We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view.

Dear all,

Nothing as dramatic as falling into a frozen lake has happened to me this week. Maybe ever. So I give you zombie chat, a stoned kid and some other thing.

1. Apparently, Hollywood studios are already bidding to make 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' into a movie. And the film of 'World War Z' is currently in development. These are exciting times for zombologists, as surely the spread of interest in zombies (documented extensively in the third and fourth installments of Charlotte and Leonore's purely factual and not at all ridiculous "Stop Laughing" radio show) can only be helpful in the coming Zombie War. In other news, I'm going to start putting tinned food and bottled water in the attic of LJ4, so guys, if the zombocalypse comes before our lease is up, that's where I'll be.

2. 'David After Dentist'.
Some little Yankee kid high as a kite on meds from the dentist. My favourite part is "why is this happening to me!". Genuinely awesome.

3. Click here.
From Jimmy Key, the king of late night emailing. Robin has already seen this, and while he did not laugh, he did say 'that is hilarious' in a way I found sincere. So I share it.

Love to the flat (and to Julia, who will totally read this even though she claims she won't.)

Laura

I am invincible

Worcester college has the nicest lake. I've seen it before and thought it'd be pretty wicked for a swim in the summer, but the thought didn't really cross my mind when I was trudging about in the snow after a punishing game of ring of fire at Ronan's this weekend.

Ronan's pal suggested we check to see if we could walk on the layer of ice covering the lake, and check I did, momentarily, before just putting my entire weight on it anyway and feeling it give way beneath me. I could even hear the crack that my first, tentative foot poke had made as I put both feet on, but by then it was too late. In the fraction of a second between realising I was going to fall into a huge frozen lake and falling into a huge frozen lake I reflected on my foolhardy nature.

I got out pretty quickly and we laughed about it for a bit then started to walk back to Ronan's. On the way we saw one of the porters at Worcester, who had been hassling us all night because Ronan didn't have a guest pass or some bullshit and we were making loads of noise and mess. Anyway, he started getting on to us about being out in the grounds, telling us that 'if someone fell in that Lake they'd be dead in about a minute', whilst failing to notice that I was soaking wet from the neck down and had obviously just fallen in the lake. Proved that wanker wrong - NOT dead. I did have to get a taxi home however, as by the time we got back to Ronan's my muscles were aching and I couldn't stop chattering my teeth.

This is probably my most noteworthy and therefore blogtastic exploit of the last week.

Robin

Laura and Zombies and Links

LAURA has a thing for zombies. I'm not sure if its a thing thing. I don't think she's got necrophilia. If she has I hope its not contagious, at least not in an air-borne way like in that film with Kevin Spacey (Outbreak, 1995). I don't think she has. Perhaps she's just scared of zombies.

Books and Zombies

Laura wants this book:
Jane Austen: http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/stompies/2009/02/03/pride-prejudice-and-zombies/

She owns this book
Survival Guide in case of zombie attack: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/index2.html


This pointless post was by
Lili.

Testing testing STOP LAUGHING

Download the podcast first week of Stop Laughing, Tim and Lili's Oxide show, at the following address:
http://leolinejenkins.podbean.com/2009/01/30/stop-laughing-week-one/

HENRY VI WATCHATHON

Today, I'm going to watch all three Henry VI plays on DVD with alex. The total running time is over nine hours. I shouldn't really be delaying such a marathon, but I have thus far been the poorest blogger in the flat.

Here's a nice tune by Lukid:



His new album, Foma, is full of fuzzy glitchy hip hop like this and I have been enjoying it a lot this week. Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded inside the air pump of a life support machine, with soft beeps and the shuffling footsteps of doctors and nurses in the background.

A while ago we played a game of categories where the category was 'girl's names in Beatles songs'. After giving up, I decided I wanted to know how many there were and find all of them, which is as good a topic for a blog post as anything. The song name is in brackets next to the girls name:

Julia (Julia)
Eleanor (Eleanor Rigby)
Anna (Anna (Go To Him))
Prudence (Dear Prudence)
Sadie (Sexy Sadie)
Lucy (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Rita (Lovely Rita)
Molly (Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da)
Martha (Martha my Dear)
Pam (Polythene Pam)
McGill, Lil, Nancy (Bungalow Bill)
Michelle (Michelle)
Lizzy (Dizzy Miss Lizzy)
Doris (Two of us)
Maggie (Maggie Mae)
Madonna (Lady Madonna)
Yoko (The Ballad of John and Yoko)
Sally (Long Tall Sally)
Georgia (Back in the U.S.S.R. (not sure about this one))
Joan, Rose, Valerie (Maxwell's Silver Hammer)
Penny (Penny Lane)
Pam (Mean Mr. Mustard)
Loretta (Get Back)
Vera (When I'm 64)

28 in total. If anyone can think of any that I've missed, tell me and I'll add it and give you a toblerone.

(thanks to Laura for Pam, Loretta, Vera, Rose and Valerie)

That's quite enough blogging for now. I'm going to watch 9 hours of history plays and eat some baked potatoes.

Robin

Treasury tags

I have more treasury tags than I can handle. I need to be shot. There are no puns here. Jenny slept in the library. Swish new colour background, here. Did we get upgraded?

Lili

Robin had a go at me about being the last flat member to blog, so here I am. Blogging. I don't have anything really flat-related to say, but I present you with the three YouTube videos I have watched today.

1) Yo Yo Ma playing the Prelude to Bach's 1st Cello Suite
This piece of music would be my Desert Island Disc, if anyone ever made me pick one. My iTunes deleted my MP3 of it, so now I listen to it about four times a day on YouTube. I don't know what Salvador Dali has to do with it, but I enjoy looking at it, anyway.

2) Nouvelle Vague - Dance With Me video
It's been about two years since I first saw this video, and I'm still totally hypnotised by it, and still watch it allll the time. Let's all be reminded of how completely and totally cool it is.

3) The Morecambe & Wise breakfast sketch
They've got a parody of this on the TV at the minute with that guy whose name I can't remember and the monkey in a PG Tips advert. The original is way better though, and I remembered today when I saw that ad in the JCR to go and watch the original again. Genius.

Happy now, Rob?

- Laura