Top Five things to do on a Friday night...

[slemslempike]

I am bored. I decided to stay in and watch Summer of Love and feel faintly petulant instead of going to the cinema, and it is rather dull. So, five things meme?

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[pisica.livejournal.com]

5 movies you'd rather have watched than Summer Of Love.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've started now so I'll have to finish it.

DEBS (if I hadn't seen it this week already)
Ice Princess (ditto)
Sense and Sensibility (I might when this is finished, possibly with the Emma Thompson commentary)
Pirates of the Caribbean (except I'd have to find a book to read because I know it too well to watch it on its oen)
I would like to watch 200 Cigarettes except that I lost my copy about two moves ago. Grr.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to get a copy of 200 Cigarettes, I thought I was the only person in the world who liked that movie. It's kind of ridiculous, but for some reason I loved it.

[whatsagirlgotta.livejournal.com]

no me too, have it on video.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I used to have it on video, but I left it in the player and the person whose player it was moved out with it. I might track it down, now I've thought of it. I liked it an awful lot, all of the little character paths, and Elvic Costello! Martha Plimpton rocked.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

Top five things to do for fun by yourself? Or is that too cheesy?

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

You're back with that drawing again, aren't you?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I mean, I can't draw, so that wouldn't work.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

Buh? Was that for me? Drawing? I can't draw! I'm just sitting here at home trying to get myself into the shower.

Happy Friday!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

See slemslempike's previous post :-)

I'm sitting here at home writing you an e-mail! Happy Friday!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Normally:

Watch films. Except I guess I'll have to choose more wisely, and not pick a film I know will be depressing when I am all alooooone. I am actually quite enjoying the aloneness, but wish I had organised myself better.

On a Friday night, hignfy! It is so sad at this time of year, becasue Fridays are normally so much joy, with the comedy and the hignfy and the QI and sometimes good guests on Jonathan Ross. I like to watch television but there is nothing except Celebrity Big Brother.

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Sleep is lovely.

Eat. Eat lovely things. I have ice cream in the freezer but I am full from baked potato, and though I long to overfill with ice cream (caramel chew-chew!) I fear the consequences.

Play weboggle. But, oh, it keeps timing out and it is far too frustrating.

[coconutswirl.livejournal.com]

Five favourite dishes?
Five cities you'd love to visit?
Five World Events You Remember Vividly?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Can I count puddings as dishes? I mean, they come in dishes.

1) Lemon syllabub. Becasue it's almost bitter, and so alcoholic, yet really smooth and not quite creamy and divine.
2) Cheese (and sometimes bacon) filled baked potato halves. Except I usually try to eat them too quickly and burn the roof of my mouth, but they taste so nice.
3) I once had a gorgeous duck and pear noodle salad in Manchester.it was fabulous.
4) Roast beef Sunday dinner. Red meat, and roast potatoes, and yorkshire puddings slightly undercooked with gravy that's not too thick. And vegetables that don't include cauliflower.
5) Pate on toast. Especially when there's too much pate for toast and you can use the salad garnish as a conveyance to your mouth.

New cities?

1) Copenhagen ;) My sister went there a while ago, and loved it.
2) Venice. I've never been to mainland Italy (only Sardinia, on a resort thingy, so it hardly counts), and I think I have to see it once.
3) Moscow. I want to take the trans-siberian railway across Russia.
4) Dublin. I have never been to Ireland either. A few of my friends went, but it was specifically a drinking holoiday, and that's not really my thing. I'd far rather wander round and look at things.
5) Wellington. The list isn't in any order, and much as I want to go anyway, it's also a much more likely sourse of girlsown finds than the others. I love to shop for books. More than any of the actual things you're meant to see. Just the books.

This is kind of strange to write, because I don't have a huge yen for particular cities, but I'd love to visit friends in cities instead

I remember NOTHING. Seriously. I was only born in 1981, so anything before that I obviously don't know about, and I don't remember anything up until about 1986. Then in 1990 we moved to Qatar, and because of the news control there I didn't experience many things. Oh, except the Gulf War. Cause we got gas masks and went back for a bit, but it wasn't really a vivid memory. I was an insular child. And adult. So, um.

1) Gulf war. Cause it meant I got a long holiday from school.
2) 2000 US election. Cause it took over television for ages when I was living in Santa Cruz.
3) Dunblane, which was one of the few things I had a really intense reaction to that wasn't me when I was about fourteen.
4) The attacks on the World Trade Center.
5) The london bombings last year, except that I more remember reaction to them.

[paranoidkitten.livejournal.com]

5 school story heroines?

5 favourite canonical relationships (books, movies, TV, whatever)?

5 best non-fiction books?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) Nicola Marlow. So capable. So understated heroic in the best traditions of the Service. So easily disconcerted in so many ways.
2) Jo from Jean Ure's Peter High books. Not a successful heroine, obviously.
3) Darrell's always rather good. She doesn't tail off as she gets older either, still very forceful and fun.
4) Catherins in Joanna Lloyd's Bramber Manor series. Not as oblivious as she seems, also hilarious.
5) Penny in A. Stephen Tring's books. There's a note in The Book that says that the author is clearly rather a bit too in love with her, which is kind of true, but she is great.

Hmm, any kind of relationship?
1) Paddy and Tucker's friendship in Soldier Soldier
2) Georgia and Dave the Laugh's kind of romance in the Georgia Nicolson books.
3) Kim Kelly and Lindsay Weir's friendship in Freaks and Geeks. It starts off all inimical, and then toleration, and then using, and then they run away together for the summer!
4) Harriet and Peter in the Winsey books.
5) Aubrey and Maturin's friendship in the Master and Commander books. Very loving.


1) The Best Type of Girl - Gillian Avery. History of girls' independent schools, wonderful background to any girlsowny book, with the social context.
2) Little Girls in Pretty Boxes - Joan Ryan. Slightly expose account of how young gymnasts and skaters are mistreated, and what this does to them and others.
3) Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by Women - short accounts of women using self-defence techniques and getting away from their attackers, very empowering.
4) Guerilla Girls' Confessions of the Guerilla Girls. Art activism - funny and wonderful.
5) Jane Sexes it Up - Merri Lisa Johnson. Collection of feminist writing on sex.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Any, all or none of:

Top 5 Johnny Depp roles.

Five most annoying mistakes that people make in writing

Top 5 Nemi cartoons (of ones that you can find easily!!!)

Top 5 LJ icons (yours or other people's, however you want to take it)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) Hanson in JUMP! Street. There is no need to continue the list, it was the pinnacle of his career, and can take up all five slots on its own, because you can have Johnny Depp as Hanson undercover as a McQuaid brother, Johnny Depp as Hanson undercover as a geek, JD as H undercover as a violent military cadet, etc.

1) Grocers' apostrophe's
2) "everyday" instead of "every day" (As in "I do yoga everyday". Everyday is an adjective. Possibly. Or possibly not. I don't know, but I do know I don't like it.)
3) Less instead of fewer
4) "He asked my sister and I...". That annoys me far more than "Me and my sister asked..."
5) It's not a mistake, but people who constantly write in a baby voice like "a likkle baybee". Occasionally for emphasis, fine, but often is grrrrrrrrr.

I'll have to do this one separately when I can trawl through what I have

Of mine, I like
1) My "trapped!" Escape from Atlantis icon
2) The academic icon that coconutswirl made for me - I love the colours, and when I look at the picture I asked her to make it from I can't believe how it's done.
3) I like my discworld: Susan icon, but I hardly ever use it because it seems like it would be directed at other people, and really it's to goad me into action, not criticise others.
4)hignfy: Ian afterglow, which alicamel amde. It's wonderful. And glowy.
5) and I like [Unknown site tag]'s red dwarf/temporary genius icon. It's so applicable far too often.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I knew that Hanson would be in the list, but I hadn't thought of him *being* the list. :-)


Grocers' apostrophe's

*snigger* Good choices on the mistakes!

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Top five things that you'd really like to happen

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) Angus Deayton to become ultra successful outside hignfy and one day go back and be a one-off guest host on hignfy and completely rule the show on his own terms.
2) Reinstation of grants and abolition of tuition fees for higher education, coupled with a wider understanding and support for education and training outside universities.
3) Revival series of JUMP! Street with original characters and actors. Still going undercover in high schools with sixteen year olds and no-one thinking it's strange.
4) People to suddenly uncover lots more AF novels taking Nicola and Lawrie right through to sixth form. And Two Chalet Girls in India. I would settle for half an AF novel, but will make do with ankaret's fic for now.
5) Gender equality now! Proper gender equality. Um, and sexual and racial and economic and national etc etc.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Don't know much about Jump! Street but I'd have to back you enthusiastically on all the other four.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Trust me on the JUMP! Street. Actually, first watch 21 Jump Street (you could get them on a free trial from an internet DVD thing) and marvel in the glory. Then join me in pining.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Top 5 "That's not my..." ideas.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I did a whole long list for the back of the "That's not my gay cop lover" book I made Jen, and I can't remeber them all.

1) That's not my totalitarian ideology!
2) That's not my unfortunate social anxiety!
3) That's not my home planet!
4) That's not my feminist icon!
5) That's not my unlikely plot point on which thewhole film hinges!

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Top school series
Fictional characters you most dislike

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) Marlows (Antonia Forest)
2) Bramber Manor (Joanna Lloyd)
3) Chalet School (Elinor Brent-Dyer)
4) Springdale (Dorita Fairlie Bruce)
5) Peter High (Jean Ure)

I don't hate very many fictional characters. Either I accept them or I delight to despise them. I mean, there're not many people than I don't like to read about. Oh,

1) Booker from JUMP! Street. He is a bad man. I would far rather he was never in the show.

That's it, I think.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

5 best presents you've ever given/received.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

1) I tracked down my mum's favourite book from her childhood and gave it to her for her 50th birthday. I'd been looking for about four years.
2) One Christmas I got a box full of socks and book tokens from my parents. That was ace.
3) I gave TLK a shirt that said "Not now, I'm bleeding".
4) My friend Michele knitted me a scarf in stripes, and one of the stripes has my name knitted in in the squares.
5) Ice Princess!

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

What was your Mum's favourite book?

Am impressed by the sock/book token option - my dream present!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Nanny's Secret by Imogen Chichester. It's a lovely story - Phillip wants a dolls' house for Christmas, so his Nanny makes him one in secret and gives it to him.

I asked for socks and book tokens that year - but I figured that no-one would actually do it as no-one seems to take me at my word when I say that's what I want out of life.