my friends, or as I like to call them “the jammy bastards” are rocking it large at a Sleater-Kinney gig tonight in Glsagow. i’m sitting in bed with flu and BBC 4.
ah well, bugger the buggers - i just discovered the soul seek client for OS X, and what a great network; P2P does live on. I’ve already grabbed 3 more Kinney albums (all of which are Ramone-ic, in a wonderfully feminine squeelingly anxy sorta way) and some Phoenix.
next week i’m down in Glasgow to have a look around for a job, flat… anything really. i think it’d be ironic to take my last two days of work off - as i’ve been a solid worker for 3 years, whaddya think? yeah quiet lot aren’t you?
i’m also writing a script me and will are going to shoot in GlasVegas next week, I think it’ll end up being based on a Chris Morris monologue, from Blue Jam. i’m too sick to be original. i can’t wait to get back into using DV, i’ve been so far away; 35, 120, Super 8, AVI… i feel like i’m coming home. i want it to be known, i learned everything i know from Ken Korda’s “Making it in the Movies”. (Adam & Joe Clip)
you come around looking 1984
you’re such a bore, 1984
nostalgia, well you’re using it like a whore
it? It’s better than before, ah it’s better than before
you come around sounding 1972
you did nothing new, 1972
where’s the ”Fuck You?”
where’s the black and blue?
- Entertain, by Sleater-Kinney
No horns, but we did find a strange drunken side of Bill you’d do best to stay clear of. The countryside was grand, the cycling even better. Will even turned up - what a surprise that was.
Here’s a map, and here’s a set on Flickr.
Simple really, want a screensaver for OS X that actually looks like the matrix code, raher than the other gazillion savers out there (which just don’t)? Red Pill is pretty cool, and its free! Oh, I also just re-discovered Shapeshifter, so I’ve got a Star Wars themed mac today (Kamino). I’ve not had this much fun since Windows 98’s “Themes”.
Update: the file has been moved here.
is fantastic, to quote:
thanks alot-ski
ahahaha, it seems more-than-ussual Wogan is using his narrator spot on Eurovision to take the piss out of all the countries we don’t understand, in this big happy family of a Union. If you’re visiting from the U.S. - check out the live stream: BBC Radio 2. He’s insane, having a go at the dancers now.
Slightly related; Michael Palin is off on his travels again. As I guessed (a smug grin if ever there was one) the team are on their way to “New Europe” for a new series (airing, Autumn 2007). Kirstie Wark did a similar travel doc, it was pretty good too - Tales from Europe I highly recommend, if you get the chance.
So. Palin, in his own words:
So what is Palin’s New Europe ? At the moment it is a combination of twenty-one countries all of which were once in the Soviet bloc and are now either part of or about to be part of the EU, as well as countries like Turkey which are considering applying to join the EU. We shall visit many countries, like Bosnia, Albania, Moldova and Macedonia, of which we may know the names and not the detail…
I can’t wait. Back to Wogan; “Lithuiania? I’ve forgotten their song, well I’ve forgotten all the songs but…” (btw, I’ve just tuned in for the anual slamming / technical break-down and point giving, I didn’t sit through any of the ‘tunes’)
I’m watching a “Play for Today” from 1980 on BBC Four and gladdened to hear it is to return. Creative freedom, to make mistakes - that’s what our writers need… and a chance! In the past few years it looks like we’ve given up on writers. In the spectacle of Reality Television its red-top headlines that drive the action, editors create the storyline - a narrator provides the psudo-inteligent monologue, reminding us BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
The more we seem to record of this ‘reality’ the more we chance corrupting future memories. Isn’t that ironic? Through a program named “Big Brother” we may end up writing a fake past. Sadly the all powerful totalitarianism that drive the this Vision on our Television sets is not anywhere as esteemed as Minitrue, we are governed by - what I hold to be the most disgusting denominator in this country - the General Public.
Play for Today was always about realism, something makes me believe that if the BBC keep the word Play in the title the retards who write for soaps / sitcoms (the proliferation of which I hold whoever canceled the original Play for Today responsible for) won’t have the balls to submit a script. We’re not looking for spin-offs here, its one-off moments of theater - non-pretentious - we need to force-feed the masses. I say ‘we’, but I don’t think my half-assed attempts, thus far, will meet the grade…
I’m really trying to be upbeat about this reemergence, the BBC has been really letting us down lately. No idea what I’m on about- BBC News: WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
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