Lists

I have a few main thoughts right now:

1) I miss Hong Kong Monopoly and wish Jon was here to lose some more:

2) The following is a definite contender for the title of ‘the worst book I have ever read’. I don’t know what I was thinking when I effectively threw £7.99 down the shitter when I chose that piece of inane rubbish. Rephrase: I don’t know what the cheeky fuckers at Waterstones were thinking when they put it on a table of recommended books alongside ‘Vernon God Little’, ‘American Psycho’, ‘The Wasp Factory’, ‘The Outsiders’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and a whole load of other totally obvious, totally readable books.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis' WILL be better. Although, if you've read either and my book-choosing judgement (slash Waterstone's recommendations) is way off again please tell me sooner rather than later.

3) I need to shop more. This season's Agent Provocateur collection was actually good for the first time in about two years. Chanel brooches are cheap and need buying and a patent Louis Louis mini-organiser would be rad. I wouldn't mind a Chanel tote either (but not one of those hideous creations with the huge CC stitched onto the side) and the new Alexander McQueen office dresses are adorable. I will also die when I see someone wearing these in real life:

4) Janice Dickinson's Model Agency is awesome.

5) Getting a 'real job' in a bank when I get back is looking more and more hopeless. One programming in logistics is looking far more likely..

I cannot believe the mess the banks are in. I also cannot believe a certain someone bought a substantial amount of FTSE shares on Friday..

6) If someone wants to take me out for dinner and a film it would be much appreciated. I put all my films in storage and once again am faced with the difficult decision about which of the following to watch tonight while the woman in the flat upstairs walks around and slams doors until the early hours..

a) Planet Terror: one of my favourite films to be released in the last few years. Funny Games (US) was also pretty good, even if it did have Naomi Watts. No Country For Old Men also deserved every Oscar it got.

b) Creepshow: pure awesome. Especially the Father's Day episode, the short with the bloke from the Naked Gun films and the rip-off of Basketcase. Romero is a God.






c) The Office (US), which is easily on par with the UK version. I would be Dwight's Angela any old day of the week.






d) The Breakfast Club: I chose to keep it out of storage instead of Amelie and Life is Beautiful. In hindsight this was a relatively poor choice and one based on the amount of subtitles featured in the film (i.e. the breakfast club has..none).





e) The Bodyguard: shut up.









Please take pity on me and take me out for dinner and a film :)
Japanese is preferable, but at this point I'm willing to take anything.