Stolen from Ed - This is 100 things that might help you Understand me a bit better, and you know, other crap.
1. I’m on a gap year atm.
2. It’s a getting-money-for-the-future- gap year as a pose to a Travelling-exotic-Places- gap year.
3. Because of this I am prone to bouts of loneliness.
4. I was kind of prone to bouts of loneliness anyway.
5. I am 18 years old, but often I feel like I’m 80.
6. I have really stubby hands, which was probably why my career as a piano player never took off. That and a total dick of a teacher.
7. My favourite thing to do is go to the cinema.
8. I hate cinemas that have allocated seating.
9. Groups of people my own age make me feel very uncomfortable.
10. My feet are really wide.
11. I don’t really have a type of man.
12. I’m a massive hypochondriac, but I do actually have medical problems and this has proved a tricky combination.
13. I have a younger brother, but he’s taller than me.
14. Everyone’s taller than me.
15.I’m not Short, I’m 5,6 but my family are all either slightly bigger or really tall.
16. I’m very clumsy, some would say ungainly.
17. I’ve only been abroad once; to Disneyland Paris. One of my most potent memories is being crushed when a teacher said the Isle of Wight wasn’t abroad.
18. I’m absolutely obsessed with American politics
19. Next election I’m going to e-mail Barack Obama’s office and ask if there’s anything I can do to help from here.
20. I think anyone who says it doesn’t matter to English people who the American president is is Stupid, we are inexorably linked with the U.S and sometimes this makes me proud (The last 3years) and sometime not (the previous 8)
21. I won’t stand for America bashing, I think it’s ignorant.
22. I’d love to live in America if it wasn’t for having to pay for Medical expenses, if i’d lived there currently I think I’d be on the street.
23. My favourite TV programme, predictably is the West Wing.
24. I love classic films.
25. I get angry when people write of films that are in Black and White, purely because they are in Black and White.
26. My favourite part of My life was college.
27. I miss it constantly
28. I’m dreading University.
29. I link Mint flavour anything.
30. My favourite Ben and Jerry’s flavour is half baked.
31. My Favourite band is the Foo Fighter.
32. I wish I’d been born in 1920. - I would have been this kind of age when all my favourite films were out and middle aged when all the interesting political things were happening.
33. I’m not in any rush to learn to drive.
34. I’ve never been drunk
35. I like learning things, and random trivia.
36. Aaron Sorkins writing can make me laugh and cry in the same breath, and often does.
37. I hope to make some money out of writing one day.
38. I am kind of learning Spanish. I got an A in my Gcse but my brain is like a sieve, but I’d love to be fluent - to all intents and purposes by the time I was 20-22.
39. I don’t hate David Cameron as much as I wish I did.
40. I like having Green eyes.
41. I love food.
42. My favourite take away is Chinese.
43. Not soo keen on italian
44. I get really excited whenI learn to cook something knew.
45. I make a mean cheese and tuna omelette (See above)
46. I like being out side a lot more now then when I was younger.
47. My big issues that I am most passionate about are The Death Penalty, and Gay Rights
48. I don’t have millions of friends, I have5 or 6 close ones
49. 2 of my close friends are Gay and i don’t see why they shouldn’t have all the rights I do when they find some one, or if they’ve found someone they love.
50. I’d love to travel.
51. Some of my favourite family members live in Australia and I nearly died with Jealousy when my cousin went to see them
52. I think most great art comes from hurt and depression. So when I am depressed I try and do something creative, on the off-chance.
53.Generally I like verbal comedy more than physical comedy, but Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati is one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen.
54. My greatest, purely physical fear is getting a double chin.
55. I’m the most morbid person I know.
56. I’d love to play the drums. but there’s no room to put a kit in our house.
57. Ditto punching bag.
58. I love arguing and confrontation
59. I get along better with adults (well, people in their 40’s) than people my age.
60. I hate how scared I get.
61. I’d love to be taller.
62. Sometimes I really feel like smoking. I don’t smoke, and never will I just get the odd craving sometimes. And I quite like passive smoking.
63. Don’t laugh, but I’d quite like to be able to rap. I like Rap music as long as it’s not all Bitches and Bling.
64. I met documentary make Louis Theroux once, totally embarrassed my best friend and started crying.
65. I get SO EXCITED when I see someone famous.
66. When I’m in London I like to eat at the Cafe outside radio one for the above reason.
67. London still holds magic for me.
68.I can’t believe Jay-Z and Kanye West have done a song called H.A.M. Really?
69. I miss acting but I lost all the necessary confidence.
70. The only alcohol I like is Pimm’s and Advocat.
71. It’s hard writing 100 things about yourself
72. My favourite subject at School was History.
73. I like sleeping.
74. My favourite actors are Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Robert Downey Jr, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, Mark Ruffalo, Luke Wilson and I havea big soft spot for Tom Cruise.
75. My favourite actresses are Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman and Penlope Cruz.
76. I find it a lot easier to think of my favourite actors.
77. I’d like to be a Film Director, Translator or in Politics when I get older.
78. I wish I had more self discipline.
79. I’m about a stone heavier than I’m comfortable being.
80. I’ll generally go with a film that makes me cry over one that doesn’t
81. My greatest skill is the ability to make people laugh.
82. I’m drawn to people who make me laugh.
83. I don’t like surprises - except in books or films where I think they’re vital.
84. I have a whole alternate life in my head, and it’s better.
85. I like getting massive fanta frozen ices in the cinema
86. I’m never happier than with a bunch of brand new box sets.
87. I want to change the world.
88. I get really attached to people, really quickly.
89. I prefer cold weather to hot weather
90. Jason Mraz songs make me really happy.
91. When I’m really upset, I cry as much as I can, because it get’s it all out, and then I fel happy for the rest of the day.
92. I’d like to be Fergie (from the black eyed peas, not the duchess)
93. When I’m watching a film on my own, I often gasp or talk to the screen to attract other peoples attention so they will watch it with me. It usually works.
94. I really like reading and am super quick.
95. I love seeing old couples on the street, they make me heart warm.
96. Being patronised is my biggest hate.
97. I’m so weary of it I often accuse people of being patronising when they aren’t.
98. I love snow.
99. My biggest achievement was climbing a mountain/ fell type thingy.
100. I often exaggerate my weaknesses and downplay my strengths.
Wahey!
