Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 289371 times)

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1675 on:** 06 September, 2020, 05:01:25 pm »

Having got many domestic tasks out of the way I decide to veg out in front of the TV. Film 4 has The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Hurrah. Poketa, loketa here we come. But no, the summary says "(2013)Romcom starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig." A distinct lack of Danny Kaye. Bah.

arabella · « **Reply #1676 on:** 15 September, 2020, 05:37:53 pm »

Cory Doctorow has put out a 3rd Little Brother book.
I'm sure there was a bit of discussion around the first two (& also Pirate Cinema) but I can't find it.

Ham · « **Reply #1677 on:** 19 September, 2020, 08:00:56 am »

Chrissie Hynde is Rock & Roll.

Chrissie Hynde is 69.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOaCm91oy5M for back on the chain gang, or https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08p5mbq/radio-2-live-at-home-performances-pretenders for the whole set

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1678 on:** 21 September, 2020, 08:29:07 pm »

O hai, Memory-Box! I don't know what you've done with BBC4 HD but I'd like it back. Kthxbai.

Ham · « **Reply #1679 on:** 24 September, 2020, 07:03:54 pm »

A bit of decent dobro from Justin Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4I96r2ZTpI

sg37409 · « **Reply #1680 on:** 25 September, 2020, 08:55:39 pm »

Rolling Stone, top 500 albums

https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1308406245301391360?s=20

Jurek · « **Reply #1681 on:** 27 September, 2020, 03:37:25 pm »

Listening to the BBC6 Music Listen Again service, tends to mess with my branes when the previous day's news is broadcast.

Ham · « **Reply #1682 on:** 29 September, 2020, 02:47:12 pm »

Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/28/borat-2-sacha-baron-cohen-targets-trump-epstein-giuliani

Pingu · « **Reply #1683 on:** 29 September, 2020, 10:31:34 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 27 September, 2020, 03:37:25 pm

Listening to the BBC6 Music Listen Again service, tends to mess with my branes when the previous day's news is broadcast.

We're in the habit of downloading Gideon Coes and then listening to them weeks or months later on long holiday drives. The news can sound a bit odd, but much of it is just the same old, same old.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1684 on:** 30 September, 2020, 04:58:24 pm »

On Wednesday evenings, instead of a live choir practice, we have been enjoying very entertaining and informative Youtube lectures about various choral works from our Mus. Dir., one Dr. Joseph Fort. Tonight, there's won't be a live lecture but he has recorded one about Mendelssohn's "Elijah" and that will stay up until Sunday.

The reason that he can't deliver the lecture live this evening is that his wife, Rosalind Ventris, is performing at the Wigmore Hall (she's a viola player). She needs a page turner and, under the rules relating to Covid, it has to be someone from her household, and the only person who qualifies is Joe. The concert is being broadcast live on BBC R3, but there's a live link on the Wigmore Hall's website.

Elijah lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWfZenDbu_k&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=JosephFort

Wigmore Hall concert (link on page, requires login): https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/kaleidoscope-chamber-collective-matthew-rose-202009301930

trekker12 · « **Reply #1685 on:** 01 October, 2020, 03:37:14 pm »

What happened to The Repair Shop? It used to be weekly on an evening and made nice enjoyable relaxing television. I didn't watch it every week but did have a series link set to watch when I really couldn't find anything else.

I glanced through my recordings the other day to find 38 recordings and it now seems to be on every day in the afternoons!

hubner · « **Reply #1686 on:** 01 October, 2020, 07:46:20 pm »

There's 22 episodes on Iplayer now.

If they're on TV everyday, it's just repeats.

I can't stand the human interest parts of the programme so I fast forward/skip those bits.

fimm · « **Reply #1687 on:** 07 October, 2020, 01:55:07 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 26 July, 2020, 03:18:43 pm

1. Spotty Dog / The Woodentops

My God. That will be why my sister's Spotty Dog was called Spotty Dog. Not that we would have watched The Woodentops, we are way too young. It must have been one of my parents who named it. In fact sister went through 3 Spotty Dogs - the first one was made from some garment of my mother's so when sister lost it mum made another one - but when sister lost that there was no more of the original spotty material left. Another dog was made from different spotty material but it was Not The Same and my sister was

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andrewc · « **Reply #1688 on:** 09 October, 2020, 03:07:11 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAK-Z_vUL8g

Season 5 of "The Expanse" , from 16th December.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1689 on:** 09 October, 2020, 05:09:03 pm »

Quote from: hubner on 01 October, 2020, 07:46:20 pm

There's 22 episodes on Iplayer now.

If they're on TV everyday, it's just repeats.

I’m not so sure. The original 45 minute / 3 item series was indeed on daily, ISTR at 4:15 on BBC2. Then they started to be repeated in the evenings as 1 hour shows with a 4th item added. The current afternoon daily show is I think a new series, with once again 3 items.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #1690 on:** 11 October, 2020, 12:26:15 pm »

I found Nick Cave’s most recent issue of the Red Hand Files quite amusing:

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-could-physically-sense-and-see-the-ghosteen/

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1691 on:** 12 October, 2020, 04:11:46 pm »

That nice Steve Lamacq ~~Shaun Keavney~~ off of 6 Music is now playing Terry and Gerry, featuring Turista one time member of this parish.

ElyDave · « **Reply #1692 on:** 13 October, 2020, 08:07:19 pm »

My current turbo trainer Netflix fodder is Occupied, in the not too distant future Norway has shut off it's oil due to climate change, teh USA is doing it's own thing and self-isolating, and the EU is starved of hydrocarbons.

Meanwhile Norway is developing Thorium power to give free to the masses, but Russia and the EU conspire to a soft invasion of Norway to turn the taps back on. Several implausibilities but quite entertaining. I quite like Scandi TV

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1693 on:** 14 October, 2020, 11:34:00 am »

In non-lockdown circumstances, I would attend a choir practice on a Wednesday evening. That hasn't happened since March. Instead, our Mus. Dir. has entertained and educated us with a series of live lectures on Youtube about a variety of choral works, some of which I have sung.

Tonight, there will be no live lecture because he's moving house tomorrow - from East Ham to Thorpe Bay - so instead he's recorded a lecture. The subject is Janacek's Glagolitic Mass. I've never sung in this - never even bothered to sit down and listen to it - but I shall certainly do so. He's added the rather tempting comment "I hope you enjoy this piece, and also enjoy hearing what the Daily Mail had to say about the good people of Norfolk attending the UK premiere of this piece in 1930..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JezClB2qMLE&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=JosephFort

That link will be available for a week.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1694 on:** 26 October, 2020, 09:39:28 pm »

Watching The Final Cut again, with the mesmeric Ian Richardson. OMG, it's topical - Tory scum, arguments over Europe, jingoism, sleaze and a psychotic HomeSec. I see Michael "is that a wig?" Fabricant was the political adviser. 25 years ago.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1695 on:** 27 October, 2020, 06:36:33 am »

We started watching the first series at the weekend.

Quality dialogue with clever word-twisting meant my GerMan understood less than normal. He watched it dubbed into German years ago and loved it. I remember almost nothing of it but it’s scarily suitable for our times.

citoyen · « **Reply #1696 on:** 27 October, 2020, 08:23:01 am »

In a similar vein, I've been listening to Yes, Minister on 4extra. I could swear it was the inspiration for Dom's evident hatred for the civil service.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1697 on:** 02 November, 2020, 08:21:57 pm »

I spent a couple of hours with my Very Good Pal Penelope this afternoon. After and during lubing her tuba (not an euphemism, nor a euphonium) our conversation ranged over numerous topics and one of them was the Alan Bleasdale drama "GBH". Pen hadn't seen it before but I was prompted to delve through the internet this evening and I've found it on the Channel 4 website. It struck me when he first appeared that the ultra-baddie, although much more lithe, bears a striking, almost uncanny, resemblance to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1698 on:** 04 November, 2020, 09:58:50 am »

Robert Fisk has died.

andrewc · « **Reply #1699 on:** 04 November, 2020, 09:05:34 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 November, 2020, 09:58:50 am

Robert Fisk has died.

Yes, I enjoyed his books on Lebanon & the middle east.

Actually "enjoyed" is definitely the wrong word. "Pity The Nation" is grim beyond belief.

A friend of mine was attached to BRITFORLEB in Beirut, he once said that if he met Fisk again he'd congratulate him on his writing about the ME & then punch him on the nose. I don't think his journalism on Northern Ireland had endeared him to the army.