I'm listening to Miles Davies's Kind of Blue album, which is the only kind of thing you can do on a day like today, as the rain hammers the windows.
Sachsgate emails: 'I would say take it out but it ... is VERY funny'
"Andrew Sachs is aware and is happy with the results which were recorded his end for him to hear." No he isn't.
Anatomy of a Flop
Which isn't just worth reading to find out how hit records aren't made but also because of the kicking the thing gets in the comments: "the problem with the song, though, is that it takes too long to get to the hook. i had lost hope before the hook actually arrived because there was so much “throat-clearing” in anticipation of the hook."
Ben Nevis
I think this might be one of Pete's best ever photographs.
Water ice glaciers spotted on Mars
Answer to David Bowie's incessant questioning presumably forthcoming.
A "Cullumder".
Which is now my second favourite music related stupid made up word. The first of course being...
Super Powers
This is what Heroes should be like.
What does this mean?
Seek and ye shall find?
Preparation
Waiter Rant inadvertently captures the essence of most of Frank Capra's films in a visit to the launderette. Timely.
DVD Times on Black Emanuelle
This isn't safe for work or in other letters NSFW, the section reviewing the transfer tickled me: "this is pornography and most of the dialogue is either redubbed or looped, which doesn't help the presentation of the audio track".
Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones - 10 Mar 2009
Grins. An import (if you're in the UK). Though a UK edition should be forthcoming, presumably.
The etiquette of leaving the theatre mid-play
I always wait for the interval though I have been at productions were people have thundered out sooner. Unlike films, it's unfortunate how theatre productions which don't begin well rarely get better. I also think that it's about time that there was a mechanism whereby you can claim for a full or partial refund if you're leaving because you're not enjoying yourself. It seems to me there's a contract between you and the performers for them to entertain you and if that isn't happening they've failed.
So Home Secretary Jacqui Smith wants to 'tackle' prostitution.
Belle tackles the issue. It's not bad legislation idea -- it's just too vague and ill-designed for practice.
On Death Comes to Time and the new starship Enterprise
Allyn discusses one of Doctor Who's many false dawns. "It still doesn’t fit. If you accept anything that Doctor Who has done, past or future, then Death Comes to Time doesn’t fit. On its own terms, it’s an interesting story of the passing of gods. As part of the larger symphony, it’s a dischordant note sounded on a tuba where the score calls for strings."
Gradation of emphasis, starring Glenn Ford
DB talks about how subliminal information within a film frame can make all the difference, the viewer receiving information before the protagonist. It's precisely the kind of subliminal textuality which is increasingly missing from films these days as filmmakers are forced to make every beat of the story obvious, even during stories where this is counterproductive.
A First Draft of Gore Vidal's Illustrated Memoir
... appeared on the BBC and spoke to some man I didn't know who asked me questions he knew I had an answer for, but I wasn't going to tell him.
Dear Don Draper, I'm haunted by the memory of a girl who left me. How do I get this girl off my mind?
This might be longest answer fake-DD has ever given and his most lyrical. Give that blogger a job on the series someone.
BLDBLOG: Code 46
Discusses the architecture in Michael Winterbottom's underrated film. I think in about ten years this is one of those works which is going to be rediscovered and seen for the clever piece of futurology it is.
Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: When the MCP Was Just a Chess Program
Whenever I see a cinema trailer for some new game at the cinema, with its near realistic landscapes and half realistic characters I compare that experience to spending hours trying to get around Hampstead or being lost in this forest, simple text providing all of the atmosphere required. We seem to be in an age of the collective loss of imagination. Just a thought: instead of some arcade game or point and click adventure, why doesn't someone release a text adventure based on Harry Potter with JK Rowling supplying the text? If books can be brought to mobile phones etc, why not interactive text adventures?
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