Day 1 – Your Favorite Film
Grosse Pointe Blank

Day 2 – Your Least Favorite Film
Babel

Day 3 – A Film You Watch to Feel Good
Stealing Beauty

Day 4 – A Film You Watch to Feel Down
25th Hour

Day 5 – A Film That Reminds You of Someone
500 Days of Summer

Day 6 – A Film That Reminds You of Somewhere
The Quiet American

Day 7 – A Film That Reminds You of Your Past
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Day 8 – The Film You Can Quote Best
The Big Lebowski

Day 9 – A Film With Your Favorite Actor (Male)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Day 10 – A Film With Your Favorite Actor (Female)
Black Swan

Day 11 – A Film By Your Favorite Director
The Social Network

Day 12 – A Film By Your Least Favorite Director
21 Grams

Day 13 – A Guilty Pleasure
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Day 14 – The Film That No One Expected You To Like
Let The Right One In

Day 15 – The Film That Depicts Your Life
About a Boy

Day 16 – A Film You Used to Love, But Now Hate
Vanilla Sky

Day 17 – Your Favorite Drama Film
The Constant Gardener

Day 18 – Your Favorite Comedy Film
Withnail and I

Day 19 – Your Favorite Action Film
Casino Royale

Day 20 – Your Favorite Romantic Film
When Harry Met Sally

Day 21 – Your Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film
Fellowship of the Ring

Day 22 – Your Favorite Horror Film
Alien

Day 23 – Your Favorite Thriller/Mystery Film
Donnie Darko

Day 24 – Your Favorite Animated or Children’s Film
Spirited Away

Day 25 – Your Favorite Documentary Film
Être et avoir

Day 26 – Your Favorite Foreign Language Film
Three Colours Red

Day 27 – Your Favorite Independent Film
Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai

Day 28 – The Most Obscure Film You’ve Ever Seen
Black Cat, White Cat

Day 29 – Your Favorite Film As a Kid
Labyrinth

Day 30 – Your Favorite Film This Time Last Year
Kick-Ass

day 01 – your favorite song

“An Ending (Ascent)” – Brian Eno

day 02 – your least favorite song

“Dancing in the Moonlight” – Toploader

day 03 – a song that makes you happy

“If I Had $1000000″ – Barenaked Ladies

day 04 – a song that makes you sad

“La Cienega Just Smiled” – Ryan Adams

day 05 – a song that reminds you of someone

“Crazy English Summer” – Faithless

day 06 – a song that reminds you of somewhere

“Elements” – Lemon Jelly

day 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event

“My Lovely Horse” – The Divine Comedy

day 08 – a song that you know all the words to

“Salvador” – Jamie T

day 09 – a song that you can dance to

“Jump Around” – House of Pain

day 10 – a song that makes you fall asleep

“Blue Calx” – Aphex Twin

day 11 – a song from your favorite band

“Tracey Jacks” – Blur

day 12 – a song from a band you hate

“Livin’ On A Prayer” – Bon Jovi

day 13 – a song that is a guilty pleasure

James Blunt – “Wise Men”

day 14 – a song that no one would expect you to love

“Tribute” – Tenacious D

day 15 – a song that describes you

“Regret” – New Order

day 16 – a song that you used to love but now hate

“I Predict A Riot” – Kaiser Chiefs

day 17 – a song that you hear often on the radio

“You’ve Got the Love” – Florence + The Machine

day 18 – a song that you wish you heard on the radio

“All Along The Watchtower” – Jimi Hendrix

day 19 – a song from your favorite album

“Stolen Car” – Beth Orton

day 20 – a song that you listen to when you’re angry

“Smack My Bitch Up” – The Prodigy

day 21 – a song that you listen to when you’re happy

“Sunday Shining” – Finley Quaye

day 22 – a song that you listen to when you’re sad

“Walking Wounded” – Everything But The Girl

day 23 – a song that you want to play at your wedding

“Go Daddy-O” – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

day 24 – a song that you want to play at your funeral

“So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” – Neil Hannon

day 25 – a song that makes you laugh

“Not the Sunscreen Song” – John Safran

day 26 – a song that you can play on an instrument

“Frère Jacques” (on the piano only and not nearly as well as the person in this vid)

day 27 – a song that you wish you could play

“The Heart Asks Pleasure First” – Michael Nyman (on the piano and better than Nyman)

day 28 – a song that makes you feel guilty

“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid

day 29 – a song from your childhood

“The Power of Love” – Huey Lewis and the News

day 30 – your favorite song at this time last year

“Sleeping Lessons” – The Shins

Please feel free to take issue and if there’s something obvious missing it might be because, for one reason or another, I haven’t seen it (I also spend my time away from my house or the cinema venturing in to the world and talking to other people).

1. 25th Hour (2002)
2. 28 Days Later (2002)
3. A History of Violence (2005)
4. About a Boy (2002)
5. Amélie (2001)
6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
7. Atonement (2007)
8. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
9. Casino Royale (2006)
10. City of God (2002)
11. Code 46 (2003)
12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
13. Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
14. Donnie Darko (2001)
15. Finding Nemo (2003)
16. Garden State (2004)
17. Gladiator (2000)
18. Gosford Park (2001)
19. Gran Torino (2008)
20. Grindhouse (2007)
21. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
23. High Fidelity (2000)
24. In Bruges (2008)
25. Juno (2007)
26. Layer Cake (2004)
27. Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
28. Let the Right One In (2008)
29. Lost in Translation (2003)
30. Minority Report (2002
31. My Summer of Love (2004)
32. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
33. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
34. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
35. Ratatouille (2007)
36. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
37. Sexy Beast (2000)
38. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
39. Sin City (2005)
40. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
41. Spirited Away (2001)
42. The Bourne Identity (2002)
43. The Constant Gardener (2005)
44. The Dark Knight (2008)
45. The Departed (2006)
46. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
47. The Proposition (2006)
48. The Quiet American (2002)
49. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
50. The Rules of Attraction (2002)

01. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
02. The Streets – Original Pirate Material (2002)
03. Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun (2000)
04. Björk – Vespertine (2001)
05. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
06. Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
07. Blur – Think Tank (2003)
08. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
09. The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
10. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
11. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
12. The Strokes – Is This It (2001)
13. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
14. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
15. Ryan Adams – Demolition (2000)
16. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
17. Tom McRae – Just Like Blood (2003)
18. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (2008)
19. Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
20. Röyksopp – The Understanding (2005)
21. Hot Chip – The Warning (2006)
22. Jamie T – Panic Prevention (2007)
23. Four Tet – Rounds (2003)
24. Sigur Rós – ( ) (2002)
25. Chemical Brothers – Come With Us (2002)
26. Doves – Lost Souls (2000)
27. Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell (2004)
28. Portishead – Third (2008)
29. Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons (2003)
30. The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
31. Gorillaz – Gorillaz (2001)
32. Elbow – Asleep In The Back (2002)
33. Death Cab For Cutie – Plans (2005)
34. Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (2000)
35. Florence and the Machine – Lungs (2009)
36. Beck – Sea Change (2002)
37. Coldplay – Parachutes (2000)
38. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast (2000)
39. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2005)
40. Josh Rouse – Under Cold Blue Stars (2002)
41. Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood (2003)
42. Kasabian – Kasabian (2004)
43. Groove Armada – Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) (2001)
44. The Killers – Hot Fuss (2005)
45. Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me (2001)
46. Rufus Wainwright – Poses (2001)
47. Turin Brakes – The Optimist L.P. (2001)
48. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
49. Moby – Play (2000)
50. Cinematic Orchestra – Everyday (2002)

Step 1: Put your iPod/iTunes on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike them when somebody gets it right.

1. You expose the film in me
2. Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber
3. Sometimes I feel like I can’t even sing
4. Down the corridor I send warmth, I send warmth
5. Lonely skies, empty minds, we walk by to the rock and rhyme
6. This boy can’t swim, he’s wearing too many skins
7. I started a joke, which started the whole world crying
8. Last night it picked me up and span me round
9. I don’t believe I went too far
10. Listen to me when I go outside
11. The fire in the sky…
12. Will there be another breakdown?
13. Beetlebum, what you done?
14. You and the land are one.
15. That’s how we groove, that’s how we sway
16. I had a friend named Ramblin’ Bob
17. Hey! Gotta, gotta payback!
18. Miles away from light at noon
19. You’re back, sitting on my doorstep, ah yeah, like nothing happened
20. There is a wall that runs right through me

Any takers?

“Thomas Vu mentioned James in his note Your Band and Album Cover; Alex Davenport mentioned James in her note My First Band and Album Cover; Liam Creighton mentioned James in his note Your First Band & Album Cover; Courtney Hopf mentioned James in her note Your First Band and Album Sleeve.”

So I get tagged for lists and quizzes all the time. Mostly I ignore them because I’m curmudgeonly and find them tiresome. As you can see above I’ve been amassing requests for a task called “Your First Band and Album Sleeve” (actually every request was called something slightly different making me think that no one’s agreed firm ground rules here). I can happily ignore one request but to try to resist four is more difficult. The instructions are thus:

1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations” or click

http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 – Post it to FB with this text in the “caption” or “comment” and TAG the friends you want to join in.

Looking at other people’s examples this looked to be quite good fun so I had a go and was really enjoying the results until I got to number 4. I haven’t enjoyed the use of Photoshop since my Mac was stolen last year and damned if I could manage to re-install the version I have for the new one so below you’ll see what I came up with.

Prairie Dog Township:
The Facts Of The Situation

I’m putting it out there as a kind of contest; best and most imaginative version wins a packet of bourbons… ]]> http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2009/03/05/your-first-band-and-album-sleeve/feed/ 0 http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2007/05/18/state-of-play/ http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2007/05/18/state-of-play/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 10:47:20 +0000 James http://www.eyelashjam.co.uk/2007/05/18/state-of-play/ So this year’s gone quickly for me really. I almost hadn’t noticed time passing because despite my significant misgivings about temping it’s actually not been too bad at all. I’ve met some great friends and colleagues along the way. Added to that there’ve been some fantastic trips and visits. The year has seen me get away with Rob and the boys to The Lakes and go scaling and trekking near Keswick (not to mention discover the joys of Old Peculiar on draught), I’ve made it to Lyn and Simon’s stylish, Bond themed engagement party outside of Brum, helped to cook a veritable banquet for Nay, Marc and Dom in The Big Woo, been on hand for the final party of the mighty No. 8 in Clifton, been instrumental in stupidly big and riotous family get-togethers not to mention random drunken sessions with friends, old and new. It’s been time well spent.

So now. It’s time for the big push. The assault upon the capital. Dave and myself are attempting to find a place somewhere near our mates who are already ensconced in various degrees of SE-ness. Me and Mr DJ are in the process of shopping round for a place that hopefully combines value and location before moving on to the finer points of removals and house insurance and all the head aches that those bring. Anyone who knows me knows that this is a long held dream of mine to actually become something approaching a proper Londoner. My dad’s dad’s family were cock-er-neys after they were Irish so it feels like something of a return and I think I’m better equipped to handle myself after travelling and the variation of the year’s temping assignments. If all goes to plan then a job will follow soon (a ‘can do’ attitude has taken on a whole new meaning this year) and maybe pronouncing my ‘th’s as ‘f’s will be hot on its heels. I expect to visit Worcester, Malvern and (dare I say it) Welland a lot as I always have (can’t stay away really) but now that the escape tunnel is up and running I intend to use it. Watch this space for further developments. And wish me luck, I will be needing it!

At first I was surprised at your length of lead,
Like a fool I pushed it to the back of my mind.
From that day to this you’ve done nowt but impede,
My every movement; you seek to confine.

Walking with poise in the city is hard enough,
Yet you wrap round chair legs, you catch on railings.
Living with your attention-seeking ways is tough,
You hook on clothes, you exploit my failings.

You’ve a jealous streak a mile wide!
You can’t bear for me to think of anyone but you.
You think nothing of becoming entwined,
And causing me pain and humiliation anew.

Bastard.