Go! Tell us what your ideal night is
March 7th, 2008 by mike
I’ve just finished an interview with author Tom McCarthy in which I asked him:
What’s your ideal night out/in?
This was his answer!
I once woke up to find, on my coffee table, a pair of skimpy knickers, white powder residue and an open copy of Francis Ponge’s ‘La Partie Pris des Choses’. I can’t remember what I’d done the night before - but whatever it was, that’s my perfect night.
So what’s your ideal night? In with the cat watching TopGear or out on the town?
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Top gear Mike, it must have been - sounds like the main character in a novel!
WE do note the likeness of Tom with Ewan McGregor by the way….
Hmm … see what you mean!
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Ewan McGregor! No way.
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He’s gorgeous he is! An so is that Tom McCarthy. Mike, is he a good snogger? Do you think he’d like a night in wiv me an David? Cucumber sandwiches an champagne might be nice. David loves his cucumbers he does.
that champagne - ain’t it just another of those alco-pops??? hope that weren’t what DI’s driver had been knocking back!
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My ideal evening for a night in is a romantic assignation with a straight and sober sensual partner.
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ACCKKK! somehow the link in my browser got posted when I didn’t intend that to happen. Please delete it. {redfaced}
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Okay … it’s Friday and I’m fried for sure. I understand now what happened, not that this belated comprehension makes me feel any less blonde or anything {looking for a rock to crawl under}. Have a great weekend.
LOL and you Brightfeather
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My ideal night certainly wouldn’t be anything as exciting. Simply put, I’d thoroughly enjoy complete silence, a tingly hot bubble bath, scented aromatherapy, snacks and a good book.
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Snacks and book whilst in the bath?
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Well, I’d need a little side tray of course and a snack that doesn’t dissolve quickly, like chocolate dipped cookies. Hmmmnnnnggggh, chocolate dipped cooooookkiie.
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Ok home truth …. I havent been out for a night on the town you know dinner dancing getting plastered throwing up and then having a kebab and throwing up again since about 1997…. that was my last night out I think might have been before that…. any way these days are always a night in…. although Moppet and I went to see the Blues Brothers revival band in town here.. last year but no drinking with kids is my rule…. except at BBQs when I am walking home….
Anyway Night In Tonight is saturday night and has gone as follows:
dinner Spag Bol….
Ice cream
Moppet went to her room to watch Scooby doo 2 and Dukes of Hazard
We watched Top Gear they are running the very first season here before james yep that old…
followed by two hours of the Bill….
it is now 10.40pm
and hubby wants a game of savage… an online game which play against each other and see who can kill off the other player first…
then I will go bed
I would have much rather gone to a nice resturant and eaten a seafood Platter, followed a nice White Wine, a large slice of Pavlova.. then gone to a night club for drinks and party (you have no idea how I miss clubbing) gotten slightly sloshed and gone home. but that would require a resturant with seafood and Pavlova and a night club down here all the pubs close at 12am and their idea of night club is a flashing light thing called a strobe……
lol
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Em loves seafood, she could join you!
Now then AC I thought you had good tatse in TV what with Doctor Who and Top Gear, then you have to go and spoil it with saying you watched two hours of The Bill.
O dear!
I was never one for clubbing - can’t hear people talk. I prefer a pint in the pub with good conversation. And perhaps some crisps. Chips even. But I would go for the kebab with you, me and Em used to eat massives of them when we were students and still get the urge now and then!
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The Bill is hubby’s doing…. its his thing we watch so little TV that it worth the sit down…
an English Pub I thought was almost just like a night club without the lights and DJ..lol….
A Pint or to in that atmosphere would be just as good…..
Salted nuts with me beer
And perhaps we could have a standing order of kebabs delivered to the Pub….lol
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Hmm good question Mike.
Em here, and being the decisive female I am I would have to say it would depend on my mood.
It may be . .
A walk along the beach as the sun is setting and then a picnic supper.
Sitting round the campfire with friend and a bottle or three of wine.
A quiet meal out at our favourite restaurant.
A night with friends with lots of laughter and conversation.
OR
A spontaneous date with Jim at the cinema followed by a shisha under ‘our’ tree.
Then again it could be a trip to the cinema!
You should know by now that I can’t choose just the one thing!
er Jim? Take control
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Tis already in hand Mike..
Erm - that’s not what I meant to type…
Oh well!
Mike, me dunno whr chizbrd gne, so gud u hve ts pst. Me gud nwz: bk finlly @ bkshp ha! Getg it 2moro :)) Mre gud nwz: I rd 1000 s.suns ts w.e! Me snd u revw asap.
EJ, me n Chk sulkg bg tme. U nt stp by us chizbrd, n nw chizbrd gne whl u wr off glvtg wiv Dvd duh!
Me gt bk! Me gt bk!
Mk! Mk! whr r u?!
Sorry, I’m here now!
…
Yeah - I’m only on chapter 4 , so you should be able to catch up! Go! girl.
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Getting there… :))
Bridget’s confused about sth Mike: in the intro, the author says the guy’s body was found 4 months after he set out on the expedition, but in the narrative, they talk of him sending postcards to some fella regularly every couple of months for like 2 years. Huh??
The movie is showing in Dubai at the mo btw.
4 months after setting off for his Alaska trip, which was just part of his years of travelling
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See Aunty Bridget its like this right, David says that last night at just after 7 it was, there was this knock at the door see, an when he went to av a look, someone ad left an orphaned banana on the doorstep. Newly born it was, an proper cute an all wrapped up in a towel.
So he brought it an he said nothink to me about it he didn’t, an when I woke up at 4 this morning I was right hungry see, an so I eat the first think I saw which was David’s baby banana…..
Well he’s right upset he is, not speakink to me now he isn’t……, was a lovely banana though.
Well EJ, myb if u hd askd Dvd wot ze nok on ze dr wz abt n tld hm U r a reg lil insmniac, h’d hve tld u abt ze orphn h!
So… is Dvd banan-less nw?
a load of ale, a load of beak, a punch up and a massage
Is it to be a night on the town
or at home for some personal meditation
On one decision we can determine
our chosen path of bifurcation
but to what perception of pleasure
is this strenuous relation
When all its success can be equated to
is autocoidal hormonal dispensation
Try saying that quickly when you’re bombed.
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Receiving fix of seratonin secretion
We consider our hedonistic venture
has sated our thirstful driving need
allowing rampant display of denture.
Overstep, exceed, surpass, push on,
We will do it as by nature
the rules are out, its mine be gone
pleasure overrides peer censure.
The list is long, expensive and mainly available only on prescription in case you are wondering.
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Are you feeling okay Gareth? Perhaps a lie down?
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Thought a bit of poetry about having a night in or out wouldn’t really go down well.
Everyone too busy being unconstructive on the Women’s day and Islamic thing
Well, Carry on the fight Gareth! Educate the masses and all that !
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We’re done being unconstructive Gareth (I think)
The floor is yours, let’s have the poetry!
On a serious note, are you quoting or is that your work? Will you publish?
That was indeed my own work, check google, you won’t find it and no poetry books in Changchun. Surely the subliminal teenage drug references gave it away?
I was a couldn’t be bothered with some of the other posts so I pondered this one.
I couldn’t come up with an answer for the perfect night out as it would depend on who you were with and what you wanted from the night. I mean a night with the lads is a lot different from a night with the fiance.
As such I got a bit of wine and dooby ingested and thought I’d try and write an arty poem for you all.
Thought it turned out quite well really. Only took about 15 minutes.
was rather hoping UP would deconstruct it seeing as how he knows me so well.