and capers planned between now and Monday. Firstly, tonight Honeytrap – one of my favourite bands – are playing Sneaky Pete’s with Meursault, and I am really looking forward to it.
Then tomorrow we have a marathon double Toad Session day of mentalism, with Found coming in at about two in the afternoon and Honeytrap at six. It is going to be, I think it’s safe to say, fucking hectic and probably very drunken, but the stuff we get out of it should be absolutely fucking amazing. It’ll no doubt take some time to get through all of the stuff we generate, but I think it will be worth it for a couple of brilliant sessions.
So, while I go out and find somewhere to have a couple of pints in the sun over lunch, please take this opportunity to come out of the shadows and have your say. Fridays are de-lurking amnesty threads, so if you’ve never chipped in before, why not make today the time you pop your cherry. Fill in your five and then talk total pish with everyone else for the rest of the afternoon, whilst you’re supposed to be working hard but are secretly just waiting for 5pm so you can bugger off down the pub.
1. Most sinister-looking animal.
2. Favourite movie villain.
3. What goes best on toast?
4. Favourite cocktail.
5. Best place to have a cup of tea.
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1. I always thought sheep, with their vacant, staring eyes, were quite sinister.
2. Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham in the awful Kevin Costner Robin Hood film.
3. Marmite with lots of butter.
4. A dry, dirty Tanqueray 10 Martini with two olives.
5. When I lived on the boat in London I would occasionally go and sit out on the deck in the Autumn or Winter, when it was cold and windy, and have a cup of tea and read my book for an hour. There’s something sort of nice about being outdoors on a cold, grey day, especially if you have a cuppa to warm your hands on.
1. goats
2. Brutus
3. on cold toast i like lots of butter and lemoncurd
4. Margarita, in any bar in New York
5. on top of Sca Fell
and one man guy is a awesome song
1. Centipedes (?)
2.Jaws (the shark not the Bond villain)
3.Plain old super salted, super bad for you, butter.
4.The Doctors Mojitos
5.In bed with me lady on a Saturday morning (preferably after she has made me pancakes…mmmm…)
1. Any of these scary-looking motherfuckers!
2. Jack Nicholson’s Joker or Darth Vader. Although Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham is a great call.
3. I used to share a flat with three mates and some nights watching movies we’d have a “Toast-Fest”. Basically, you’d take the toaster into the living room, with a loaf of white-sliced, and raid the cupboards and the fridge for anything that is nice on toast; Marmite, jam, marmalade, cheese spread, peanut butter and so on. You would then proceed to munch on slices of toast with your choice of toppings until you reached one slice of bread left each, at which point your final slice had to be topped with everything.. Yum!
4. Margarita with a pinch of salt on the ice in the shaker as well as on the glass’s rim, or a nice Caipirinha. Killer Zombies are good if you’re out to play.
5. Alongside a fried breakfast.
1. I saw a dog last night that was some sort of weird pug/boxer/god-knows-what cross, that looked like a cross between a mogwai and a full blown gremlin. It stared at me and I was fucking terrified.
2. Kevin McKidd’s character in Small Faces.
3. Proper butter. None of this margarine shite.
4. I believe it’s called a Lynchburg Lemonade. It’s got Jack Daniels and some other stuff in it.
5. I don’t drink tea, but I like to drink beer on the roofs of Edinburgh buildings.
1. Devil Fish. Though it could just be the name.
2. Christopher Walken in, well, pretty much anything Christopher Walken has been in.
3. Beans & Cheese.
4. Did anyone else go through a period of drinking white russians shortly after the Big Lebowski came out?
5. At home.
Did anyone stop?!
I was tempted to rustle one up at home the other evening, but I realised I was out of Kahlua.
And Vodka.
And milk.
Like some sort of pissed-up Batman?!
1. Piranha.
2. Alan Rickman was even better in Die Hard.
3. Lemon curd or nutella.
4. Tanqueray Martini, two olives.
5. The United Kingdom.
1) I had the TV on in the background when I was in the US recently, so I don’t know the channel I was on or the TV show but the show was about proving saltwater sharks were migrating to & living in an Australian (I think, might have been American, but the presenter was british & soe of the crew were American & the ‘expert’ on the area sounded Australian) freshwater fishing lane (which obviously buggered up the small boat fishing/swimming/bombing/heavy petting passtimes that were commonplace). In order to prove the sharks were there they set up heavy duty nightlines to try & catch some. On the first night they caught this fucking monster fish, no one knew what it was, but it was a fucking prehistiric looking shit (it looked like the snaggle tooted fish, with the luminescent dangly bit coming off its head, in Finding Nemo, only 100 times scarier/ugly). Dunno what it was called & can’t find a picture of anything like it on t’web, but it was fierce looking & I would say bugger the possible sharks, with that bastard floating around the waterways I certainly wouldn’t be dangling my tootsies over the edge of a flimsy sailboat any day soon. If I lived there, that is. If I knew where it was.
2) Tim Curry as Darkness (read: satan) in Legend – there has never been a better ‘devil’ in cinematic history. The Beast (the one on the left) in TV’s Angel came close, but was a little too serious for his own good.
3) TWoTH eats ‘any red or black jam’ with cheese on toast. Even though I conclude this is very odd indeed, I still think it works in a parallel universe kind of way. My favourite wourld be Chick Pea Pate from my local deli – spicey as arse & tasty as fuck.
4) Mojitos, I’m afraid. Love them. Only, you never get a glass big enough to fill it properly for full satisfaction from a drink — you need a beer jug full of it to quench a genuine thirst.
5) I don’t drink tea, but there’s a place in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, off the harbour, when the sun’s just right mid-afternoon, rocking on a boat, which is too tranquil for alcohol & too classy for ‘pop’ or ‘juice’, when I suspect a cup of tea would go down a treat.
1. MARIBOU MARIBOU MARIBOU. have you seen those fuckers!
2. Jaws(the Bond villain not the shark)
3. butter.
4. bourbon and coke. just kidding. long island ice tea.
5. sunday afternoon at home.
i would just like to point out that the previous five answers were mine. i forgot to change the info on my computer. just in case i feel the need to ad further comment i do want to be shouted at for not doing my five first.
I think you mean the Angler Fish, DC.
I’m not sure, but they may be a relative of the Halo Fish.
1. probably the hyena
2. heath ledger’s joker was on the money for me
3. butter
4. white russians definitely.
5. i’m a coffee man myself but if i had to drink tea, my favourite place to do it would probably be in the scottish countryside somewhere after a good long walk and straight from the flask.
Like some sort of pissed-up Batman?!
Can you imagine? Pissing up against the window of a Spar before slapping some hood clean into next year as his alco-pop pissed, mini-skirted girlie mates & cider-hammered untucked shirted blokey mates fell about & over each other trying to gethim to ‘lay off, mate, he’s not worth it – Sandra’s crying now, mate. Come on, let’s go an’ ‘ave a kebab’
That I’d pay to see.
I think you mean the Angler Fish, DC.
I’m not sure, but they may be a relative of the Halo Fish.
That was the one from the Nemo documentary, yes; but the one in the TV show was way fucking scarier & didn’t have that angle-poise glow blob. He was a right daddy of the undercurrent.
2. heath ledger’s joker was on the money for me
A-fucking-greed.
(er…don’t forget that X Lion tamer are also playing with meursault and Honeytrap tonight
)
Anyway…the business in hand:
1. Any snake…far worse than spiders
2. Blofeld or Goldfinger
3. Peanut Butter
4. As a teetotaler, I’m still waiting to discover one…though my prefreed mix of diet coke and orange juice goes doewn a treat. Honest!
5. Southern Cross cafe on Cockburn St, Edinburgh.
Probably not a relative of the Halo Fish then.
…actually, I do have to agree with Matthew’s comment about Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham. Crappy film, if fun at the time, but he steals the show. ‘and cancel Christmas!’ Like a practice run for Snape in the Harry Potter films, I suppose…
4. As a teetotaler, I’m still waiting to discover one…though my prefreed mix of diet coke and orange juice goes doewn a treat. Honest!
In Germany one of the favourite soft drinks is a mix of Coke & Fanta (or an orange pop equivalent) & it’s marketed as ‘Mezzo Mix’. It’s only available in Germany, though. Which I think says a lot.
O sorry, Dylan, I missed your point about halo Fish – it might be a relative. I will have to ask the band. Did you get the CD I sent? They’re playing a secret gig in CDF soon & they’ve put you on t’door. I’ll let you know dates when they make it more official.
It seems today is the day I pop my cherry…
1. Not too sure if my little brother counts, but if not then ducks.
2. Ralph Fiennes always does a pretty good job of villainy.
3. I go through phases. Current phase is good old traditional raspberry conserve.
4. Mojito, or anything really that has an umbrella.
5. Anywhere. Tea is ubiquitously satisfying. Except alongside a curry, had to learn that the hard way. Oh, actually my friend’s garden patio is a pretty good place to have a cuppa.
get a room for crying out loud
I’m in Cardiff middle of July if that helps..
get a room for crying out loud – would you like me to arrange the comfy seat & peephole as usual, Chutters?
oh shite i forgot…..when reading please add this to all my post above
“insert smiley face here”
No, you get a room.
On your own!
Because then maybe you’ll be happy you miserable self-centred… bumhead!
It certainly says a lot, DC: the most awful stuff I ever drank.
My wife though drinks it constantly: what does that say about her?
Cheers from Germany,
I’m in Cardiff middle of July if that helps..
I think it’s supposed to be back end of July, I’ll let you know after the wknd.
One for Ed:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Cocacolaverkauf.jpg
everyone please:
“insert smiley face here”
Would you like to precisely where you can insert your smiley face, Euan?
In Germany one of the favourite soft drinks is a mix of Coke & Fanta
actually, if you take that literally (as in Coke, rather than Coca Cola) that’s a favourtite mix amongst the BBC Wales Doctor Who production crew…
dylan – what????
Euan, I think Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney used up Dylan’s quota of the word ‘Say’.
Fucking COUGH!!!!
notice no smiley face!
Chutters, are you transferring your Championship status anger onto your fellow musi-obsessives?
low blow DC
1: Dogs.
2: The guy with the mouser whoe ties dames to railway tracks in the old silent movies.
3: Sardines in a yellowish (mustard/ maybe curry?) sauce.
4: Bloody Mary.
5: a greasy spoon cafe, washing down a fry-up.
Enjoy yer friday!
It certainly says a lot, DC: the most awful stuff I ever drank.
My wife though drinks it constantly: what does that say about her?
Cheers from Germany
Hey sexyloser – yes, Mezzo Mix is fucking disgusting. I tried it when I first saw it, purely out of fuck are they thinking?
Not very clearly was my answer, as I spat out my second & last mouthful.
low blow DC
That’s a ‘yes’ to the peephole & comfy chair, then? Shall I include a pot of Vicks Vapour Rub, or will you be supplying your own this time?
*smiley face duly inserted*
I have a bottle of coke on my desk. very tempted to go by a can of fanta and get this taste sensation on the go.
I have a bottle of coke on my desk. very tempted to go by a can of fanta and get this taste sensation on the go.
May I point out that I claim no responsibility for any addiction to or violent stomach evacuation thereof that may follow any ‘taste sensation’ experiments based on two flavours that work in chocolate but NOT in liquid refreshment form.
In your own time, son; in your own time…
it’s on.
Euan – for the love of god, man, don’t. Think of the children!
DC – Ooh, relegation jokes are really quite mean. Poor lad.
SexyLoser – There are rules here, mate. Where are your five? Funf Freitag Frankenwursters please!
(Other)Matthew – pleased to meet you old chap. Nice start on the old blog front – hope you stick with it.
i was thinking of going down to Boots to do the same (coke and fanta that is)….plus (to kill 2 birds with 1 stone)get some lube for DC and dylan
“insert smiley face here” (in fact can someone tell me how i do this for real?)
colon bracket tom colon bracket
Just type the actual punctuation-based version, Chutters. WordPress will do the rest.
DC – I, erm, added a little formatting to that enormous block of type you entered above. You’re welcome, you paragraph-shunning mentalist. And you had a three-post mentalism moment too – are you on the Coke and Fanta cocktail yourself? Someone’s had too much sugar and orange food colouring.
; – ) but without the spaces.
Rockin’ the 21st Century, Chutters, well done.
1. Any snake. Snakes are really fucking scary. I was all up for moving to the States and then someone told me there were rattlesnakes in the forests where you go orienteering, and now I have second thoughts.
2. I was going to say the S)heriff of Nottingham, what with it being a ritual that Matthew steals at least one of my five (although actually I think the film is pretty amazing – I just love the route he takes to Nottingham at the start), but then Euan reminded me of Heath Ledger’s joker, which was fantastic. I think he wins.
3. Crunchy peanut butter and marmalade made by my friend Eleanor.
4. Hmm.. I had a very nice one at Dragonfly on Wednesday that had Dubrowka vodka with apple and elderberry and maybe something gingery. That was good.
5. In bed, at 2pm, when you’ve accidently stayed at home reading all day instead of going in to scoop mouse brains.
Today I was performing the aforementioned mouse task, and came across an undeveloped embryo that was like a mouse shaped bag, full of non descript mouse goo. I thought of you guys.
Matthew – Thanks, and you old bean.
Um, what exactly is so bad about the Coke/Fanta mix thing? Isn’t Coke actually supposed to be fruit flavoured? So really the Fanta is just heightening the fruity…ness. I’d probably go for lemon Fanta rather than orange though.
I, erm, added a little formatting to that enormous block of type you entered above Thanks, dad (I knew you’d tidy my room for me if I just left it long enough)
Chutters – we don’t need no lube, boy; just honest to goodness old fashioned worked up into a lather homosexual experimentationalists sweat & frothy gob.
i feel so empowered
Darth Vader, anyone?
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
Becky, you’re a sick and twisted individual. Was your mouse-shaped bag of mouse goo something like those steamed prawn dumplings you get with Dim Sum?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKiQfBs9lo
I think this is a link to something funny but it may just be porn.
1. It has to be birds, esp. crows (they’re not called a murder of crows for nothing). Also, I can’t imagine that Hitchcock film being anywhere near as sinister if it was about goats or sheep.
2. John Doe in Se7en. But Alan Rickman is very good value as a villain: see Sheriff of Nottingham, Severus Snape, Hans Gruber
3. Wrong DC. It has to be blackcurrant jam (not just any red or black jam) and it has to be a nice mature cheddar. No other jam & cheese combination quite hits the mark.
4. Raspberry & Lovage Margerita (as served at Milgi in Cardiff).
5. In a quaint little tea-shop with a nice slice of cake to go with it (like the secret gigs at Homegame).
Chutters, pull yourself together, man. Your smiley faces are way out of control.
This is a chicken, apparently: ~:>
And this is a monkey:
|)
Another Matthew,
you’ve no idea the ego trip I’ve been on all week since reading in your Rob St John EP review that eagleowl are “Bart’s band”. As if no other explanation or elaboration is required.
I’m hoping that will become the wikipedia entry.
In its brain?!!
So you were scooping the brain out from one mouse foetus, (with your Mouse Foetus Brain Spoon of course! Any excuse..) and in the brain you found another mouse foetus, but at an embryonic stage?!!
Okay, I need to change my answer to this week’s number two to Becky!
Let me help, Euan:
that doesn’t help. no player comes up as my computer doesn’t have the software installed.
All your bands are belong to Bart.
T-shirt.
Oh yes! Get in!
Can’t believe no-one thought of that one yet!
Ah, if only. I have to get the embryos out of the mother, they’re in a big long string like sausages. And one of them was like that. I was a bit sick in my mouth. Can I get a different PhD now please?
Ah, right. Sorry, Becky – I just re-read what you wrote first time around.
Woudl I be correct to say what we’re talking about is almost a mouse egg? Not in as much as the egg cell, but like a hen’s egg you might have for breakfast..
I’m way wrong aren’t I?
Bart – I do my best. Perhaps I should reword that part of my post so you don’t feel too pleased with yourself…
No, no. It’s fine how it is.
well, maybe if you could casually mention how handsome I am…
Consider it done.
1. Saw a Grizzly Bear last night but wasn’t too scary
2. Bob Fett
3. Revenge
4. Margaveza
5. Never had a cup of tea but I’ve heard that The Ritz in London is “off the hook”.
Wrong DC. It has to be blackcurrant jam (not just any red or black jam) and it has to be a nice mature cheddar. No other jam & cheese combination quite hits the mark.
No, you & your culinary choices are just wrong, Woman. Now, get back to work. Swanning in gone 11am & pissing about on the computer during a lunch break your lateness doesn’t deserve. Sheesh.
It’s not quite a mouse egg – it’s young mice the day before they’re born. It’s one of the few stages that they have large numbers of nerve cells that are actually dividing, so that’s when we have to take them. It’s pretty hideous, but unfortunately the only good model we have for nerve transmission.
Serious bit over, I am hitting that sunshine!
1. Nick Nolte
2. Snape. It’s an Alan Rickman thing.
3. Vegemite. Duh.
4. Vodka and anything. Well maybe not anything. Vodka and vegemite could be interesting though.
5. Snuggled up in bed while the rain pelts down on the old tin roof.
Oi DC! Have you never eaten a fruit-topped cheesecake? Jam & cheese isn’t that much further a leap.
As for swanning in gone 11am, yes I did certainly do that, but at least I actually made it in to work today, unlike you, you work-shy fop.
Apologies Toad, me & DC seem to be having a domestic.
1. Forkietail. Evil little fuckers. Although I think it must somehow be related to that deep red shininess, because I saw an albino one once and it was actually quite cute.
2. I’m going to bend the rules here (ooooh get me – still a newbie and bending the rules! Bet I get my knuckles rapped) and say Omar from the Wire. I know, I know, he’s the baddie that everyone’s meant to love, but he is just such a dude, especially in Series 1 when he’s all gaunt and the good living from being in a highly successful series hasn’t caught up with him yet.
3. Mashed up avocado with black pepper. Seriously; it’s great.
4. A really good bloody mary, a gin martini or a bellini, depending on mood.
5. Lying on your belly with your head sticking out of the tent, when you are totally incapable of movement and someone has got the fire going and brewed you a cuppa without you having to get out of your sleeping bag. Nectar.
Have you tried an instant cheesecake?
Not the packet mix stuff.. Just take a digestive biscuit, spread it liberally with Philadelphia cheese, then top with your favourite jam. Mmmm…
That icon of Stupid Kate Silverton rules.
Becky – I just had a thought (and not about mouse eggs) – were you drinking beer with Andy at Limbo last night? If so, I think you actually bumped into me while I was standing next to the DJ console watching The Pineapple Chunks, and – thinking about it – I don’t recall you apologising! How rude!
work-shy fop? I have had quite a hectic day with the porcelain, I’ll have you know.
Any more outbursts like that & I’ll stop your cock.
That icon of Stupid Kate Silverton rules
It does, doesn’t it? Kate has such a punchable chin. It’s disturbing that it’s currently representing TWoTH, but we’re at an age where a little bit of wrassle & tussle in the bedroom is warranted to keep the magic from going stale.
That is, of course, if I don’t stop her cock first for being insolent towards her king & using her television studio computers for recreational chatter rather than the children’s competition question research she’s paid for…
“Have you tried an instant cheesecake?
Not the packet mix stuff.. Just take a digestive biscuit, spread it liberally with Philadelphia cheese, then top with your favourite jam. Mmmm…”
Yep, that’s good.
Another one that sounds weird but is actually surprisingly nummy is something our mum used to make for us when we were wee: a buttered digestive biscuit, with a cored slice of apple cut across the equator, and a dollop of jam in the middle where the core’s been cut out.
What’s funny is that if TWoTH happens to wander over to another WordPress blog – you know, about knitting or chocolate or something – then that icon will most likely appear there too! Brilliant!
Aren’t all kids’ TV competitions fixed by coked-up Blue Peter rejects?
Delicious and visually pleasing. Splendid!
Which of the last few comments are you referring to there, Matthew?!
1) Spiders. They are just vile looking.
2) I have a soft spot for John Travolta in Broken Arrow. But the classic Jack Palance in Shane has to take it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsskPPgkIe4
3) I’m putting in a second vote for lemon curd.
4) I suppose gin and tonic doesn’t count. I sometimes feel the need for a Mojito. But in the words of the great detective Lord Peter Wimsey:
“I don’t hold with cocktails. They’re American for a start, and they ruin the palate.”
5) India. Pretentious answer but it really is true. Tea shop in India.
Dylan – ‘fraid not, with the icon. Local only.
i’ve read this through a few times and still don’t really understand it…..
Ben – John Travolta in Broken Arrow was superb. That line ‘Would you please stop shooting at the thermo-nuclear devices’, issued through gritted teeth, is a masterpiece.
Only marginally ruined by them being so fucking pleased with themselves for it that they felt obliged to repeat the bloody thing ten minutes later.
It’s alright, you fools, we got it, it was funny the first time. Now you’ve just ruined it for everyone.
I was going to suggest a glass of iced mint tea in the gardens of the Oberoi hotel in Bangalore, but it sounded a bit – well – pretentious!
My favourite line is I don’t know what’s scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there’s actually a term for it
It’s a very cleverly self deprecating film, but I agree with Toad that they do bask in the smugness of what they’d created on more than one occasion.
At least it gave Slater something other than Heathers to trade off on (which, incidentaly, is a fucking good self-referencial/deprecatnig romp in itself).
True. If you are going to repeat a line. Make sure it gets scarier every time. Such as:
“Pick up the the gun. Go on, pick it up.”
Thing is Dylan, I usually only drink coffee. So pretentious was all I had.
I will simply have to embrace it.
Aren’t all kids’ TV competitions fixed by coked-up Blue Peter rejects?
You’ve met TWoTH, Dylan; didn’t you notice her septum was gaping like Emu’s ‘real arm’ entry point?
in a cute way i thought
The thing about vodka + anything is very untrue, as vodka and undiluted squash (lime) actually tastes extremely foul.
And clearly golden syrup is the best thing to have on (lightly toasted) toast. (perhaps that should be bread?)
Teeside Tintin is the perfect villain. (If swearing copiously is enough to make a villain. I don’t know, I don’t really watch films.)
1. Rats (particularly when scurrying around the subway tracks a few feet away).
2. Ben Kingsley in “Sexy Beast”.
3. Peanut butter.
4. Caipirinha.
5. At the pub, just before the match starts (which signals that it’s 10am [NY time] on a Saturday, and what still awaits you is two hours of football, a full Irish, and then the entire rest of the weekend–just a magic feeling that you only get on a Saturday morning).
Voldermania – rules, sir, where are your five?
Dev – He was very, very fucking scary in Sexy Beast, good call.
in a cute way i thought
there are so many questions I have for you now, Chutto. but the image of you entering Emu inappropriately stops me dead.
now we all know that is not what i meant when i said cute…..
Harmless fun tho Couto
The thing about vodka + anything is very untrue
freshly squeezed clementines/satsumas/tangerines/whatever they’re bloody called this ‘season’ is a nice vodka mix.
Thoughts on Blavod anyone? I quite like its peppery kick – it’s delicious with cranberry juice, too.
If the abbreviation for Chutters is Chutto, surely the abbreviation for Country is Cunto?
Sir?
I’m offended.
Maybe too offended to comply with the rules.
cunto is what i thought Matthew….but you get the same idea with couto
insert smiley face here
thought i keep missing the cunting n out
just found this at lyricsmania….nearly pissed myself…
Lyrics to A Few Kind Words :
There was a call on the telephone and an air of resignation, a few kind words,
and a sort of incompetence as we confused our basic nouns and verbs.
There was no love lost between;
there were birds singing in the trees.
There was foul play at the old arcade, there were people screaming murder at machines;
then there was silence — the kind that only Batman he can make
with their hearts touching their teeth and the clouds reaching down to touch concrete.
There was a voice that I heard one time, so faceless, full of noise
and don’t you know,
it shook me from my sleep;
it threatened hellfire then it spooned with me.
It whispered in my ear
you have only yourself to fear.
There was a call on the telephone, an air of resignation, a few kind words, and the sort of incompetence as we confused our basic nouns and verbs.
There was no love lost between;
there were birds singing in the trees.
There was no love lost between;
there were birds singing in the trees.
[ A Few Kind Words Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
Batman? Brilliant.
Voldermania, do them or I’ll do them for you, and set Dylan to find you a very, very silly avatar indeed.
Ahem.
A work of unbridled genius though those lyrics are, Mr Bear, they don’t constitute a Friday Five.
It’s fucking anarchy on this blog today.
DISCIPLINE, PEOPLE, DISCIPLINE!
sack mr bear toad…..sack him
And I don’t mean the original version. They’re shit.
Not enough Batman.
Don’t tempt him or the Art Fag debut will be a Batman concept album.
i’m such a rebel
art fag album you say….hmmm
Stop it stop it stop it!
You’ll make Matthew’s head explode!
KABOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!
OK FINE!
1.bart
2.ben kingsley in sexy beast (my role model)
3.eggs (any kind)
4.once upon a time there lived 3 little penis’….oh sorry i thought it said ‘cock tale’…
5.on a coaster (boom boom!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sQA9ILZSU
enjoy
sorry going off topic here if there is a topic. are there any tickets left for the gig tonight at sneeky petes and if so where do i get em?
Toad, are you aware of the Builders & the Butchers Daytrotter session? & the Cotton Jones basket Ride session? hmm?
1. Komodo Dragon.
2. My favorite is The Wicked Witch of The West from The Wizard of Oz, but the *scariest* villian was Bob Hoskins in Felicia’s Journey.
3. Butter, though beans are a close second.
4. Irish coffee.
5. My house.
1. Bats
2. Vizzini from the princess bride.
“I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.”
3. Honey
4. Makers Mark and Ginger
5. Ma’s house
Lordy! Thought i’d never get thru all these before leaving to see the Decemberists tonight
1.parasitic flies that lay eggs in your head, eeek
2. Jack Nickelson in anything, or Iggy Pop (omg have you heard the new one?)
3. Tom, I’m worried now that we’re related. Cold toast, cold salted butter and layed on thick with hot steaming tea!
4. Back in the day, vodka martini, straight up and cleeeeeaaaaannnn, 2 olives. Hence the reason I don’t imbibe any more!
5. In bed, preferably with three or four others, equally exhausted and sweaty
Did I mention the DECEMBERISTS are playing tonight??
I love you, Mr. Bear. Can I have an album please?
1. Komodo Dragon is a very good call – there is an animal that just doesn’t give a fuck.
2. I think Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves might be the best crap film in the world ever and Alan Rickman is excellent in it, but I think the best screen villain of all is Sergi Lopez as Captain Vidal in Pan’s Labyrinth.
3. It’s a mood thing. Sometimes marmalade is perfect, sometimes poached eggs, sometimes marmite. But it has to be good proper butter too.
4. Not much of a one for cocktails but I’ve occasionally enjoyed a proper bloody mary, using the recipe in Charlie Higson’s ‘Full Whack’ which is a very good book that more people ought to read.
5. Having just got in from a really wet cold walk my dad made me a cup of strong tea with sugar and whisky in it and it was perfect.
Bats are lovely and are absolutely not sinister looking. Fact.
“I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.”
A very fine quote indeed.
Who are you going to see, Tart? You were a bit vague on that one.
Now, Adam, I think once you start adding whisky you are somewhat moving the goalposts, don’t you? Mind you, the Austrians make Jaegertee which is also somewhat, erm, “enhanced”.
Sigh.
5. Nightingales cafe in Norwich had a huge bay window seat where you could watch a good part of Norwich’s version of the world go by*, and it was very lovely mixture of breakfast and earl grey tea. I have spent time since looking for another perfect cafe spot without really finding one, although cafe nero in town is good despite being a chain.
*I am aware this is actually quite a small bit of the world.
That’s a mixture of ‘breakfast tea’ and ‘earl grey tea’, just to be clear.
…..decemberists, shhhhhh I’m sure they’ll be crap but I like how that fella sings like Mr. Bear.
Heck it must be sunny up there today
1)Camels, big eyes then all spitty, and they hide stuff in their humps.
2)Childcatcher – chitty chitty bang bang – no contest. Although I think the lead singer of maximo park is getting that look now too.
3)Dripping, but we’re not allowed it anymore
4)Anything alcoholic with Red Bull, hides the god awful taste and counteracts the caffeine
5)I’m agree with RC nearly but I’d pick Blencathra
liking the bear
I love you Mr. Bear. Can I have a candy please? ( just so you know I was kidding on the album request). xoxo
I would like to argue the Jack Nicholson point. The film ‘The Departed’ did not work specifically because Jack was about as scary as a glass of chardonnay. Ruin an otherwise mediocre film, and made it terrible.
1. African Hunting Dogs at Edinburgh Zoo. Signs everywhere saying don’t dangle your kids over the edge, I suppose retards need to go to zoos too. Also a keeper said to me “I’d gae in wae Wulves but I wudnae gae in wit thay bastads” says it all really. But if you’ve got ears like they have you have to be hard to stick up for yourself out on the savanna I suppose.
2. Max Zorin
3. Beans
4. Manhattan
5. I’ve never understood tea. Just makes you piss a lot.
1. These things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Tarsier
They’ve got mad eyes. Shiver.
2. Uh… Clarence from Robocop. Or Biff Tannen.
3. Some sort of cream cheese, perhaps garlic flavoured? Or a nice meaty pâté.
4. Any cocktails are pretty much fine by me as long as they look suitably ludicrous and flouncy.
5. I don’t drink tea. My flatmate drinks tea literally anywhere. In the shower seems to be popular with her.
1. My mother-in-law
2. Grant Mitchell
3. Pate
4. Snakebite and black
5. In an old people’s home
Biff Tannen yay!!!
Aarrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh, mine eyes.
Ahem.
1. Stoats? Weasels? Aye-aye’s? (I’m fairly certain that’s probably an incorrect spelling.) Naked mole rats. They are sinister, if in a slightly pathetic way.
2. I’ll go with Sauron, seeing as no-one has said that yet. Although actually he was an extremely feeble villain, being naught but a giant flaming eye.
3. golden syrup. Also tuna mayo. bacon.
4. I tend to prefer my alcohol unsullied by other unecessaries. But if sullied, must be with extremely colourful and sugary substances, and look pretty.
5. While skateboarding. I have actually seen it done (he was a student, obviously).
1. chickens, their beaks are lethal
2. the clown from stephen king’s IT – its voice coming out of that drain haunted me for years
3. beans with a dash of soy sauce
4. long island iced tea, preferably served extra-strong and extra-cheap in a ski resort
5. in the bath
1) I dont know if anyne else saw this but I watched a BBC documentary recently about the pacific and in that there was a flesh eating catepillar which was quite fightening.
2)I dont have a favourite movie villian i dont think but id like to see bart from eagleowl mastermind the downfall of the universe for his own ends. Just because that would be ace.
3)Butter. Spread with my new (old) horn bone buttr knife i bought today for 20p. thats what my grandad uses to spread toast and his is the best.
4)I dont know which was the best but ive only been for cocktails specifically on one occasion and 3 of us spent 140 punds. the last one i remember drinking was a french martini ( i like the pretty glasses they come in) but one before which wiped all memory i think had a small boat made of passionfruit and an umberella. all i can say is go to the villager for cocktails.
5)Tea is amazing anytime but i especially like it out of real tea cups. i dont like tea leaves as sometimes you swallow them nd its not nice. One time my friend made her mum a cup of tea and left the bag in and her mum drank it without realising and choked a bit on the bag and sicked a bit. it was pretty funny.
1. The Chinese Crested dog breed
http://www.ilovemyjournal.com/media/1/SamUgliestDogLulu_sm.jpg
2. Hannibal Lecter, of fucking course.
3. Lemon curd or nutella.
4. Is bourbon on the rocks a cocktail?
5. http://www.teaism.com/
I would imagine you’re far more entitlted to a copy than the ugly, heavy bouncer on the door of Stinky Pete’s tonight who delighted in pressuring and threatening the band to give him a freebie.
Fortunately the guys didn’t succomb to his neanderthal, knuckle-dragging charms.
It’s depressing that such a bad venue is regarded as a leading light on Edinburgh’s live music scene.
Ugh ugh ugh, and that sense of entitlement from people who are around musicians bugs the shit outta me, which is why I rewrote my comment to make it clear that it was a joke. So much work goes into an album, people have no idea. I was given an album last night (actually a cassette, how cute is that?) and I was so touched. I know they know that I know they really shouldn’t afford giving them away to friends/bloggers. Of course I said no 4 or 5 times first, haha
1. Tapirs (http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/whose-toes/Tapir1Yawn.jpg)
2. Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru in Wild at Heart (really scary and really sexy at the same time, although I realise that is probably just me)
3. Lurpak butter and lots of it
4. Margarita
5. My living room early on a sunny morning looking out to sea
x
dylan i take it you were very drunk and tired during that wee outburst. surely the guy doesnt deserve that. fair enough its a bit radge to start pestering people for free stuff but he seemed an okay guy to me. not very nice mate.
no actiondan, dylans spot on. the doorman slapped me round the head when i said no to him, and not just a play slap either.
i’m also sure that said bouncer doesn’t remember when i was 18 i had a fit in the bar where he was working…his reaction was to drag me into the street and leave me by the side of the road….
true story….
he’s a cock
I’ve been bowdlerized! Just because I like bourbon?
BIFF TANNEN WINS BY FUCKING MILES!
Mr. Rocketship you are a hero to the people, that was a brilliant choice.
Nah, my comment was a bit drunken and over the top. I forgot Actiondan was mates with some of the people who run Pete’s – I should say sorry for slagging off the whole place.
The venue does a lot of good work for Edinburgh’s new music, it’s wrong to judge the whole place because one individual working there – and probably as a third party contractor – is a cock.
But he was an immense cock – and was particularly out of order toward Mr. Bear.
Bouncing is a fucking horrible job. It attracts total gobshites, and dealing with drunk idiots all night (not saying you are/were on Dylan, but there are a lot of them about) will turn you into a total gobshite if you aren’t one already.
I’m not defending them on this particular incident, about which I know absolutely nothing, but both those bouncers have always been quite nice to me actually.
They still can’t have a CD though.
All don’t be such a greedy bastard, give him one of your Backstreet Boys CDs.
Hey Tart i hope we not related like brother/sister….cos that would be wrong
Why darlin, have you been wanking to my icon again!?! I told you … it’s just a strawberry pie/ dessert
oh jesus there she goes again…..it’s a secret
…and it’s nothing to do with wanking!!
…directly
And the other thing I meant to say the other day but forgot is that Christian Slater already has ‘Pump up the Volume’ to trade on as a back up to Heather ‘All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks’ – dont’ you wish you’d said that? Although maybe not ‘Tonight we have number twelve of one hundred things to do with your body when you’re all alone. Now, are you ready for the incredible sound of Hard Harry coming on his own face?’. It’s a very good film.
1. weasel, though i am very fond of them.
2. i have to agree with hannibal lecter, however he doesn;t even really count because he is not originally a movie character- so in that case, Hennessey, from the life aquatic..
3. butter, is that even a question?
4. does a shirley temple count?
5. Haymarket, Northampton Massachusetts all the way in North America.
i hate mondays…can today be friday please