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Another meme!
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metalshez again...
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Shez chose:
1. Cider. Drinking some right now! Have always loved it since I was far too young to drink, I like supping at pints and I hate beer so tis the way to go. There's nothing quite as lovely as a nice cold pint/tinnie of Strongbow or Dry Blackthorn, or a nice pear cider for a treat on a hot day, or a mug of hot mulled cider at Chrimble. Can't drink White Lightning, since I did the usual Teenage overindulgence on Ye Olde Hobo's Choice. Merrydown is fucking evil!
2. Ghost Busters Of East Finchley I am one of four LJ users with this in their interests list, two of them are PGFF chums and the other is the Paul Reynolds Community that I Mod! Long forgotten six part comedy drama series from the mid 90s about Tax Inspectors in North London. It only has two ghosts in it, and they are at no point Busted. Deliberately strange dialogue and acting styles, innovative shooting and editing, fantastic cast (Ray Winstone in a nappy, a permatanned Tony Head...) but really my love of it revolves around that it Stars (*stars*! As in, the protagonist!) The lovely Paul Reynolds. First scene involves the donning of Union Jack boxers, Cowboy boots, holsters and stetson. So far so good. Then comes the fleeting reveal of a frankly delicious set of torso and arm muscles and I knew I was going to be hooked! He receives advice from Mother Theresa, John Lennon and Alec Guinness, is berated by Shakespeare's ghost for never having read Hamlet properly and wears Spiderman pyjamas. He has an utterly adorkable love interest in Spacky Jacky, a diminutive sexpot in an anorak. They snog in a PE Equipment cupboard at the end. Tis fahkin' glorious.
3. Mark Heap (can never hear too much about him :P) I loved Mark Heap when he was in the Boo Brothers on Ghost Train! Then he was Brian in Spaced and I loved him, oh how I loved him. 'Brian. FUCKING loser.' The Brian/Twist romance was very sweet, I thought. It was sad that it broke down in S2. I ended up getting in to Big Train after Spaced and again, ah, he's terrific. I have a lot of admiration for physical comedians, and he's so good at what he does. He's like an acrobat. He's got a real innocence about him which can turn to psycho-slasher creepiness at the flick of a switch. He would make a great Psychopath. What am I talking about - Statham's a bigger Psychopath than most Slasher movies could come up with. In my Dream 12th Night Cast, he is Andrew Aguecheek.
4. Press Gang (OMG! I want to know if you had a thing for Spike. I very much did...) No. As my fellow PG Chummies know, I managed to bypass the manly charms of The Dex not once but twice, finding Kenny Phillips quite the cutie-pie as a nipper and falling head over heels for Col as a grown up, hence my enthusiasm for GBoEF. I still think Kenny's cute, though. I'm weird, though. Everyone normal fancied Spike. Anyhoo, it's, like D&DC, one of those things that I remembered enjoying as a kid, was recommended to rewatch in recent years and became utterly hooked on. Again, I think like D&DC it's got a certain edge to it - a certain sharpness of taste that other kid's telly of its age lacked - and also has great dialogue and fantastic chemistry between the main characters, which I'm always a sucker for. Plus, both of these shows has had a morally grey, slightly hyper, materialistic, socially backward teenaged boy with hidden depths of angst, courage and honour amongst their ensemble that I have been able to fall completely in love with!
5. Round The Horne Grew up with episodes on audio cassette that my Dad used to buy for me. It's fucking brilliant! For the unititiated, it's a radio show from the 60s with a cast that included Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and the glorious Betty Marsden. Kenneth Horne was the plummy voiced Anchor/straight man, Bill Pertwee was the Ringo. Poked fun at old people, young people, the Swinging London set, the BBC, the Working Class, the Upper Class... basically, it poked fun at everyone. And Eddie Braden ('great hairy fool') It's also incredibly rude, but was clever enough to get away with it by smuggling it in innuendo, regularly lapsing into Polari, the secret slang of Homosexuals at the time. It's also not ashamed to be wilfully just plain silly - their fictitious names are delightful. 'My name is Ramasses Goosecreature III... Gruntfuttock. J Peasemould Gruntfuttock. Archdecon.' It's very accessable to a modern listener, I thoroughly recommend it. They play repeats on BBC7, if you're in Blighty and have Broadband you should pootle over here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/ and download an episode. Fastforward The Frazer Hayes Four, though.
6. Big Brown Eyes I don't want no Blue Eyed Boys. Gimme a pair of big, dark peepers the colour of oak or mocha and watch me collapse in a puddle. Hubs has the most delicious eyes - a warm, rich brown with long, black eyelashes, all of which Vi has, to my delight, inherited. I'm actually quite predictable - if I were to list every man in the public eye that I find attractive, I bet there's be less than 5% that didn't either have very dark hair or very dark eyes.
7. Graeme Garden Dr G would be in that 5%, though. I don't care if you laugh, he's a fucking Sex God. And not just because he was Bananaman. He's got the most wonderful voice, and there's something about the whole Tweedy, Wiry Fuzzychopped Goodies Persona that I found oddly alluring. It might just be that I find him incredibly funny, clever and talented that pushes my admiration for him slightly loinwards. He's a very, very gifted wordsmith and physical comedian - some of his pratfalls on The Goodies are just amazing. John Cleese is the only other comedian I think of at the top of my head who was able to throw himself around quite so violently well into middle age while retaining that element of dignity that made the slapstick so much funnier. He's also a musician, a very good sketch artist, a genuine MD and, I discovered recently, was the clever soul who came up with the format for my beloved ISIHAC. I have met him. I have hugged him, demented Scary Pregnant Fangirl as I was. He was very warm.
metalshez again...Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
Shez chose:
1. Cider. Drinking some right now! Have always loved it since I was far too young to drink, I like supping at pints and I hate beer so tis the way to go. There's nothing quite as lovely as a nice cold pint/tinnie of Strongbow or Dry Blackthorn, or a nice pear cider for a treat on a hot day, or a mug of hot mulled cider at Chrimble. Can't drink White Lightning, since I did the usual Teenage overindulgence on Ye Olde Hobo's Choice. Merrydown is fucking evil!
2. Ghost Busters Of East Finchley I am one of four LJ users with this in their interests list, two of them are PGFF chums and the other is the Paul Reynolds Community that I Mod! Long forgotten six part comedy drama series from the mid 90s about Tax Inspectors in North London. It only has two ghosts in it, and they are at no point Busted. Deliberately strange dialogue and acting styles, innovative shooting and editing, fantastic cast (Ray Winstone in a nappy, a permatanned Tony Head...) but really my love of it revolves around that it Stars (*stars*! As in, the protagonist!) The lovely Paul Reynolds. First scene involves the donning of Union Jack boxers, Cowboy boots, holsters and stetson. So far so good. Then comes the fleeting reveal of a frankly delicious set of torso and arm muscles and I knew I was going to be hooked! He receives advice from Mother Theresa, John Lennon and Alec Guinness, is berated by Shakespeare's ghost for never having read Hamlet properly and wears Spiderman pyjamas. He has an utterly adorkable love interest in Spacky Jacky, a diminutive sexpot in an anorak. They snog in a PE Equipment cupboard at the end. Tis fahkin' glorious.
3. Mark Heap (can never hear too much about him :P) I loved Mark Heap when he was in the Boo Brothers on Ghost Train! Then he was Brian in Spaced and I loved him, oh how I loved him. 'Brian. FUCKING loser.' The Brian/Twist romance was very sweet, I thought. It was sad that it broke down in S2. I ended up getting in to Big Train after Spaced and again, ah, he's terrific. I have a lot of admiration for physical comedians, and he's so good at what he does. He's like an acrobat. He's got a real innocence about him which can turn to psycho-slasher creepiness at the flick of a switch. He would make a great Psychopath. What am I talking about - Statham's a bigger Psychopath than most Slasher movies could come up with. In my Dream 12th Night Cast, he is Andrew Aguecheek.
4. Press Gang (OMG! I want to know if you had a thing for Spike. I very much did...) No. As my fellow PG Chummies know, I managed to bypass the manly charms of The Dex not once but twice, finding Kenny Phillips quite the cutie-pie as a nipper and falling head over heels for Col as a grown up, hence my enthusiasm for GBoEF. I still think Kenny's cute, though. I'm weird, though. Everyone normal fancied Spike. Anyhoo, it's, like D&DC, one of those things that I remembered enjoying as a kid, was recommended to rewatch in recent years and became utterly hooked on. Again, I think like D&DC it's got a certain edge to it - a certain sharpness of taste that other kid's telly of its age lacked - and also has great dialogue and fantastic chemistry between the main characters, which I'm always a sucker for. Plus, both of these shows has had a morally grey, slightly hyper, materialistic, socially backward teenaged boy with hidden depths of angst, courage and honour amongst their ensemble that I have been able to fall completely in love with!
5. Round The Horne Grew up with episodes on audio cassette that my Dad used to buy for me. It's fucking brilliant! For the unititiated, it's a radio show from the 60s with a cast that included Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and the glorious Betty Marsden. Kenneth Horne was the plummy voiced Anchor/straight man, Bill Pertwee was the Ringo. Poked fun at old people, young people, the Swinging London set, the BBC, the Working Class, the Upper Class... basically, it poked fun at everyone. And Eddie Braden ('great hairy fool') It's also incredibly rude, but was clever enough to get away with it by smuggling it in innuendo, regularly lapsing into Polari, the secret slang of Homosexuals at the time. It's also not ashamed to be wilfully just plain silly - their fictitious names are delightful. 'My name is Ramasses Goosecreature III... Gruntfuttock. J Peasemould Gruntfuttock. Archdecon.' It's very accessable to a modern listener, I thoroughly recommend it. They play repeats on BBC7, if you're in Blighty and have Broadband you should pootle over here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/ and download an episode. Fastforward The Frazer Hayes Four, though.
6. Big Brown Eyes I don't want no Blue Eyed Boys. Gimme a pair of big, dark peepers the colour of oak or mocha and watch me collapse in a puddle. Hubs has the most delicious eyes - a warm, rich brown with long, black eyelashes, all of which Vi has, to my delight, inherited. I'm actually quite predictable - if I were to list every man in the public eye that I find attractive, I bet there's be less than 5% that didn't either have very dark hair or very dark eyes.
7. Graeme Garden Dr G would be in that 5%, though. I don't care if you laugh, he's a fucking Sex God. And not just because he was Bananaman. He's got the most wonderful voice, and there's something about the whole Tweedy, Wiry Fuzzychopped Goodies Persona that I found oddly alluring. It might just be that I find him incredibly funny, clever and talented that pushes my admiration for him slightly loinwards. He's a very, very gifted wordsmith and physical comedian - some of his pratfalls on The Goodies are just amazing. John Cleese is the only other comedian I think of at the top of my head who was able to throw himself around quite so violently well into middle age while retaining that element of dignity that made the slapstick so much funnier. He's also a musician, a very good sketch artist, a genuine MD and, I discovered recently, was the clever soul who came up with the format for my beloved ISIHAC. I have met him. I have hugged him, demented Scary Pregnant Fangirl as I was. He was very warm.