Hardcore Mel

' date=' or hope a Polish deli/diner opens up soon[/quote']

fuck yeah! that or a kosher deli. although apparently new york deli now does matzo ball soup. might go past tomorrow just in case.

I heard about that' date=' wasn't sure if it had reopened or not. Its a shame cos it was one of the better places to eat in aberdeen[/quote']

it's reopened.

i really like ciao napoli on bon accord terrace or poldinos on little belmont st for italian food.

never had a bad meal in la tasca. it's not amazing but it's a fun place and some of the food is pretty tasty. although if you're trying to impress a girl, wouldn't take her somewhere that they heat up the food.

he means me.

Well if you don't want to rent to her flat' date=' and I don't, and everyone else doesn't, how does she make a living off renting out her flat?![/quote']

because there will always be people out there who have to rent or can't get a mortgage.

Like yourself' date=' I find it mildly unsettling when someone relatively young can only think about how much money and consumer goods they can accumulate. "Be content with what you have" is the mantra I live by.

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i find socialism mildly unsettling, but different strokes for different folks, eh?

i've had a mortgage since i was 20. because before that, when i rented a place, i felt like i might as well have been burning money. i got a mortgage that young because it made financial sense, and because i saw the market getting ridiculous and knew i wanted to get in there while i still could. i was right, and i got lucky with the place i have now. as a result, when i move to paris next year i'll have a steady monthly income from renting the place out. i see no harm in having ambition and drive at an early age, as long as you're content.

jonny lucifer awaits his turn gleefully in the bukkake line-up.

How come?

because i was rooting for jake gylenhaal.

ye gotta love his/her honesty

why? i co-run fetish nights just now and i have a great time doing it. would love to continue doing it when i'm finished uni.

jonny rocked the redneck look

It's a crime that Dig wasn't even nominated for best documentary.

i agree, although march of the penguins was really good!

when i was really little it was a princess or a ballerina.

then an actress

then i went to space camp and decided i wanted to be an astronaut

then i realised i didn't want to have to join the armed forces first so thought about being the first actress to ever make a movie in space

then i discovered Taxi Driver and wanted to be a director

then i went to film school and decided i wanted nothing to do with the film industry

so now i want to have my own clothing store and run fetish nights on the side.

red by choice!

tar!

uggh.. what was the name of the band with the hot keyboard player claire? they werent that fabulous' date=' but she was quite fun..

yer ma

ruptured spleen

evergreen

the hedgehogs

roadhouse

undecided

interlace

castigate

nero

incendo

scrotal tunic

orange peel ( donny..)

(ok, some of them are early noughties bands too, but meh..)[/quote']

man i remember all those bands! i miss TAR!

stayed up and watched them with my mum as is tradition. disappointed that george clooney won supporting actor. pretty pleased with the rest of the results, except for best animated feature because i fail to see the appeal of wallace and gromit and thought miyazake deserved it because he's an animation genius.

feels like the ceremony is losing it's magic more and more each year as they try and keep to time. jon stewart was a shit choice for host.

Turquasi! Fook me' date=' forgot about them! That was me old de Barros cohort Claire on the cello, with one of her music school buddies (emily? Can't be sure) fronting them. They were awesome.

Claire has now graduated from Music Scholl in London and is a sessioner, composer, all-round musical wunderkid! She taught herself to play the violin in a month because she 'was a bit bored' being back home.

The Turquasi name came about because she had been listening to a lot of Quasi that week. Simple as that.

love from christy[/quote']

they were great. i remember drunkenly babbling at claire afterwards about how amazing they were.

sirrius

mandaline cox

Tar

Incendo

good choices

man that was the good shit! i've seen pictures of binky asleep with cigarettes up his nose. shel and i fell over in the snow outside the kebab shop.

put me down for ten.

what a great night! what i mess i was in by the end of it. i didn't know who or where i was.

psycho brought sweet happy tears to my eyes.

If the tour hadn't been pulled.

D'oh!

I love Bobby's in-depth description of Glasgow

what? no one told me this!

doh just checked all music discussion.

maybe i'll spot bobby next wed when i go down for monster magnet. i hope i do!

Dear god... that photo is made even better by Craig's shiner.

I think I might've kissed Gumpy at some point....

everyone's kissed Gumpy at some point...

Ive found this hotel & it seems quite nice' date=' but having looked at literally hundreds of hostels/hotels, i dont know? Just looking for some reassuring words before i actually book it. So please, take a look at the pages & be honest.

Thanks

http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/HotelCaliforniaSaintGermain-Paris-9484#

http://www.california-saint-germain-hotel.com/index.html

it's in a really nice area, and the pics seem fine. only thing that would worry me is whether i could check out any time i like but never leave. but that's just a bit of eagles humour.

if you're staying in saint germaine and the weather is decent, you'll be able to walk to most of the major tourist sites. like val said, buy a carnet of metro tickets but only really use them to get to the out of the way places. last time i went i walked about 9 miles a day just around paris, and stumbled upon loads of little hidden treasures that you wouldn't normally see if you were just taking the metro everywhere.

i love paris. wish i was there just now.

spotted last night, on my sofa, steaming drunk, falling asleep mid-giggle. we were reading the new cookbook i acquired at captain tom's 'rock n roll recipes' and laughing at such amusing titles as 'fleetwood mac-aroni and cheese' and 'will you still love me tamale' when suddenly mid-burst of laughter there was silence. craigy had KOd and there was no waking him.

creedence are cool aren't they? i always thought they were kinda cool anyway. i love creedence.

i'd say tom petty was probably my favourite uncool act.

what's uncool about tom petty? man, when i was twelve i had this red leather harley davidson jacket that had chains all over it. my dad had picked it up from the states for my birthday because i was going through my 'all things harley' phase (i used to pin up pictures of choppers on my bedroom walls while the rest of my classmates were pinning up take that posters) and it was the coolest damn jacket in the world. only my mother told me that i didn't want to be known around town as 'that girl with the red leather chains jacket' even though to this day i wouldn't mind being known as that. so she banished it to the confines of my wardrobe till we could return it the next time we were in the states for something 'less obnoxious'. my only enjoyment i got from that damn jacket was listening to 'into the great wide open' by tom petty and jingling my leather jacket chains along to the jingle sound after the line 'his leather jacket it had chains that would jingle.' ahhh those were the days.

i have tomorrow day to make my dress. eek!