First
…is my degree classification. Woohoo!
7 comments June 27th, 2006
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My invention
Today at work I did lots of rubbish typing work and I corrected some information on the Waste Management Manual and I converted the Fire Precaution Notes for Guidance (Course A) document into web format. Work is dull.
So I invented something to improve my miserable lot: it’s NOT a JOB so I call it a NOB. Basically I stay at home and do what I like while my NOT an EMPLOYER – or NEMPLOYER to use the new terminology – pays me a large amount of cash every week.
How this works I do not know.
7 comments June 26th, 2006
Beefy eggs
Hey hey happy hamsters!
It’s been mighty quiet round here for a while. So here’s some random information that you won’t care about.
I’m working three days a week for Safety Advisory Services at the University of Leeds. That’s right bitches, I’m in the SAS 😀
I spend my days messing with their website and also doing typing and photocopying work. Woo woo!
Nothing I have done is yet online at the tremendously exciting website, www.leeds.ac.uk/safety
20 comments June 20th, 2006
MALLETT UPDATE
The Timmy Mallett interview, as well as a load of other random stuff that goes you a taste of what I spent the last three years doing, is now here:
http://www.chris5156.com/radio/markandchris.html
😀
June 15th, 2006
Until the end
Here I am, sitting in my living room for the last time ever. Just waiting to be picked up. My room is empty. My stuff is all in boxes. I will never enter this house again and might never see Warrington again (though actually that bit’s quite a nice thought). It took six hours to empty my room, pack and clean up.
And then I get home and I will have nowhere to put all this. No idea what to do with it all. I have two of everything.
And then I need a career. Today is a very strange day. 🙁
6 comments June 13th, 2006
Dole Scum
Today at 11am I put my pen down. I had spent 90 minutes writing the responses to two questions. The topic was M335 Media Geographies, but that was not the important issue. Oh no.
At 11am I put my pen down at the end of my final exam.
I am no longer a student. Now, I am officially unemployed!
Actually that’s not true, I’m now a graduand – someone waiting to graduate. But it’s close enough in my book because nobody knows what graduand means, let alone how to spell it.
14 comments June 8th, 2006
Timmy Mallett
Today I interviewed Timmy Mallett on the phone.
What a legend 😀
Hopefully I’ll get it online soon.
5 comments June 6th, 2006
Movie review: Theatre of Blood
Time for another Barry Norman moment…
Theatre of Blood (1973) dir. Hickox
Starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, plus Arthur Lowe (from Dad’s Army)
Rating: 4/5
It’s a British movie from the seventies with credibility! Yes, it’s a Vincent Price movie and yes, by this time he was already a bit of a parody of himself. But it’s widely regarded as one of his best. As a horror film it’s not particularly scary, it’s just good fun with enjoyable gory bits and some mystery.
Mr Price plays Edward Lionheart, a gifted West End actor who only ever played Shakespeare roles, for which he was panned by the critics. He was denied the critics’ award – something that would have marked the peak of his career – for not being innovative enough. Now everyone presumes him dead, but he has taken up residence in an abandoned theatre and – with the help of his daughter and the band of tramps who saved his life – he kills off the critics who denied him the award one by one.
The plot is a little sparse, but the film is saved by the way the killings take place: he murders each in the manner of a Shakespeare play, working through the plays he appeared in from the first to the last. It makes for some particularly inventive and gory killings. There’s also a swordfight on trampolines.
The plot still sounds pretty sparse, but it really needs nothing more. This is seventies horror, not Pride and Prejudice. Seven bloody killings in 90 minutes makes sure the film moves along at a brisk pace and the whole thing is executed with a witty sense of humour.
Good quality horror and gore that doesn’t take itself too seriously – and it has Vincent Price performing his face off. Brilliant fun from start to end. Watch it – an easy 4/5 jams!
3 comments June 2nd, 2006
Movie review: Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Good evening. One of my final year lectures is British Cinema, and as part of my exam revision, I have watched Confessions of a Driving Instructor in full. Student life is hard. This might even become a regular feature.
Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) dir. Cohen
Starring Robin Asquith, Lynda Bellingham (her off the Oxo adverts)
Rating: 2/5
This is the first “Confessions” movie I have seen but it’s actually the third one in the series, which sees Tim (Robin Asquith) and his brother set up a driving school. Hilarity, of course, ensues.
This is possibly the worst film I have seen in a long time. It’s one of many British films of the 70s that were made on no budget whatsoever in order to make some quick cash, though the “Confessions” series is unusual in that it was funded by the US studio Columbia. Even so, the budget is almost non-existant and was mostly spent on insuring one large Bentley that is used in several reckless chase scenes and in convincing hordes of young women to briefly appear naked. Even Lynda Bellingham – later the prim and proper mum of the Oxo household – gets her baps out. In total there are flashes of gratuitous nudity from about six women.
The production values are a joke. It’s so bad it’s almost funny, but not quite. The funniest thing is how inexplicably eager women are to hop into bed with our gurning protagonist.
The point of the film seems to be to give hope to otherwise unattractive, geeky men who have no luck with women, by convincing them that most women are sex-starved, adulterous creatures who will get undressed at the first opportunity, have sex in any location and are willing to try it on with any unattractive geeky driving instructor who might come their way. The majority of them also have large dangly boobs.
All of the above is, of course, not true in real life, which is a tremendous disappointment. And so I give this film only 2/5 jam jars.
5 comments May 30th, 2006