Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 286838 times)

ian · « **Reply #1100 on:** 08 December, 2017, 10:04:07 pm »

As I have no nuptial supervision tonight, I'm going to drink beer and watch Buffy's Once More with Feeling with the volume turned up. Because I can. And I have a detached house.

ETA: shittens, is that really fifteen years old!

Jakob W · « **Reply #1101 on:** 08 December, 2017, 10:27:42 pm »

Original air date 2001...

My OH did the arts lecture at Eastercon this year, talking about musicals; one of the clips she played was 'going through the motions'. The room sang along with such word- and note-perfect gusto she didn't dare cut it short for fear of inciting a riot...

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1102 on:** 14 December, 2017, 06:24:04 pm »

I am no prude but in a panto aimed at small children

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Barrowman fondled co-star Janette Krankie's breasts, and also invited audience members to chant "Alice loves Dick".

erm, wtf?

ian · « **Reply #1103 on:** 15 December, 2017, 07:32:57 am »

Isn't the point of panto that it's really for adults but the jokes mostly sail over the kids head so you avoid babysitting fees or a visit from social services.

If it's the same story I saw last night, one person complained. And maybe Alice does love Dick.

Steph · « **Reply #1104 on:** 16 December, 2017, 08:50:23 pm »

https://www.itv.com/hub/australian-wilderness-with-ray-mears/2a4399a0011

Ray Mears strikes me as a nice and genuine man, as opposed to Bear Ghrylls, whom I have met, who seems like a knob.

I rode through this place ten years ago, and met Gary the bald ecologist, who impressed me so much I stuck him in my novel 'Cold Feet'. I loved this episode, probably because I was 'back there' as I watched.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1105 on:** 18 December, 2017, 09:16:14 am »

Thanks for that link, will try to watch it. I love the Walpole area, it is part of WA I could happily move back to, love the landscape and even the towns.

Andrij · « **Reply #1106 on:** 22 December, 2017, 08:00:47 pm »

Carte sur Table have upped their game in their latest video: À la Claire Fontaine.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1107 on:** 26 December, 2017, 11:58:52 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbLHz_Z0ec&feature=youtu.be

Assuming that this hadn't been carefully rehearsed, that's an impressive feat: coming on, memorising 3 positions for a minute and then playing them blindfold whilst simultaneously playing Chopin waltzes, and winning the lot. FWIW, I think I knew just 3 words of Russian used in that - chess, piano and Grandmaster.

T42 · « **Reply #1108 on:** 27 December, 2017, 10:43:37 am »

Even rehearsed it'd be impressive.

Hard to imagine an act like that on UK or French TV.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1109 on:** 27 December, 2017, 09:23:02 pm »

There was another video of the same guy examining for 3 minutes a chess board on the squares of which the number 1 - 64 had been randomly distributed. He then turned his back on the board and in knight's tour order he recited all 64 numbers in the order that he "captured" them.

andrewc · « **Reply #1110 on:** 27 December, 2017, 10:37:47 pm »

After recently reading Mr Deighton's "Game Set & Match" trilogy I am now working my way through the 1980's ITV adaptation. Mr Deighton apparently didn't like Mr Holm's performance, so has barred it's official re release, however it's freely available on the interwebs.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1111 on:** 28 December, 2017, 09:12:21 pm »

Apparently he's got form for that.

Hence his name is nowhere on the credits to 'Oh! What a lovely war' . . .

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1112 on:** 06 January, 2018, 08:01:51 pm »

I have booked a singing lesson for next Wednesday! With this lady : http://www.thoraker.com/

We had a really nice chat. It turns out that she's a cyclist!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1113 on:** 10 January, 2018, 11:14:09 pm »

Just doing a crossword with Phyllis (aged 98 11/12).

"Capital of the United Arab Emirates (3, 5)"

Phyllis had a long think and said "Aberdovey!" and then burst out laughing and corrected herself.

citoyen · « **Reply #1114 on:** 11 January, 2018, 12:21:33 am »

Heard a track on the radio this evening by an outfit calling themselves Australian Testing Labs Inc. They wear their influences on their sleeve, to put it mildly - as one wag put it in the comments under one of their videos on youtube: "Cum on feel the NEU!"

Their album is available on Bandcamp. It's called 'Music For Aircooled Motoring'. And they describe as follows:

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Music designed to cope with the noise of motoring in the VW Type 2 and Type 25 Transporter.

Recordings of highway driving were made inside the cab of a 1981 VW T25 Kombi travelling at 80kmh and used to test, compose and mix music that could be heard above or in harmony with the noise of the road and the air-cooled engine.

The frequencies used have been carefully selected and rigorously road tested and when played in a moving van, will blend with the ambient sound of the vehicle and create a unique and harmonious driving experience. As each van will differ slightly, so then each user’s experience will differ accordingly, making this a truly unique pleasure for each driver or passenger.

https://atlinc.bandcamp.com/releases

Hipster twats, but I do like their tunes.

They're on a label called Polytechnic Youth, which seems to specialise in this kind of thing...
http://www.polytechnicyouth.com/

Also clicked on the 'krautrock' tag on Bandcamp. By jove, there's a lot of it about. I'm looking forward to checking out 'Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay' by Psychic Lemon, 'Brunswick' by Bambi Davidson, 'The Void' by Compilerbau, 'Zement:Werk' by Zement and many more...

mattc · « **Reply #1115 on:** 12 January, 2018, 12:37:35 pm »

Radio 2 have hired a stand-in presenter for lunch-times - he's a proper journo (whom I'd never heard of); Amol Rajan.

The problem is, his accent and vocal style are identical to the presenter on radio spoof Down the Line (played by Rhys Thomas, 4 years ago )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bcur_HDHfE (you really should play that if you've never heard DTL ...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1116 on:** 14 January, 2018, 07:53:00 pm »

Anyone else watching new Ch4 comedy Derry Girls? It's making me laugh.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1117 on:** 16 January, 2018, 10:38:11 am »

Just listening to News Quiz Extra. Blimey, Peter Oborne is a humourless twat isn't he.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1118 on:** 16 January, 2018, 11:58:28 pm »

Just learned that Chris Tsangarides, veteran engineer/producer for the likes of Gary Moore, Ozzy, Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ian Gillan, Bruce Dickinson and my chum Alexis' band Everafter died a couple of weeks ago, aged 61.

2018! Stop it!

citoyen · « **Reply #1119 on:** 17 January, 2018, 08:00:59 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 January, 2018, 07:53:00 pm

Anyone else watching new Ch4 comedy Derry Girls? It's making me laugh.

Saw the first episode. It made me laugh too.

citoyen · « **Reply #1120 on:** 17 January, 2018, 09:13:50 am »

Listened to an old episode of In Our Time yesterday. One of the panel was a certain Dr Larrington. She knows her onions, doesn’t she?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1121 on:** 19 January, 2018, 01:46:13 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-WwIudN0sQ&feature=push-u&attr_tag=1UbVSgkSX2oxwVwv-6

New organ erection at the RCM.

Ham · « **Reply #1122 on:** 20 January, 2018, 04:21:58 pm »

I've just found Bad Lip Reading videos https://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading/videos

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneBUA39mnI

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1123 on:** 21 January, 2018, 07:04:59 pm »

Bollocks. We were too slow to get tix for David Byrne

Andrij · « **Reply #1124 on:** 23 January, 2018, 09:08:05 pm »

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has banned the showing of Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, referencing the film's "extremism" and it's denigrating and insulting portrayal of Glorious Heroes of Russian Worker's Paradise who, in addition to completing Five Year Plan ahead of schedule, defeated Fascists (with whom we never, ever, signed a treaty - and if you say otherwise you're a NAZI) without any help from Decadent West.

Ref: Ministry announcement (рос); Grauniad article (eng)