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alexsarllHave you seen those new mobile ads? (I have one at each end of my daily Tube journey, because I'm a key demographic.) Have you realised that the consumer is Nathan Barley? New Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker/Boosh telegoodness - coming soon.
Newsnight read out some excerpts from Iraqi blogs last night. And you know what? They were *rubbish*. Not one humorous Oh, Ali! incident involving a socially awkward execution. None of them were even moved enough by the circumstances to exclaim 'OMG!'. Though is it 'OMA!' in Islamic countries?
This was after I returned home from the dress rehearsal of the new Kevin Spacey play, National Anthems. As a script, it's not a great play; the domestic idyll undermined by the awkward guest is old news, and this time the points don't go much beyond 'American football is better than owning lots of posh stuff', which is demonstrably false. But the performances...Kevin Spacey is a great actor, we all know that. But though I've never heard of Mary Stuart Masterson or Steven Weber, they're far more than foils. The latter in particular is very good, somewhere between an American Toby Stephens and Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman. I wouldn't want to watch an am-dram version of this play, but with these it's top stuff, and much funnier than the blurb makes it sound.
Channel 4 had Jacques Peretti narrating a rather droll documentary about seventies British blue movies, which among its other charms introduced![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
michael_winner with the line "Calm down dear, it's only a documentary!" As well as the standard shots of a gormlessly flustered Robin Askwith it made mention of such 'classics' as The Yellow Teddybears (based on a rumour of girls who wore the golly badges from Robinson's marmalade once they'd lost their virginity) and The Wife Swappers ("A GAME of MUSICAL CHAIRS - with BEDS!"), which starred Captain Bird's Eye. Oh, and Christopher Biggins. What kind of warped mind puts him in a sex film?
Tonight: The Vichy Government and luxembourg play the Windmill in Brixton. Yes, a show enticing enough that I'm heading south of the river for the second night in a row.
Newsnight read out some excerpts from Iraqi blogs last night. And you know what? They were *rubbish*. Not one humorous Oh, Ali! incident involving a socially awkward execution. None of them were even moved enough by the circumstances to exclaim 'OMG!'. Though is it 'OMA!' in Islamic countries?
This was after I returned home from the dress rehearsal of the new Kevin Spacey play, National Anthems. As a script, it's not a great play; the domestic idyll undermined by the awkward guest is old news, and this time the points don't go much beyond 'American football is better than owning lots of posh stuff', which is demonstrably false. But the performances...Kevin Spacey is a great actor, we all know that. But though I've never heard of Mary Stuart Masterson or Steven Weber, they're far more than foils. The latter in particular is very good, somewhere between an American Toby Stephens and Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman. I wouldn't want to watch an am-dram version of this play, but with these it's top stuff, and much funnier than the blurb makes it sound.
Channel 4 had Jacques Peretti narrating a rather droll documentary about seventies British blue movies, which among its other charms introduced
michael_winner with the line "Calm down dear, it's only a documentary!" As well as the standard shots of a gormlessly flustered Robin Askwith it made mention of such 'classics' as The Yellow Teddybears (based on a rumour of girls who wore the golly badges from Robinson's marmalade once they'd lost their virginity) and The Wife Swappers ("A GAME of MUSICAL CHAIRS - with BEDS!"), which starred Captain Bird's Eye. Oh, and Christopher Biggins. What kind of warped mind puts him in a sex film?Tonight: The Vichy Government and luxembourg play the Windmill in Brixton. Yes, a show enticing enough that I'm heading south of the river for the second night in a row.
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Date: 2005-02-01 11:12 am (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109198/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9YmFkIGdpcmxzfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=2;ft=24;fm=1
that said, i don't know why i figure that... girls and guns maybe? who can say...
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Date: 2005-02-01 11:24 am (UTC)good film, too!
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Date: 2005-02-01 11:34 am (UTC)I watched look around you - which was ace and reminded me of all the crap 1970's tv shows that were on around teatime when i was a kid. The ghost of Tchaikovsky lives!
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Date: 2005-02-01 11:41 am (UTC)Wasn't Mary Stuart Masterson in Benny and Joon?
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Date: 2005-02-01 12:12 pm (UTC)(Whilst I remember, if you have any concise PR-type info regarding your club night - details, manifesto, playlist etc - then by all means forward them to me and I will ensure that the night gets bigged up in the daily email music newswire I write for. It'll reach lots of people in the music/media industry, mind, so if you don't want that sort of filth attending...)
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Date: 2005-02-01 12:19 pm (UTC)Receive Holy Communion from Fr. Jamie Manners, Fr. Johnny Valentine, Sister Val and His Holiness Alex Sarll in an evening of music by: Adam Ant, Always, Associates, Auteurs, Beach Boys, Carpenters, Chic, Denim, Dexys, Divine Comedy, Duran, Dusty, Fosca, Four Tops, Gene Pitney, Gol Gappas, Human League, Jacques Brel, Josef K, Kid Creole, King of Luxembourg, Magnetic Fields, Microdisney, Momus, Monochrome Set, Morrissey, Orange Juice, Passage, Prefab Sprout, Pulp, Roxy Music, St Etienne, Sandie Shaw, Scott Walker, Shock-Headed Peters, Spandau, Style council, Supremes, Would-Be-Goods
Sunday 6 February at The Pleasure Unit, 259 Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green Tube), 7pm-12pm. Admission: free. All denominations welcome.
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