alexsarll | So what are you getting out of this, kicks?

Thanks to a heads-up from spelling martyr

strange_powers, I am now in possession of the 2-disc American DVD of Anchorman. And it turns out that my DVD player was Region 1 capable all along, it just didn't know it. I am choosing to regard this not only as good news in itself, but as foreshadowing for the point in the story where I finally work out what my superhuman powers are.
Wake-Up Ron Burgundy [sic] isn't so much the sequel it claims to be, as an alternate version. Clearly they were just having so much fun filming that they kept on going and wedged it all together into semi-coherent, loosely plotted movies afterwards. Essentially, if you liked Anchorman you will like this too; and if you didn't, you won't, but since you are clearly a bad person, I hope you end up watching it anyway. Also, Chuck D is in it.

Some people complain about supermarket loyalty cards. These people are, for the most part, not acclimatised to modern life. They fear The Man knowing what they're doing in and of itself. In Tesco I pondered whether I needed any spreadable butter, but decided that it could wait 'til the next shop. At the counter, with my receipt, I got a clubcard voucher for money off spreadable butter. The computer knows exactly how long it takes me to get through a tub of butter, and gives me a coupon when I need another one. How can this be a bad thing?

12 Angry Men's one of those films I should probably have seen sooner. Its reputation is richly deserved, and I enjoyed it all the more for it being a message movie that didn't overstate its message. There's no epilogue where we see another killer brought in for the crime, not even any mention of another suspect. We know for certain that the film ends with a murderer at large, and it may well be the defendant Henry Fonda has just fought so hard to acquit. But the point is that they couldn't prove that beyond reasonable doubt, because the witnesses were confused or self-aggrandising and the defence lawyer couldn't give a toss. This is not a film about how the legal system serves justice; it's a film about the exact nature of the lesser evil with which we content ourselves. And then add in the reality that most jury rooms probably don't have a Henry Fonda (who, in his white suit, could almost be a Frank Capra angel - especially since, like the other jurors, he spends most of the film nameless, somehow abstract), that in most juries those hesitant 'guilty' hands would have stayed up, that most Lee J Cobbs don't have their final moment of crisis and redemption...it's all very unsettling. I wonder how deliberate that was?

I always thought of dingy pubs and shady alleyways as the best place to arrange a hit, but this tragic individual seems to have set up a Livejournal expressly to solicit the deaths of

nicklocking and

anw. It's an innovative approach, I'll give him that.

The Vichy Government and The Free French play the Water Rats tonight. Vichy are on first, at 8.30; are there any pubbing plans between 6.30 and then? Because going home and then out again seems like a bit of a faff.

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atommickbrane.livejournal.com

Well, I'm planning on Calthorpe Arms just down the road because going home and then out again seems like a bit of a faff. GHATOASLABOAF?

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barrysarll.livejournal.com

Is that one of the more obscure deities of the Cthulhu Mythos?

I am unfamiliar with this Calthorpe Arms of which you speak.

From:

atommickbrane.livejournal.com

It's just further down Grays Inn Road: fap link. (Although my friends are changing their minds now and want somewhere central-ish - would that do you?)

So what are you getting out of this, kicks?

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