Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..  (Read 286962 times)

citoyen

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Funny, that. We were given the boxed set, but after the first episode - a bunch of people we couldn't identify with and larded with vile language - we dumped it. We'd probably give it more of a chance now, but back then it

There's some superb dialogue in The Wire. You just have to look past the F words.

And the C words.

And the MF words.

And the N words.

And the MF-ing-N-C words.

I may not be able to relate to the individual characters but the core themes are universal. As a commentary on the state of the world, it's up there with the best of Dickens.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Riggers

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I concur. Found The Wire superb. And, I might add, managed without subtitles thank you very much. So a big M-F gold star to us smug bastards!*



*could have put 'B', but that might have confused a number of chaps.
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

Not really entertainment, but the BBC news website carries a link to a lengthy article about Aberfan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-150d11df-c541-44a9-9332-560a19828c47

Sobering reading, and very well done IMO.
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

TheLurker

  • Goes well with magnolia.
Phil Chess has died. He was 95. There's an obit. on the Grauniad's site.

ETA
A goodly fraction of my, small,  LP collection features musicians who recorded for Chess.
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

Mrs Pingu

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The young bloke in The Code.
Australia's Hugh Grant.
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Ooh goody War Games is on again.
Milk please, no sugar.

I wonder why this link didn't work?
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Mr Larrington

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Worked just now, in spite of the "fantastic breasts".
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Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Worked just now, in spite of the "fantastic breasts".
So it does. They've retained Mr redmayne's desire not to screw up fantastic breasts.

That is wonderful.
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citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Surely "small entertainment things" is the wrong thread for a post about fantastic breasts?
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Ooh goody War Games is on again.

Hollywood OS at its finest.

I was slightly amazed to find that although The Boy knows things like "the only way to win is not to play", he hasn't actually seen the film.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff  is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)

Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references

On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight'  thread or summat.

Didn't think much of it. "Homages" there might have been but most of it was derivative and a lot of it just tired.  The monster was plain daft - and why should there have been just one?  Maybe if they do a second series the buggers'll come popping out of the wall like bed-bugs.

One funny bit: why did the kids' bike headlamps have thick orange filters? Did they maybe use LEDS in triplets - you could see 3 separate glowing points in there - and put the filter on to make them look more 1980s?

I just watched the first episode of this.  I'm hooked!

Started watching it over the weekend. We're hooked too. Don't really care that it's all derivative of other stuff, just enjoying it for what it is.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
I wonder why this link didn't work?
Web page not available

The web page at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/06/eddie-redmayne-i-loved-harry-potter-so-dont-want-to-screw-up-fantastic-breasts?CMP=fb_gu could not be loaded because:

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FANTASTIC BREASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Ask me what kind of porn I’m into,
and I will take you on a magical journey to
fanfiction.com/harrypotter/nc17–

What turns me on
is Ginny Weasley in the Restricted Section with her skirt hiked up,
Sirius Black in a secret passageway
solemnly swearing he is up to no good,
and Draco Malfoy
in the Room of Requirement
Slytherin in to my Chamber of Secrets,

I am an unapologetic consumer of
all things Potterotica,
and the sexiest part
is not the way
Cho Chang rides that broomstick,
or the sound of Myrtle moaning,
the sexiest part
is knowing they are part of a bigger story,
that they exist beyond eight minutes in
“Titty Titty Gang Bang,”
that their kegels
are not the strongest thing about them,
and still,
I am told that my porn is unrealistic.

Not quite as erotic
as flashing ads that say “JUST TURNED 18!”
so you can fantasize about fucking
the youngest girl you won’t go to jail for;

I’m told that my porn isn’t quite as lifelike
as a room full of lesbians begging for cock,
told that this
is what is supposed to turn me on,

Don’t you give me raw meat
and tell me it is nourishment,
I know a slaughterhouse when I see one.

It looks like 24/7 live streaming
reminding me
that men are going to fuck me
whether I like it or not,
that there is one use for my mouth
and it is not speaking,
that a man is his most powerful
when he’s got a woman by the hair;

The first time a man I loved
held me by the wrists and called me a whore,
I did not think, “RUN.”
I thought, “This is just like the movies,”
I know a slaughterhouse when I see one.

It looks like websites and seminars
teaching you how to fuck more bitches;
Looks like 15-year-old boys
bullied for being virgins;
It looks like the man who did not flinch
when I said “Stop,”
and he heard, “try harder,”

If you play-act at butchery long enough
you grow used to
the sounds of the screaming.

It is just a side effect of industry;
Everything gets cut
into small, marketable pieces,
you can almost forget
they were ever real bodies.

I will not practice bloody hands.
I will not make-believe dissected women.
My sex cannot be packaged,
my sex is magic,
it is part of a bigger story;
I am whole.
I exist when you are not fucking me,
and I will not be cut into pieces
anymore.

http://brennatwohy.tumblr.com/post/95323148249/fantastic-breasts-and-where-to-find-them
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Noooo... they're remaking An American werewolf in London.  Even if it is by son of director, can it be bettered?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/08/an-american-werewolf-in-london-remake-max-landis
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

Zipperhead

  • The cyclist formerly known as Big Helga
Noooo... they're remaking An American werewolf in London.  Even if it is by son of director, can it be bettered?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/08/an-american-werewolf-in-london-remake-max-landis

No, no remake can have Jenny Agutter in the shower again.

I'll have to come home along Lupus Street tomorrow, just because.
Won't somebody think of the hamsters!

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
I've really been enjoying 'The Crown', the story of Elizabeth Windsor/Mountbatten/Windsor/Regina.  But in the last one they portrayed Anthony Eden as a smack addict, which seems grossly unfair and just wrong  :(
Milk please, no sugar.

For my daughter's wedding she booked a musician called Richard/Nick Keen, who played guitar and sang cover songs.

I've heard better singers, and better guitar playing, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a better performer for pulling a crowd onto a floor, or a more energetic, non-stop performer. He earned every penny he was paid and then some. He defined why live music is worth paying for.
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Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Membership of the library where I live includes free access to various E-magazines. Things like auto Express, Hello, New Scientist. And Viz.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Arsebiscuits! I just thought I'd been really clever by guessing the theme of today's RadMac Teatime Themetime. First tune was Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade...

(click to show/hide)
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Eccentrica Gallumbits

  • Rock 'n' roll and brew, rock 'n' roll and brew...
My aunt & uncle are clearing their loft in preparation for moving, and have kindly delivered me a massive bag full of their old vinyl. Haven't had a chance to sort through it properly yet, but from the quick look I've had there's Bowie, Bee Gees, Geno Washington, Simon & Garfunkel, Chicory Tip (!) and - Shape Up and Dance with Peter Powell! That's this year's Secret Santa sorted!
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Last night's Simon Mayo on R2 was worth a listen just for Matthew Parris reeling off a list of Twitter insults that had been levelled at Gove, including "incompetent ventriloquist-dummy-faced spunktrumpet" and "back-stabbing cockwomble" (about 1hr12m in).  :thumbsup:
 

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Arsebiscuits! I just thought I'd been really clever by guessing the theme of today's RadMac Teatime Themetime. First tune was Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade...

(click to show/hide)
Strawberry Switchblade! Yurk! I actually bought that back in the days when buying music on 7" vinyl was what you did. I'd forgotten all about them and a brief gooooooogle reminds me why. It's like the worst of the 80s and today all mashed up into one.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Strawberry Switchblade! Yurk! I actually bought that back in the days when buying music on 7" vinyl was what you did. I'd forgotten all about them and a brief gooooooogle reminds me why. It's like the worst of the 80s and today all mashed up into one.

I love cheesy 80s bubblegum pop on the whole, but Since Yesterday is the only song of theirs I know. Did they have any other hits?
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Their only other song I remember is the B side of that. Something about "from high land to flat land on the journey from home".
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Alexander Armstrong. he of the unusually large ears and "Pointless" has released* an album of songs.  Classic FM are playing his cover of "Sumemrtime".  zOMG it's bad. 

*OK, it wasn't released, it escaped
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.