Marillionboy

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1464286,00.html Interestingly un-thoughtout article..the Snow Patrol comment is priceless!

I think a letter is no bad thing, as you get to explain fully without being interrupted or not thinking carefully before you say something. But either way is usually followed by either a call or a face to face...basically its bloody awful whatever the way its done.

Good that you could tell at the age of three that Susan and Doris would have been ones he'd have regretted!

Mine was walking with my grandad across a cornfield to a windmill in a place called Aythorpe Roding in Essex.(i found this out years later). He died before I was two and it was a very hot day, so it was the summer before and I would have been no more than 20 months. When I went back there recently I was surprised the corn wasn't taller, then realised it was because I was now!

Career wise I want to be where if I keep going I'm due to be in ten years, so hopefully more novels more plays and so on... beyond that I simnply want to be happy and healthy and still looking ok, and hopefully to own my own place.xx

God are people still savaging this band? The new album sounds nothing like the sodding Beatles, and I never thought the old ones did either.

The Kiss by Judee Sill is the most affecting piece of music I've ever heard in my life. Why is this song not more well known?

Ah! I always had heard there were two and one was only facial, now I know. I seem to recall the all-over one got done for duffing up some one some years back and his defence was that theyw ere staring at him.

I always used to see him on George St. I always wondered what his story was, and if he's ever held down a steady job with that carry on all over him.

Would that be the infamous Tattoo Man who always used to be seen on George St? He's terrifying and hits people who stare at him.

I missed In A Man's World when it had its last screening at the Belmont and I was gutted! Anyone see it?

The responses are equally old, I've said both these things too! I have all the TV Christmas tapes from the era and that Rainbow sketch is pretty feeble compared to most of the content on them I hate this lazy "oh where did kids shows get the ideas from in the 70s, they must have all been on drugs!" Er no its called imagination.

That Rainbow script was a sketch for the 1979 Thames in-house Christmas tape, and was never broadcast or intended for it. Ludwig was actually German I think, hence the completely unfathomable nature of it.. suffered in translation perhaps!

Street near Safeways isn't it? Never lived there but never seen any reeason not too...

I still, think no film is more suited to be being screened in The Moorings than Just A Boy's Game, Scotland's very own dockyard Goodfellas.

Used to always be the Kebab shop on Bridge St after Mudd Club, those two guys were so friendly even to pissheads at 2am "large doner please" always got this smiling reply of "salad and sauce?" like they were excited to be doing it. Anywhere is preferable to Hector's House on Hutcheon Street, the dodgy 24 hour shop. That place is overdue for a documentary.

I think generally high-rises now are fairly safe for residents, less safe for the average suited and booted visitor who leaves his gleaming new car parked out front and walks across the forecourt at night. The one thing they do have going for them is a view, especially the Seaton ones, and they're probably a good deal safer to live in thansomewhere in Logie or Woodside. The schemes along there are in a terrible state. The problem with high-rise estates is that they didn't work, and in part because of so many corrupt councils building them on the cheap and not to the specifications that were intended for them. So thin walls, unreliable lifts and no security. A mate of mine used to live in one though and inside he'd made the place an absolute palace.

I like Kaisers! Bloody Franz and the Darkness on the other hand...bluergh!

On the other hand some good ones include "The knock at the door meant the birth of one man and the death of seven others. (Straw Dogs) "This is the weekend they didn't play golf" (Deliverance) "How far does a girl have to go to untangle her tingle?" (Deep Throat)

Yes yes yes! Me and my housemate's favourite post pub viewing! gervais's reactions are great... "oh God..."..."fifty wierdest things!!!!" "Where's the memory in his fucking arms?"

tell you what wouldn't go amiss on that Jukebox, some WHO. Who's Next maybe, basically anything that has Baba O' Reilly on it!

Aberdeen is a city you drain but then tend to get dangerously stuck in because it is so easy to get familiar and cosy there. Food wise, yep, its a bit rubbish (especially on a Sunday, where the hell can you eat!) and its also rubbish for breakfasts, but The Star of Bengal is one of my fave Indians as its actually good food and done out nice, not like some faux Raj 70s parlour.

Absolutely no offence meant mate, I was not unfamiliar with Drakes, just wasn't sure from your post what you were referring to!