" how do you thank someone - who has taken you - from crayons to perfume...? "
ITEM! we never made it to la la la winehouse last nite - my benefactor got her "plus one" ( ie me ) cut & didn't want go on her own ( - it would've been a pain in the arse getting there & back cos of the transport chaos ) - instead we had a chinese takeaway ( hot & sour soup w/prawn crackers for dipping, crispy chicken wings & crispy aromatic duck ) in front of big brother - & watched poor darling nicky get evicted to a chorus of boos
i got gompletely soaked in the monsoon earlier in the day & after slowly struggling & squelching home in a pissed off mood ( - a one hour round trip took me three & a half hrs due to the trains & tubes being f*cked ), i didn't really fancy going out agane anyway
ITEM! when i'm at home during the day i like to listen to ken bruce's cockmaster quiz on radio 2 - however becos of the bbc's trouble w/fake gompetition winners, radio phone ins are banned at the moment - but because the listening public ( like me ) enjoy playing along w/the quiz - they did it instead with the lady who does the traffic reports & jeremy vine - the traffic lady won 18-15 but no prizes were awarded - to avoid howls of "gorruption!" i assume
i usually get between 15 & 24 points but i think i did once get 30 - the questions are set by phil "the gollector" swern of sounds of the sixties fame & are sometimes pretty tough -
erkinpeaviss claimed to have scored 40 points earlier in the week but i think he might've been slightly mistaken as the maximum score = 39
ITEM! hitchcock's dial m for murder was on when i started typing this post - featuring one of my favourite character actors john williams playing chief inspector hubbard ( the policeman who absent mindedly combs his moustache at the end )
he must've been a hitch fave too as he's in a couple or three of the alfred hitchcock presents tv shows - as well as in billy wilder's witness for the prosecution & the episode of columbo where he goes to london, dagger of the mind
i wish i'd seen dial m for m in 3D as originally intended - must've been v.exciting at the cinema - they should put it on at the imax
ITEM! bumbling round woolies in putney this morning i spotted a marvel legends toy of the falcon ( capt.america's old sidekick ) - if you buy it you get the stomach of another character ( an xmen villain called mojo ) free - the idea is you get different bits of mojo free w/each superhero doll you buy
i just thort it was the weirdest free gift ever: a stomach
ITEM! quote of the day: "there is no happiness. the reward is death." - matthew "chandler bing" perry, radio times 21-27 july 2007