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Feb. 9th, 2007 07:13 pmStill debating whether B Movie is a good idea. I am feeling much livelier for grub and tea, but underlying that there remains a great weariness, not helped by the temporal anomaly which caused this afternoon to last at least five weeks. Anybody wants to convince me one way or the other, do your damnedest.
edit: Right, I'm going - as soon as I've finished this cup of tea, done my teeth, got changed and touched up my nails.
Well wrap me in ribbons and call me Elektra, it's the real Daredevil! Non-comics readers might get more out of this story if they approach it under the heading "Why the so-called 'blind' are just plain lazy".
(Back to the comics, though - was this week's 52 unusually dull, or is it just that it's the first one I've read sober in a while?)
Seems strange to have Anna Nicole Smith and Ian Richardson check out within such a short space of time - and why am I getting such severe deja vu typing that? - since in pretty much every respect, they were polar opposites. And yet, they were both people I liked having around the planet. His end seems far less sad, though - not only because he was so much older, but because the last role in which he was seen before the end was as Death, in Hogfather. What better preparation could there be?
I've been rather enjoying the vaguely St Etienne, pastoral-tinged pop album from The Bird & the Bee lately, but was surprised to learn from Popjustice that one of the band's members has also been working with everyone from Lily Allen to Stefy on various other tracks I've liked lately (and yes, he was also involved with that All Saints single but hey, everybody makes mistakes). Good old Popjustice. Though I vigorously dispute their assertion that "Like 'Love Shack' by The B-52s, 'Come On Eileen' by Dexys Midnight Runners and 'Dancing Queen' by Abba, 'I'm Too Sexy' is a terrible song which makes it very difficult to persuade anyone that a lot of the-band-in-question's back catalogue is JUST COMPLETELY BRILLIANT." None of those songs are even remotely terrible - they're just so overplayed that until you know the band's other material, you can't hear them as the songs they actually are because they set off too many other triggers the second they start. 'Come On Eileen', in particular, stands comparison with any of the high points in Dexys' oeuvre, and they don't come much higher than that.
Now that even the BBC are analysing the catastrophic mis-step in the UK casting of the Mac/PC ads, I was moved to check out the CVs of the originals. And what do you know, their PC is otherwise best known for appearances on The Daily Show, which is pretty cool in my book. Meanwhile you may have seen Mac as the geeky Trekkie-analogue in Galaxy Quest, the channel boss' psycho son in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy and the rather hopeless Justin in Dodgeball. None of them quite so hateful as Jez, perhaps, but still hardly role models, are they?
edit: Right, I'm going - as soon as I've finished this cup of tea, done my teeth, got changed and touched up my nails.
Well wrap me in ribbons and call me Elektra, it's the real Daredevil! Non-comics readers might get more out of this story if they approach it under the heading "Why the so-called 'blind' are just plain lazy".
(Back to the comics, though - was this week's 52 unusually dull, or is it just that it's the first one I've read sober in a while?)
Seems strange to have Anna Nicole Smith and Ian Richardson check out within such a short space of time - and why am I getting such severe deja vu typing that? - since in pretty much every respect, they were polar opposites. And yet, they were both people I liked having around the planet. His end seems far less sad, though - not only because he was so much older, but because the last role in which he was seen before the end was as Death, in Hogfather. What better preparation could there be?
I've been rather enjoying the vaguely St Etienne, pastoral-tinged pop album from The Bird & the Bee lately, but was surprised to learn from Popjustice that one of the band's members has also been working with everyone from Lily Allen to Stefy on various other tracks I've liked lately (and yes, he was also involved with that All Saints single but hey, everybody makes mistakes). Good old Popjustice. Though I vigorously dispute their assertion that "Like 'Love Shack' by The B-52s, 'Come On Eileen' by Dexys Midnight Runners and 'Dancing Queen' by Abba, 'I'm Too Sexy' is a terrible song which makes it very difficult to persuade anyone that a lot of the-band-in-question's back catalogue is JUST COMPLETELY BRILLIANT." None of those songs are even remotely terrible - they're just so overplayed that until you know the band's other material, you can't hear them as the songs they actually are because they set off too many other triggers the second they start. 'Come On Eileen', in particular, stands comparison with any of the high points in Dexys' oeuvre, and they don't come much higher than that.
Now that even the BBC are analysing the catastrophic mis-step in the UK casting of the Mac/PC ads, I was moved to check out the CVs of the originals. And what do you know, their PC is otherwise best known for appearances on The Daily Show, which is pretty cool in my book. Meanwhile you may have seen Mac as the geeky Trekkie-analogue in Galaxy Quest, the channel boss' psycho son in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy and the rather hopeless Justin in Dodgeball. None of them quite so hateful as Jez, perhaps, but still hardly role models, are they?
