"I don't have a type, darling" said Danny, whose Utopian policy was to have everyone once.

[alexsarll]

By now you've all doubtless seen 357 different links to the 'proof' that today is the most depressing day. For a Monday, mine's going fairly well thus far. In your face, Science!

Though part of the good mood came when I learnt that Roger Avary - whose Rules of Attraction I adore - and Neil Gaiman are doing a film of Beowulf. The whole story. "As far as Roger and I were concerned, the last act of Beowulf, an old king at the end of the Age of Heroes, was the key to the whole story". Except then I read back a little further and see that Robert "Polar Express" Zemeckis is directing it, rather than Avary, and suddenly 24/1 doom does seem a little closer.

Kids, I never thought I'd say it, but I've finally found evidence of talent on the part of Peter Doherty. And he looks much healthier in that picture too, doesn't he?

Not that I think it's actually likely to do any good, but NTK alerted me to two sites where one can register one's opposition to the idiotic Olympic bid: http://www.hackthebid.org/ and http://www.nolondon2012.org/

Why Michelangelo's David has such a small weapon.

In an article about baboons which only understand French, a zoo manager says ""Obviously, they don't understand the word as such, but it's the sound they recognise." What's to stop her from applying the same logic to the humans with whom she communicates?

Comments

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

Rules of Attraction (the film) is rub! In the book Sean and Lauren get together!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Having read American Psycho, and then seen the film version which was a vast improvement, I decided to stick with the adaptations of BEE from there on in. As such, I cannot comment on any discrepancies; I just think it's a great film in its own right. Also, it has a really foxy cast.

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

I suppose the dancing to 'Faith' scene does make me p*ss myself laughing.

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Gah, I saw some tube seats covered in special "back the bid" fabric this week-end. My eyes!

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

In garish yellow! Doesn't it look awful?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Even the blue they're using on the buses, a blue I'd otherwise like, offends my sight when it has these associations.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many more of those icky seats they could have resurfaced if they'd used plain fabric?
Such a fvcking waste.

[innerbrat]

It's a source of amusement for me that art analysts devote so much time to that.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a fairly glaring issue!

[innerbrat]

It doesn't glare at me. I happen to like the chestiness and the abiness of the guy. That's the last thing I look at because they're all fugly.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You know those fridge magnet kits they do where one can put tight trousers on David? He looks ace like that. In fact, I think tight trousers & bare torso is one of the best ways to show off male bodies.

[innerbrat]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

*cough*

I mean, I agree with you totally about that point you made just there about aesthetics.
Art. We're talking about art. Art. Totally art. In conclusion: Art.

(especially from behind where one can get an eyeful of bum)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Aesthetically speaking, yes. Mmmmm.

[innerbrat]

*wonders if we're convincing anyone*

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

[is fairly certain we're not]

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

what, like this you mean?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/soulfluff/418536.html

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

He needs to pluck his eyebrows, but otherwise, yes.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

he's a gayer as well, but unfortunately is rather more geographically challenged than most.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Jesus Sarll, (ok, not er, the livejournal user of the same name, no no), what the fuck is going on here, is this a BLOG or something? Does someone not have a lot of work to do?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm doing the salsa venues, which is productive yet also makes my brain melt if I don't take frequent breaks.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Has the Loughborough Hotel featured yet?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

No, I think we get occasional big events there but this is just the little bar ones scattered around London. Next up@ Torture Garden, whose new flyer has a severed c0ck on it.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Gosh. How erotic. Do stop it. I'm getting carried away with excitement. Ooh. Missus.

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

2000AD Peter Doherty is a top chap.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It all rather disproves Pa Shandy's idea that names define character and fortune, doesn't it?

[azureskies.livejournal.com]

Robert "Polar Express" Zemeckis

Sure, but... he's also Robert "Back To The Future" Zemeckis. I mean, you might as well say Ridley "GJ Jane" Scott, or Steven "Amistad" Spielberg...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I'm going by recent work over something a decade ago, which seems fair; similarly, the modern Spielberg would indeed fill me with dread. Zemeckis hasn't made a decent film since Death Becomes Her, just a bunch of schmaltz, most of it starring Tom Fvcking Hanks. Who will probably now play Beowulf too. Grrr.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Today's a pretty depressing day - we just had to have one of our cats put down :-(

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I'd been hoping she'd pull through.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Out of interest, apart from your dislike of sport, do you have any other objections to the Olympics being held in London?

My view is that we don't deserve them (and they should go to a country and/or city which has never had them before) and we would probably make a pig's ear of the organisation, infrastructure, transport etc. However, anything which sees urban regeneration, possible improvements to our rail/tube system, more houses being built, more police on the streets etc has its benefits. Certainly the money ploughed into Manchester before and after it held the Commonwealth Games has made the city look much plusher in so many places, and you cannever have too many cinema multiplexes, possibly.

Other objections:

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It will cost a bomb, and most of that will come from council tax levies. Yes, we'll allegedly profit in the long term - but much of that supposed 'profit' is the Olympic facilities. None of which I want. As for the transport improvements, we should be getting those for their own sake. If it's for the Olympics then they will inevitably over-run; what will actually happen is that our transport and streets will be even more crowded than they already are with moronic tourist peons who stand on the left of escalators.
And ultimately, London is already a world city. We don't *need* something like this to draw people here.