Pass the Dutchie.....

Well in this case the baton - a blogging community idea which some decry, but I'm just chuffed to do because someone has read my inane drivel. Thanks to Watski for passing it over. It's just a list of 5 things varied things, so here goes......

5 Songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order)

Nothing Compares to U - Sinead O Connor : A song to rip your heart out and to bring every emotion to the surface. Tip - think of someone you love, play the song, imagine they were gone. Get a hankie ready.....

It's a Miracle - Roger Waters : Haunting, nelodic and a real dig at a society we inhabit, it's shallow values, it's consumerism, it's increasing globalism, it's lack of compassion. Sarcastic music at 's very best. Paul Weller eat your heart out.

Bank Robber - The Clash : You see when punks were shouting and screaming and revelling in their tunelessness, a group came from that movement that knew the importance of melody and meaningful lyrics and how to get a message over. A rock/reggae mix which crossed ethnic, age and genre boundaries - a fucking classic.

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane : Way back in 1967 before they became a Starship this was the anthem of druggie influenced hippy rock. If any song encapsulated the liberation of the 60's youth and their defiance of authority then this was it (yeah...Ok amongst others, but this is my favourite).

Teenage Wasteland - The Who : As Baldrick might describe it, this was their "magnificent octopus" - a song about the dashed hopes and desires we all seem to suffer as spotty, pubescent, suddenly aware mutations called teenagers. I know because I'm re-living this through my own Teenager.

So no new songs then, maybe thats an indication of age, or the fact that to keep my interest they still have to be interesting after 10 or more years.

The last 5 films I watched

Donnie Darko : See blogs passim. Weird, impenetratable, dark, surreal, funny and compelling. Still waiting for the second viewing.

Schindlers List : A film never to tire of. A classic in the truest sense of the world. Fail to be moved by the ending and you have no heart and no soul. You are the undead.

Dr Strangelove : I first saw this 3 years ago on an OU Arts summer school. How did I go through life missing this Kubrick masterpiece, and superb satire on the Cold War?

Bridget Jones - Edge of Reason : Not as good as the first but a harmless way to spend an evening.

Outbreak : There was simply nothing else on Sunday night.


5 TV programmes I never miss

Doctor Who : Brilliant , and the recently finished two parter was as creepy as anything on TV and definitely king of the pile. It was so scary it couldn't have helped the bedwetting fraternity much.

Holby City : How many stories can you run about a hospital? Limitless it seems as the human condition, both physical and mental has so many variants. Always well written, always human, always entertaining. Just a little more humour please?

Question Time : Nothing, but nothing raises the radical left wing tub thumping socialist in me as listening to pompous preening politicians and academics talk bollocks so far removed from what affects me and what I care about. Aside from Chelsea losing nothing threatens the condition of my TV's health and general operation like this.

Match of the Day : A ritual for me, wherever I am. My life since the seasons end now has a huge hole in it on Saturdays at 10.30.

Have I Got News For You? 17 years old and still going strong. Still bitingly funny and irreverent.

I hereby now pass the baton to Crox, Shelley, Bedshaped, Mick and errr........Mick

Later, GrocerJack