Things to do...

I've a fair bit of stuff to get through, would be even more if I included the uni stuff I should be doing in that! In any case, here are the films I own that I've yet to watch:

2001 : A Space Odyssey
Amadeus
The Birds
The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum
Brief Encounter
Casablanca
Doctor Zhivago
Gone With The Wind
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Night Of The Living Dead
Pan's Labyrinth
Psycho
Rope
The Seventh Seal
The Thing
Vertigo

And here is a list of films I need to buy that I want to see as well:

The Good The Bad The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Double Indemnity
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Pianist
The Maltese Falcon
On the Waterfront
Dog Day Afternoon
The African Queen
Planet of the Apes
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Killing Fields
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Then there's still books to get through! I'm glad there's only 2 weeks of uni left til Christmas break, anyway. Here's some books:

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Hot Water Music (Charles Bukowski)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
A bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Naked Lunch (William Burroughs)

A book (well, more of a set of books) I recently got was The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. I bought it on a whim, since it was fairly cheap and I liked the look of it, and I certainly wasn't disappointed. The strips are consistently hilarious so far (about 350 pages into the first book), and one story in particular really came out of nowhere and got to me, it was just too sad (the raccoon story, if anyone is familiar), but it was beautiful at the same time, I've essentially just fallen in love with the whole thing...

That's enough of lists for now. Speaking of lists though, I dunno what to put on my Christmas one :( I have absolutely no idea, I might just fill it with books, those films, don't know...

Now, onto the matter of the recently vacated Scotland manager's post! The names bandied about in the papers really depress me, it's just a case of the usual suspects, SPL and Championship level managers who just happen to be Scottish. I'd rather we got a Scottish boss in, but the only ones who would take it are all diddies, so we should take a chance on another foreigner. The "we tried a foreigner before and look what happened!" argument holds no water, since George Burley was Scottish and terrible, so surely by that logic we should be put off getting another Scot in too? If I were in the SFA, my shortlist would consist of Roberto Mancini, Gerard Houllier and Lars Lagerback. Whatever happens I just hope we don't get in another yes-man who'll pander t0 every whim of the SFA instead of being his own man.

Also, everyone should listen to Dinosaur Jr.'s latest, "Farm", it's awesome.