Last minute as usual
Jan. 2nd, 2006 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabremeisterThey say procrastination is the thief of time. They're wrong. Playing games on the laptop that you're supposed to be reworking your website on before you have to go to sleep in order to be actually awake when you go back to London tomorrow - that's the thief of time.
So now, instead of having a good night's sleep followed by a shower, haircut and over 200 miles of train journey, I have a night of doing the last pages of my website ahead of me, followed by shower, haircut etc. It didn't help that I went down to get a snack and found myself watching "50 Greatest Comedy Movies Of All Time" on Channel 4. "Life of Brian" greatest comedy movie ever? Sure! But "Animal House" at 47? "Police Academy" higher than "Beverly Hills Cop"? And how did "Team America: World Police" get in there at all?
Actually, I'm not that pleased that "Life..." got #1 - okay, yes, it is a great movie, fantastically funny, with more of the most memorable lines in cinema history than practically any other film. But! I'm Brian! I mean, I'm Brian. I always have been Brian. (Actually, I was nearly called Sam, but my parents' decided against it on the grounds that teachers might start calling me Samuel). My name's Brian and I'm not the Messiah, I'm not a guy with a beard and long hair (erm...) who lives in first century AD Palestine and gets crucified for trying to live a blameless life, after getting involved with the wrong crowd who create the Circumstance to make him the Victim Of. That's not me, that's not my life, I've never met (much to my regret) Spike Milligan or George Harrison, and whilst I am politically dissatisfied, I'm not about to paint a hundred times, in letters ten feet high, the Latin for "Tony Blair's a wanker" on the walls of 10 Downing Street!
<breath>
The only time I've sung/whistled/hummed "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" was when I was learning it for a show. Every time that movie is brought to the National Consciousness again, I have to endure people singing that song at me, telling me I'm "a very naughty boy" in a falsetto screech, and asking me if I'm for crucifixion. For the last time: I am not Brian - I'm Brian!
Good film though.
Oh, yes. Last minute as usual. Well apart from the fact that I'm going to be doing tonight what I should have done earlier today, this is not anything new. If I can leave it to the last minute, I probably will. And I do mean, the last minute. At uni, if there was a 3000 word assignment to hand in at 5pm, I'd leave it until 11am deadline day before even thinking about starting planning it or researching the subject matter. Now, that may sound foolish in the extreme, but I am a very coherent writer when I have a final objective in mind. The essay may have been bullshit, but it would be some of the finest bullshit you ever read in your entire life. And it would be within 10% of the required word count.
So now, instead of having a good night's sleep followed by a shower, haircut and over 200 miles of train journey, I have a night of doing the last pages of my website ahead of me, followed by shower, haircut etc. It didn't help that I went down to get a snack and found myself watching "50 Greatest Comedy Movies Of All Time" on Channel 4. "Life of Brian" greatest comedy movie ever? Sure! But "Animal House" at 47? "Police Academy" higher than "Beverly Hills Cop"? And how did "Team America: World Police" get in there at all?
Actually, I'm not that pleased that "Life..." got #1 - okay, yes, it is a great movie, fantastically funny, with more of the most memorable lines in cinema history than practically any other film. But! I'm Brian! I mean, I'm Brian. I always have been Brian. (Actually, I was nearly called Sam, but my parents' decided against it on the grounds that teachers might start calling me Samuel). My name's Brian and I'm not the Messiah, I'm not a guy with a beard and long hair (erm...) who lives in first century AD Palestine and gets crucified for trying to live a blameless life, after getting involved with the wrong crowd who create the Circumstance to make him the Victim Of. That's not me, that's not my life, I've never met (much to my regret) Spike Milligan or George Harrison, and whilst I am politically dissatisfied, I'm not about to paint a hundred times, in letters ten feet high, the Latin for "Tony Blair's a wanker" on the walls of 10 Downing Street!
<breath>
The only time I've sung/whistled/hummed "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" was when I was learning it for a show. Every time that movie is brought to the National Consciousness again, I have to endure people singing that song at me, telling me I'm "a very naughty boy" in a falsetto screech, and asking me if I'm for crucifixion. For the last time: I am not Brian - I'm Brian!
Good film though.
Oh, yes. Last minute as usual. Well apart from the fact that I'm going to be doing tonight what I should have done earlier today, this is not anything new. If I can leave it to the last minute, I probably will. And I do mean, the last minute. At uni, if there was a 3000 word assignment to hand in at 5pm, I'd leave it until 11am deadline day before even thinking about starting planning it or researching the subject matter. Now, that may sound foolish in the extreme, but I am a very coherent writer when I have a final objective in mind. The essay may have been bullshit, but it would be some of the finest bullshit you ever read in your entire life. And it would be within 10% of the required word count.
