MatGB—Knowledge is underrated
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I mean, seriously, why would you want to give your car a name, let alone a silly pun? Oh, wait, I'm in Yorkshire, it's Jennie. Combine the two and I'm doomed, aren't I?
Oh, the other scary thing? She went to the post office today to pay her wage in, and I met her at Sainsbury's to do some shopping. She'd bought a copy of the Highway Code and some L plates. Be afraid...
[1] A friends locked post at her personal journal.
[2] It's a really stupid idea of a name.
[3] I mean it, really really stupid.
[4] I hate it.
[5] Help me oh friends list, you're my only hope.
[6] As always, non-LJers will need to login with an OpenID or create an LJ account to vote.
The dog sensibly ignoring them and wallowing in is Byron, the one haring around all over the place chasing anything that moves is Roxy.
And this is posted just because I can. Embed code that works at the right resolution courtesy of Ryan.
Oh, she's also (finally) started work on building the pub website. So it needs some links in so that Google starts to pay attention. Hint.
Hot off the press (or whatever the equivalent is on the interweb) here's the full FFW 2008 programme, almost all confirmed...I've bolded the stuff I'd like to see, but nothing specifc yet—some of the stuff I haven't highlighted (like Phibes) is cool but I've watched it recently as Jennie's got the DVD. It's in Bradford, 20 minutes by bus from us here in Brighouse, anyone wanting advice for accommodation give us a shout, sofa space may still be available.
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Weekend Pass £40 (£35 concs)
Day Pass £20 (£15 concs)
Grindhouse/Dr. Phibes double-bills £10 (£7 concs)
BTW. Passes do NOT include IMAX titles
If you've got any questions let me know. Oh, and I hope to have at least some of the John Carpenter's exclusive intro to The Thing on YouTube for you all in the next week or so, as a nice little teaser.
Cheers,
Your friends at FFW HQ
Facebook event for those interested.
This year the line-up includes the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse double-bill, the ultimate Cushing/Lee pairing in Dracula, Daughters of Darkness, Eyes without a Face, Blood on Satan’s Claw and John Carpenter’s The Thing in 70mm with an exclusive video introduction from Carpenter himself. Our guests will be cult filmmakers Harry Kümel, Peter Duffell, Piers Haggard and Robert Fuest.Now, I'm not a massive horror film fan (because most horror films don't involve space ships), but I can appreciate a good flick, and the normal selection they've had has been brilliant, last year included Soylent Green, 300 on the IMAX, a showing of Ghostwatch and Forbidden Planet. So that's some proper SF, some decent horror, some weird FX driven stuff and SPARTA!
It's a really cool venue in Bradford, just a few minutes walk from Bradford Interchange bus and rail station, incredibly easy to get to. Especially from our house, the 363 takes 20 minutes from the end of our street. So that's:
7th Fantastic Films Weekend runs from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June
Admit it, you're interested. And you want to come. You can even throw in a visit to sunny Brighouse and see where I live and everything.And, honestly? Bradford's actually quite a nice place as well. Honest. Or you could do what some of the British Horror Forum regulars are doing (including
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pmoodie?), and stay in the hotel down the road from us because it's dead cheap and really nice. And they probably won't bite. Unless you're into that sort of thing. And I know you lot, some of you are...- 12:03 waking up and getting ready to go to Leeds. Not sure what the plan is after that but Leeds is a good start. #
- 14:03 scared by the huge crowd in Scarbrough, not queueing for pizza, but Whitelocks had a table, yay! Leeds very busy. #
- 18:09 wishing Inspector Sands would get his arse to Platform 7 so they turn the bloody message off #
- 22:49 watching The Mind Robber. Zoe really does have a fine arse. #
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We wandered a bit after that, I wanted to get hold of a book. Smiths didn't have it, but they did have a nice pile of DVDs on offer and, well, we couldn't resist, so more classic Who[1] and a few other things, including a boxed set of wooden board games[3]. Waterstone's didn't have it either, but they did have an import of Android's Dream so that's ok. We decided that out of Borders and Waterstone's, Waterstone's wins, could've spent all day there, easily. Instead we just spent money we don't really have. Ah well, books are never bad.
So, given she's off galivanting in York and I'm not in the mood to go back out, it's me, the dogs, a wide screen TV and a glass (or three) of whisky. After a nice long bath that is. What should I watch first then?
Poll #1162622 DVD watching plans
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
What would you watch tonight?
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Essential research for my next post on Liberal Conspiracy
2 (15.4%)
Bug Eyed Monsters destroy Earth 3 (23.1%)
Zoe's arse in that spangly catsuit 8 (61.5%)
A review of the Thundercats DVDs we bought last time:
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Write it Mat, go on! 11 (73.3%)
Nah, you can't write reviews anyway. 1 (6.7%)
Thundercats? Why would I want to read a kids cartoon review? 2 (13.3%)
guido_was_taken 1 (6.7%)
[1] And some 5th Doctor stuff, does that count as "classic"?
[2] our first proper 'date' as it happens
[3] Does anyone actually play backgammon properly? Never actually tried it.
- 13:27 arriving into Leeds station hoping at least one shop is open... #
- 17:12 impressed by the Scarbrough, happy with CEX and very scared by the amount Jennie spent in Lush. #
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The Yorksher Gob - How common are earthquakes in Yorkshire?:
I merely ask because our entire house just shook, windows rattling, bed shaking, everything...Um, apparently it's been felt in Cambridge?
Mat went and looked out the window and David (neighbour across the street and a few doors down) was just coming out of his front door and they felt it over there too.
I really hope it /was/ an Earthquake. The other option is too awful to contemplate.
ETA: Not Yorkshire, but just down the road outside Lincoln.
strmrgn, you and the guys OK?I've just found a duplicate copy of White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000. I bought my copy in a record store in Leeds while visiting
susanah_banana while she was studying up here.I accept that we have similar tastes and thus have many doubled CDs. But that her copy was bought in the exact same shop?
I only came up here three times FFS, it's the other side of the country...
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