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It's always summer in the songs
Feb. 6th, 2006 11:45 amIf you'd told me two months ago that I'd be in Kilburn, watching Scritti Politti (with a line-up featuring ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhodri) covering Jeru the Damaja, I'd have been surprised. I probably wouldn't have disbelieved you, because I'll believe most anything these days. But I would have been surprised. Though likely not half so surprised as rhodri would have been if you'd told him, of course. ( Read more... )
Stay Beautiful was even more fun, but that was very much in spite of the band. Really, what was the point of them?
Most impressed with The IT Crowd - and unlike my regrettably positive initial reaction to Hyperdrive, I'm sure I was sober this time. It's not reinventing the sitcom, it's not even quite as funny as Black Books, but that still leaves it far funnier than 99% of sitcoms, especially when the infallible Chris Morris is on screen. Similarly, Belle de Jour is not the best book ever written, nor even particularly shocking, but it's a pleasant enough light read, and I really needes something to cleanse the palate, a short book in which nobody dies.
( They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers )
That Maxim ad, where the two men pretend to gay up to get rid of their girlfriends? Somebody's grasp of female psychology is deeply outdated. But then, I suppose we are talking about Maxim.
Let's say you're walking along a beach, and you happen across a message in a bottle - you'd be excited, wouldn't you? That something like that still happens, and that you've just found one! Unless you're this joyless sod, who instead decided to write and tell the sender off for littering.
rhodri) covering Jeru the Damaja, I'd have been surprised. I probably wouldn't have disbelieved you, because I'll believe most anything these days. But I would have been surprised. Though likely not half so surprised as rhodri would have been if you'd told him, of course. ( Read more... )Stay Beautiful was even more fun, but that was very much in spite of the band. Really, what was the point of them?
Most impressed with The IT Crowd - and unlike my regrettably positive initial reaction to Hyperdrive, I'm sure I was sober this time. It's not reinventing the sitcom, it's not even quite as funny as Black Books, but that still leaves it far funnier than 99% of sitcoms, especially when the infallible Chris Morris is on screen. Similarly, Belle de Jour is not the best book ever written, nor even particularly shocking, but it's a pleasant enough light read, and I really needes something to cleanse the palate, a short book in which nobody dies.
( They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers )
That Maxim ad, where the two men pretend to gay up to get rid of their girlfriends? Somebody's grasp of female psychology is deeply outdated. But then, I suppose we are talking about Maxim.
Let's say you're walking along a beach, and you happen across a message in a bottle - you'd be excited, wouldn't you? That something like that still happens, and that you've just found one! Unless you're this joyless sod, who instead decided to write and tell the sender off for littering.
