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[alexsarll]

Still debating whether B Movie is a good idea. I am feeling much livelier for grub and tea, but underlying that there remains a great weariness, not helped by the temporal anomaly which caused this afternoon to last at least five weeks. Anybody wants to convince me one way or the other, do your damnedest.
edit: Right, I'm going - as soon as I've finished this cup of tea, done my teeth, got changed and touched up my nails.

Well wrap me in ribbons and call me Elektra, it's the real Daredevil! Non-comics readers might get more out of this story if they approach it under the heading "Why the so-called 'blind' are just plain lazy".
(Back to the comics, though - was this week's 52 unusually dull, or is it just that it's the first one I've read sober in a while?)

Seems strange to have Anna Nicole Smith and Ian Richardson check out within such a short space of time - and why am I getting such severe deja vu typing that? - since in pretty much every respect, they were polar opposites. And yet, they were both people I liked having around the planet. His end seems far less sad, though - not only because he was so much older, but because the last role in which he was seen before the end was as Death, in Hogfather. What better preparation could there be?

I've been rather enjoying the vaguely St Etienne, pastoral-tinged pop album from The Bird & the Bee lately, but was surprised to learn from Popjustice that one of the band's members has also been working with everyone from Lily Allen to Stefy on various other tracks I've liked lately (and yes, he was also involved with that All Saints single but hey, everybody makes mistakes). Good old Popjustice. Though I vigorously dispute their assertion that "Like 'Love Shack' by The B-52s, 'Come On Eileen' by Dexys Midnight Runners and 'Dancing Queen' by Abba, 'I'm Too Sexy' is a terrible song which makes it very difficult to persuade anyone that a lot of the-band-in-question's back catalogue is JUST COMPLETELY BRILLIANT." None of those songs are even remotely terrible - they're just so overplayed that until you know the band's other material, you can't hear them as the songs they actually are because they set off too many other triggers the second they start. 'Come On Eileen', in particular, stands comparison with any of the high points in Dexys' oeuvre, and they don't come much higher than that.

Now that even the BBC are analysing the catastrophic mis-step in the UK casting of the Mac/PC ads, I was moved to check out the CVs of the originals. And what do you know, their PC is otherwise best known for appearances on The Daily Show, which is pretty cool in my book. Meanwhile you may have seen Mac as the geeky Trekkie-analogue in Galaxy Quest, the channel boss' psycho son in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy and the rather hopeless Justin in Dodgeball. None of them quite so hateful as Jez, perhaps, but still hardly role models, are they?

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[baphomette.livejournal.com]

"Trekkie-analogue in Galaxy Quest, the channel boss' psycho son in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy and the rather hopeless Justin in Dodgeball"

That has to be the first time anyone on my friends list has listed three films I've seen.

And I STILL don't know who you mean.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

NB you know Wake Up, Ron Burgundy is the offcuts film, right? He's not in Anchorman proper.

Justin is the scrawny one who wants to be a cheerleader. The Trekkie is at home and his mum makes him take the 'trash' out while he's attempting to help Our Heroes save the world.

I hadn't previously realised they were the same actor either, tbh.

[baphomette.livejournal.com]

Of course. pirateiain bought it off ebay ages ago.

I think I know who you mean now. But I'm picturing his face in something else, arrrgh damnit, it's IMDB time.

[baphomette.livejournal.com]

One of the actors in Dodgeball is called Rip Torn.

/ distraction.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's quite big (hence the tearing, &c) but I still find his name hilarious.

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Come to BMovie! Jo and I are going if you wanted to get a cab back with us or anything.

[exliontamer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, come to B-Movie or, erm, we'll beat you up or something.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

See, if anything you're being counterproductive there because if nothing else, that's a rather amusing image.

[exliontamer.livejournal.com]

By "amusing" you surely mean "fearsome"? Etc.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Anyway, what's this you say about wearing red?

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Theme is Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, thusly.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Here endeth my shirt indecision.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You incline me somewhat in its favour. What time you likely to get there?

[exliontamer.livejournal.com]

Marvellous. We are planning on getting there between 10 and 11.

[glam-razzle.livejournal.com]

I was about to say "brilliant, thanks for the link old sport" and all that and "hurrah, I finally know which one is Mitchell and which one is Webb".. and in the time it took me to press "post a new comment" I have entirely forgotten which one is which again.. curse my feeble brain! I was going to stick one of the adverts up out of the paper as I have a PC and Lauren a Mac, but hell, I love my computer.. and when Lauren oh so wanted to get onto the iTunes music store would her beloved Mac do it?

Nope.

[Smug] x

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm actually pretty neutral on the core issue - I used Macs at work for a while and really didn't notice that much difference.

I mainly remember it by alliteration ie Mitchell plays Mark.

[glam-razzle.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Alliteration I can remember!
I don't think there's much difference, I've just only used a Mac about twice in my life! (It was quite funny Lauren asking me where the apple button on my pc was though..) xxxxx

[oneofthose.livejournal.com]

'Come On Eileen', in particular, stands comparison with any of the high points in Dexys' oeuvre, and they don't come much higher than that.

Trust me, I didn't let this one go in the office for a long time. But if Mr PJ has a weakness then it is his deciding something is rubbish due to over-exposure. Even though we regularly have to play 'hunt the remote' because he's put a CD single on repeat and it's taken us half an hour to realise we're not just listening to a very samey album!

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

Tim, did you watch Soul Britannia on BBC4 earlier? If you didn't (as I said in my actual comment to Alex) it's worth seeing.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Now you say that, I'm reminded - wasn't it PJ which ran the 'Stop Playing 'Hey Ya!'' campaign?

I once listened to the PSB version of 'Hallo Spaceboy' for a whole afternoon. It still stood up by the end of it.

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

the temporal anomaly which caused this afternoon to last at least five weeks

Amen brother, I think it was at least Londonwide. An email conversation this afternoon included -
David: God today is dragging.
Me: I know! I said that to Kerry about seventeen hours ago.

Regardless of how representative it is of them (does anyone need "introducing" to Abba?) I maintain that Dancing Queen is one of the truly cross-genre songs that you could put on at any event or club and fill the dancefloor. Kevin R was on a really fascinating BBC4 programme earlier called Soul Britannia. It seems to be continued next week but I suspect the best years have been covered (from the original Northern Soul to Specials era) and would highly recommend you seek out any repeat showing.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see it 'dropped' at a purist drum'n'bass night, for sure.

Have not seen any of that programme, or the earlier one about folk. It's something which I would like to see at some point in my life, but I don't feel now is that time, if that makes any sense?

Also, I will call you about this later if you don't see the comment first but a) am I right in recalling that you like Scarlet Blonde b) are you free this afternoon?

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

a) yes
b) free after the gay walk.

I know Scarlet Blonde were playing last night but it was in accursed Kilburn.

[bremxjones.livejournal.com]

For me, all three of those songs have passed over from being overplayed to some kind of Holy Place. Love Shack perhaps least, but I can rant about Eileen or Dancing Queen with the best of 'em.

KG

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

'Love Shack' came on at B Movie and I thought, I don't mind hearing this but I don't feel I need to hit the floor for it, because it'll be along again soon enough, at that night or another. Of course, had I already been out on the floor it would have been a different story.

And I did need to get into Dexys via Don't Stand Me Down and then hear 'Eileen' in its album context to strip it of all those wedding disco associations and really *hear* it.

'Dancing Queen' I don't think I even own, because...who needs to own their own copy of 'Dancing Queen'?

[bremxjones.livejournal.com]

My family background managed me to get into Dexys relatively easily, but I'll admit I never truly actively pursued them before that Unknown Pleasures piece on the front of the Maker pointed me towards Don't Stand Me Down.

And ditto on Dancing Queen.

KG

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That book got me into so many of the acts I now love - Magazine, Dexys, The Lexicon of Love, the Specials. And tonight I'm going to see the man whose pieces in there made me pay attention to the Go-Betweens and Cathal Coughlan playing in a country band with one of Jesus Jones.

[bremxjones.livejournal.com]

I don't have mine anymore, as I leant it to Plan B's publisher probably just shy of a decade ago and he's never returned it.

(I only got my copy of V for Vendetta back off him when I wandered into their London offices before Christmas and found it on his pile of stuff near his desk)

KG