We're not in the business of having people hate our films

[alexsarll]

I may have spent Friday night walking with gods and monsters, and yesterday on the psychoactive lemonade with the chattering classes, but it's still 'Time Crash' for which I'll remember the weekend so far. Hell, even remembering it's getting me all misty-eyed. 'You were my Doctor.' Sniff.

I've had a great idea for a film, except because I watched it in a dream, now I'm vaguely concerned it might already have been done: Father Christmas invades the USA. I don't know what happens with Canada - non-aggression pact, presumably - but he sweeps down from the North Pole and soon subjugates the majority of the US (I didn't see this bit, but presume that with his manufactories on a war footing, and the FTL superstealth sleigh, it wouldn't be too hard). And I have no idea why he was doing it - was the film a 'real meaning of christmas' story, a political satire, or just crazy for the sake of it? I don't know, I didn't see the whole film. I just remember him in a khaki camouflage version of his outfit, in a Patton stance.

Why I shall not be going to the Tutankhamun exhibition.

Much-hailed talk of a 17% fall in heart attacks in Scotland since the smoking ban revealed as at best exaggeration, at worst another outright lie by the neo-puritans:
"It is conceivable, although perhaps unlikely, that the smoking ban had no effect at all...what appeared to be hard medical evidence now looks more like over-hasty and over-confident research, coupled with wishful political thinking and uncritical journalism."

Comments

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Its always been a source of shame that I was at UCL for four years, have lived in London for another six after that, and I still haven't been to the Petrie Museum.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Nor I, it pains me to say. Or Sir John Soane's since I've actually lived here.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

I have been to Sir John Soane's and it is excellent.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. Or at least, it was when I went in c2000, and it doesn't seem the sort of place to fall for any damn fool nonsense about 'accessibility' and wreck itself.