Dinner Party Meme

I have caught this from Sally and Sam.

Rules: you have to have 12 people, including yourself. Of those there need to be at least four men, at least four women, at least four known to you personally and at least four who are "famous". You're not allowed anyone who has passed on to the great hereafter - that would be a rather different sort of party. It needs to be one that might plausibly 'work' (ie don't just pile people together). You also need to choose a place/ style of food.


The Rules are a great shame in one sense. I would love to be round the dining table with Kirsty MacColl, Samuel Pepys, John Wesley, Linda Smith, Thomas Tresham, my old Nan, Buddy Holly, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth I, Jane Austen and Mother Julian of Norwich. Not least because I might be able to help Julian with all that food she wouldn't want.  But that's against the rules. I just mention it in passing.

So instead I'm going for the flow of reason, argument and irony you'd collectively hope to get from this bunch:


Me
Victoria Wood
Dave Warnock - as he could have a good row with 
Jeremy Clarkson
Elvis Costello
John Polkinghorne (although we might be struggling for someone to understand him, so I'd invite 
Natalie so someone had a chance.)
Kate Bush
Sally as given some of the above she could pour oil on troubled waters (probably essential oil, and probably the water would be poured from an earthenware jug or Beaker)
Hnaef, of course
Carol Ann Duffy
and Ronnie Ancona.


Dinner would have to be at Efe's Turkish Restaurant in Great Titchfield Street and the survivors could visit Kirsty's Bench in Soho Square afterwards.

15 film meme

Of the making of memes there is no end.

And so, inspired by Sam and Phil and Doug:

1. Far from the Madding Crowd (Julie Christie version)
2. The Lord of the Rings (all of them)
3. The Italian Job
4. The Blues Brothers
5. Charlotte's Web (1973 version)
6. The Mission
7. Monty Python's Life of Brian
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. O Brother Where Art Thou?
10. Toy Story (1)
11. Gremlins (2)
12. Drowning by Numbers
13. Dark Star
14. Tess
15. This is Spinal Tap

And there was no-one left to tag.

Single-artist meme thing

Yet another music meme but then hey it's Yule. This is from that notorious Man Utd supporter, Phil Ritchie, and the rules are:

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions. Be as clever as you can. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think...

Needless to say, just a short week before the 10th anniversary of her untimely death, I choose Kirsty MacColl.

Pick your Artist Kirsty
Describe yourself  In these shoes?
How do you feel England 2, Colombia 0
If you could go anywhere, where would you go  Soho Square
Your favourite form of transportation Walking Down Madison
Your best friend is  A guy walks down the chip shop, swears he's Elvis
You and your best friends are Us Amazonians
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called Can't stop killing you
What is life to you Titanic Days 
Your current relationship   Don't run away from me now
Your fear "Darling, let's have another baby"
What is the best advice you have to give Don't come the cowboy with me, Sonny Jim
I would like to die... My way home
Time of day  The end of a perfect day
My motto  Tomorrow never comes




Those with ears to be tagged, let them be tagged...

15 random song shuffle meme thing

Tagged by Phil Ritchie,

First fifteen music meme

1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.
2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating, please.

1 - All in a Mouse's Night, Genesis
2 - High Fidelity - Elvis Costello
3 - Can Sheep speak Danish? - Doug Horley
4 - Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God - John Taverner
5 - Time - Tom Waits
6 - Miss Otis Regrets (Live) - Kirsty MacColl (sans Pogues)
7 - Guns of Navarone - Specials
8 - Surely our God (from Celtic Source)
9 - Sound of the Suburbs - Members
10 - By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
11 - Benedictus from Messe Basse, by Gabriel Faure
12 - Crime of the Century - Supertramp
13- Jesus said "Father, Forgive them" - from Stainer's Crucifixion
14 - It is now - Moya Brennan
15 - We wish you a Merry Christmas - From Classic Christmas Carols, on the Crimson label
Let those who wish to be tagged, consider themselves tagged.