Bachman
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complex things
here / there
member since 02.03.2009
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First there was 1:14:07!
then there was 1.06.59!!!!
then- 1.00.55
alas then 1.03.54 (grrr!)
and 1:05:51
Mountain tops are *windy* (and rainy!)
The more I listen to his work, the more convinced I become that John Barry was a genuine one-off.
Speak your brains!
this link is absolute genius -
http://www.wehostdns.net/clio-ebay/renault_clio.html
"Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to *blackmail* this person? Good luck."
•"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
It's a bad old world. But it can't be all bad if it includes a good swally, Smokey Robinson, Beethoven, "Spaced", Antoni Gaudi, "This is Spinal Tap", astronauts, Kanye West, fresh garlic, The Beatles, Public Enemy, The Marx Brothers, Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections", Woody Allen, Jeremy Paxman and critical news reporting, "Fight Club", PG Wodehouse, Mahler, roasted flat field mushrooms, Neil Young, Johnny Cash (especially the "American" recordings with Rick Rubin), "Shaun of the Dead", George Orwell, Lee Child novels which simply aim to entertain, Picasso, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, early Summer, bananas, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", the healing power of Rioja, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, The Buzzcocks, Mark Rothko, Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo", the smell of freshly cut grass, birdsong, "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys, properly served Guinness, Bill Hicks, the work of Alan Moore, Frank Capra, Chris Morris, the Lakes, Dales, and Peaks, Led Zeppelin, random play facilities on an MP3 player, Jackson Pollock, early to mid period Stevie Wonder, just about anything on Motown, raging against the dying of the light, and the Pet Shop Boys (an ungrateful nation shrugs its shoulders with indifference - what is WRONG with you people!?). And seeing Jarvis Cocker, and hearing him speak, makes me proud to be British.
Things I can't stand, and believe me, this is not an exhaustive list, include people who talk loudly on their mobile phones on public transport - its not only rude, we're also not interested in your amazingly dull lives, and it's arrogant to think that we might be, you sickos; laziness; "can't do" attitudes; right wing thinking (an oxymoron if ever I heard one); people who think that they have the answer to everything for whatever political/religious reason -here's a newsflash - the world and beyond is just too complex for that, so just give it up; hard sums; avocado; overrated things (Van Morrison and Jennifer Aniston spring most readily to mind, along with Oasis - the bastard hybrid of the worst bits of The Beatles and Slade) and the term "genius" being bandied about without enough thought (though I am probably as guilty of that as anyone else). And bad poetry, especially on people's profiles. If I want bad poetry, I will go to Hallmark. And I don't believe world peace is possible, but the torture and killing of Westlife would be a good start. I think I need to see my doctor, cos I am convinced I am spending FAR too much time on here!
Last films - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - i cannot tell you what it was all about. It's not an official secrecy thing. It's that I couldnt follow it. And "The Interrupters" - absolutely amazing. "The Ides of March" - good acting, not bad film. "We Need To Talk About Kevin" - chilly, upsetting. "Contagion" - cough, splutter, cough, cough. "In Time"- i would tell you what it is all about but i just don't have
Last gigs - Roger Waters performing "The Wall" - astounding, bombastic, overlong, amazing, and curiously moving. And Arcade Fire - great, but very badly let down by an appalling sound mix. And Coldplay - they know how to work an arena, and so on, but like anchovies, a little goes a *long* way.
Last albums bought - David Bowie's "Low", "Very" by the Pet Shop Boys, Cee Lo Green, the new Kanye West,Genesis Greatest Hits, the OST for OHMSS, a Nick Lowe collection, and some oldies - In Your Mind, Punch The Clock, and Beauty Stab
Rentals - "Salt" (better than i thought it would be) "The Tourist" (absolutely appalling), "Predators"(same) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (quite thin, but worth seeing), The Karate Kid (the kid is too smug) The Social Network (really well done) "Date Night" (nowhere near as funny as it should be with that wattage) "Cemetery Junction" (better than it looks, actually) "The Green Hornet" (enjoyed it more than i thought i would) and "The Town" (a small gem, but not as good as Affleck's previous directorial piece, "Gone, Baby, Gone")
Am still steadily working through "The West Wing" - the greatest TV show ever made.
Currently reading - too many different things on my Kindle.
Remember, kids - if life is worth living, it's got to be run, as a means of giving, not as a race to be won. |
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