Wednesday, February 11, 2004
That 100 Things thing - as inspired by Jens.
#1: I'm 5'6", but people often think I'm shorter.
#2: Green plants love me. I try to kill them off, but they love me so much that they refuse to die on me. Pesky things.
#3: I once had pink hair. It was during my ironic phase.
#4: I was 19 when I was drunk for the very first time.
#5: I recently bought my own flat which I’m doing up inspired by Bauhaus. Er, the architects, not the band.
#6: I've had two bouts of Lyme's Disease. I hope it's not a recurrent thing.
#7: The closest thing I have to a father lives in New Zealand.
#8: I play RPG. I tend to play big men with huge weapons. How very Freudian.
#9: I’m not very emotional and get in a terrible state if I’m forced to confront my feelings. I’m far better at working through things intellectually.
#10: I have a thing for office supplies. I have spent a lot of money on various pencils, pens, staplers and sheets of paper.
#11: I've sported grey hairs since age 16.
#12: I’m an excellent cook.
#13: I'm an ENTP
#14: I have worked for a magazine focusing specifically on computer games.
#15: I’m a lousy housekeeper. I tend to lose interest halfway through whatever chore I’m supposed to be doing.
#16: I want to move to New Zealand one day and grow old by the sea.
#17: I’m very particular about how I fold the empty milk containers.
#18: I've lived in Great Britain in a number of places.
#19: My books are alphabetised and then sorted by the publication date under each author.
#20: I know "Married To The Mob" (1988 film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine) by heart. I've seen it 40+ times.
#21: I grew up watching MGM musicals on Sundays. I can still get weepy at the thought of "Gigi" and I worship film musicals.
#22: I've sung with Neil Finn.
#23: And danced on stage with Tim Finn.
#24: There is one thing I’m worse at than housework: math.
#25: It takes a lot to piss me off. When I finally get angry, I get very, very, very angry. Hint: never apologise to me more than once if I’m angry.
#26: I paint non-figurative paintings. People claim to like them.
#27: I’ve never been offered drugs - even at huge outdoors music festivals. Sometimes I wonder about this wholesome image I must be projecting.
#28: I’ve never lived on my own - I’ve always shared my space with others.
#29: I started an amateur theatrical company in Copenhagen in 1995 together with six of my closest friends. We staged 5 productions before closing shop in 1999 due to "creative differences". We have begun talking again now.
#30: I look like Monica Lewinsky. An indie/intellectual Monica.
#31: I’ve never understood the appeal of Friends. I want to bitch-slap every single member of its cast.
#32: Politically I lean heavily towards the Left. Certain parts of Middle America would probably call me a raving Commie. I prefer to call myself a liberal Leftist.
#33: I associate places and people with music. Ask me about the places I've lived and I'll tell you exactly what pieces of music spring to mind.
#34: I am terrified of spiders.
#35: I now live in a posh area of Copenhagen, which this wee white trash girl finds very unsettling.
#36: I used to be pierced. Note the past tense.
#37: I have no tattoos.
#38: I was 15 years old before I owned a pair of jeans.
#39: If my neighbours annoy me by playing crap music in the middle of the night, I get up early, put on an opera CD and turn up the volume. If I'm really mean, I put on my Belgian avant-garde rock CDs. I’m often very mean.
#40: Gin & Tonic, baby. It’s my poison.
#41: I own around 200 vinyl records - mainly teen pop from the late 1980s. The horror.
#42: My favourite shoes are a pair of knee-high black leather boots from the 1960s.
#43: I do not smoke, except when I'm drunk, under a lot of stress or in need of courage.
#44: The first music video I remember was Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". I was intrigued by the male lead singer Dee Snider's make-up. I think this explains a lot.
#45: I'm nuts about typography and fonts. I collect fonts and used to do a lot of calligraphy.
#46: I'm allergic to pistachio nuts if I eat more than a pound in less than 30 minutes.
#47: I taught myself to read when I was four.
#48: When I was 19, I decided to be anti-fashion and only wore second-hand clothes, which I altered myself. This was also when green Doc Martens went with everything.. even silver-and-black 1970s ball gowns.
#49: I’m not very comfortable talking on the phone.
#50: I dislike direct sunlight - yes, yes, I’ve heard the vampire joke a lot of times.
#51: I’m opposed to monarchy.
#52: I used to teach ickle firsties at University. It was a great job. No students ever showed for that Monday morning class, but I still got paid.
#53: I've had an anti-prose phase.
#54: I own around 2500 books.
#55: My favourite ice cream flavour is coconut.
#56: I own no Stephen King books. I've read two and was decidedly underwhelmed.
#57: When I was 14, I decided to read every single book in the Western Canon before I turned 15. I made it through Plato's "The Republic" ('a jolly good sci-fic yarn'), "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" before getting stuck ten chapters into "War & Peace". That was the end of it, really.
#58: I've read Tolstoy in Russian.
#59: And Thomas Mann in German.
#60: I can’t stand Mozart.
#61: My favourite painter is Kasimir Malevich
#62: And I’m such a Star Wars geek.
#63: I never read manuals. I believe in intuition and poking about.
#64: I’m told my nose is "stubborn", whatever that means.
#65: I'm the first in my family to attend university.
#66: I was also the first to graduate from High School.
#67: I’m 1/16th part Jewish.
#68: I was once reported to the Ministry of Education because I played truant constantly when I was in primary school. Around the same time I was also moved up one year. Go figure.
#69: I can’t fall asleep in blue bed linen or in a blue room.
#70: I own an awful lot of handbags.
#71: The police have manhandled me during a protest march.
#72: The one thing I'd save during a fire would be a stuffed toy dog called Vaks. I've had him since I was three years old.
#73: I made quite good pocket money as a teen making outfits for kids' Barbie dolls. I still have three books filled with patterns.
#74: I can put a diaper on a grown man using only one hand.
#75: I do not know how to drive a car.
#76: But I can make you a tailored jacket complete with lining.
#77: I have difficulties eating anything within the first hour of being awake. I may as hungry as heck, but I can't squeeze anything down.
#78: On the other hand, I get very grumpy if I do not get any caffeine within the first 30 minutes of waking up.
#79: My favourite perfume is Burberry's "London" scent. It's horrifically expensive.
#80: I speak English with a very British accent - mingled with either a touch of Kiwi or Scottish brogue depending on my level of intoxication.
#81: I am a member of a political party.
#82: I’m good at networking. Some might even call it my greatest skill.
#83: The best night on town I've ever had was in Dunfermline, Scotland completely sober and in the company of three women all old enough to be my Mum.
#84: I do not like scented tea or fruit teas.
#85: I couldn’t swim until I was 22.
#86: Tinka is actually my long-time nickname - not my given name.
#87: Originally I was going to be called Eva, Gertrud or Nikoline. I ended up with one of the most common names in Denmark instead. I'm pretty happy to have escaped "Gertrud".
#88: I've seen Radiohead play to a crowd of 200 disinterested people. I also caught Placebo, The Flaming Lips and The Cardigans before they made it unto MTV.
#89: I admit to have a serious boyband thing. Heck, I can tell them apart.
#90: I have a friend who is named after a Bowie album.
#91: I own no dance or techno CDs.
#92: A Lord Byron fridge magnet adorns my kitchen. He's right next to my Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon fridge magnet. It makes perfect sense in my head.
#93: I used to collect moose teddy bears. Actually I *didn't* but all my friends thought it was a hoot buying moose teddy bears as presents. I still have no idea why, but they carried on for about two years.
#94: I’m quite into yoga - minus the entire New Age spiritual part of it.
#95: My hands are very, very small.
#96: Most of my clothes are black. It's because I'm such an aloof intellectual. Plus I cannot get my mind around matching clothes right after I get out of bed.
#97: I've never broken any bones.
#98: Never ever touch my lower back without warning me.
#99: At school I’ve only been given detention once. I asked a substitute teacher to make his reading of a children’s book a touch more exciting - and then offered to do the job for him, in case he wanted an early coffee break. I was nine years old and a horribly precocious child.
#100: I own a purple bike on which I cheerfully combat the traffic mayhem of central Copenhagen.
#1: I'm 5'6", but people often think I'm shorter.
#2: Green plants love me. I try to kill them off, but they love me so much that they refuse to die on me. Pesky things.
#3: I once had pink hair. It was during my ironic phase.
#4: I was 19 when I was drunk for the very first time.
#5: I recently bought my own flat which I’m doing up inspired by Bauhaus. Er, the architects, not the band.
#6: I've had two bouts of Lyme's Disease. I hope it's not a recurrent thing.
#7: The closest thing I have to a father lives in New Zealand.
#8: I play RPG. I tend to play big men with huge weapons. How very Freudian.
#9: I’m not very emotional and get in a terrible state if I’m forced to confront my feelings. I’m far better at working through things intellectually.
#10: I have a thing for office supplies. I have spent a lot of money on various pencils, pens, staplers and sheets of paper.
#11: I've sported grey hairs since age 16.
#12: I’m an excellent cook.
#13: I'm an ENTP
#14: I have worked for a magazine focusing specifically on computer games.
#15: I’m a lousy housekeeper. I tend to lose interest halfway through whatever chore I’m supposed to be doing.
#16: I want to move to New Zealand one day and grow old by the sea.
#17: I’m very particular about how I fold the empty milk containers.
#18: I've lived in Great Britain in a number of places.
#19: My books are alphabetised and then sorted by the publication date under each author.
#20: I know "Married To The Mob" (1988 film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine) by heart. I've seen it 40+ times.
#21: I grew up watching MGM musicals on Sundays. I can still get weepy at the thought of "Gigi" and I worship film musicals.
#22: I've sung with Neil Finn.
#23: And danced on stage with Tim Finn.
#24: There is one thing I’m worse at than housework: math.
#25: It takes a lot to piss me off. When I finally get angry, I get very, very, very angry. Hint: never apologise to me more than once if I’m angry.
#26: I paint non-figurative paintings. People claim to like them.
#27: I’ve never been offered drugs - even at huge outdoors music festivals. Sometimes I wonder about this wholesome image I must be projecting.
#28: I’ve never lived on my own - I’ve always shared my space with others.
#29: I started an amateur theatrical company in Copenhagen in 1995 together with six of my closest friends. We staged 5 productions before closing shop in 1999 due to "creative differences". We have begun talking again now.
#30: I look like Monica Lewinsky. An indie/intellectual Monica.
#31: I’ve never understood the appeal of Friends. I want to bitch-slap every single member of its cast.
#32: Politically I lean heavily towards the Left. Certain parts of Middle America would probably call me a raving Commie. I prefer to call myself a liberal Leftist.
#33: I associate places and people with music. Ask me about the places I've lived and I'll tell you exactly what pieces of music spring to mind.
#34: I am terrified of spiders.
#35: I now live in a posh area of Copenhagen, which this wee white trash girl finds very unsettling.
#36: I used to be pierced. Note the past tense.
#37: I have no tattoos.
#38: I was 15 years old before I owned a pair of jeans.
#39: If my neighbours annoy me by playing crap music in the middle of the night, I get up early, put on an opera CD and turn up the volume. If I'm really mean, I put on my Belgian avant-garde rock CDs. I’m often very mean.
#40: Gin & Tonic, baby. It’s my poison.
#41: I own around 200 vinyl records - mainly teen pop from the late 1980s. The horror.
#42: My favourite shoes are a pair of knee-high black leather boots from the 1960s.
#43: I do not smoke, except when I'm drunk, under a lot of stress or in need of courage.
#44: The first music video I remember was Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". I was intrigued by the male lead singer Dee Snider's make-up. I think this explains a lot.
#45: I'm nuts about typography and fonts. I collect fonts and used to do a lot of calligraphy.
#46: I'm allergic to pistachio nuts if I eat more than a pound in less than 30 minutes.
#47: I taught myself to read when I was four.
#48: When I was 19, I decided to be anti-fashion and only wore second-hand clothes, which I altered myself. This was also when green Doc Martens went with everything.. even silver-and-black 1970s ball gowns.
#49: I’m not very comfortable talking on the phone.
#50: I dislike direct sunlight - yes, yes, I’ve heard the vampire joke a lot of times.
#51: I’m opposed to monarchy.
#52: I used to teach ickle firsties at University. It was a great job. No students ever showed for that Monday morning class, but I still got paid.
#53: I've had an anti-prose phase.
#54: I own around 2500 books.
#55: My favourite ice cream flavour is coconut.
#56: I own no Stephen King books. I've read two and was decidedly underwhelmed.
#57: When I was 14, I decided to read every single book in the Western Canon before I turned 15. I made it through Plato's "The Republic" ('a jolly good sci-fic yarn'), "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" before getting stuck ten chapters into "War & Peace". That was the end of it, really.
#58: I've read Tolstoy in Russian.
#59: And Thomas Mann in German.
#60: I can’t stand Mozart.
#61: My favourite painter is Kasimir Malevich
#62: And I’m such a Star Wars geek.
#63: I never read manuals. I believe in intuition and poking about.
#64: I’m told my nose is "stubborn", whatever that means.
#65: I'm the first in my family to attend university.
#66: I was also the first to graduate from High School.
#67: I’m 1/16th part Jewish.
#68: I was once reported to the Ministry of Education because I played truant constantly when I was in primary school. Around the same time I was also moved up one year. Go figure.
#69: I can’t fall asleep in blue bed linen or in a blue room.
#70: I own an awful lot of handbags.
#71: The police have manhandled me during a protest march.
#72: The one thing I'd save during a fire would be a stuffed toy dog called Vaks. I've had him since I was three years old.
#73: I made quite good pocket money as a teen making outfits for kids' Barbie dolls. I still have three books filled with patterns.
#74: I can put a diaper on a grown man using only one hand.
#75: I do not know how to drive a car.
#76: But I can make you a tailored jacket complete with lining.
#77: I have difficulties eating anything within the first hour of being awake. I may as hungry as heck, but I can't squeeze anything down.
#78: On the other hand, I get very grumpy if I do not get any caffeine within the first 30 minutes of waking up.
#79: My favourite perfume is Burberry's "London" scent. It's horrifically expensive.
#80: I speak English with a very British accent - mingled with either a touch of Kiwi or Scottish brogue depending on my level of intoxication.
#81: I am a member of a political party.
#82: I’m good at networking. Some might even call it my greatest skill.
#83: The best night on town I've ever had was in Dunfermline, Scotland completely sober and in the company of three women all old enough to be my Mum.
#84: I do not like scented tea or fruit teas.
#85: I couldn’t swim until I was 22.
#86: Tinka is actually my long-time nickname - not my given name.
#87: Originally I was going to be called Eva, Gertrud or Nikoline. I ended up with one of the most common names in Denmark instead. I'm pretty happy to have escaped "Gertrud".
#88: I've seen Radiohead play to a crowd of 200 disinterested people. I also caught Placebo, The Flaming Lips and The Cardigans before they made it unto MTV.
#89: I admit to have a serious boyband thing. Heck, I can tell them apart.
#90: I have a friend who is named after a Bowie album.
#91: I own no dance or techno CDs.
#92: A Lord Byron fridge magnet adorns my kitchen. He's right next to my Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon fridge magnet. It makes perfect sense in my head.
#93: I used to collect moose teddy bears. Actually I *didn't* but all my friends thought it was a hoot buying moose teddy bears as presents. I still have no idea why, but they carried on for about two years.
#94: I’m quite into yoga - minus the entire New Age spiritual part of it.
#95: My hands are very, very small.
#96: Most of my clothes are black. It's because I'm such an aloof intellectual. Plus I cannot get my mind around matching clothes right after I get out of bed.
#97: I've never broken any bones.
#98: Never ever touch my lower back without warning me.
#99: At school I’ve only been given detention once. I asked a substitute teacher to make his reading of a children’s book a touch more exciting - and then offered to do the job for him, in case he wanted an early coffee break. I was nine years old and a horribly precocious child.
#100: I own a purple bike on which I cheerfully combat the traffic mayhem of central Copenhagen.
Friday, February 06, 2004
100 movies. As seen at Charlotte's. You know the drill; seen = bold, italics = must see as soon as poss, *=gave up/fell asleep/guests came over
1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) (my favourite of the three)
7. Casablanca (1942)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Citizen Kane (1941)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) (loathed this one)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) *
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31. Vertigo (1958)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. Pianist, The (2002)
36. C'era una volta il West (1968)
37. Third Man, The (1949)
38. Some Like It Hot (1959)
39. Taxi Driver (1976)*
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
42. Fight Club (1999) (loathed this one too)
43. Boot, Das (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)*
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Gene Kelly! Yay!)
48. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49. M (1931)
50. Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Never ever going to see this one again)
51. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Cidade de Deus (2002)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
56. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rashômon (1950)
59. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
60. Sting, The (1973)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998) (No idea why this is so highly ranked)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Léon (1994)
65. Vita è bella, La (1997) (I not only loathe this one, I hate it. Passionately)
66. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) (fantastic)
67. Touch of Evil (1958)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)*
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Great Escape, The (1963)
71. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
73. Wo hu cang long (2000)
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Amadeus (1984)
76. Ran (1985)
77. On the Waterfront (1954)
78. Annie Hall (1977)
79. Jaws (1975)
80. Braveheart (1995) (Grrrrr..)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. Aliens (1986)
85. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Metropolis (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. General, The (1927)
94. Princess Bride, The (1987)
95. City Lights (1931)
96. Toy Story 2 (1999)
97. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
98. Great Dictator, The (1940)
99. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
100. Notorious (1946)
A very, very bloke-ish list. And whilst the top 50 is generally okay, the latter part of it contains some questionable, faddish films. IMHO.
1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) (my favourite of the three)
7. Casablanca (1942)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Citizen Kane (1941)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) (loathed this one)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) *
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31. Vertigo (1958)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. Pianist, The (2002)
36. C'era una volta il West (1968)
37. Third Man, The (1949)
38. Some Like It Hot (1959)
39. Taxi Driver (1976)*
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
42. Fight Club (1999) (loathed this one too)
43. Boot, Das (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)*
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Gene Kelly! Yay!)
48. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49. M (1931)
50. Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Never ever going to see this one again)
51. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Cidade de Deus (2002)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
56. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rashômon (1950)
59. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
60. Sting, The (1973)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998) (No idea why this is so highly ranked)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Léon (1994)
65. Vita è bella, La (1997) (I not only loathe this one, I hate it. Passionately)
66. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) (fantastic)
67. Touch of Evil (1958)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)*
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Great Escape, The (1963)
71. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
73. Wo hu cang long (2000)
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Amadeus (1984)
76. Ran (1985)
77. On the Waterfront (1954)
78. Annie Hall (1977)
79. Jaws (1975)
80. Braveheart (1995) (Grrrrr..)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. Aliens (1986)
85. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Metropolis (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. General, The (1927)
94. Princess Bride, The (1987)
95. City Lights (1931)
96. Toy Story 2 (1999)
97. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
98. Great Dictator, The (1940)
99. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
100. Notorious (1946)
A very, very bloke-ish list. And whilst the top 50 is generally okay, the latter part of it contains some questionable, faddish films. IMHO.
