Friday is Preparing its Lists
Okay, we are getting into list season here, and it is time not just for me to be preparing my own lists, but for you to be considering yours as well. Last year we had a vote on the fives which I failed to count properly, but this time I promise to keep a running tally as we go along, so we will hopefully end up with an actual Song, by Toad Readers’ Champion.. or something like that anyway.
So, between now and next week (10th) give some thought to your five favourite songs of the year, and for the following week (Friday 17th) your five favourite albums of the year and we can add them all up and find out who we all love the mostest.
I will as per usual be doing a Top Twenty albums and a Festive Fifty, but not until a little closer to Christmas, but this will help me start thinking properly about it as well. I’ve shortlisted about twenty-five albums, so I’m nearly there, but I haven’t even started my Festive Fifty, so that should make for a bit of a marathon one of these evenings.
So, one last random five before the end of the year. And random it shall be.
1. Favourite dessert.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
3. Best sort of apple.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
This week’s five songs are from a Punk compilation I bought about eight years ago.
The Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
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The Rezillos – Top of the Pops
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Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
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The Vibrators – Automatic Lover
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1) The Sahara – for the warmth (Sorry, chocolate fudge cake, for the after effects)
2) Nick Nolte – for the mugshots
3) What? Best fucking apple? Erm…the one even nicked form the garden of eden. I think it was a granny smith.
4) Millennium Falcon
5) Mules. They are stubborn and infertile, which is tragic in a way, cause they never stop trying.
1. Favourite dessert.
Treacle tart
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Syd Barret (does that count?)
3. Best sort of apple.
I can’t find it. I bought some one in Suffolk and they were perfect, crisp, juicy, tasty and satisfying and I’ve never found them again.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
The one from Blake’s 7
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Simples
Bugger
1. The King’s Wark’s lemon posset or honey tart. Either knock seven shades of shit out of everything else I have ever tasted.
2. Lindsay Lohan won this one when she appeared in Machete as a vapid attention-whore who, having wrecked herself on various pharmaceuticals ended up having to get her minge out on the internet to pay the bills. It was such a perfect mirror to her actual life that it was uncanny. Irony, self-parody, public humiliation… who knows what it was!
3. The ‘how do you like them apples?’ sort.
4. The Spacebug from Red Dwarf.
5. Otters. Awfy, awfy cute.
And how the fuck was I not first?
1. Favourite dessert. Rhubarb Crumble
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity. I like the old school movie stars much better than the modern Heat Magazine tosspots. Give me Robert Mitchum anyday: smoked dope, went to jail, drank, cheated, acted like a lunkhead but is still the coolest thing in any film he’s in, even the terrible ones.
3. Best sort of apple. I do like a Russet or a nice tangy Cox’s Orange Pippin
4. Favourite movie spaceship. The flying winnebago in Spaceballs…
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Panda. And not just the baby ones either, the big grumpy ones that don’t get on youtube.
Favourite songs this year?
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
Spanish Sahara – Foals
Tighten Up – Black Keys
Flash A Hungry Smile – Mystery Jets
Probably something off the Phantom Band album.. I’m no good at those sort of lists!
Bugger, Titus?
Lucy – NEXT WEEK for the lists! I admire your enthusiasm though, and will start next week’s five with your premature entry!
1. Favourite dessert.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
3. Best sort of apple.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Aw nuts. I’ll have completely changed my mind by next week…
I just thought the one day I was paying attention I might be first.
And the incoherent grammar.
I don’t know about King’s Walk, but I make a mean Lemon Posset.
Stu, you haven’t really grasped the point of this, have you.
1. Favourite dessert.
Holy shit, sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream, get in!!
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Gazza
3. Best sort of apple.
Toffee!
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
Millennium Falcon. Like, duh.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Easy – red pandas!
1. Free.
2. Gwyneth Paltrow. Not a classic wreck as such, but she’s disappeared up herself rather impressively.
3. Granny smith.
4. Serenity from Firefly.
5. Bat eared fox.
Durex puppy? You sure about that one Matthew?
Yes, Durex Puppy. As in stuff the cute little fucker inside one, add some weights, and toss into the Firth of fucking Forth. Such stampable cuteness I never have seen.
1. Sherry Trifle
2. George Best
3. Appletini
4. Klaatu’s ship
5. Koala
1. got to be cheesecake, white chocolate cheesecake at that
2. Kerry Katona and not just cause she has huge baps
3. Granny Smith
4. I always liked the ships in Battlestar Galactica, nnot sure what they’re called though. I should really have went with the Millenium Falcon, that’d have been much easier, but a lot more predictable
5. Wombats
Matthew: Getting sentimental in your old age?
Peenko: They’re called Vipers and they are excellent.
cheers Dave
They do an awesome vanilla cheesecake in the coffee shop downstairs. In fact, that is whence I am off this very minute.
1. In this matter, I find I must concur with Matthew.
2. Silvio Berlusconi.
3. Crabapple. (Did anyone else go huzzing crabapples as a kid? You know, where you get a good long, flexible and whippy stick, sharpen the narrow end to a point, spear crabapples on the end, and “huzz” them at the back windows of the posh houses at the bottom of the street by flicking the stick in a rapid, vertical, forwards motion. It’s all in the wrist.)
4. Millennium Falcon. Obviously.
5. At-At.
Did we just agree on the internet, Dylan? I know we often agree on real life, but I thought we always disagreed on the internet on point of principle.
I want to huzz crab apples! Although I want to do it at an age where arrest is less likely.
1) Sticky Toffee Pudding
2) Noted Sex Pest John Leslie
3) None – they are the very Testicles of Satan
4) Serenity
5) Puff the Magic Dragon
1. Cheesecake, the proper baked American kind
2. Always had a soft spot for Winona Ryder
3. Gala is a brand, right? But it still has to be Gala.
4. The one those kids make in the River Phoenix movie Explorers. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/
5. Red pandas all the way.
“None – they are the very Testicles of Satan”
An excellent if slightly unexpected answer!
1. Favourite dessert.
At the moment it’s the pear and almond cake as occasionally served at the Cameo
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Mickey Rourke
3. Best sort of apple.
Cox
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
The one Jane Fonda uses in Barbarella
5. Cutes non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Pine Martin’s (in the snow of course for that extra cuteness)
Apologies for my earlier post – my blackberry sucks ass.
1. Tiramisu or Trifle
2. I second the Silvio Berlusconi.
3. Winesap: a poetic name for an almost burgundy colored apple that is crisp, refreshing and as delicious as it sounds. truly the epitome of apples.
4. Serenity
5. Penguins!
I’ve changed my mind about 2.
I’m tempted too by Silvio Berlusconi (who wouldn’t be), but I’d like to nominate Prince Andrew.
1. It’s crumble season!
2. It would be Gazza, if it wasn’t quite so desperately sad watching the guy who scored THAT goal in Euro ’96 (first international tournament England were in that I can remember) turning into a shambling wreck. So instead it has to be the three Harry Potter kids- all that fame and wealth and not a single scandal, dreadful effort….
3. Jazz- points for ridiculous name and the crisp crunchiness
4. I suspect that everyone would vote for the Millennium Falcon, but in the interest of diversity and geekiness, the Nova Five- the ship where Lister and Rimmer find that Kryten has been waiting on the skeletons of the female crew for three million years, and has consequently gone a bit strange.
5. Newborn polar bears, who know that in six months time they’ll be able to bite your head off.
1) Cheese plates. I’m not a huge fan of sweet things. Stink stinky cheese.
2) Meh. They’re all a bit hard to tell apart.
3) Fuji. Tart and crisp.
4) Next Generation Enterprise. Stately and elegant.
5) Panadas. So very cute. Evolutionary blindspot that they are.
1. Favourite dessert.
ice cream with apple pie
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
no opinion on this, other than the fact that no one has claimed Jade Goody’s crown
3. Best sort of apple.
green ones
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
the one out of Space 1999
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal
crabs
Ducky makes Winesap apples sound so very good, despite the dodgy name (that’s Winesap, not Ducky. Ducky’s a lovely name).
Mellis’s near us, as well as doing awesomely stinky cheese, have an amazing selection of interesting apples at the moment.
1. The stealth kanelbullar (cinnamon buns) that appeared in my freezer while I was away on “holiday”. Yes for displaced Scandinavian friends!
2. I think it’s fast becoming Anne Widdecombe
3. Spiced apple cider!
4. The good old Starship Enterprise.
5. Kleenex Matthew. Durex is something entirely different.
Anyways, to answer number 5, I like salamanders.
I can’t help but think we’re letting ourselves down quite badly in the spaceship department here, and it is being masked by our excellence with apples.
How about the one from Lavender Castle, that was pretty cool. Or Flight of the Navigator – Flight of the fucking Navigator!!
Have they never made a film of Tintin on the Moon? I like the orange and white rocket, probably based on a V2.
http://www.ugo.com/movies/100-best-movie-spaceships
That was very definitely a Rocket Ship as well, not a mere spaceship! There must have been some good uns in early Sci-fi. Klytus’s private ship in Flash Gordon was pretty cool. Windows on a spaceship which open – they really hadn’t grasped the concept of space when they designed that one, had they.
TITUS
3 DEC 10 AT 14:31
I’ve changed my mind about 2.
I’m tempted too by Silvio Berlusconi (who wouldn’t be), but I’d like to nominate Prince Andrew.
You might be onto something, Titus.
Yeah, at least most of the other people nominated in this category achieved something on their own account before deciding that the best place for their feet is in their own mouth.
1. Cheesecake
2. Gary Glitter
3. Apple Pie
4. Boba Fett’s Slave I
5. Roadkill.
Does anyone else struggle to tell Gary Glitter and Boy George apart these days?
1. cheese plate for me too. With a port chaser. Now I want a glass of port! (with apologies to Becky for whom it is 10 in the morning..)
2. I don’t seem to have one..
3. egremont russet
4. the big fuck-off spaceship at the start of star wars which is gradually revealed to be HUGE
5. owls.
Does anyone else struggle to tell Gary Glitter and Boy George apart these days?
Perhaps you should leave the light on, Matthew.
1. Favourite dessert.
Sticky Toffee Pudding (no dates, sultanas or shit like that) and vanilla ice-cream from Renaldo’s in Ayr!
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Lindsay Lohan – so much potential there…
3. Best sort of apple.
Macintosh Red
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
The one from Flight of the Navigator even if my childhood was blighted with nightmares because of it.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Pretty sure you mean Andrex here! I’d go for a penguin
1. Favourite dessert.
Kings Wark – honey tart, bread and butter pudding, sticky toffee pudding and lemon posset. And I don’t usually eat dessert after dinner. Or as Matthew would know if he weren’t so lower middle, pudding after supper. Or common as muck like me, afters. As in after ma tea.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Jeeze. It has to be Britney doesn’t it. Other people get fucked up or psycho or whorey but she went fat, pscho, whorey and fucked up all at once.
3. Best sort of apple.
Cox’s pippin.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
This fully operational Deathstar.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
It has to be rock wallabies. Sprooooing!!!!!
I think it’s late enough to break the rules
I love that Wreckless Eric song….and my solitary contribution is
4) Dark Star – with a beach ball monster
1. Favourite dessert.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
3. Best sort of apple.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
Steamed pudding and custard. (syrup sponge if youre from England)
Tamara Beckwith
Braeburn
Probably the one on Buck Rogers. Have you seen that movie? its mental!
Laurakeet
1. Apple Pie and Custard
2. The dude from Seinfeld who made the racist comment, what a shame that was
3. Braeburn
4. It was mine in the movie in my mind when I was a kid and it was called Excalibur
5. Toad
1. Lemon meringue pie
2. I hate em all
3. Pink lady
4. Really?
5. Meerkats
1. Favourite dessert.
It depends hugely on when in the year it is and what else I’ve been eating – at the moment anything involving stewed fruit, especially stewed apples and quinces, maybe in a crumble or maybe just with cream. If it’s not a crumble you need a really good biscuit or two on the side.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Has everyone else been looking for celebrities who died in train crashes or is it just me? Maybe celebrities don’t really go on trains.
3. Best sort of apple.
Discovery, although their season is stupidly short. Russets later on. There’s a stall in the market here run by an old couple who sell loads of different varieties from their own orchards.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
The Nostromo – I want the future to look like the dangerous industrial past.
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
It’s definitely red pandas.
1. Banoffee
2. Mel Gibson – bring back Martin Riggs!..actually..
3. Really sour ones – like cooking apples.
4. Event Horizon is a brilliant film, and a ridiculously terrifying ship. But I would have to pitch for the Fishburne’s other hunting ground the Nebuchadnezzar, prefer my ships dark, rusty and seemingly held togther by duct tape.
5. Panda
1. Favourite dessert.
Anything with custard.
2. Favourite trainwreck celebrity.
Kanye West (DIAMOND TEETH)
3. Best sort of apple.
Bramley – it goes well in desserts with custard.
4. Favourite movie spaceship.
The one from 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Cutest non-bunny, non-kitten, non-Durex puppy kind of animal.
The Pygmy Jerboa – look at that fucking thing!
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