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Age: 34
Sign: Sagittarius

Country: UK
Signup Date: 4/17/2006

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Friday, February 29, 2008 

Current mood:  amorous
Yes its another Top 10 list! How interesting. Anyway, TV is an essential strand of the fabric of life here at firstposter towers. Infact, if it wasn't for TV we probably wouldn't even talk to each other. Anyway, here's our top 10 shows in no particular order (apart from The Shield being Number One).

1. The Shield
- Amazing how its managed to be so consistently excellent over 6 seasons. Tight scripting and a great cast make it the show we blab on about most of all. Vic Mackey and his strike team are the model which we base our workplace upon (aside from the drug dealing, murdering, corruption, money laundering etc.)



2. Battlestar Galactica - Whod've thought that this show would be so Frakkin' good? after the Dirk Benedict led late 70s farce (which you knew was guff even though you were only 7). Sure, it has some dodgy episodes and irritating characters but the general story arc is so strong that these can be forgiven. Also, the acting from Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Roslin) and our favourite James Callas (Gaius Baltar) is superb.



3. South Park - Now in its 11th (!) Season, South Park is still providing us with some much needed hilarity. Eric Cartman remains one of the all time classic cartoon characters and the show keeps getting better. The latest episode 'Imaginationland' is the best in ages. Oh, and the film was great as well.



4. The Wire -
A slow burner, The Wire is a thoughtful contrast to The Shield. Complex storylines told from all angles and an excellent cast make this a show not to be ignored.



5. The X-Files -
The first three seasons were excellent. After the movie, it all seemed a bit pointless, although there is another on the way.



6. Seinfeld - Again a consistently great show, which alot of people in the UK knew very little about, mainly due to the fact it was shunted until 1120 on a thursday night on BBC2. So many classic moments and chracters.



7. Curb Your Enthusiasm - Of course written by Larry David, this is a very different show to his other creation Seinfeld. Documentary style, with no laughter track this show follows the trials and tribulations of 'Larry David' as he goes about his daily life. Now in its sixth season.



8. The Office - The most quoted show in the shop environment. At times, working here is a bit like Wernam Hogg, a lifeless space surrounded by paper (joke).



9. The Simpsons - What can you say? Its The Simpsons y'know.



10. Family Guy - The Griffin Family and their various neighbours have always gone down well here.



Very Honourable mentions :- The Sopranos, 24, Prison Break, Entourage, Peep Show, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Brasseye, Im Alan Partridge, Armando Ianucci, Vic and Bob,
Mighty Boosh, Larry Sanders Show etc etc, we've probably missed loads?! ............
Friday, February 29, 2008 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Parties and Nightlife
Hi people---Being great fans of a pint, one of our favourite products at firstposter.com are these great UK pub crawl posters, drawn by our friend Bernie Carroll. All of these posters are hand signed.
At present the range includes pubs from : Aberdeen, Birmingham & The West Midlands, Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Strathclyde, Lancashire, Leeds & Bradford, Leicestershire & Rutland, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, London, Manchester & Stockport, Newcastle & Tyneside, Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, Staffordshire and Tayside. Bernie is expanding his range very soon to include more towns, cities and products (postcards).
Can you spot your local?
Thursday, December 06, 2007 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Well, good old MSN Movies has picked its top 20 Movie Posters of 2007. Some good choices, we can't disagree with any of them, however our choices would be slightly different in some cases.

Here's a few of our favourites from this year...........

 
 

Planet Terror - Fully Loaded

A better film than Death Proof, and a better poster.

300 - Battle (Grey) - Giant Poster Ridiculous film but very entertaining none the less. Contained some of the most memorable quotes of the year, many of which were included in the poster campaign.

Rocky Balboa

Old Sly proved that he could still work his magic with this, lets hope he can do the same with Rambo.

Spiderman 3 - Taking Over

The posters for Spiderman 3 were probably the best thing about the movie.

Fantastic Four - Rise Of The Silver Surfer A big improvement on the first film, Silver Surfer will always be cool.

Cheers Folks!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 

Christmas is just round the corner, so we thought that we'd help by sticking this handy link to our Google Map onto our blog to give you directions to The Poster Shop in Glasgow. This should hopefully save you some time when diving about mad at the last minute buying presents.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 

Hi all, just a quickie........we're in a good mood today so enter the code NS9SP7 at the checkout to get 15% off everything on the website. Includes all the items listed on this page. We've added a couple of new items from Planet Terror and 300. The voucher is valid until 9th of September 2007.

Cheers folks.

Monday, July 09, 2007 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Art and Photography

CLEARANCE POSTER PACKS - MEGA DEAL

Hello MySpace people. Hope you had a good T in the Park this year. Unfortunately, we were too busy to attend but we've heard that Brian Wilson was pretty special.

Anyway to business!, we are having a huge clearout this month at firstposter.com. As well as our usual reductions on individual titles, we are now offering these great value clearance poster packs. Covering various genres, they are an excellent solution for filling up the walls of a Youth Club, Classroom, Nightclub, Art Studio, Home Cinema Room or decorating your Bedroom Wall. Here are the packs currently on offer, we will be adding more in the near future.

10 x Large Art Prints (Inc. Kandinsky, Monet, Rodin, Blake & More)
£7.50

10 x Small Art Prints (Inc. Klee, Rothko, Turner, Bisson & More)
£7.50

20 x Disney Posters  (Inc. Lion King, Little Mermaid, Bambi, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tarzan, Mulan & more)
£15.00

20 x Glamour Girl Models Posters  (Inc. Caprice, Cindy Crawford, Pamela Anderson, Liz Hurley)
£10.00

20 x Movie Posters (Inc. Kill Bill, Da Vinci Code, King Kong, Orlando Bloom, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory & more)
£10.00

20 x Music Mix Posters (Inc. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Iron Maiden, Alanis Morissette, Starsailor, Eminen, Iron Maiden, 2pac)
£10.00

20 x Pop Music Posters (Inc. Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Enrique Iglesias, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Imbruglia, Kylie Minogue)
£10.00

20 x Rock Music Posters (Inc.  Iron Maiden, Nirvana, Creed, Deftones, Korn, Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Nine Inch Nails & more)
£10.00

8 x Simpsons Posters  (Inc. 8 excellent quality large official Simpsons posters)
£10.00

SALE POSTERS - Free Posters - 99p Art Prints - 99p Movie Posters - 99p Music Posters - 99p TV Posters - £1.99 Movie Posters - £1.99 Music Posters Clearance Poster Packs

Thanks for reading folks, until next time.........


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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 

Current mood:  busy
At firstposter.com we always have a large number of items on special offer, however this time we've outdone ourselves. There are now two new sale sections on the site, one featuring some quality Art Prints from the likes of Rodin, Kandinsky, Monet, Klee and Rothko, and the other featuring some great Music Posters including Kaiser Chiefs, Blondie, Beyonce and more. These prints and posters are only 99p each in both sections!. Also, our Free Posters range has expanded! Shameless Plug Over!
Friday, March 23, 2007 

Current mood:  busy

Yes that's right, we are giving away free posters on our website and believe it or not, some of them are pretty good!
The range is set to expand considerably, so bookmark the page as these posters aren't going to last long.
There's no catch, just choose any three and only pay the postage cost. This is an online offer only.

Here's the link, have fun!

FREE POSTERS CLICK HERE!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 

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So to stick one of our banners on your Myspace and start raking in the big bucks click the link!

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Thanks for reading,

The www.firstposter.com team.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 
'What are you're best selling posters ever? is a question we often get asked. We never really feel that we give a satisfactory answer to this as we usually just say something a bit vague like, 'Eh....dunno really.....Scarface or something probably'. Therefore, during a quiet moment the other day we had a proper think about it and tried to come up with an answer this question once and for all. We have come up with a top ten list which we reckon reflects what indeed the best selling posters have been over the 7 year period we've been flogging them. So, in no particular order :

Scarface - Movie Poster
Le Chat Noir - Giant Poster
Rio De Janeiro - Giant Poster
Akira - Movie Poster
Amelie - Japanese Movie Poster
Pink Floyd - Back Catalogue - Giant Poster
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Movie Poster
Godfather (il padrino) - Italian Movie Poster
Apocalypse Now - Movie Poster
The Warriors - Italian Movie Poster


There are a couple of surprises in there, we think you'll agree. The Warriors is probably the major shock, but we have sold reams of these posters which is a testament to the film cult status of the film. Pink Floyd Back Catalogue is another surprise inclusion. We can never really work out why its so popular, are people buying it because it is a clever, striking image featuring all the Floyd Album Covers?, or because it features a bunch of naked women sitting by a swimming pool?, probably a bit of both. All the Amelie Movie Posters have sold well since its release in 2001, but the Japanese version is the most popular. Apocalypse Now, Scarface, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Godafther are all quite obvious inclusions, as they are all classic movies with iconic main characters. Le Chat Noir and Rio De Janeiro have both been consistently good sellers.

Some exclusions which just miss out on the top ten would be the student classic Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, the New York Skyscraper Lunch poster and the World Map. So, is there anything we've missed or are we pretty much spot on?