Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 295218 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2100 on:** 07 March, 2022, 03:23:26 pm »

"A virtual, temporary, ad hoc Bauhaus."
https://www.ft.com/content/a31374e9-b007-4c4c-9b20-0cef13f5c997
https://unboxed2022.uk

hellymedic · « **Reply #2101 on:** 18 April, 2022, 03:35:08 pm »

Marsh family latest…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ROP5Z-8Jl0

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2102 on:** 18 April, 2022, 03:45:02 pm »

Poor Ella!

hellymedic · « **Reply #2103 on:** 18 April, 2022, 04:02:08 pm »

These things happen! They're a pretty 'warts and all' enterprise!

Tom and Alfie do remarkably well as adolescent lads!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2104 on:** 18 April, 2022, 04:25:23 pm »

Scarily well! By rights they should be sulking in a corner and deliberately messing the whole thing up. I guess they're saving their teenage rebellion for when they're grown up and can do something really apocalyptic.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2105 on:** 18 April, 2022, 05:43:18 pm »

Seems the parents, being University folk are quite happy for the kids to use Naughty Language...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2106 on:** 20 April, 2022, 07:56:44 pm »

What's that you say? Netflix is haemorrhaging subscribers?. Maybe that’s why Mad Nad is so anxious for Channel 4 to emulate it.

ian · « **Reply #2107 on:** 20 April, 2022, 08:12:10 pm »

Hmm, people who now aren't locked in their houses all day with nothing much to do other than watch TV find they don't need a streaming service that's just raised its price by a couple of quid so it is now double that of its competitors (who have taken many of its best programmes), you say?

You don't need an MBA from the South-East Derbyshire College of FE to figure that out.

Kim · « **Reply #2108 on:** 20 April, 2022, 08:58:52 pm »

You forgot "who keep cancelling things when they get good"

ian · « **Reply #2109 on:** 20 April, 2022, 09:08:29 pm »

Honestly, I thought they all did that. There's some sort of universal constant.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2110 on:** 21 April, 2022, 09:10:31 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 18 April, 2022, 05:43:18 pm

Seems the parents, being University folk are quite happy for the kids to use Naughty Language...

I missed this offering in January.

Note Smallest is spelling out F U C K O F F! Nobody seems bothered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ebjy9nP4lw

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2111 on:** 02 May, 2022, 04:40:01 pm »

“No Less The Devil” by Stuart Macbride, of Scotland's famous Scotland, has just been published. Another Oldcastle novel, according to his webby SCIENCE so we may be sure of more than just one or two grisly killin's.

Beardy · « **Reply #2112 on:** 06 May, 2022, 12:38:39 pm »

I noticed with some small amount of glee that Primitive Technology had posted new video and wondered while watching him laboriously making clay bricks by hand, how often he is tempted to cheat a little off camera and use a little modern tech to help with the repetitive tasks. For the record, I don’t think he does cheat, unlike a lot of the ‘tribute channels’ which I’m sure do, but he must be tempted occasionally.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2113 on:** 15 May, 2022, 12:03:29 pm »

O hai my anbaric distascope!

WTF have you done with ITV4?

Kthxbai

Edit: moved to Freeview 26, it sez 'ere. If the memory-box has failed to record the opening overs of the Touring Cars from Brands there will be Big Swears. Only I can’t check until it moves to ITV1 at 2 pm because the stupid Humax is in Green Screen ov DETH mode. Again

rafletcher · « **Reply #2114 on:** 15 May, 2022, 04:08:24 pm »

Hmmm, I just checked my box (Manhattan) and yes, ITV4 is on 26. But it has been for a while methinks, certainly the highlights of round 1 recorded without me returning. I’m more concerned that they still have a highlights programme as a I don’t have time to watch the live coverage, but that’s being recorded. Hmmm.

ETA; Yes, next Saturday, good.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2115 on:** 15 May, 2022, 04:17:48 pm »

Humax box still thinks it’s on 25 but recorded it anyway, while the TV gave me about two seconds of BIGIs in the ~~mist~~ gravel traps before complaining and going blank. I think it did the same when it went from 24 to 25 just before the Tour last year.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2116 on:** 16 May, 2022, 01:23:53 am »

I are just discovered that the smashing chaps at Montréal's Constellation Records recently released Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-missing first album all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling. Recorded in 1993, originally released on cassette in 1994, only 33 copies made. Available from Constellation's Bandcamp page for six of your ~~Earth~~ Canadian dollars ($7.20 after taxes/Brexit Dividend/whatever). Ent listened to it yet, mind.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2117 on:** 22 May, 2022, 01:31:40 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 May, 2022, 01:23:53 am

I are just discovered that the smashing chaps at Montréal's Constellation Records recently released Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-missing first album all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling. Recorded in 1993, originally released on cassette in 1994, only 33 copies made. Available from Constellation's Bandcamp page for six of your ~~Earth~~ Canadian dollars ($7.20 after taxes/Brexit Dividend/whatever). Ent listened to it yet, mind.

Edit: Just listened to the first part (there are four segments of 17-18 minutes each). For completists only, I reckon $:-\$

Pingu · « **Reply #2118 on:** 22 May, 2022, 11:54:01 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 22 May, 2022, 01:31:40 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 May, 2022, 01:23:53 am
I are just discovered that the smashing chaps at Montréal's Constellation Records recently released Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-missing first album all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling. Recorded in 1993, originally released on cassette in 1994, only 33 copies made. Available from Constellation's Bandcamp page for six of your ~~Earth~~ Canadian dollars ($7.20 after taxes/Brexit Dividend/whatever). Ent listened to it yet, mind.

Edit: Just listened to the first part (there are four segments of 17-18 minutes each). For completists only, I reckon $:-\$

I'll try it out on the Bandcamp Squeezebox plug-in first, then.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2119 on:** 30 May, 2022, 02:33:20 am »

Gadzooks! Lawnmower DETH, I have just discovered, done recently released Blunt Cutters, their first album since Billy in 1993

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2120 on:** 30 May, 2022, 05:09:22 pm »

Joe Green's house is for sale.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/giuseppe-verdi-house-italy-for-sale-ending-quarrel-among-heirs

ElyDave · « **Reply #2121 on:** 02 June, 2022, 08:44:00 am »

Some well deserved recognition for Justin Hayward and Bonnie Tyler (whether or not you are a royalist)

Regretfully I never had the chance to see the Moody Blues live

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2122 on:** 02 June, 2022, 09:58:42 am »

And a kniggethood for Ian Rankin.

andrewc · « **Reply #2123 on:** 03 June, 2022, 12:36:25 am »

The current adaptation of "The Midwich Cuckoos" takes a panning. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/02/the-midwich-cuckoos-review-womens-rights-are-under-attack-and-this-is-what-they-make

Excellent comment

"If they really wanted to bring up to date a story involving the residents of a sleepy English village mysteriously falling unconscious and awaking to find that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant and will shortly give birth to a creepy-looking blond child, then they probably should have set it in Uxbridge.."

citoyen · « **Reply #2124 on:** 03 June, 2022, 08:16:51 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 03 June, 2022, 12:36:25 am

The current adaptation of "The Midwich Cuckoos" takes a panning. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/02/the-midwich-cuckoos-review-womens-rights-are-under-attack-and-this-is-what-they-make

Excellent comment

"If they really wanted to bring up to date a story involving the residents of a sleepy English village mysteriously falling unconscious and awaking to find that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant and will shortly give birth to a creepy-looking blond child, then they probably should have set it in Uxbridge.."

Ha! Brilliant.

I think the review sums up a problem with all Wyndham adaptations - the books haven’t aged well, too much of their time. You’d need to do something fresh with them to bring them up to date.