Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

20 Things I Miss

Yesterday, over on her Kommein blog, Deb Ng posted a list of thirty things that she misses. It really got me thinking, so I couldn't help but make a list of twenty things that I miss. I would have done thirty but it would have essentially boiled down to things I miss about my home town.

1) 80s kids' cartoons like Count Duckula or Dangermouse.
2) School holidays.
3) Staying up until 4am just to talk random nonsense with someone online.
4) Receiving actual letters in the post, not just marketing circulars or bills.
5) Wispa Cappuccinos.
6) Having a garden, and not having to visit a park just to enjoy green space.
7) Proper phone calls to catch up, instead of relying on Facebook statuses to see what someone's up to.
8) My rabbit.
9) The clacking of old keys on a typewriter.
10) The deathly silence of a week day morning in the suburbs.
11) Being only half an hour away from the coast.
12) Pretty much the North East in general.
13) Cinema prices being less than a fiver.
14) Dressing up to go out to dinner.
15) Going to the theatre.
16) People talking to one another on public transport.
17) Mobile phones that simply let you call someone.
18) Being able to see the stars.
19) Manners.
20) When people were famous for having a talent for something besides getting themselves in the paper/on TV.

What about you? What do you miss?

Sunday, 27 December 2009

Icy's Top Ten Films of 2009

It's been a funny old year for cinema, and I've seen an awful lot of films. Still, a lot of them were absolute guff, so it was relatively easy to choose at least five that I'd happily put in a list of good films of 2009. I doubt I'm likely to see any more films before the end of Thursday, and even if I did, I highly doubt that they'd be any good, so I've decided to compile my list now. Unfortunately I actually managed to think of seven films, rather than five, so I had to expand it to ten. So here, in no particular order, is my top ten films of 2009. Do you agree with my choices?

Let the Right One In
Watchmen
Star Trek
Zombieland
Inglourious Basterds
Paranormal Activity
The Hurt Locker
Moon
Coraline
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus