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I won't behave I won't be liberated
Nov. 30th, 2004 11:12 amThe Monarch is a much more pleasant venue when it's not full of fashionsuckers. We're there to see The Cling Transparent Things Seeing Scarlet. I still miss the sax, but Charlie is (alongside ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drummygirl) one of the very few drummers I actually find interesting to watch. The change of name has again been accompanied by a tweaking of the material rather than a wholesale reinvention, but after the 'Beginner's Guide to kendallrock' feature in the Barfly rag we found downstairs, I again find myself wondering why they're not bigger. Everyone who sees them these days seems to like them, and smart boys playing guitars in London are so hot right now.
The Guardian's Saturday magazine was 16 this weekend, and so it took an interest in 16 year olds usually reserved for more...*specialist* publications. Most of their survey results were fairly predictable, but there was one bit which surprised me:
"Which of the following best describes your sexual persuasion?
Heterosexual 85% (boys 80%, girls 89%).
Bisexual 4% (boys 6%, girls 2%).
Gay/lesbian 1% (boys 2%, girls 1%).
Don't know 10% (boys 12%, girls 8%)."
Maybe I just know a deeply unrepresentative group of people, but to have boys outnumber girls in every category except hetero was the exact opposite of what I'd expected.
In dismissing Sunday on yesterday's entry, I forgot to note that I'd seen The Mummy Returns. Not a great film, perhaps, but a great blockbuster. Certainly it has anachronisms (the child's dialogue is all wrong for an interbellum English brat) and redundancies of plot (having the child get kidnapped while they're rescuing the kidnapped mother reeks of some of the over-extended Doctor Who serials) but it is fun without being intellectually insulting, and makes good use both of the under-rated Brendan Fraser and the lovely, lovely Rachel Weisz. Which makes it all the more puzzling that, working along similar action/horror lines, the same director could then produce the execrable Van Helsing.
drummygirl) one of the very few drummers I actually find interesting to watch. The change of name has again been accompanied by a tweaking of the material rather than a wholesale reinvention, but after the 'Beginner's Guide to kendallrock' feature in the Barfly rag we found downstairs, I again find myself wondering why they're not bigger. Everyone who sees them these days seems to like them, and smart boys playing guitars in London are so hot right now. The Guardian's Saturday magazine was 16 this weekend, and so it took an interest in 16 year olds usually reserved for more...*specialist* publications. Most of their survey results were fairly predictable, but there was one bit which surprised me:
"Which of the following best describes your sexual persuasion?
Heterosexual 85% (boys 80%, girls 89%).
Bisexual 4% (boys 6%, girls 2%).
Gay/lesbian 1% (boys 2%, girls 1%).
Don't know 10% (boys 12%, girls 8%)."
Maybe I just know a deeply unrepresentative group of people, but to have boys outnumber girls in every category except hetero was the exact opposite of what I'd expected.
In dismissing Sunday on yesterday's entry, I forgot to note that I'd seen The Mummy Returns. Not a great film, perhaps, but a great blockbuster. Certainly it has anachronisms (the child's dialogue is all wrong for an interbellum English brat) and redundancies of plot (having the child get kidnapped while they're rescuing the kidnapped mother reeks of some of the over-extended Doctor Who serials) but it is fun without being intellectually insulting, and makes good use both of the under-rated Brendan Fraser and the lovely, lovely Rachel Weisz. Which makes it all the more puzzling that, working along similar action/horror lines, the same director could then produce the execrable Van Helsing.
