Interesting day. Great article in the UK Daily Mail about gastric reduction operations curing around 75% of operee's of diabetes. Now I know it's a bit drastic, but it is good news. Now all the clever guys have got to do is work out what the trigger is.
Signing on day to day. A new experience for me - never been unemployed before, so have to see if I can't add this new knowledge into a future book. Not surprised, but pleased, the people at the job centre have the patience of saints. I am sure that they really don't get paid enough for the things that they have to put up with, every working day, week in, week out. I take my hat off to them.
Had my first Job Application rejection today - yes this was good. I know I am going to get rejections, and I would rather they were for jobs that I really wasn't worried about, as in this case.
Heard today that my new car, Citroen Grand Picasso has been shipped and will be in England tomorrow. Should be able to pick it up on Monday or Tuesday - I will be mobile again - yeah ha! (Old car sold Subj to Finance last week)
Here is a new list, suggested by Little Bro
My Top Ten Albums
In No Particular order:
Neil Diamond - His 12 Greatest Hits (volume 1)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Simon & Garfunkle - Bridge over Troubled Water
Santana - Abraxus
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Enya - Paint the Sky with Stars
Beach Boys - Sounds of Summer
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
now, zip of to Youtube and see if you can find the definitive version of a song from each album.
Here is a link for some of mine
There are loads of other good albums but those are my top 10.
Honorable Mentions:
Wings - Band on the Run
Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms
Carpenters - Singles 69 - 73
Led Zeppelin - 4
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
just too many good albums over the years.
Tuesday
Saturday
It's a new year and I thought that I would review my films and compile my top 100. Of course my mood would dictate the position within the list of any film on any given day, and so therefore I have simply listed them alphabetically.
| Title |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
| A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
| Alien (1979) |
| American Gangster (2007) |
| Back to the Future (1985) |
| Barbarella (1968) |
| Basic Instinct (1992) |
| Batman Begins (2005) |
| Blade Runner (1982) |
| Blue Velvet (1986) |
| Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
| Brief Encounter (1945) |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
| Capricorn One (1978) |
| Casablanca (1942) |
| Casino Royale (2006) |
| Children of Men (2006) |
| Cool Hand Luke (1967) |
| Dante's Peak (1997) |
| Deliverence (1972) |
| Dial M for Murder (1954) |
| Die Hard (1988) |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
| Earthquake (1974) |
| Enemy of the State (1998) |
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
| Four Weddings & a Funeral (1994) |
| Gandhi (1982) |
| Get Carter (1971) |
| Gladiator (2000) |
| Goodfellas (1990) |
| Gorky Park (1983) |
| Groundhog Day (1993) |
| Hot Fuzz (2007) |
| Independence Day (1996) |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) |
| L.A. Confidential (1997) |
| Léon (1994) |
| Life of Brian (1979) |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) |
| Lucky Number Slevin (2006) |
| Nikita (1990) |
| North by Northwest (1959) |
| Once Upon a Time in America (1984) |
| Once Upon a Time in the West C'era una volta il West (1968) |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
| Patton (1970) |
| Psycho (1960) |
| Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
| Reservoir Dogs (1992) |
| Rosemary's Baby (1968) |
| Scarface (1983) |
| Se7en (1995) |
| Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
| Sin City (2005) |
| Sleuth (1972) |
| Snatch. (2000) |
| Star Wars (1977) |
| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) |
| Stargate (1994) |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
| The Birds (1963) |
| The Bone Collector |
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
| The Driver (1978) |
| The Exorcist (1973) |
| The Fifth Element (1997) |
| The French Connection |
| The Godfather (1972) |
| The Godfather: Part II (1974) |
| The Good The Bad and The Ugly Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) |
| The Graduate (1967) |
| The Great Escape (1963) |
| The Italian Job (1969) |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
| The Matrix (1999) |
| The Night Porter (1974) |
| The Pianist (2002) |
| The Shining (1980) |
| The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
| The Sixth Sense (1999) |
| The Sting (1973) |
| The Terminator (1984) |
| The Thing (1982) |
| The Third Man (1949) |
| The Usual Suspects (1995) |
| Twelve Monkeys (1995) |
| Unforgiven (1992) |
| V for Vendetta (2005) |
| Vertigo (1958) |
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