Apparently this journal contains too much politics and not enough blow jobs

[alexsarll]

An agreeably teenage weekend there, from dancing to the Most Goth Song In The World (and several runners-up) at B Movie to suburban house party antics. I also found time to get a library assistant to contort himself in a window display in the furtherance of my Who novel habit, avoid a swarm of naked cyclists in Central London and drop in on wardytron Day for long enough to say my hellos and discuss tank-top etiquette with the birthday boy.

I've not seen Queer as Folk since it first aired, and it's interesting watching again in the light of Who, seeing Russell T Davies' stylistic tricks and tics more clearly now I know his destiny. It's also considerably more coherent than most of his Who has been, as I confirmed when I watched 'Bad Wolf' precisely 24 hours after its first transmission. The tape began in the midst of The Weakest Link, with some very strange looking contestants. Oh no!, think I, I've missed the start! Except this was the real Weakest Link, and those weren't future mutants, they were celebrity hairdressers! Anyway, the reality TV pastiches were as vexing as I'd expected, albeit with occasional moments of fun (the Doctor's sulky non-compliance, Captain Jack preening and pulling a laser quite literally out of his @rse). And I did like the occasional geek nods - Grexnik! The planet Lucifer! But really, this was all pretty poor until we got up to Floor 500. And as for having Rose shot (but not really!) AGAIN - leave it aht!
Still, it all kicks off nicely once you get the Controller fighting her programming, and then that reveal of the fleet. The face-off between the Doctor and the Daleks was quality (I enjoyed their apparent inability to understand the word 'No' - is the EU another of their schemes?) But even here, there were problems. Why the blazes didn't they kill Rose once the Doctor refused, or at least start converting her into a Dalek, which is presumably the motive for the abductions? Why are the Daleks even playing a game this convoluted? "Doesn't it just scare you to death?" Yes, Russell, it does. I think you may well have blown this.
On a note which may or may not be related, if you watch Duckula in your late twenties, you suddenly notice a lot of plot holes which eluded you at a younger age.

At a loss for what to do with the parents in the remotest South yesterday, we ended up in Carshalton Park and Sutton Ecology Centre yesterday; the latter in particular was ace simply because they had a baby moorhen. This is essentially a small black lump of fluff with a beak, which suddenly develops huge legs once on land. They are so cute that even ducklings look comparatively non-cute afterwards.

You know that RAF chap in the Metro who'd broken his neck without realising? That happened to my grandfather too, and I believe that was while he was flying Lancasters. Oh, and as regards his father, Tiger - I now have the biography on disc.

I must and shall see Courtney Love as Caligula.

I have a great deal of time for Simon Hoggart, but was nonetheless pleasantly surprised to see a Guardian columnist bucking the ubiquitous and inexplicable respect in which Tony Benn is held.

Comments

[johnnyvertigen.livejournal.com]

It's becoming fairly obvious how the Daleks are back and all, and I suppose it explains why they're being so silly with reality TV.
First time I've seen Captain Jack. Vain gun toting chap who tries to pull everything that moves, I approve.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I assume only a few Daleks survived, and the rest have been built from the dead contestants. 100 years, 100 games going at once...that soon adds up.

Jack is indeed ace on toast. He even copped a feel of one of the android's breasts!

[johnnyvertigen.livejournal.com]

I think they were built up from nothing. I could say more but I don't want to spoiler if I'm right.

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

More than a hundred years, presumably, if they were the ones behind the Jagrawhatsit.

Can Daleks time-travel? Course, they can if RTD says they can, but could they before?

[shewho.livejournal.com]

which is the most goth song in the world?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Bauhaus' 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'.

[razorcheekbones.livejournal.com]

Where are the blow jobs?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It is the policy of this journal to acknowledge significant complaints, but not necessarily to accomodate their requests.

[razorcheekbones.livejournal.com]

Whoever said that has a point, you know. Give the people what they want.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

On a note which may or may not be related, if you watch Duckula in your late twenties, you suddenly notice a lot of plot holes which eluded you at a younger age.

Don't destroy my childhood, Sarll. I won't stand for it. Duckula was ACE.

I'm sad. Now that I've seen Cap'n Jack pull a laser from his @rse, as you so nobly put it, I don't have anything left to look forwards to. Woe. Angst. Etc.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, Duckula is still *fun*, certainly. But watching it yesterday morning we gradually realised how little sense it made. And that for some reason David Jason was talking with an accent more transatlantic than Transylvanian.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

David Jason again? I knew there was something connecting Dangermouse and Duckula besides the art style. How bizarre.

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

It's all worth it for the "Who?" "Ra!" "And Upshee rises!" line, though.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

moorhens rock my world.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Coots are good too. There were some of them building their nest!

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

coots are good! i spent the weekend back home, here:



where it was coot and moorhen meltdown, not to mention the presence of a hungry pike and a laissez-faire grass snake!
hurrah for the midlands!

[capitalflash.livejournal.com]

bisexuality in a family sci-fi show is the way to go.

are mini moorhens as cute as these cootlets?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I know! In the next generation, pervy geeks will be THE MAINSTREAM. \m/

The baby moorhen was cuter still than those cootlets.

[cosmolinguist]

The celebrity hairdresser Weakest Link was actually hilarious. I don't even like that show usually, but I enjoyed that one because everyone was so incredibly stupid. They didn't seem to understand how the show worked at all, banking no money whatsoever in the first three or four rounds, and voting off people based more on who looked weird or had slagged them off in a magazine than on whether they were any good. And they consistently couldn't answer questions like "What's 10% of 100?" Inevitably, when we got to Doctor Who, it made stealthmunchkin's dad say that it'd be nice if the hairdressers had been the ones getting zapped.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Except if they're really being transmatted off to be turned into Daleks, I really don't want to have Earth invaded by DALEK HAIRDRESSERS.

[cosmolinguist]

Well, yes, but this is back when we thought they were just being disintegrated.

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

I am disturbed that I can't think of any hairdressing-related words that end in -ATE. There damn well should be a hairdressing-Dalek pun.

[gregjames.livejournal.com]

'if you watch Duckula in your late twenties, you suddenly notice a lot of plot holes which eluded you at a younger age.'

Yes but the appalling puns and wordplay are still 1st class of a 2nd class order.

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Hoggart has had goes at Tony Benn quite a few times; he sees him as the ultimate Upper-Class Socialist, always lecturing people.

I also have time for Hoggart but I don't quite agree that being 20 is an excuse for worshiping mass murderers. 14 perhaps. 20, no.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think either's more excuse than doing it throughout a long political career, though.