When I was a kid we’d play soldiers. One of my mates would have the most Shakespearean death-throes in which he always found just as the puff left him, “My last grenade!”
Fortunately he didn’t have a symphony orchestra playing Sam Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”.
Unfortunately for the rest of us Oliver Stone could afford that.
Is [...]
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Elias
Warlords
A couple of years back I was in TK Maxx (US readers - the same as TJ Maxx) and spied something for a few quid that I had to have.
It was a pair or Atari-style paddle controllers that contained numerous Atari games including Warlords. Computer and video games are frequently dismissed as frivolous by [...]
Nick is 37 and Lisa Kudrow takes the soggy biscuit.
Yes, today is my birthday.
Lovely prezzies.
And one that is really quite interesting. One might almost say prescient…
I tend to wake up early. I tend to because I have a cat and having the kitty pawing at your face and mewling does work. I say “wake up” but that is not the same as [...]
The Devil has the best tunes.
It is a truth that must be universally acknowledged that Christianity as a cultural influence has inspired some of the most profound art, music and architecture ever created. One need only look at York Minster, wander around any of the great art galleries of the world or hear Bach to know this. Indeed this cultural [...]
Springtime for Osama and the Caliphate…
In some ways, America is still processing the tragedy of 9/11, and judging by the below trailer for Clear Blue Tuesday, which is an actual movie actually debuting in limited release this week, we’ve entered the “overblown rock musical” stage of grieving. What Rent did for AIDS, Clear Blue Tuesday promises to do for the [...]
Seeking advice
Now, I’m a bit of a Joss Whedon fan, but I never watched Firefly when it was on. Should I make the effort now? Is it worth it?
Runaway Horses
So… I’m on the phone tonight arranging a trip into town for Manchester Pride tomorrow and I hand it over to the missus to arrange the details with our mate (she’d spoken to him before on the subject). And he mentions - in passing - that he was there last night and that Belinda Carlisle [...]
Wookey Hole
Now I thought that was just a polite way of explaining how Han Solo relieved sexual tension on those long, long flights when Leia had the painters in.
I was wrong.
A witch at Wookey Hole caves is facing disciplinary action after her boss spotted her on X Factor when she was supposed to be [...]
Knock me down with a feather!
Robbie Williams is to marry his girlfriend in an intimate ceremony this weekend, according to reports.
Well it is the entire front page of The Sun so it must be true! At the risk of sounding crude (something regular readers will know I never am) it’ll be the only thing intimate about it. Williams is clearly [...]
Tom Cruise…
… is a twat.
Tom Cruise can command millions for his questionable acting skills in a movie.
He has frequently acted as a romantic lead.
I was talking recently to my sister-in-law (now don’t get me wrong here - I’m not carrying a clipboard and going round Manchester asking random women about the fanciability of Tom Cruise) but [...]
Hello!
I recall when Kate Winslet got divorced from her first husband reading something in The Times about how such a match between the starlet and the cameraman (they met on set) could never last.
Winslet later married Sam Mendes a noted director.
Hold that thought. It is relevant.
I was at the dentists yesterday and I [...]
Dines Opines
I’ve just read a piece on CiF by Julie Bindel about Gail Dines.
Gail Dines is apparently now the Worlds #1 “Anti-Pornography Campaigner” (whatever the #1 there means) and “highly regarded academic”. Anyway for the most part it is conjecture and nonsense of the sort that has been trodden into the ground so many times [...]
Random thoughts (from the shower).
I have most of my random thoughts in the shower.
You know the Soviet cinema industry made westerns? Well they did and mightily popular they were too. Possibly because the western was pretty universally popular.
It does seem ironic but is it really? The classic black hat / white hat western is not a space for [...]
More reason to love Fox
Cat Fight!!!!!
One of these blonds is a complete ditz, I leave it to you to judge which.
Can’t imagine why the powers that be want to prevent Fox coming to Britain.
It really is beyond me.
Zac
When Ahmed Ali Al-Hamed (known to his friends in Liverpool as Zac) auditioned for the X Factor it was because – like the tens of thousands of people who audition every year for the show – he loves singing, and wants to be a star.
Well, fair enough - who quite frankly doesn’t want to sell [...]
