First one to scarper's an atomic ponce!

[alexsarll]

They were actually checking tickets at Finny P station this morning; it slowed things down so badly that I initially assumed the station was closed. Oh, and while we're on the topic, the ruddy peons have gone and closed the Wells Terrace cash machines! I am not best impressed.

Let's be frank, I only went to the Abigail Hopkins show because she has ksta on cello. But I did rather enjoy it. Initially, I felt the voice (not unlike that of Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick) was better than the material, and she's be great if only Nick Cave would write something for her. But the last two songs, once she stopped doing love and got on to rarer topics like bees and sailors, they were a lot better. And it wasn't until after that I found out why there were so many photographers for a small gig - she's only bloody Sir Anthony Hopkins' daughter, isn't she?
The act after her caused hospitalsoup and I to turn to each other and simultaneously say "Stereophonics!", and we felt that a quiet pub would be a better venue to continue with the evening's main attraction - merciless mockery of poor souls who really didn't deserve it, and of beingjdc who blatantly does.

If you've ever felt that an increasing proportion of the UK's population are b@st@rds, it has now been proven by Science.

I know almost nothing of the work of Buster Keaton; if I were to start with one of Three Ages, College and Steamboat Bill Jr, which should it be?

Have I mentioned recently that I really want a direwolf? Well, I really want a direwolf.

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[thermaland.livejournal.com]

I'd be quite interested in going to see a Buster Keaton film, I haven't seen any in over sixteen years at least and can't remember which are the good ones. Might there be an outing there or do you already have plans?

(Note how I carefully avoid asking what a "direwolf" is.)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Regrettably-extinct giant wolf, since you (didn't) ask. The ones in A Song of Ice and Fire seem to me to be pretty much the ideal pet.

The Keaton films have materialised in the DVD cupboard; I don't really have space to host a viewing myself but if anyone else does, I can supply the discs - or I could just lend you one briefly.

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. I thought this was about the festival; they're showing his stuff somewhere or other presently. I doubt there would be much demand for a home viewing.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I imagine the DVD issue and the screening are both part of an effort to mark the same anniversary or similar, then.

[thermaland.livejournal.com]

Have you got them as freebies then? How come you need to choose? Or are you just asking in what order to watch them?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

DVD cupboard != freebox; the former is a library of sorts, except the DVDs are free and it's only five feet from my desk. But yes, deciding what order is itself a quandary given the massive backlog of Stuff To Watch I have.

Kasia = Cathy

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/articles/21778440?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

Re: Kasia = Cathy

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ah, the quality journalism we've come to expect from the Standard.

I vaguely knew a junior Patten and a new Minghella at Cambridge.

Re: Kasia = Cathy

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

I only went to uni with grandsons of dictators and Islamic militants

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

[i]Steamboat Bill Jr[/i] is probably my favourite of those, though it's been a long time since I saw [i]Three Ages[/i]. I saw [i]Steamboat[/i] again a couple of weeks ago and it's still magnificent, an slightly bizzare escalation of calamity that really points the way for the people who took Keaton's work and ran with it, like Jackie Chan.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I shall bear that in mind.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm not getting my tags right at all today.