pete_inthehills

and offer sexual favours to those who opened my eyes to works of literary genius!

/x

shite! I just noticed this in your initial email. I suggested life of Pi and it was your number one read.

shite!

a beer will be enough thanks!

pete

inthehills

good list Spoonie, Bill Bryson's books are always funny. He's done notes from a small Island which is about the UK and the other good one is a short history of nearly everything which is also ace.

you should also check out anything by Haruki Murakami. From the vibes I'm getting Norwegian wood by said author might rival Life of Pi.

Pete

inthehills

It's easy. If you see anything out the norm you much react in a hostile manner. Also, get yourself involved in heated debates and hang your opinions out for all to see.

and if you need to know how to get a bus somewhere, we can help!

Have you met Stripey? He's really friendly, why don't you pm him?

heheh

Pete

inthehills

a wild sheep chase

as you young'un say....WHATEVER! still a good book though.

Pete

inthehills

I've worked my way through about half of them. I'd taken some pointers from the thread and not just the official list of 10 or so books. I'd forgotten that most of you here are young and hedonistic and not old and jaded like me, so who ever suggested Poppy Z Brite books ...well....its like Jackie Collins for the alternative underground.

So Spoonie, give your thoughts and I'll grade the ones I've read as of now.

The Book of Lights - Brilliant 8/10

Life of Pi - Brilliant 9/10

I, Lucifer - yeah, OK, 6/10

Dispatches - worth a read 6/10

Notes from a Big Country - funny 7/10

Stranger in a strange land - heavy going, but worth it 6/10

An Equal Music - Alright 6/10

and outside the list

The Great Sheep Chase - Brilliant 9/10

Some shite by Poppy Z Brite Drawing blood or something - shite 4/10

Over all I was impressed by most of the suggestions.

Pete

inthehills

I've got to thank KarmaTsunami for pointing me in the direction of Murakami. I've just finished the Great Sheep Chase and it was ace. I've now got Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian wood on order.

Its very readable and a great story.

I'm now looking for a girl with beautiful ears!

Pete

inthehills

Every musical request to be written down then ignored

Oh man. That was always fun. We'd ask for something from Jane's addiction or the Sisters and they'd shout write it down, so we'd write Whitney Houston or that crap song by Brian Adams from the Robin Hood film.

How humourous were we?

But like most of the posts on this thread, I'm old now. I have to work. Most of my MuddClub mates have left the country but I will open a tin of crap lager, spill part of it on the floor to get that sticky floor thing going and put Jesus built my hotrod on my ipod and try to remember the good times. Or at least email my mates so they can remind me what I did 'cos I was too pished to remember.

pete

inthehills

Hey,

This is an interesting link. It'll give you the results of their hygiene inspections at premises around Aberdeen.

Scores On The Doors - Search Inspection Outcomes

Pete

inthehills

also check this out ...

Wordfringe: A new writers' festival for Aberdeen and North-East Scotland

Its happening all through May, with loads of things going on. There are several local poets and writers are contributing.

Pete

inthehills

. A passenger in an Audi leaned out the window and pushed him over - in the middle of moving traffic.

Audi drivers are the worst offenders! I don't know what it is, but obviously you have to a total twat to buy an audi. It must be on the small print. Are you a mysogenistic arrogant gimp with no respect for others and a very small penis? Yes? then the Audi is for you!

I had one car swerve towards me 'cos I was overtaking a line of stationary cars. I was technically still on the correct side of the central white line, but he was coming towards me and just wanted to scare me. Git!

Grrrrr.

If cars are getting too close I usually politely knock on their window and ask them to move over. I don't swear. If they still don't move over, I tend to be less polite with my knocking!

Its a dog eat dog world out there.

Pete

inthehills

Interesting logic. There seem to be alot of cyclists on aberdeen's roads who either have a death wish or don't remember their cycling proficiency course (probably both actually). One guy cut across in front of me on guild st without looking or signalling, then nearly got run over by the car in the lane next to me.

Muppets.

OOOOHHH don' get me started about bloody car drivers. I am a cyclist. Most of the car drivers I encounter are tossers with no respect for us cyclists. I've had cars pull out on me at junctions making me break, I've had them cut in my cycle lane without looking and nearly knock me off. They overtake just to cut across me and turn off the road.

Car drivers are as inconsiderate as us cyclists. I don't go through red lights, but I don't see why I can't sneak up the middle of queuing traffic and get to the front of the queue. You'd do the same if you could!

Inconsiderate Car driving Muppets!

What kind of car do you drive Rachie? Next time I'm cycling up guild street, I'll wave before I cut you up! heheh

pete

inthehills

...and they'd better not fucking ruin it.

Oh man! I hate it when they do that. I've always got my preconceived ideas about how a character would look and act and they totally fuck with it. It never works.

The only way they should do it, is to get me as characterisation dude and I'd keep them straight.

Pete

inthehills

Suggestions:

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

Anything by Ian Banks, I'd start with The Wasp Factory or The Bridge

and you can never go wrong with some Haruki Murakami!

Cool! thanks tattoo'd secretary babe! ;-)

I'll check out Gray and Murakami, but I've already done most of Ian Banks and his alter ego Ian M. I really like the culture ship names in the Ian M books. Deep with double meanings.

Pete

inthehills

PS. If I like these, you realise that I'll back with more requests!

Anyone else done Dispatches?

Its not the normal thing I'd read, but it was ok. He'd taken a scatter gun approach to the war, jumping back and forwards with no real threat to link it all the storys other than the all encompassing war. I suppose that's how it was in real life.

Pete

inthehills.

PS I'm running out of book ideas. More suggestions please.

machine gun etiquette is one of my favourite albums. It blew my mind when I heard it as an impressionable 16yr old.

I heard they toured up here a couple of years ago, they played drummonds but I missed it. I saw them a couple of times in the 80's before they split. For the first time.

pete

inthehills

I've just finished the book of lights and I was very impressed.

Good call who ever suggested it.

It is very readable once you are in to it. You wouldn't think that the life of a guy who is training to be a rabbi and then gets sent out to be a chaplin just after the Korean war would be captivating, but it was.

Anyone tried his other books? Are they any good?

Pete

inthehills

yeah, 6music.

the two morning shows are fine but the afternoon one leaves a bit to be desired.

Its what I listen too all day. This is why there is often a bald old foggie at the back of gigs for bands that only the kids have heard of.

pete_inthehills

this is the trak listing from this morning.

7.00am

Ashok - Happy Slap

Soul Coughing - Down To This

Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse

LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

Delroy Jones - Donkey Skank

Gruff Rhys - Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru

Field Music - A House Is Not A Home

7.30am

Bloc Party - The Prayer

Aswad - Kool Noh

The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Terry Hall - Moon On Your Dress

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Beat - Doors Of Your Heart

8.00am

Tokyo Police Club - Cheer It On

Soulsavers - Kingdoms Of Rain

Apostle Of Hustle - Cheap Like Sebastien

Willy Mason - Save Myself

Saint Etienne - Spring

The Dirt Bombs - I'll Be In Trouble

Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose

Richard Hell - Blank Generation

8.30am

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

Gpytian - Serious Times

Ono - O'Oh

9.00am

Communards - Breadline Britain

Communards - You Are My World

Idlewild - No Emotion

Lily Allen - Shame For You

Phoenix - Too Young

Longcut - You Got The Love

Cornelius - Gum

9.30am

Malcolm Mclaren - Franz Buffalo

English Settlement - Knuckles Down

Elastica Vs. Moloko - Singback Connection

its called old age - when you start tapping your toes to phil collins then your really in trouble

OK, kill youself if you start liking Phil Collins or singing along to Simply Red, but the ballet thing is cool. I went a few years back and it was supprisingly enjoyable.

And noisier than I expected.

Pete

Cultural attache to the hills

mmmm....KarmaTsunamai...? Doesn't your keyboard have capital letters?

I'm enjoying the philosophy bits, but I'm not sure about the linking sections with Sophie, her mum, the dog and the dodgy old man.

What's that all about?

Pete

inthehills

wow

As you young people are wont to say, awesome. Totally. Awesome.

I'm currently working my way through Sophie's World, which is about filosof....pilosoapy...philoso.... its about thinking and goes through all the great thinkers through time. Its pretty good.

Pete

inthehills

PS. How do you spell filosoapy Ms Tattoo Lady?

... besides, i don't think there's a photo of my newest one in the galleries...that would totally over-ride the woefulness of me wearing a CK top.

so post one!

Pete

inthehills

might I suggest you take a glass of whisky and stand some distance from the windfarm. Drink whisky. Watch the turbines go round and round and round.

smile.

wonder why coloured lasers can't be used as entertainment.

oh yeah. And I rather have windfarms on the tops of hills than coal fired or nuclear powerstations.

pete

inthehills

i don't have long legs...but i have nice hair and awesome tattoos.

you certainly do have awesome tattoos. I'm not sure about the Calvin Klein top. Can you be the company secretary and wear trendy label clothes?

Still, as an English student you should be able to sort out my spelling and know the correct use of flying commas (') and whether the i goes before the e or not.

you get my vote just 'cos your tattoos are, as you say, awesome.

Pete

inthehills

its just the other side of my house. Go up the A96 past Inverurie and when you come round the corner from Morgan McVeighs you'll see them on the right. If you keep going then there is a new one being build on the left as you go down the hill towards huntly.

Its ace. I suggest you take the first right after McVeighs and that'll take you down a wee road to the base of the wind farms, or follow the A96 up the hill to a sign pointing left that says Insch, that'll take you to another small road opposite the wind farm for some ace photo oppertunities.

Pete

inthehills

behind the windfarm.