I know it's out of fashion and a trifle uncool, but I can't help it - I'm a romantic fool

[alexsarll]

Well, that was exciting! After a typically excellent set from Luxembourg I check out the voicemail that arrived during 'London Is Blue' and it's Feeling Gloomy insisting that Your Disco Needs You. Well, actually they need wilteddaffodil but they invite me too because it would look rude if they didn't. So we tear off to Angel where she spins the tunes while I make the occasional suggestion and deal with the people who have requests - almost all of which are for 'I Predict A Riot' or 'This Charming Man'. Because, hey, nobody's had enough chances to dance to them in the indie clubs of the nation, have they now?

I'm so glad that my fears about last night's Doctor Who were totally unfounded. The principle of retooling a (very good) book for TV seemed dubious, especially given the problems with Paul Cornell's last TV episode, but it all came right. The story was different enough to keep me guessing and to play to the medium, and there were some real classic old-series style moments with the scarecrows. Oh, and Jessica Stevenson! It was just lovely. Lovely. Especially the sketchbook page of the old Doctors.

Extremely distressing pangolin news. Obviously, the answer as far as I'm concerned is to replace nugatory fines for smuggling endangered species with summary execution.

Trent Reznor interview in an old Kerrang I found, from circa With Teeth where 'The Hand That Feeds' is "as close as Reznor feels he can get to a hectoring anti-Bush track, and one he admits "is very close to bashing people over the head with the message"." Well, unless his next album were to be a concept album extrapolating a nightmare future from the Bush administration's album, of course.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Duty Freeだと、いろんなSPとか企画ものを交渉していろいろできそう。売れなかったら、私がサイパンの空港のDFSで着物きて、バスケットに香水いっぱい入れて立つ？

[stephens.livejournal.com]

Duty free Pangolins eh, I'll take five please young sir.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That one above does seem almost relevant, doesn't it? They're slipping!

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

I gather she's Jessica Hynes now, which caused me no end of confusion the other day.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Really? But actresses &c almost never take the husband's name for professional purposes!

[exliontamer.livejournal.com]

She definitely is, I saw her introduced as such on Saturday Kitchen yesterday.

Doctor, Stevenson and Mrs Hyne

[judge-death.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was billed as that in Who. There was an interview in the Guardian this week which started by talking about how she'd changed her name and still billed her as "Stevenson" in the picture caption. Most confusing.

Although I reckon she changed her name to distance herself from/escape international criminal justice for The World According To Bex.

Re: Doctor, Stevenson and Mrs Hyne

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That was quite astonishingly bad, it's true, but not enough to outweigh all the good she did as Stevenson!

Strange woman.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Given your dislike of monotheism and love of Dr Who you might like this and this.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I love it! Thank you.

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

yr title/header = echo beach by martha & the muffins - took me ages to get it

it does my old heart goob to read that the young ppl still want to dance to this charming man, btw...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I dance to it too, for sure - it's just that I think it would take at least three years without hearing it out (as if that's ever going to happen) before I'd feel the need to *request* it!

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

i take yr point of course - it's just that when i used to go out "dancing" 200 yrs ago you didn't get to hear it v.often - or at all in fact

also i've got the morrissey sickness - going to see a smiths/moz tribute band on friday ( & not for the first time )

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Back in Derby, where there is little else to do, I saw and thoroughly enjoyed the Still Ills. I cannot comment on the Smyths, if they are the ones you mean, but have heard good things.

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

yes, it is the smyths - they always put on a goob show & i like to support 'em when they play local ( - tho i do think it's a shame that "ginger moz" gave in dyed his hair ) - i didn't twig it clashed w/the england-brazil match when i bought the tickets - D'OH!

ive also seen "these charming men" & "the sweet & tender hooligans" but not the "still ills" unfortunately

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

TBH I have no firm reason to believe the Still Ills ever ventured further than the mid-nineties Midlands.

[tiny-tear.livejournal.com]

I just watched the Doctor Who episode.
It was great. I really enjoyed it... going to give it a 10 in the reactipoll now...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen such a unanimous verdict on diggerdydum before!

[tiny-tear.livejournal.com]

I know, I was thinking the same when i voted