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  1. Never expected anyone else to have Going Away to College as their favourite Blink track. My Favourite Game, Teardrop, Hundred Mile High City and No One Knows are all great too.
  2. James Casey

    100 Songs

    Heh, it's like you raided my music collection and then actually bothered pushing on and finding new stuff, instead of just listening to the old stuff on repeat. Crowded House, Conner Reeves, Kula Shaker, Dodgy, Space, Shed Seven... Good stuff, lot of memories attached to those songs.
  3. Worth quoting just for this picture. I hope I voted for her for this alone. Good God, someone else has actually seen this film? I thought I was the only one.
  4. James Casey

    Batman 3

    Bale as Wayne = Awesome Bale as Batman = Close to awesome I think the voice takes away from some scenes. The first couple of scenes in BB were a little odd, and then again in TDK there were a couple of points that seemed forced. By and large, though, I think it works. Wasn't crazy about it during the interrogation scene as I figured Bruce would come through, but I guess that's just how tightly under control he is.
  5. The big question, I suppose, is how he accounts for the £45. Two cheap train tickets from Cardiff to London? Colour printing on the bumph for distributors?
  6. What's killing me at the moment is that iTunes keeps wiping its Library whenever I add new music, leaving me with just the new stuff. It did it again today when I was forced to use iTunes to rip a CD that just wasn't being recognised by any other software I have. I've recently moved to a new laptop, and it's the one thing that's throwing me off as it keeps losing my ratings (I'm very anal about that) and playlists (less so as they're mostly star rating based, but I have a few specific ones) and writing over the files in the iTunes directory. I've been keeping backup copies of the files, but even so - it's annoying. * The other thing I hate is that by default iTunes tries to impose its file structure on my music database. I want all my mp3s in one folder so I can burn them easily to CD. I want them in the format <Artist - Song> and that's all. I'm not so anal that I need them sorted by album and placing on the album, but I have to keep remembering to make sure that option's unchecked on iTunes whenever it updates, just in case. When I first started using it I didn't - and then spent the entire rest of the day putting my songs back into the correct format. * I am anal about getting the album artwork right, making sure the artist name is right (God bless the option to have separate album artist and track artist, especially for compilation albums), all songs are attached to the right album... The one thing that bugs me beyond all else when I'm sorting through my collection is when I come across something like "Radiohead " listed as the artist. Does someone actually put the name in like that, with a dozen spaces afterwards, or is it some strange software artefact?
  7. A friend of mine bumped into David Bowie at a uni ball one time, around the time this was in the charts. Bowie wasn't playing or anything, he was just randomly at the ball, and tried to help my mate get laid - only for another friend to cockblock him by taking the back seat of the car with the girl on the way home, despite my friend's frantic efforts to convince him to take the front seat... I only mention this because although the song does my head in, I like to remind my friend of it every now and then. I may have to call him tomorrow and remind him that he couldn't get his leg over even with David Bowie helping him. * But I digress. My favourite Blink-182 tracks are and My favourite Guns 'n' Roses track is I seem to be pretty obvious when it comes to favourite songs - but I'll take I'm Just A Girl over Don't Speak any time, any day - and I seem to be about the only person who knows the song...
  8. Ghostbusting. And even though you don't get paid for it, and there's always someone trying to kill you, Jedi. I'd also like to have been Paul Newman, but that's not a job, exactly - he just made anything he was doing look good.
  9. All my life I wanted to be a gangster - Goodfellas Of all the gin joints in all the world, she had to walk into mine - Casablanca 1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts?!? - Back To The Future Fish are friends, not food - Finding Nemo You think we need one more? You think we need one more. We'll get one more - Ocean's Eleven Technically, the last one is a three-liner... But hey.
  10. It is a huge shame - he really was a bright spot in Angel, even if he was clearly being kept shady at the start. He was always a highlight. Congenitive heart failure... Am I right in thinking that would usually be something that would run in the family?
  11. It's good, but having Livin' la Vida Loca after Mambo no. 5 would make it that much better. Never failed me in my disco days. What is this, anyway, mid-1999? Seems to cover a lot of the year as Britney was spring time, and Tragedy was much later in the year I thought. Still, 42 songs and I reckon I know probably 35 of them. That's a shockingly strong lineup for a Now... Must have been the last one before RnB went mainstream
  12. Some of my favourite singles, some of my least favourite singles. They can come across as a great laugh, but also seem like a lot of the stuff they come out with is a test to see if people are going to pull them up and tell them to stop arseing around. That said, they did One. They did Streets Have No Name, and WOWY, so they'd be in the positives for me on that alone.
  13. I actually keep my CD collection in chronological order, a habit I picked up after reading Giles Smith's "Lost in Music". Well worth a read, incidentally. Anyway, it allows me to trace my path that bit easier than most. Early 90s - I'd basically ignored music up to this point. I liked the odd song (Uptown Girl and Call Me Al being a couple of childhood favourites) but I was into books, TV, and computer games. When I was about 12, my folks got a Andrew Lloyd Webber compilation tape and I started getting into musicals. I can only suppose that this made me receptive to a variety of musical genres, as it doesn't appear to have any other adverse impact on me. 1995-1997 - Start listening to London's Capital FM a lot. Poppy chart stuff. In 1996 I buy the first Lighthouse Family album, followed by my embarking on my continuing obsession with Louise. 1998-99 - University and a weekend job mean I'm exposed to a wider varety of music, and have the money to buy it. Despite this, I still buy both B*Witched albums, as well as those of Steps, Billie and All Saints. I also (and this is the accquisition I'm most ashamed of) buy two Mariah Carey albums because I fancy a girl who looks like her. Yeah - you try and work that out. Spring/Summer of 1999 sees me embark on my first relationships with the opposite sex. Musically, I come out okay - although I do have an R Kelly single that saw an embarassingly large number of plays while getting over my first real breakup. I spent a lot of money in a couple of days buying up the Jamiroquai back catalogue, and find a second hand copy of Eagle Eye Cherry's album in Leicester which, considering I'd gone there on the promise of debauchery, was a disappointing but not unwelcome highlight. As the year ended, I listened to a lot of Savage Garden as I tried to work out which of their albums I likeid more. I settled on the second one, after a lot of thought. I also have my first encounter with the Barenaked Ladies as One Week is a temporary sensation. 2000 - Hear Blink-182 for the first time. Enema of the State sits between Sonique's Hear My Cry and Jamiroquai's Synkronized in my collection, which if nothing else shows that I had a lot more money to spend back then. I also go through the only period in my life where I'd remotely portray myself as cool, as I befriend a former model with an MX-5, and we bomb around North London listening to Eminem, Dido and Diana Ross. 2001-2003 - Final year at uni sees David Gray's White Ladder taking over the country. I pick up his entire back catalogue as well as his later albums. Just to show I've not lost touch with my pop roots, I also buy Busted's album, thus making me the only man over 9 in the UK with a copy. I also pick up Bowling For Soup's Drunk Enough to Dance for reasons I can't remember - but I fall desperately in love with it. I haven't bought any of their other stuff in case I'm disappointed by it, which is the only time I've ever made that decision. A big win on the Grand National drops me in HMV with a lot of money in my pocket, and I pick up the Nirvana unplugged and best of albums. I may be ten years late, but I like them. This is also around the time that I started copying my music to my PC, and as I look at my collection I see a lot of albums like Norah Jones, White Stripes, The Thrills and the last Blink album that, I'm pretty sure, I've never actually listened to - just put straight on my iPod. 2003-present - Yeah, six years in one go. A dalliance with classical and the instinctive acquiring of the new BNL stuff aside, six years of being in a serious relatonship, getting married, paying for a car and so on... I've only obtained about twenty albums, a lot of which were bought for me. I like Snow Patrol and Linkin Park, don't much care for Kaiser Chiefs but think the Fratellis sound fantastic. I've bought a fair few singles online whereas previously I'd have bought the albums. My last two album purchases have been Alphabeat and the Ting Tings which, I guess, shows that I'll probably never entirely stop being pop-oriented...
  14. Don't forget his cameo in Collateral... ...but he is the man. The Mrs. and I watched Transporter a few weeks back and we were like "How in the name of all that's holy did we miss this?"
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