foolfillment: the blog

BBC Fantasy Football Monthly 2002-03

i can pull it back.
i don’t think it’s too bad considering i haven’t made a single change since i picked it at the start of the season.

BBC SPORT | Desktop Mini Motty

Amazon.co.uk: At a glance: Championship Manager 4

it’s not really, it’s been put back again. i wish they’d just release it already. maybe it’ll come out in time for my birthday (october!)

big bruv should maybe read this story via duncan for some ideas on how to protect his mailto’s on the AVC site.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Gags a go-go in Glasgow

It seems Glasgow are trying to start their own festival, great. It just seems to me like it’ll only serve to take away people from the Edinburgh one but it probaly won’t get as well established which is a bad thing because Scotland would end up with two gash festivals that have nothing worth going to, except people will still go to them.

And they’ll go just to clog up my streets when I’m in Glasgow during term (but with nothing worth me going to) and then clog up Edinburgh’s streets during August when I’m most likely to be anywhere near there (again with nothing good to see anymore).

Or am I being too cynical?

41 Labour MPs in anti-war vote

Also read this on not.so.soft

BBC SPORT | Football | Teams | Celtic | O’Neill stays with Celtic

it just means he’ll stay untill they go out of europe or the leeds or liverpool jobs come up

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Question mark over islands’ status

To be classed as an island it must not:

• have less than 50 permanent residents
• be attached to the mainland by a rigid structure
• be less than one kilometre from the mainland
• contain the capital of an EU state.

Under those criteria then surely the whole of Britain would not be an island!

I just found this :Bugatti

Guardian Unlimited Observer | Review | 31 songs that changed my life

“31 songs that changed my life
In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life.”

This is bloody hard but here’s a few I’ve thought of just off the top of my head, they will have changed by tonight though :

1. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
2. Find The River – REM
3. Domino – Van Morrison
4. Lazy Line Painter Jane – Belle and Sebastian
5. Sparky’s Dream – Teenage Fanclub
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
7. Regret – New Order
8. End Of A Century – Blur
9. Grand Parade – The Reindeer Section
10. Here Today – The Beach Boys
11. Hotel California – The Eagles
12. Aqualung – Jethro Tull
13. Great Gig In The Sky – Pink Floyd
14. My Generation – The Who
15. Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead
16. Powderfinger – Neil Young
17. Ramble On – Led Zeppellin
18. Going Underground – The Jam
19. Bye Bye Love – Simon and Garfunkle
20. Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations
21. What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
22. (heart) I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight – Cutting Crew
23. Carry That Weight – The Beatles
24. Starlight Motel – Ride
25. Seeing Other People – Belle and Sebastian
26. My Girl – Madness
27. Here Comes Your Man – The Pixies
28. Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag – James Brown
29. Good Riddance – Green Day
30. Hang The DJ – The Smiths
31. Ride A White Swan – T-Rex

There’s some in there that haven’t changed my life yet but they’re still great songs (like Grand Parade) and there are some that have shaped my life but I don’t listen to much anymore (like Good Riddance).

It was hard to come up with ones nobody else would, and that was what I tried to do because if I have the same songs as everone else then I’m the same as them (am I?) but then again is having life shaping songs in common with other people a bad thing? It must be good music in that case but then again (again) the cutting crew song isn’t exactly brilliant, it just was one of the songs I always used to listen to when I was wee and it always reminds me of that time. Maybe because it’s not a brilliant song (or is it it still gets played frequently in a lot of places) other people wouldn’t have it as a life shaping song, in which case I’m not the same as them?

Quite a long ramble there, most of which probably makes no sense on first reading or maybe after numerous readings but I’m sure you’ll be thinking through similar thought trains when you try to come up with your own list and I’ll bet you can’t write them down much clearer either.