1,000

This, Ladies, Gents and undecideds, is the 1,000th post on this blog. In order to celebrate this landmark, I was going to write a long, detailed post about the changes in my political beliefs over the years and explain exactly why I feel most at home as a Libertarian. Then I realised that would take far too long, and would require more thought than I really want to put into any post on a Sunday morning.

So instead, to celebrate the 1,000th rant/ramble on this blog, I give you three things that you probably haven't seen, but should, before you die:

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives: No, really. An awesome film. An eighties slasher movie with a sense of humour. Yes it is mindless, violent and silly. But it is at least self-aware and does not take itself too seriously. As a result, you have a resolutely tongue in cheek horror movie that is far more entertaining that the navel gazing Scream series, and far more watchable than other slasher movies of the time.

Doctor Who: Ghost Light: Popular opinion would have you believe that Doctor Who went off the boil in the eighties, and that Sylvester McCoy is the worst of Doctors. Popular opinion would tell that Tony Blair was a good idea, in not just 1997, but also 2001 and 2005. So we can ignore popular opinion... Doctor Who became very good again under McCoy, and Ghost Light is a great example of that. A gothic science-fiction story set in the Victorian era and dealing with themes such as evolution and empire, it really should be required viewing for anyone who thinks that the period between Tom Baker relinquishing the role and RTD becoming producer was just a waste of time for the show.

Threads: Be warned, this is not for the faint-hearted. Some of the images within this film are very, very difficult to shake off. But if you want an intelligent, thought-provoking and challenging idea of what a nuclear war would actually be like, then this is it. Gripping from start to finish, it is a terrifying glimpse of what the aftermath of World War Three would actually be like, away from the Hollywood glossy version of post-apocalyptic.

Anyway, that's enough of this sort of thing. Roll on the next 1,000 posts; of arbitrary observations, impotent swearing at politicians and occasional cheer leading for the Libertarian Party. Personally, I can't wait.