Wednesday 15 September 2010

In the shadow of giants

The random list I have been mulling today is so much more than a random list in truth. To reach this list, the individual, item, or event has to be of such stellar magnitude as to make superstitious men cower and pray to the gods of yore for delivery. It is not so much a list as an electronic monument, a place for silent contemplation of greatness, the ultimate hangout of the wannabe. For today I will name the coolest things on the planet. I have scoured the past and present and can, with my hand on my heart, declare the following to be freakin awesome on an ice cold level. Cool in the way your father is when you are two, enough to make a quiet English gent weep and announce it to be a 'bloody good show'.
Here let there fall no shadow of the epic fail, here be dragons. Activate jaw-awe as I give you, the Epic Cool!

1) Vince Clarke in his Depeche Mode/Just Can't Get Enough incarnation
2) Being told you look 5 years or more younger than you are
3) Johnny Cash
4) Hobbes, but not Calvin
5) The Summer of 1981
6) Diana Rigg
7) The First Floor Caning Team
8) Loch Ness
9) Any series that Chris Morris was behind
10)Being able to get through a day at work without a single mention of reality TV

That is all.

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