'I'm afraid that I was very, very drunk'.

God, I love the intermenet. The catalogue of stuff that just seems to have no end, limitless and dark and without any real sense, like space innit?.

Glorious links to this genius creation from Paul Whitehouse writer and comedien off The Fast Show (said to be the definitive comedy sketch show of the 1990's... yes, it really has been that long.) , I bring you. Rowley Birkin QC

other stuff for you today:

Girls, if you like that HEAT Magazine, you'll love this; Weekly subscription to libelous smut on the great and good of celeb land

You know what I was idly thinking? what if I could set up my very own Michael Bolton Tribute, on Ice?. I mean, everybody loves Michael Bolton, right?, and everyone loves Ice skating right?. I'm fucking quids in. But you know what?, someone else has only gone and done it. Shit...

Here is an excellent website defamer for Hollywood bottom feeders

I LOVE LISTS:

Empire Magazine have listed 2007 top 100 movies in their forum section . Hmmm, I'm not sure that I agree with all the listings , but the reviews are written by readers of the magazine, and for the most part, give pretty good arguments as to why their votes count. the complete list is on the forum, but here's a gist:

1st Place: The Godfather (1972)

10th Place: Aliens (1986)

20th Place: The Big Lebowski (1999)

30th Place: City of God (2002)

40th Place: Memento (2000)

50th Place: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

60th Place: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

70th Place: Annie Hall (1977)

80th Place: The Truman Show (1998)

90th Place: Spiderman 2 (2005)

100th Place: Paris, Texas (1984)

A lot of very contemporary films creeping in at high numbers on the list. This is obviously not definitive, there are a lot of other film website with listings, but Empire does have a very strong following in the UK, and so can be taken seriously to a large degree. I don't agree with the list above for a number of reasons - mainly though because it's only representative of the last 20-30 years of film.

this is just weird;

• Salad Fingers
• Monster!
• Holy Shit!
• your life is meaningless and will amount to nothing, look at what this guy achieved, you idiot!

here endeth the lesson.

"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things.

....Right now I am so far behind that I will never die” - Bill Watterson: Calivin & Hobbs comic strip writer.
As newspaper comic strips go, Calvin & Hobbs is up there with Charlie Brown. Whatever, I just like the quote, I like this one too:

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club..." Jack London (Author, "Call of the Wild" , "White Fang")

Anyhoooo. No particular theme today, which might annoy or frustrate some of you wanting me to stay on a straighter, narrower path. Don't fence me in!.

Whenever I'm looking for inspiration, I'm reminded of a passage from one of my favourite stories by James Baldwin (You can find out all you need to know about this amazing man from the link)

There is a short story named "Sonny's Blues" taken from a book of short stories and essay's "Going to meet the Man" The Story tells of two brothers in the early 1950's, both polar opposites in their experience of life; in particular the passage reflects on questions that resonate through all of Baldwin's work, questions on identity and personal meaning, only, in this case he goes some way trying to establish a point beyond certainty;

"For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it must always be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."

Of course, there are a number of ways this could be interpreted, and, taken out of the context of the book, even more ways to understand it. (if you want, you can read the paragraph in context here)

I've always chosen to remember this passage as an explanation to all things. Our "life tales" are meaning enough, and that is all the inspiration I need.