A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[Ruthie]

Sorry, it's just my sense of humour.

Stranger Things is definitely the scariest, weirdest thing I've seen in years and it's so well acted.  And it's set in the 80's with loads of lovely cultural references from that time.  I absolutely love it.

[Kim]

The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness.  If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.

I found it compelling enough for that reason, but I'm not sure how it comes across to other generations.

[Ham]

Found on my occasional visits to Al Jazeera - "Risking it All" a series of sort-of cinema verite with some compulsive viewing of the lengths some people go to in their daily lives.

[citoyen]

The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness.  If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.

My wife didn’t get why I laughed when Dustin described Dragon’s Lair as “overpriced bullshit”.

I’ll tell you what’s daft: expecting us to believe anyone ever actually got that far in the game.

[Torslanda]

That's a beauty. Hope it goes well beyond the forecast price bracket.

Fell 500 quid short of the reserve price. Bollocks!

[ian]

The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness.  If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.

I found it compelling enough for that reason, but I'm not sure how it comes across to other generations.

Rather weirdly for those of us who lived it, the 80s seems to be the generation. Even people who were born after still seem to fixate on the 80s. The other week, minions number 89345 and 14854 from the subdeck were caught dressed up for a 80s fancy dress partly. Assuming they're not knocking back the elixir of youth at these parties, neither of them experienced the decade.

It's almost like The Birdy Song never happened.

[ian]

This, by the by, is perfect if you want some awesome on your giant ultra HD TV. Some breathtaking footage. Now that is rain.

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/incredible-time-lapse-video-monsoon-iv

[andrewc]

Brings back memories of the road to Kingman, Az,   miles of riding with no shelter and this huge black thing heading towards me.......

[T42]

This, by the by, is perfect if you want some awesome on your giant ultra HD TV. Some breathtaking footage. Now that is rain.

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/incredible-time-lapse-video-monsoon-iv

Duly pinched.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness.  If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.

I found it compelling enough for that reason, but I'm not sure how it comes across to other generations.

Rather weirdly for those of us who lived it, the 80s seems to be the generation. Even people who were born after still seem to fixate on the 80s. The other week, minions number 89345 and 14854 from the subdeck were caught dressed up for a 80s fancy dress partly. Assuming they're not knocking back the elixir of youth at these parties, neither of them experienced the decade.

It's almost like The Birdy Song never happened.

Never mind your minions, the 80s and late 70s and 90s are currently cool among teenagers. But surely it's normal that each generation creates a cool fantasy version of a decade it never lived through?

[ian]

I don't. But then can anything compete with Rock Me Amadeus and 99 Red Balloons?

[Mr Larrington]

I don't. But then can anything compete with Rock Me Amadeus and 99 Red Balloons?

Yes.  Yes, there is.  That film of Cream's farewell concert at the Albert Hall, wherein the camera operator spent almost the entire gig trying to get his lens up Jack Bruce's nose.

[ian]

I don't like the 70s but then all I remember is Radio Rentals TsV, the debut of colour and the first ever colour being beige (there was a petition for orange), and getting bit by a ferret. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

[Ruthie]

I just realised - it's ten years since Shibboleth was in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.  It was a wonderful work, I found it profoundly affecting, seeing it was an experience I'll never forget.

We need it to come back - that message is even more needed now.

Ten years though.  Good grief.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series/unilever-series-doris-salcedo-shibboleth

ETA:  It's still there, scarring the floor, though I didn't make a point of looking for it last time I was there.

[citoyen]

I just realised - it's ten years since Shibboleth was in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

Crumbs. That makes me feel old.

I was working in the office block next door at the time and I used to regularly go in there during my lunch break. I remember the day it opened, I went in there not knowing anything about the work, just that the new Turbine Hall installation was opening that day, and at first I thought I'd made a mistake - it looked totally empty. Then I noticed people looking at the floor...

I know what you mean about it being profoundly affecting.

Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds and Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project were both similarly moving in their own ways. They've had some good stuff in the Turbine Hall over the years.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Finally, vinyl is surely dead now. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/01/supermarket-swing-sainsburys-launches-own-brand-vinyl-albums

[Ruthie]

I just realised - it's ten years since Shibboleth was in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

Crumbs. That makes me feel old.

I was working in the office block next door at the time and I used to regularly go in there during my lunch break. I remember the day it opened, I went in there not knowing anything about the work, just that the new Turbine Hall installation was opening that day, and at first I thought I'd made a mistake - it looked totally empty. Then I noticed people looking at the floor...

I know what you mean about it being profoundly affecting.

Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds and Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project were both similarly moving in their own ways. They've had some good stuff in the Turbine Hall over the years.

I'd love to have stuff like that round the corner from me.  That would be one of the top reasons to live in or near London.

[Ham]

Just found an excellent web site, I always like reading stuff set in places I'm going to, this site is the answer to my hapless googling (which doesn't really work as well as you think it might)

https://www.tripfiction.com/

[madcow]

I can't allow the passing of David Cassidy or Rodney Bewes to go unrecorded on this forum.
Cassidy was one of those guys you just loved to hate. Good looks, good voice a TV show etc etc. Where did it all go wrong?

Bewes was an unlikely star but "Whatever happened to the Likely Lads?" was comedy gold,penned by Dick Clement and Ian le Frenais
 I hope it gets a rerun now that Bewes has passed away.
There is one classic episode involving the lads cycling to Berwick.

[PeteB99]

Met Rodney Bewes once when our boat trailer was blocking his Rolls in after a rowing event. He was very nice about it.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I don't. But then can anything compete with Rock Me Amadeus and 99 Red Balloons?

Call Me by Spagna and Japanese Boy by Aneka?

[citoyen]

That would be one of the top reasons to live in or near London.

It's undoubtedly one of the top things I miss now I no longer live/work in London.

[Wowbagger]

I have just given my sister a copy of the Oxford Carol Book, as I had two. The copy I gave her used to belong to our mother and she was given it by the woman from whom our brother bought his house. The inside sheet bore both addresses, which were about 200 yards apart. My parents' house was demolished 16 years ago.

[Wowbagger]

Our choir's concert next term is an all-Mozart affair. We are singing the C minor Mass and we have an orchestra and soloist performing the Clarinet Concerto. I have just ordered a copy of the Mass. I hope I've got the right edition! We normally go for Novello if there's one available.

[tiermat]

Sort of Ents related. TLD was asked, as were her peers, at school to write a Christmas poem.

They were then entered into a school wide competition.

The top 5 from each year, was entered into a local competition.

TLD won her year group!