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

[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.