I Ate His Brain...Lovely

[alexsarll]

When you go into the newsagent for the new 2000AD and almost pick up a tabloid simply because its headline would be right at home on the 2000AD cover, you know it's going to be a good day.

I may be Winter's child, but I still get a little spring in my step the first time each year that I leave work in the gloaming rather than the dark. The Jugged Hare is just down the road from my work, so obviously I'm the first there; I settle in with a Mark Gatiss novel*, hook the other chairs under the table and start projecting my best Don't Even Think About These Chairs baffles. I like the Jugged Hare; it may not have as much old world elegance as it likes to think it has, but at least it has some.
Eventually dr_shatterhand and the Unblogged roll in; as you might expect when Cambridge alumni are gathered together, talk is of the finer things in life, such as how best to write one's debut novel, commuting by ferry, and scrumpy toxicity. We're all class. I am not entirely sure how events progressed after I left, but this morning mail from those present includes the Five Stages of Drinking, which I think I've mentioned to several people recently.

It was only an incidental detail, but in my dream last night the Guardian had a sizeable piece on Philip Jeays, tied in to an upcoming television special. That was a fine world.

I note that while the Catholic Church has spoken out against The Da Vinci Code, they have said nothing about previous iterations of the 'Jesus' bloodline survives' idea, such as The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail et al. Now, I realise there's no particular reason the Catholic Church should share my sense of humour, but personally I would delight in the public debunking of a story which had a few details wrong...while saying nothing about how much of it was right. As such, I choose to believe that this means Preacher is a true story.

Isn't it strange how rapidly and how badly the hits of UK garage's heyday have aged? It's like the false grail scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

*The Vesuvius Club is, thus far, extremely entertaining, and distinctly reminiscent of the early days of this journal. For best results, imagine it all being read in Gatiss' voice.

Comments

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

coo - this means Dogma is true as well, then.
I <3 Silent Bob

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

So do I, but while I enjoyed that film, I still reckon it's the most flawed of Kevin Smith's Askewniverse films.

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

I still think it's slightly better than Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. C'mon! It has Alan Rickman!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

...playing Frankie Howerd.
I love J&SBSB because, like Mallrats, it doesn't try too hard. Even Chasing Amy lapses a little too far into preachiness at times.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

more than slightly better in my opinion, but then J&SB strick back has that van full of hot women which may be swaying Barry's opinion somewhat

[intermix.livejournal.com]

Hello. You Rock :)

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

nooooo! how could Damon and Affleck in angel costumes be wrong?
and Rickman as the Metatron was just genius

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They were great, yes, but there was too much undigested exposition, too many Issue speeches - as when we get almost identical 'women in Bible' and 'race in Bible' speeches pretty much next to each other.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Matt... Da-Mon.

Sorry. I caught a bit of the Empire Awards last night and every time Mr Damon came on screen (frequently), myself and TM did the Team America: World Police "Mettt... Daaamonnnn...." voice. Hehe.

mmm butterbranes

[violentbec.livejournal.com]

i heard that story on el radio this morning. it was very confusing for my perr noggin.

Re: mmm butterbranes

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Not as confusing as it would have been had several of your lobes been munched by a mentalist, dude.

Re: mmm butterbranes

[violentbec.livejournal.com]

radio 4 woman kept stressing he et the branes cooked in butter, as if that made it worse.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

"Isn't it strange how rapidly and how badly the hits of UK garage's heyday have aged? It's like the false grail scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

you're the only music critic i understand!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I speak to the Kidz in the language they understand. Word.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

They never denounce the Bible though, do they? Even though bits of it actually read like they were researched by Brown.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

And even though, lest we forget, the FIRST TWO STORIES IN IT DIRECTLY CONTRADICT EACH OTHER.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

But then these people run around worshiping crosses and statues of a lady. I think the instruction section of the manual explicitly says that this is right out.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Oh - and I think they were quite terse about The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail at the time. I was at convent school when it came out and I remember being told not to ever read it.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I assume you promptly read it cover to cover?

If so, you have my sympathies.

[diamond-geyser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, can I borrow that book when you've finished please?
(I can't just keep reading funny tomes about socialism...)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it is not mine, but Westminster Libraries'.

[diamond-geyser.livejournal.com]

Pah. They don't do a pub delivery service.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Where does one go, whether intentionally or not, to hear a garage record thse days?

Barring a Sneaker Pimps remix, I never liked anything from the genre, really. More drum n bass, please.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I was listening to an old NME CD which had the one Oxide & Neutrino track I used to like, except now it just sounded so...*weak*. So I whacked on '21 Seconds', and the same thing had happened to that.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sweet Like Chocolate? That one was OK.