Top Ten

My Top Things

After looking on various top ten's I thought that I would plaster mine all over this blog! Not interested huh?, Well! Just have a look you might agree with some things. I am going to do some standard top ten's and then a slightly different top-ten that I will justify for you!.

TOP 10 Movies (that I highly recommend)

10. Ghost in the Shell (1995) A must see for any Anime fanatics who think they know what a good Manga movie is. This was also a top influence for Modern Sci-fi. (if you get a chance watch Akira too) Akira isn't quite as deep but very artistic.

09. Jacob's Ladder (1990) Has to be one of the most screwed up psychological thrillers, I would almost go as saying it falls into the realms of The Shining with it's eerie-ness. If you like Horror then you need to see this, creepy stuff.

08. Hard Boiled (1992) Get the beers out, order in some pizza and watch this bad boy. Hard Boiled is the definitive Gun-fu epic, there is nothing more action fueled than Chow-Yun Fat wielding dual Beretta's blowing the crap outta some dude.

07. Twelve Monkeys (1995) Terry Gilliam has had a few flops before, but he is a master of the bizarre and this film is the epic time travel movie that is packed with lots of head scratching content.

06. Goodfellas (1990) I love this movie, when I feel like letting my hair down I watch this. When you aren't serious enough for Godfather this is much more of a thrill ride. There are so many gems in this, and I don't just mean the actors.

05. Step Brothers (2008) The partnership between Will Ferrell and John C Reilly is priceless, the humour is so slapstick that you wonder how they can keep a straight face, a must see for the Anchorman generation.

04. Carlito's way (1993) "You Big time?, well you're gonna Fukcing Die Big time!" one of the coolest lines. I think its cliche to pick Scarface and I personally think Al Pacino is so much cooler in this, with a character I can actually relate to.

03. Darren Aronofsky's PI (1998) Admittedly the whole mathematics of this is slightly flawed but I do love the vibe of this movie and feel I can relate to the isolation felt by Max and his hardships in achieving greater things.

02. American History X (1998) Don't waste your time with the corporate machine that is Fight Club, and instead spend your money on this timeless classic. This film is so Gritty and mean but you have to see it to believe it.

01. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) I know this is embarrassing, everyone says this is the best and maybe that makes it lose its charm but I honestly feel it in the pit of my stomach everytime that old man is watching the fast world whizzing by him and he can't keep up.

TOP 10 Artists (That I recommend)

10. Judas Priest

09. DJ Shadow

08. Freidrich Chopin

07. Boards of Canada

06. Rush

05. Cranberries, The

04. Jimmy Webb

03. Neil Young

02. Jurassic 5

01. Supertramp

Top 10 worst actors (that I hate)

10. James Woods

09. Matt Damon

08. David Tennant

07. Sandra Bullock

06. Daniel Craig

05. Michael Cera

04. Robert Pattinson

03. Collin Firth

02. Keira Knightley

01. Elijah Wood

Top 05 most irritating things ever (it's the truth)

05. People who don't enunciate eg: "Everfink has sumfing wrong wiv it", "There were free fings wrong wiv it".

04. People who pronounce the letter H as: hhhhhhhaych instead of aych (which is the correct way)

03. People who say Literally incorrectly: "There was literally two bottles of coke" when they should be using it in this sense: "The cat was literally let out of the bad".

02. Parents that say "Because I Said so". How is that supposed to convince me not to do it, that simply convinces me that you're a dumb sh!t.

01. People who say "oh that's a bit heavy". Anything that slightly works the brain (philosophy, literature, classical music) to call it heavy means that you are incapable of consumption, just ignore it if you're not interested you unbearable pr!cks.

Well there you go, here is another post that nobody will read! Do you agree?, do your own top ten!... let me know, cause I want to see them!

Plastic Materialist Sponges (stupid people)

Plastic Materialist Sponges

"It's too bad that Stupidity isn't painful" -Anton Lavey

Okay it's true, I'm single again so naturally a little bit more bitter and un-even. I babble on and I swear my blog's have never been read, I know previously it was all philosophical babble... and I can imagine that people weren't that interested in that. I may have deleted them by now. There are so many people with fascinating blogs on here displaying their artwork and charity work etc and I must say I am very impressed.

I have to go to work and the people around me come in and talk about X-factor and Twilight it seriously drives me clinically insane. It drives me insane because I simply do not understand why people think these things are so great. For example, if you watch X-factor and the shoddy parody of beyonce has stopped singing then the croud is waiting to hear the context of what Simon Cowell is going to say. When Simon says (without finishing his sentence) "That wasn't as good as last week..." the croud start to boo and scream until he finishes his sentance by saying ...compared to last week it was 1000 times better" the croud start to cheer and celebrate. This leads me to think that no matter what they say the negative comments are greeted with boo's. This sickening example of the music industry has turned the artist's into products on a conveyor belt and has even put poor innocent mis-guided people into the churning machine for nothing but jokes and ridicule. While teenage girls sit at home slobbering over their posters of Jedward there are scientists working on a cure for cancer and aids. Don't get me wrong I am not saying their shouldn't be people trying to achieve stardom, but covering the same old take that number every day of the week can't be considered creative.

I have learnt an interesting formula to understand whether someone's musical tastes vary or not. If someone is talking to you about music and they say "I like everything from Darius to the Beach Boys" you will notice that Darius is a very well forgotten pop-star that got his stardom from pop-idol and the Beach Boys are a very mainstream institution in America, this tells you there is barely much variety in their tastes. If someone was to say to you "I love everything from Abba to Blondie" this also tells you that their tastes could fall quite neatly in the 70's! If someone says "I like everything from Al Wilson to Dvorjak" you're quite safe to say that they like a fair spectrum of genres. I know this is not an exact science but it works.
When I went to University I expected everyone to be in tweed jackets smoking pipes, listening to classical music and talking about Kierkegaard, however when I arrived I was surrounded by drunken students talking about getting their end away on the weekend with t-shirts that had things like "Where's the pub?" written on them. The height of their intellectual conversations touched on a football match of the past I have never seen. When I was talking to one of these mindless zombies about The Beatles she replied to me "How can you like music that was out before you were born?" now excuse me but in my life that is in the top 10 of most stupid phrases ever uttered.

I'm sorry if this just seems like a rant, but I needed to get this off my chest. I see this every day and nobody relates to it. If you have any storys or anecdotes I would love to read them! comment away. I'm honestly not a boring bitter sod, the reality is I don't understand why plastic pop is good? Maybe someone could educate me.

I will try and update this blog as much as I can if something interesting happens to me.