...and another post that was intended for a day that it wasn't actually written in. I'll get the hang of this daytime/nighttime thing eventually.
That unfinished book list is butchering my head, so I went out this morning to scour for a few things I might have missed - and this one leapt of the shelf and into my hand. A Lion's Tale - Around the World in Spandex from Chris Jericho - I mean what the hell was I thinking. Most of the other WWE auto-biographies have been picked up on day one, why did this - very important addition - slip through the net?
Same reason perhaps that on the day that the Chris Jericho interviews were farmed out when we were working on either Zero or Burn (I forget which), I'd already committed to something else and it was JJ who ended up 'drawing' the 'somebody has to drive him to the airport after the show' straw. Some short straw that was. I think I would have liked CJ. I think we would have got on well and as I romp through Lion's Tale in an attempt to legitimately get into my years top 10, I know so.
(I would like to add a disclaimer here that not all of them were worth it. In fact, probably only a small number are, namely:
1. Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day (possibly the best autobiog written in any genre)
2. Superstar Billy Graham - Tangled Ropes
3. Eddie Guerrero - Cheating Death, Stealing Life
4. Ric Flair - To Be The Man
The others vary between "pretty good but you're either quite boring really or don't write very well" and "plain dreadful" - such as the Batista book which is so empty, I can't even remember what it was called. Jericho's book is shaping up to sneak in there at number 4 however, pushing Flair down a spot. What the fuck am I talking about? Nobody gives a fuck about my top five wrestling autobiography list do they...)
The other book I picked up today was Rankin's Exit Music. How I could have forgotten the last of the Rebus series is unforgivable. Anyway, all of this was on the way to see InkHeart which is well worth a watch. Typical big bang Christmas movie that's pleasing on all levels. Don't think, don't analyse. Simply watch and smile and everything will be fine.
Two days until then end of the year and I seem to recall I promised a lot of postings of 2008 vs 2009 and also a rundown on my 101 in 1001. If I'm really quiet, hopefully you'll all forget and I can go back to being lazy. There's still a whole stack of Budweiser in the garage. Talking of which, I have to take the Saab in tomorrow for an MOT. At least I knew what was going on with the Audi - the Saab I'm not so sure about. Then again, what can possibly go wrong with a car bred to withstand the screaming Texan sun and the brutal Scandinavian winter?
The very fact that somebody decided to make its MOT a few days after Christmas - followed by a car taxing session the day after does not bode well. Still, it's never bothered me before...
