Futtocks
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Wilson Pickett ... 634-5789
I often wonder how many people called that number, just out of curiosity.
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Crank up the iPlayer and watch the Porton Down programme that was on BBC4 tonight (9pm - 10pm). Frightening but utterly fascinating.
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A proper gent and a proper Gent, Ray was.
I remember the sad day the news was posted of his passing.
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Given the referendum's finally over, time for this:
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Saw him 78 supporting nils lofgren..... blew him off stage. Big fan.... but not as much as the memsahib
He's got a new Mudcrutch album out, apparently.
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Tom petty.... first album....
I remember, in the days before the internet, searching so many record shops for that (as well as the second album).
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Given last night's storms in London, I thought this was appropriate. It takes a little while to get going, by the way...
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I've just started 'Keystone (The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett)' by Simon Louvish. Interesting so far, but 300+ pages of very small type is going to be tough on the peepers.Okay, finished it. A good read, despite the small print. Loads of information and backed by an interesting life/career. It takes in several scandals, the most notorious being the Arbuckle case, but this is mainly about the birth of commercial cinema, with Sennett and D.W.Griffith teaming up to produce very different types of movie. Then the great ructions of sound and colour changing the industry, as well as the Wall Street crash. Mack was obsessively planning his own hilltop palace when his fortune was wiped out, Now, that patch of land is only known for being where the famous 'Hollywood' sign stands.Stars like Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton, Chester Conklin, W.C.Fields, Gloria Swanson, Fatty Arbuckle, Frank Capra, Harry Langdon, Ford Sterling, Harold Lloyd and many more appear and disappear from the tale. Various reminiscences of varying reliability tell parts of the story, but much is now lost in the mists of PR.And, at the heart of it is Mack Sennett's strange off-on, possibly invented romance with the comedy superstar of the age Mabel Normand. Hence the title of the stage musical 'Mack & Mabel'.
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Just spotted Anthony Minichiello at the Darts, currently on ITV4.
Steve McNamara's there too. The Roosters are in Auckland for tomorrow's match, I assume.
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Just spotted Anthony Minichiello at the Darts, currently on ITV4.
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Blimey, Eurotrash is back! Just a one-off, tonight at 9pm on C4.
Joy! it is exactly as puerile and degenerate as ever.
Antoine and Jean-Paul have not matured a nanosecond since the glory days.
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Blimey, Eurotrash is back! Just a one-off, tonight at 9pm on C4.
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I've very much enjoyed Upstart Crow, the comedy series on BBC 2 starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, written by Ben Elton.
It has a distinct Blackadder feel to it (which is no bad thing if you're one of those people who thinks Ben Elton hasn't written anything decent since then), even including a direct tribute to 'Bob' in the final episode last night.
Mitchell is great in the lead role, but upstaged for me by the scenery eating performance of Mark Heap as Robert Greene.
A second series is on the cards so it must have gone down reasonably well.
Yes, it was fun, especially their playing around with cod-Shakespearean language. I wouldn't call it brilliant, but I think a second series would go down okay.
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I've just started 'Keystone (The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett)' by Simon Louvish. Interesting so far, but 300+ pages of very small type is going to be tough on the peepers.
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Andrey Kurkov - The Bickford Fuse. Clear as mud, at least on first reading. The main protagonist, Kharitonov, could be an allegory of Gulliver, Theseus, Odysseus, Christian from The Pilgrim's Progress or someone completely other. He treks from the Japan Sea to Leningrad, dragging behind him the eponymous (and apparently endless) fuse, which is wired to a massive cache of explosives. He observes the nature of Russia while he ponders whether to let it continue as is, or to light the fuse and destroy everything.
Two of the other main characters are nameless. The Driver's journey appears to be that of a dead man, slowly travelling in perpetual night towards an unknown destination. The Occupant is adrift in an airship, never able to land, observing people on the ground while he dreams of an idealised Motherland and a triumphant final landing. Then there's Andrey, a pious and naive young man, conscripted by a military propagandist who searches for remote settlements where he can set up radios broadcasting news from Moscow.
All very odd. It shows a far more mystical tendency than the laconic and cynical humour of his more familiar works like Death and the Penguin. A very enjoyable first read, but I suspect I'll get more out of it with more than one re-read.
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Charles Mingus ... Ah Um
Great album!
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Do or Die (1991) dir. Andy Sidaris
Yup, it's another Sidaris jigglefest! This time Pat Morita (from 'The Karate Kid') is an evil criminal mastermind who informs secret agents Dona Speir (Playmate of the Month, March 1984) and Roberta Vasquez (Playmate of the Month, November 1984) that he has set six pairs of assassins on their shapely tails. The two busty agents have to survive and dispose of their would-be killers and, well, that's about it.
Here's noted reviewer Joe Bob Briggs' rundown on the stats: Twenty breasts. Fourteen dead bodies. One dead cat. One dead duck. Five motor vehicle chases. Exploding helicopter. Exploding Volkswagen. Exploding boat. Exploding ninjas. Helicopter-and-Jeep chase. Two machine-gun battles. Two hot tub scenes. Gratuitous model-airplane competition. Kung Fu. Hula Fu. Throwing star Fu. Jet-ski Fu.Along the way, our heroines are joined by Erik 'CHiPs' Estrada, despite him being a baddie who was killed in the previous film in the series. Also helping out are Cynthia Brimhall (Playmate of the Month, October 1985), porn star Pandora Peaks (frankly deformed in the chestical area) and former World Speedway champ Bruce Penhall, who has all the acting chops you'd expect from someone whose entire life up to this point has been devoted to riding motorbikes very quickly.Comic relief is supplied by two particularly inept hitmen, played by Sidaris regulars Richard Cansino and Chu Chu Malave. Actually, they aren't bad, although their parts are hardly challenging.It is also worth pointing out that baddie Kane is played here by oriental American Pat Morita (b.1932) but in the next film, he's played by young, caucasian and English Geoffrey Moore (b.1966), son of Roger. -
Seventies Malaysian psych-pop group Truck. Actually rather good.
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Yes, perhaps Im being a tad harsh. I read it through, it held my attention, it was quite well written.
Maybe it was over-hyped here (in Spain) and I expected something better. It didn't inspire me to read any of his other stuff, so there I go.
Not sure what a gothic genre is, but of its type I'd suggest off the top of my head both Eco and Arturo Perez Reverte did better, not to mention the obvious influence of JLB as pointed out by Sepp Blatter's mate.
It did get a lot of attention in the UK too. It got onto the Richard & Judy recommended list, which promoted and sold chosen books to a much wider audience than they would normally have done.
Meanwhile, this new Andrey Kurkov novel is puzzling me. I'm enjoying it, but the underlying theme is hard to pin down. I have a theory, but it would involve spoilers. The cynical social satire of earlier books (like Death and the Penguin) is less evident, and things are more in the off-beat, almost mystical area of his recent work The Good Angel of Death.
At times, it even seems like a riff on the fictional poet William Ashbless' Twelve Hours of the Night, which would be a sly and obscure reference indeed.
I am enjoying it, but I have no idea at all where it is all heading.
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Shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zaffon. Its a dark gothic story of a writer commissioned to write a book by the devil himself. the beauty of this book is that you don't realise what kind of book it is from one page to the next and its not until the last few pages that you have that eureka moment,truly brilliant
I quite enjoyed 'Shadow of the Wind', but it was a while ago, so I don't recall it in detail. It owes not a little to the fiction writing of Jorge Luis Borges, especially the first part.
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time out. Long time since I listened to this, but a warm sunny afternoon is just right for it.
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And that futtocks is one of my all time favourite TV moments.... absolutely fabulous. I've just "you tubed" it & shared on Facebook cos everyone should have another watch of that...
Great! Super... I didn't get where I am today without liking a scene like that.
And doesn't Jimmy's deluded fantasy sound awfully UKIP-ish?
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And that futtocks is one of my all time favourite TV moments.... absolutely fabulous. I've just "you tubed" it & shared on Facebook cos everyone should have another watch of that...
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin....a much underrated show
Have you read the Perrin books? They add more internal dialogue and background to the characters and are a great read.
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Fairly Secret Army. I knew of this series, but never got to see it 'til now. Several episodes on YouTube.Geoffrey Palmer plays Major Harry Kitchener Wellington Truscott (ex Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders), who is basically Jimmy 'Cock-up' Anderson from the Reginald Perrin stories. They had to rename his character, as this spinoff was on Channel 4 and the BBC held the rights to Perrin.Thanks to David Nobbs' writing, Harry still talks in clipped absurdities ("Tricky customer, Johnny Chit-Chat; never could get the hang of the blighter") and has precisely zero ability to function outside the military world. His dream is to start an army to strike back when the balloon goes up and hold out against, well, his list already includes "wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons... headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?".And music by Michael Nyman?
Moves, Rumours,Judiciary, Injuries ...
in The Australian Rugby League Forum
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Well, if he's found guilty, RU can have him.