They're gonna hang me if I stay here and shoot me if I run

[alexsarll]

There were far, far too many things on offer last night, but I opted for the Prom (because it's so rare these days) and then Gloomy (because it's only down the road). The latter was pretty much the wilteddaffodil Show, and none the worse for that. To my surprise, Str8X +1 turned up at one point, but either they vanished again after not too long, or that place's stealth properties are getting worse. Ended up walking home on account of TFL's inability to run enough N19s that they're not all full by the time they get to Angel, but it's a pleasant enough stroll. Also, while being in black tie for the Prom is pretty much expected, it giving one the excuse to be in black tie for Upper St, Gloomy &c is just plain fun.

Primeval couldn't just stick to freaky quadrupeds turning up in forests, then - it's ranging around the prehistoric eras, and the country, and this time we got things with more than six legs. In the Tube. The first victim having entered the network one stop down from me, and one lucky escapee standing where I tend to in full carriages. I may be avoiding the Piccadilly Line for a bit.

Yesterday afternoon I felt in need of a walk, headed down to the park and then just sort of...kept going, Among the sights I saw on a sort of pentagonal loop through St Ann's and Haringey were a building proudly emblazoned with the name Low Profile House (even if it was only visible from a section of the New River Path which felt more like a particularly clogged section of the New River than solid ground), and a sign to the Crusader Industrial Estate sensitively positioned next to a mosque.

Speaking of the monotheists, I was reading a rather charming piece about a surviving cargo cult, and my irony buffers almost overloaded at this part:
"A Christian youth worker told me how he thought the cult was childish. "It's like a baby playing games," he insisted. "Those people are holding on to a dream that will never come true," he said."
Yes, because they want someone from 50 years ago to come back, whereas wanting someone from 2000 years ago to come back is far more sensible, isn't it?

Is it just me, or does the shaved head sort of suit Britney? Maybe I just think this because it's an outward symbol that she's now very much within my type, viz. 'mad girls'.

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[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does the shaved head sort of suit Britney?

Not just you, although it will suit her better (should she decide to keep it) once she learns how to dress it.

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[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ah - so far I've only seen head-and-shoulders shots/footage, so any problem in that regard hasn't been apparent.

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

I'm only going on the picture on Go Fug Yourself, in which she is clearly wearing something red held up with thin straps. Red and strapless you could pull off; thicker straps and a different, less in-your-face colour would be fine; with army sleeves and shoulders in almost any colour would work. But not thin straps and bright red, I don't think.

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[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I've never really grasped the finer points of colour, tbh; it's one of the main reasons I wear so much black.

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Such is your colour, though. Black and white, anyway. Often it's all about what one does with one's hair.

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[ksta.livejournal.com]

1) What is this Prom creature?
2) What is the tori Amos song, with which I am not familiar?
and 3) Why is Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls not nearly as good as Angela's Ashes?
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[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

1) Jolly good club to which I have linked on many occasions, so here's one more. (http://www.promnightuk.com/)
2) From her most recent album, 2005's The Beekepper. This is only my first listen through it, but initial findings are that I may have reached the point of diminishing returns when it comes to Tori.
3) Never having read either, I'm afraid I really can't comment.

[ksta.livejournal.com]

1) Looks ace!

2) I gave up after the covers album. Everything is far too jolly. She has become happy with baby and hubby, and lost her 'quest' I feel.

3) Angela's Ashes is a jolly good read, much better than ye fillum, and makes you glad to have not had their life. Unless you have, of course.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I did like the covers album a great deal; in that she had an obvious project, and in Scarlet's Walk there was the state-of-the-nation structure on which to hang everything. But this just seems to be another Tori album on the old template - and as you say, that's not going to work anymore.

[ksta.livejournal.com]

also - re John Frum = truth is stranger than fiction indeed.
Do people really believe JC will come back? I thought it was metaphorical or something, but then I thought most of it was.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Not all of them do, but certain strands - including the Born Again nutters currently close to the White House - believe in the literal truth of the Apocalypse, Antichrist and the Second Coming.

[oneofthose.livejournal.com]

That made me go to Wikipedia and look up the varying theologies. This is my favourite:

"The mainstream Islamic view of the second coming maintains that Jesus was replaced by a duplicate who looked like Jesus, and that it was the duplicate who was crucified while Jesus was lifted up to Heaven by God"

Presumably known as 'The Scooby Doo ending'.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Really? That's strangely similar to the (bloody stupid) strand of Green mythology which has Helen off on some remote island being virtuous while the Trojan War is fought for a decade over her phantom double. And to various excuses for bad continuity in comics, of course.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

David Attenborough was talking to a cargo cultist for "Quest under Capricorn", and asked them why they were prepared to wait so long. Their response, "If you can wait 2,000 years for Jesus, I can wait 50 for John Frum."

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

I'm finding Primeval quite harmlessly good, in maybe a Seaquest DSV way. ITV are clearly cashing in on a "quick, Doctor Who's working, get us some Saturday tea-time sci fi!" basis, but rather that than another celeb/talent show eh?

I take it you've read the Niven/Barnes Dreamworld featuring Cargo Cults?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Not read any of those, I don't think - but my dad is a big Niven fan so he may well have mentioned the concepts to me at some point.

Primeval is just that, and not the first avenue they tried even there - PJ Hammond was approached about a Sapphire & Steel revival and has only said, discreetly, that he wasn't happy with the direction in which ITV wanted to take it. Presumably a young, sexy Sapphire and Steel, and lots of explosions.

[guntrip.livejournal.com]

Why would you name a 4-legged duck stumpy?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the same principle as Australians calling gingers Blue, or Little John?

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

*pokes you in the nose*

I am bored. Glad you had a good night tho. I dont think I like essex parties that much. (unless they are mine)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - too many white stilettoes? Surely you could at least have appreciated all the boys' custom cars?

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

None of them was richard HAMMOND though. :(

I need a hug. But instead I am gonna go deeper into essex. :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Poor thing.

Did you see Screen Wipe this week? Charlie Brooker was saying how even he likes Top Gear now because it is a bit like The Goodies.

[alexdecampi.livejournal.com]

Good to see you're listening to Two Gallants.

Also: Popjustice Live on Wednesday: I have guestlist, as Trademark (whom you might quite like) are playing and I may be doing videoage for them. Want to go?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I've had 'Nothing To You' and 'Las Cruces Jail' on magazine compilations for ages, and loved them, but only very recently got hold of anything more, namely What The Toll Tells. Still getting to know it but I can already tell it's a very special album.

Trademark...I've seen them a couple of times now and they're the archetypal 'band for whom I try to arrive in time if they're on the bill, but for whom I don't go out especially'. Though I do like their business with the lab coats and the giant transparent plug, and it was splendid the first time I saw them simply because they were on a bill with Gary le Strange. So he's singing 'Is My Toaster Sentient?' as part of his spoof New Romantic act, and then they come on and start singing quite sincerely about how their love is like a sine wave...