Minks MacFeegle
“Happy Christmas peeps! Catch you later....Mx”Mood: ninja
Stream
No recent updates in this category.
Why not...
Comments
Interests
General
Making chocolates (and eating the broken ones, hardship!)and cooking, lots of comedy of various kinds, amdram - acting, singing, backstaging, publicity, makeup, costumes, all or any of the above - funny things, films, theatre, music of many kinds, dressing up, reading, writing and poetry, very occasionally art, making things, and generalised silliness of most types. And chatting to people and drinking coffee, preferably in tandem. And Edinburgh. Even if they have misplaced their river (how embarrassing!).Music
This may take a while... let's see. Abba in small doses or for dancing to. Aerosmith. Bits of Alice Cooper. Louis Armstrong. Bach. Beatles. Berlioz. Beethoven. Billie Holliday. Chopin. Claire Teal. The Darkness. Gershwin, of course. Oddments of Philip Glass sometimes. Some Meatloaf. Mozart. Nina Simone. Plastic People. Queen, obv. Satie. Some Scissor Sisters. Shostakovich. Sullivan (Arthur) obv, but NOT The Lost Chord which is Victorian schmaltz. Tchaikovsky. Some Texas. Also for purposes of cheese: bits of Kylie, Abba, Robbie, Madonna, 80s stuff etc etc etc. Might have to finish this later...Movies
Or in this case, DVDs! Nearly all except rom-com, chick-flicks and other rhyming genres; but including films that are so bad they're really funny (The Pirate Movie, anyone?). Includes; clever things, things that make me laugh and once in a while things that make me cry. And occasional ones that make me shout abuse at the screen because they're so bad, which is a different kind of enjoyment (but not one for company, methinks).... Soppy ones: Much Ado about Nothing, Sense and Sensibility and the Timothy Dalton mini-series of Jane Eyre, even if he isn't ugly enough to be Rochester. Pascali's Island, with Ben Kingsley, which is obscure but SO well-played. Fantasy: Labyrinth (despite David Bowie's trousers)Princess Bride, LOTR, Reign of Fire, Krull up to the point where the bad monster is so annoyingly rubbish. I love fantasy if it's done well; that proviso is often the stumbling-block though. Sci-Fi: Night Watch (Russian version, books are even better), Hyperdrive, Firefly / Serenity, Aliens 1-4, Galaxy Quest, Blade Runner obv, 5th Element (unexpected comedy) Things that go boom; Die Hard 1, Pitch Black, 51st State (genius!)Kill Bill, which can have its own little category; and things that don't go boom like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, assorted Jackie Chan (but generally the early ones), a Chinese Ghost Story. Fist of Legend. Jet Li ones esp The Legend of the Red Dragon, which is beautiful with subtitles (though bafflingly has a whole scene about washing his underpants) and hysterically badly dubbed. So wrong, so funny... Funny ones; Loads. Ealing Comedies. Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. Anything Boosh or League of Gentlemen-related. The original st Trinians (haven't seen the new one yet but am not hopeful). Dunno, I have a whole cupboard full, I don't remember. And of course the Rocky Horror Picture Show, though it's more fun at the theatre....Television
Mighty Boosh, Green Wing, CSI (asst'd), QI (of course, as Stephen Fry is just superb), Jonathan Ross, Poirot, the Joan Hicks Miss Marples, IT Crowd, Hyperdrive, Heroes looking promising though keep missing episodes, Family Guy quite amusing and of course the Simpsons, Red Dwarf, some Star Trek Next Generation for Patrick Stewart, and original Star Trek for comedy cardboard sets. Luckily, living in London, some stuff you can go and watch being filmed, and that's always way more fun than watching it on telly as you get to see all the bits they edit out. Great stuff. Looking forward to Labrats (episode we watched being recorded was funny) and Museum of Curiosities.Books
Invariably. Best part of 4 bookcases full, and I reread multiple times. Includes; Douglas Adams, obv. Maya Angelou. Asimov. Robert Asprin. Jane Austen. Iain M Banks. Boccaccio. Brontes. Agatha Christie. Arthur Conan Doyle. Wendy Cope. Charles Dickens. Stephen Donaldson (mostly the Thomas Covenant ones though). James Fenton (recommended for those who like their poetry to rhyme). Robin Hobbs (if you haven't read the Assassin trilogy, do so now!).Sergei Lukanyenko. Garth Nix. Andre Norton. George R.R. Martin. Anne McCaffrey. Roger McGough. Ellis Peters. Tim Powers. Terry Pratchett. Willard Price (sadly dated now, alas). Robert Rankin (esp the Brentford Trilogy). Philip Reeve looking promising. H Rider Haggard. Mike Rose-Steel. Stewart & Riddell. Tolkien, obv. HG Wells. And a whole load more that there isn't really space for here. Or on my bookshelves, for that matter, which are all sideways-stacked and double-parked for best use of space. And then piled on top to slightly higher than I can comfortably reach....Heroes
Anything Technicolour. Loved the skeletons out of Jason and the Argonauts! I'd say people who make life work for them, but to be honest they just baffle me, so maybe Dawn French - intelligent, funny, plumply beautiful and nonconformist - and maybe Errol Flyn for the fantastically silly swashbuckliness of his films. (13 inches, apparently.) And Badgers, of course. Apparently the British Army ecently had to release a statement in Iraq that they had not, repeat HAD NOT released man-eating badgers into the population. Given, honey badgers are supposed to be large furry psychopaths, but that doesn't make it amuse me any less. So I don't really have heroes, but in as far as I do at all, my current hero is quite possibly whoever thought up that rumour in the first place. Genius.
Latest Blog Entries
- 26 Mar 2009 21:20 The Power of Pavlov; or, Punching the Fridge and Peeving the Cat.
- 25 Feb 2009 10:09 A Creaky Old Hector....
- 4 Feb 2009 23:55 First the Java, now the batteries...tchah!
- 21 Apr 2008 21:36 Hello again...
- 24 Feb 2008 17:57 (Mooners blog to follow)
Music
My Playlist
1 song • 21/9/2008
- Play
- Play Next
- Add to queue
Blurbs
About me:
Yar, well, most of you probably know this lot already. Am renowned for being obsessed by pirates and badgers (possibly a self-perpetuating myth these days)and I like to indulge in comedy at stupid times of night. Most of the stuff I like / hate is to the left, so shan't repeat it, but what this page is here for is as a medium through which to meet interesting people and as a base for extended, over-wordy, polysyllabic bloggery. You get the idea... I would say that the rest is silence, but in any room with me in it, that's unlikely..... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 By the way, this is my virtual wolf - click on "more" and give him a steak! If you feel the need to investigate your own pets, try http://bunnyherolabs.com/, the site from which Calidor came. .. ..Who I'd like to meet:
Lots of fun people, badgers and pirates, comedians and other caffiends generally. People who dress up a lot. People who like coffee and Camden, esp in conjunction with each other. People who speak lots of languages, esp dead ones (languages not people, you fool!) and made up ones like Esperanto, Klingon and Elvish. People who are not scared when I get surreal/daft. People who occasionally laugh so hard they can't breathe, and then laugh some more because what set them off was not actually that funny in the first place. Boosh fans and people who know why badgers are funny, or what "Spoonguard" means or the unfortunate events that happened to Little Kirsty Cheese (not to mention Little Davey Spoon). People who like Green and Black's as much as I do. And people who wear stripy socks to work, even if they're hidden underneath respectable suits....
Details
- Status: In a Relationship
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Orientation: Straight
- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
- Education: Post grad
- Occupation: Piracy, chaos & now, being an Executive, whoo!
Aschlin Ditta 
2 years ago
Aschlin Ditta 
2 years ago
Raven 
2 years ago
Raven 
2 years ago
Saccharine queen 3 years ago
Saccharine queen 3 years ago
Saccharine queen 3 years ago
Dan 3 years ago
Giant Amazon Queen 3 years ago
Minks MacFeegle 3 years ago
10 of 411MoreCHEERS!
Nice to see you. I sort of, maybe, a bit, like Facebook, see you over there as soon as I shift this damn chest infection.
Hullo. I think I prodded you on Facebook. Or it might have been a nudge. I don't know how things work over there.
Ta, my lovely. How's life?
Creeeeky is a start .
Get Well dan
Eeek! Bad luck indeed. Hope back is ok for meeting tomorrow. Let me know if not!
Honestly, haven't tried to blog for best part of a year, at any length, and the one time I might, the damn thing doesn't work - and neither does the update or anything else useful! Well, hello everyone, anyhow. If I can get my comp upgraded so it doesn't take me 2hours to turn itself on in the first place, I might come back and do a bit more writing - missing the old place....no promises, mind.
Catch you another time!
Mx.