#mariocki

[thisbluespirit]

I was tagged to do this by @mariocki probably a million years ago - oh, wait, only 18th Dec 2024; that's quite a speedy response for me...

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Which character is your favourite?

Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who)

Silver (Sapphire & Steel)

Lynda Day (Press Gang)

Ruth Evershed (Spooks | MI-5)

Servalan

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2025

Tagging whoever thinks this sounds like a nifty way to distract themselves!

[cheaphalloweencostume]

Davos is my everything and, tbh, the only reason I'm still watching at this point. He deserves the throne, he is a good onion man and would make a just onion king

i had not even considered davos on the throne at this point and now i need some time to process that concept

[mariocki]

Incomplete list of amazing cover versions

Was talking to a friend about our favourite covers of songs, so I decided to collect some of my favourites in one place for handy future reference:

Eric Burdon & War - Paint It Black (1970)

Vanilla Fudge - Eleanor Rigby (1968)

Patti Smith - Gloria (1975)

The Nashville Teens - All Along The Watchtower (1968)

Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World (1974)

Billy J. Kramer - 1941 (1968)

The New Seekers - Blackberry Way (1971)

Richie Havens - W. O. L. D. (1987)

Camel - Mystery Tour (1969)

The Alan Price Set - I Put A Spell On You (1966)

Peter Doyle - Friday On My Mind (1976)

Frijid Pink - House Of The Rising Sun (1970)

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch (1967)

Humble Pie - For Your Love (1969)

C. C. S. - Boom Boom (1970)

[unwillingadventurer]

28, 34, 41 x

Thank you :D

28.  Do you multitask while watching movies? What else do you do? 

Not unless we’ve seen the film a lot otherwise we get distracted and miss everything. We need to concentrate as we lose focus quite easily.

34. Worst movie you watched for a favorite actor or director?

Hmm it’s probably some horror film we watched for William Russell which he was only in for five mins before being killed off! And one time we watched a really boring horror film for him only to realise we’d got the title mixed up or something and he wasn’t even in it! Doh!

Also when we watched a really crappy film once just for Evan Williams. It was about him dressing up as bigfoot to scare people and he was playing some dude type. That was an experience but it was quite funny really. We don’t object to watching any ‘bad’ film with our fave actors because you usually just have a laugh with it.

41. Worst looking movies you’ve ever seen?

This is difficult because it’s hard to think of any that look bad because we don’t always care about that sort of thing. We recognise beauty in things but if it looks meh than we’re probably concentrating on good things about the film to compensate. But from a personal preference we really don’t like the look of anything overly CGI, like we don’t mind a bit but when it’s too much, we just don’t like it. We remember watching ‘The Great and Powerful Oz’ and just really not liking the way it looked when he got to Oz. And also the Tim Burton ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in places just didn’t appeal to us.

:D

[jihyo-x]

13, 17, 75 plzz

13. Life Goal: Have a stable job and feel like I have a purpose17. A Fact About My Life: I couldn’t ride a bike until I was like 1075. Have You Ever Sung Karaoke: No way. I’m insecure about just speaking out loud alone :’)

[idlesuperstar]

mariocki: Happy Birthday Trevor Howard 29th September 1913 -...

I need to know what films gifs 3 and 8 are from, because of reasons

SCRUFFY TREV REASONS are the best reasons

3 is from Odette [1950] where Trev gets beaten up and only looks MORE attractive eg

and it also has baby!Ustinov in it which is worth anybody’s time

8 is from the fucking fabulous They Made Me A Fugitive [1947]

which is one of my Top Five Trev Films (er, how have I only got one gif of this film??? probs because it dates from The Time Before I Learned To Gif). It’s a corker of a post-war british noir that looks amazing (dp Otto Heller ftw) and doesn’t shy away from black comedy and grimness. 

in conclusion: scruffy Trev 5eva

[discworldtour]

from mariocki:

I first read Men At Arms as a small child, then went back and read whichever books I could get my hands on. As I grew up the books were still being released so I was reading them as they were released from around The Truth. But Men At Arms will always be very special to me - if i think of it I think of evening sun and happy childhood times and warmth. In fact im gonna go reread it now 

That’s such a delightful feeling to associate with a book, especially one like Men at Arms; I love that you can pick up a specific book and feel your happy place so strongly. It’s such a good one for that too; we’re all being introduced to these new characters, many of whom are being introduced to each other -- plus that book has some amazing jokes.

I have a friend who picked it up sort of half-heartedly, because another friend and I were badgering him (he owned it but had never read it!) and he opened it to that one page with the footnotes about fencing the fire stolen from the gods, read that bit, and never picked it up again. But he’ll get there. He’s too much a Discworld person not to, even if he doesn’t know it yet

[thisbluespirit]

make me choose: @mariocki asked The Power Game or The Brothers.

"If you can't win you'll destroy. Where will it end?"