Alright, I'm so excited about this one. Hi guys, my name is Dane and I've just butchered my own intro, but we'll just keep rolling, I guess. So today I am going to be doing the I want to get drunk with Book Tag. This was created by Buck Envy and I was tagged by Buck your imagination and I was so excited because I was watching a video and I was like this is a really fun tag. I'll let you know, I hope someone tags me to do it and then she tagged me to do it. So the idea here, this is a bit different to most because it's like a fill in the blank tag. So you've got a short phrase and then you fill in the blank and then you talk about your answer. So I don't have any books for this one, I just have some blanks to fill in and I'll put this info below in case you want to take it and I will tag some people at the end as well, but if you're not tagged just do it anyway, it's really fun. Let's get started. So I want to get drunk with Charles Bikowski. Now I think I don't know if I would survive this kind of drinking session. I mean he did have a tendency to maybe drink three whiskey bottles or something and then throw things at people. He was a misanthropist, he didn't like being around people, you know, even if I went around to his house with some beers and just said hi, here are some beers, can I get drunk with you? He'd probably just take the beers and slam the door on my face. He wasn't a nice guy, but he wasn't extremely heavy drinker. So I just thought he's the obvious choice. I want to have coffee with Philip Pullman and I want to have coffee with Philip Pullman because he's just like a fascinating dude. I was watching him recently talk about freedom of speech because he wrote a book called something like The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ or something like that and as you might imagine lots of religious people got really annoyed and then I was watching a clip of him where he was kind of testifying in court I think and he was like he was talking about freedom of speech. I'll link to it below. He was basically saying you know I have the right to write whatever I want to write and you have the right to get angry and send angry letters to my publisher but you can't tell me what I can and can't write which you know I don't know I'd like to continue that discussion with him over like a Starbucks Frappuccino is that thing? I want to have lunch and go shopping with Gordon Ramsay. Yeah I mean Gordon Ramsay would know some great places to go and eat. He would also know some great places to go shopping I think. I mean the dudes got style. For example if he took me suit shopping imagine how suave I would look after that because I can barely dress myself but I think Gordon Ramsay would you know he'd get me kicked out and hopefully pay for it too. Okay I want to talk to Richard Dawkins about religion just because I think it'd be great to see him get all riled up about stuff as well. I mean I'd probably I mean I'm not religious at all but I would probably play the devil's advocate so I'd start asking him really annoying questions and then he'd just get really red in the face and he'd go off on one and I'd probably film it and put it up on my YouTube channel and get thousands of hits and it would be lovely. Okay I want to take an improv class with Alan Bennett and I just I don't know why I just think it would be hilarious. I'm not actually sure if he's still alive I think he is still alive but I mean he's a playwright so I think going to an improv class with him would be quite funny especially because he'd probably be trying to like you know he'd be trying to write a script in his head and you'd be like no Alan no the point is improv. I want a shake Margaret Atwood's hand why don't I want a shake a hand because she wrote the handmaid's tale and I read it recently and it freaking blew my mind so you know you know like a sporting event and you know the sporting thing to do is that you know the winners and the losers shake each of his hands and in this situation I would very much be the loser just shaking her hand just being like Jesus bloody well played Margaret I don't think I can ever do as good as that. Okay I want to meet Peter James and the reason I want to do that is just he just seems really nice he's actually kind of been quite you know I've had a few interactions with him on on social media he has his he has a channel here on YouTube where he does interviews with famous authors which are fantastic as well mostly kind of crime writers and just he's just an interesting dude and you know I just like to meet him and say thanks for the stories because I haven't read all of them but I've read probably a good 33% of his books but he's in his 60s so I mean he's written a lot of books so I want to go bookshopping with Stephen Colgan now Stephen Colgan is I don't know whether you call him Indy's kind of a hybrid author I guess he's actually local to me he's being to my spoken word night for example he wrote a piece for an anthology I pulled together called either subject verb object so you know I've met him but we haven't actually gone bookshopping and we live really close to the cottage bookshop which I'll link to below oh guys really sad news update and I didn't know how to tell you this without doing a whole video on it you might remember a little while back I visited the cottage bookshop in Penn it's my most liked video on my channel and I was you know talking about how it's been there since the 1950s independently owned secondhand bookstore bookshop and yeah it's closing down it's really sad they can't find a buyer for it so though the guy needs to retire basically can't find a buyer and so yeah it's closing down so I'm gonna try and do one last visit and maybe I can do that one last visit with Stephen Colgan but yeah sad news I want an unlimited Q&A session with Stephen King who else are you gonna pick for this really I mean I could ask him on limited questions so I just think it would be a fantastic opportunity and any writer worth their salt would would kill pretty much I wouldn't kill because I'm a pacifist but you know I don't know I'd smuggle drugs but I wouldn't kill to me steep Stephen King is that weird because surely that's far that's better like you know people saying oh I'd kill for so and so and I'm just saying like I would smuggle drugs to do it and it actually makes it sound as though I'm genuinely considering you know oh well if I take some you know bring some bloody heroin out of Afghanistan then I'll get to go and see Stephen King because he runs the whole drug smuggling operation you see so that's that's how this hypothetical scenario works I'm gonna get rested I want to do brunch and memoses with JD Salinger and the reason I want to do that is because he's like the least brunch and some some some memoses not some oses those are a different thing imagine taking JD Salinger for brunch and memoses he would hate it it would be great okay I want to give the middle finger to Kenneth Singleton I don't know if you'll ever see this but basically he sent me his poetry collection for review a little while well years ago now really when I was first starting out my book blog and I gave him an honest review and I thought it wasn't very good and then he then sort of started trolling me by like posting fake reviews on my books and stuff you actually posted a fake review on one of my books from the same account he'd given himself a fake five star review from and you could go in and you could see that the wish list was kind of associated with Kenneth Singleton so you knew that it was him who did it so yeah I don't know I provide of service by accepting books for review and you know if a publisher sends me or an author sends me a book for review and I don't like it and I give it an honest review I kind of expect a certain amount of professionalism from them and he didn't he didn't give me that professionalism so I want to high five Todd the librarian I did see some people have kind of some people doing this have used booktubers for the answers and I wanted to do this solely using authors but Todd is an author so I thought this was a sneaky way of doing that so Todd if you're watching right 321 you're ready high five the screen we got this right 321 go did that work I want to tell Philip Pullman thank you for inspiring me I don't know if I need to say much more for this one really I guess he's just the author who really got me into reading and yeah just just thanks for the stories okay well I feel like I did a really bad version of this tag but whatever there are no more questions but I do want to tag three people so I am gonna tag I'm gonna tag Beth Chatt's books I'm gonna tag Lisa's West Coast reads and I believe that is the first time in my channel it's history where I've correctly used the S in Lisa's West Coast reads I usually just call her Lisa West Coast reads which probably really her noisers so I'm sorry Lisa and I'm gonna tag I'm gonna tag C.T. and I love to read as well because I haven't tagged her yet and her channel's cool so check it out and on that note thanks a lot for watching 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