I am bored - what are your favourite things?:

[THURNBY YELLOW]

Just a bit of fun to alleviate the tedium of a long Canary free weekend what are your choices from the list below

1. Best ever single
2. Best ever album
3. Top Comedy show ever
4. Best ever comedian
5. Top Film ever
6. Who would you most like to have dinner with?
7. Favourite singer
8. Best ever band
9. Favourite book
10. Best TV show outside of comedy

I will go with
Bat out of Hell
Dark side of the moon
Green Wing
Dave Allen
The Great Escape
Ian Hislop
Neil Diamond
Mott the Hoople
The Tunnel Rats - Stephen Leather
Borgen

Over to you folks...........

 

[canary-dave]

Bohemian Rhapsody
Brothers in Arms
Faulty Towers
Eric Morecambe
North by North-West
Spike Milligan
Jim Reeves
The Beatles
The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
Morse

 

[wellyblue]

Bohemian Rhapsody
Brothers in Arms
...
The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
Morse

Just finished the 5th book, I've done the first five back to back, a great read and Odd Thomas is a great character.

 

[canary-dave]

Just finished the 5th book, I've done the first five back to back, a great read and Odd Thomas is a great character.

I've just started Saint Odd which is supposed to be the last in the series!

 

[wellyblue]

I've just started Saint Odd which is supposed to be the last in the series!

Yes, I believe that DK has said that there will be no more, have you read Odd Interlude too? There's also a very short story focusing on how Odd and Stormy got their 'destiny' fortune card.

 

[ColkOfTheBarclay]

1. ELO - Mr Blue Sky
2. Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
3. Red Dwarf
4. Tim Minchin
5. Shawshank
6. Stephen Fry
7. Literally can't think of anyone! Lets just say Freddie Mercury.
8. Muse
9. Harry Potter Series
10. Game of Thrones

 

[canary-dave]

Yes, I believe that DK has said that there will be no more, have you read Odd Interlude too? There's also a very short story focusing on how Odd and Stormy got their 'destiny' fortune card.

I think that was only available as an e-book and I don't have a kindle or whatever else you need!

 

[wellyblue]

I think that was only available as an e-book and I don't have a kindle or whatever else you need!

Download it for free here...

https://sites.google.com/site/oroqa...Be-Together-Forever-Short-Story-Kindle-Single

Plenty of free e-reader apps out there, or use adobe reader to read it in pdf file.

 

[WEIGHTY CRIMSON PLUM]

I've just started Saint Odd which is supposed to be the last in the series!

I've still got to get that one....my favorite has been Brother odd.

 

[canary-dave]

Download it for free here...

https://sites.google.com/site/oroqa...Be-Together-Forever-Short-Story-Kindle-Single

Plenty of free e-reader apps out there, or use adobe reader to read it in pdf file.

Thanks for that welly

 

[canary-dave]

I've still got to get that one....my favorite has been Brother odd.

They are all very good, he is a brilliant writer who captures his audience on page one of every book, his sense of humour is second to none and he uses that to draw you in!

 

[Simcanary]

1. Python Lee Jackson & Rod Stewart – In a Broken Dream
2. ELO – Out of The Blue
3. The Thin Blue Line
4. Jack Dee
5. Goodfellas
6. Eva Longoria
7. George Benson
8. ELO
9. Can’t think of one
10. Horizon

 

[Graham Paddon Football Genius]

1. Ever fallen in love - buzzcocks
2. The Stones roses - the stone roses
3. Monty Python
4. Dave Allen
5. Once upon a time in the west
6. Mary-Louise Parker
7. Ray Davies
8. Cud
9. Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy
10. The West Wing

 

[WEIGHTY CRIMSON PLUM]

They are all very good, he is a brilliant writer who captures his audience on page one of every book, his sense of humour is second to none and he uses that to draw you in!

Absolutely CD my favorite DK book I think is 'the good guy'...............have you seen the Odd Thomas film? Terrible reviews I hear.

 

[canary-dave]

Absolutely CD my favorite DK book I think is 'the good guy'...............have you seen the Odd Thomas film? Terrible reviews I hear.

No I won't watch the film till I've finished the books, I also read the bad reviews!

 

[WEIGHTY CRIMSON PLUM]

No I won't watch the film till I've finished the books, I also read the bad reviews!

I wish I'd have avoided the Jack Reacher film too

 

[canary-dave]

I wish I'd have avoided the Jack Reacher film too

Very few films live up to the book in my experience, the only thing I've ever watched that completely matched my interpretation of the books was the Reggie Perrin series on tv!

 

[WEIGHTY CRIMSON PLUM]

Very few films live up to the book in my experience, the only thing I've ever watched that completely matched my interpretation of the books was the Reggie Perrin series on tv!

'The Wanderers' for me great book and great film.........

 

[ThaiCanary]

1. Best ever single - Absolute Beginners (David Bowie)
2. Best ever album - Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
3. Top Comedy show ever - Red Dwarf
4. Best ever comedian - Rik Mayall
5. Top Film ever - The Green Mile
6. Who would you most like to have dinner with? - Anyone who can speak good English
7. Favourite singer - Freddie Mercury
8. Best ever band - Queen/Pink Floyd (joint)
9. Favourite book - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
10. Best TV show outside of comedy - The Blue Planet

 

[WEIGHTY CRIMSON PLUM]

1. Best ever single - Big yellow taxi ...Joni Mitchell
2. Best ever album - War or the worlds....Jeff Wayne
3. Top Comedy show ever - League of gentlemen
4. Best ever comedian - Ronnie Barker
5. Top Film ever - Shawshank
6. Who would you most like to have dinner with? - Willie Nelson
7. Favourite singer - Dean Martin
8. Best ever band - The highwaymen
9. Favourite book - the chinaman ..Stephen leather
10. Best TV show outside of comedy - Deadwood.