Archive for March, 2009
March 26, 2009
“Dear Everyone Who’s Not Enjoying Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle,
Please, by all means, go ahead and don’t enjoy it. It’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes, you can’t please all the people all of the time, and some of you might never even have seen any rap singers, on the Top Of The Pops, [...]
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Tags: "here under protest is beefburgers", "i'll tell my aunt what you said", 'have your say' is possibly the most ironically named thing ever, andrew collins, catherine tate, chris morris falls victim to own legacy, del boy bar jokes 'hackney' says location filming schedule sheet, del boy bar jokes 'hackneyed' says poll (of moaning bastards), doctor who, end of the roadshow, fist of fun, for fuck's sake just try and enjoy something in your lives instead of aiming to be the big bad internet critic in the hope of impressing i dunno chris morris (who worked on this show) or bill hicks (w, GRR GRR I INSIST ON NOT LIKING STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE BECAUSE TWO NINNIES SOMETHING SOMETHING, GRR GRR OBLIVION BOYS, GRR GRR WHY DOESN'T GOOGLE STREET MAPS SHOW MY STREET IN EIGHTIES, heroes, jonathan ross, meglos, nathan petrelli, richard herring, RTD must go!, russell brand, stewart lee, stewart lee's comedy vehicle, the friday night armistice, this morning with richard not judy, writing "no" at the end of somebody else's review isn't expressing an opinion it's just fucking rude
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March 23, 2009
It’s an unwritten law of the pop charts, mainly because I just made it up and nobody else has even bothered to think about it and there’s probably no other comparable examples anyway, that a successful chart-conscious compromise made in one direction cannot be successfully replicated in the other. Whereas The [...]
Posted in Lazy YouTube Embeds |
Tags: "how's about that then 'albert'?", beverley hills 90210, chesney hawkes, how do you feel (about me?), it'll be bloody thunderbugs next, jason priestley (side view), rem, shannon doherty, stan ridgeway, teen beat, the 'rachel' one, the bangles, the bloke from the wendys sighs with unrequited love, the mock turtles, the rebel pebbles, tin machine
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March 20, 2009
Apparently, according to a bizarre writeup elsewhere on the internet, the key characteristic of Out On Blue Six is the ’submerged catchphrase’, which after much baffled researching and repeated stumbling across references to The Burkiss Way eventually translates as meaning an in-joke that is ‘got’ by the audience but only properly understood by the writers [...]
Posted in Interactive Fun |
Tags: dc follies at bay: that gopher meets a dog that isn't darrell's dog it's just a dog that darrell has access to follows shortly
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March 19, 2009
The latest instalment in the increasingly futile quest which is hopefully shortly to become slightly less futile to obtain some form of copy of every interesting-sounding single ever released by BBC Records And Tapes. Anyone able to provide an MP3 or similar of any of the following?:
The Two Ronnies – But First The News
The Two [...]
Posted in The Best Of BBC Records (And Tapes) |
Tags: "breakaway is not a cereal", "watch paint dry/watch paint dry/watch paint dry/i'd rather watch paint dry", 'cancellation crisis', bbc records and tapes, GRR GRR I INSIST ON NOT LIKING STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE BECAUSE TWO NINNIES SOMETHING SOMETHING, hopefully not 'mackenzie' off the zx spectrum, juliet bravo suffered a curtailed season; pop quiz and crackerjack were cancelled and never returned, resl, ronnie hazlehurst, scary rotating police badge, stitch that 'EIIR'!, the late late breakfast show has been cancelled... BY THATCHER, the trial of a time lord, the two ronnies
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March 18, 2009
Shamelessly ‘borrowed’ from an eBay auction it may be, but what a tremendous archive find – the cover of an issue of Look-In containing what was probably the only significant media exposure ever for The Mersey Pirate, the short-lived Granada-instigated Bleasdale-fuelled Redmond-applauded boat-centric technologically-haphazard summer replacement for Tiswas, forever at risk of being yanked off [...]
Posted in Dragged From The Archives |
Tags: "i don't know WHY they do it", "it's bearing straight down on me!", "there is no mersey pirate this morning because it's raining", "this programme has no rushes!/so in the bin it goes/and then it's off to forumland/to whinge about my woes", "young man if you use that language again you will be thrown out of the building", 'bionic action', alan bleasdale, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baba ba ba ba ba ba ba baaaaaaaaaaaa!, bawrence bids a tearful farewell to 'seventies', benny hill, bernie wants you to say ooo-kay, billy butler, blackadder bids a tearful farewell to 'seventies', dantalion's chariot, darren grimley bids a tearful farewell to 'seventies', dick turpin, frank carson, gary russell, gerry marsden rakes in the royalties thanks to very tedious boat trip, it's roaring bustling open wide/the northwest gate to merrrrr-sey-siiiide, look-in, lord of the rings, mind your language, phil redmond, please can we only have sapphire 'strip' and not steel, scully, sting, tales of the black freighter, the famous five, the mersey pirate, the police, three and a half wally scotts, tiswas, whither xtc on saturday banana?, you mean it was written AND performed by billy joel?!
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March 16, 2009
While we’re waiting for the BBC to announce a new broadcast date of March 1874 for the new series, exciting news has reached us of some forthcoming Torchwood sound-only spinoffs. So, make space on your CD shelves next to John Barrowman Reads Torchwood: Another Life (Logo), Eve Myles Reads Torchwood: Bloody Fucking Border Bloody Princes, [...]
Posted in 'Genre' Television |
Tags: "there" said the mayor "that all seems to be that", "which is why we got a new one", albert grunge, aren't some of them not in it any more?, bbc records and tapes, bob seger, burn gorman, cece peniston, doctor who, eve myles, eve myles sings the hits of house, eve myles tits, gareth david-lloyd, is it time to admit to liking kym sims and the bassheads and oceanic and k-klass and xpansions now too?, john barrowman, naoko mori, naoko mori wanking a cock, simm something simple, that one with the tiger on the front, the great jelly of london, torchwood, trumpton, uncle reni's boots have a hole/cause he only gets money from the dole, we got a love thang, we got tonite, where's the drill'n'bass version of the theme from meerkat manor?, who news usa!
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March 13, 2009
The 11 O’Clock Show. Seaquest DSV. The Brass Eye Special. The Ace Of Wands story Sisters Deadly. That one where Doctor Who fought a talking cactus. Yes sir, I’ve sat through some bad TV over the years. From Los Dos Bros to Natural Lies, from Manimal to Thompson, from Ring My Bell to CP & [...]
Posted in Sociocultural Ponderings |
Tags: "i am the lorax - i speak for the trees", "it's no killer net", 'oops, 'uncle', ace of wands, based on the novel by alan driscoll, burn gorman in 'looks competent in comparison' shocker, cp & qwikstitch, doctor who, dull 'zoo vet'-based mid-eighties bbc drama, eve myles tits, five to eleven, gene hunt, gene hunt would just have smacked them and called them 'nonces', GRR GRR WHERE IS CP & QWIKSTITCH?, heroes, john barrowman, life on mars, manimal, marblehead johnson, meglos, nathan barley, nathan petrelli would just fly at them, red riding, ricky hervaid, ring my bell, roland rat would just have hit them with a cricket bat, royce d applegate, seaquest dsv, sendhil ramamurthy in 'looks action packed in comparison' shocker, so grim that sitting through threads for the eighth time seems like light relief in comparison, still what about that 'birdsong' power in heroes eh?, the 11 o'clock show, the brass eye special was nasty sneering purposeless rubbish and don't bother arguing because there won't be any listening going on, thompson, through a glass darkly, torchwood, tv's uncle max gets involved, where are all the zany teh seventies LOLZ funsters like bawrence and the grimleys?, where's darrell's power of veto when you need it?
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March 12, 2009
If you’ve read the highly recommended most recent issue of This Way Up – which, if you haven’t, you should do so forthwith – you’ll probably have read my article on those fondly-remembered run-up-to-Christmas Childrens’ BBC drama serials with a supernatural/sci-fi twist (apart from, erm, the one about tennis). Within it you may also have [...]
Posted in Dragged From The Archives |
Tags: "gowbbbbbbbbbo", "ross and goalie and head-the-ball THUNK THUNK jossy's giants", a clockwork orange, casualty, coronation street, desmond's, glam goose, how to be cool, jason nardone, john gordon sinclair, jossy's giants, julie foy, let's not bother looking for the cast of the snow spider please, morris minor & the majors, nings, perry fenwick, philip pullman, porkpie, press gang, rik & ade, robert mckewley, roger daltrey, russell lee, so haunt me, the box of delights, the children of green knowe, the mighty gobbo, the mighty wurlitzer, the prisoner, this way up, tony hawks, tricia penrose, tristan maguire, what you lookin' at?
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March 11, 2009
So, the open letter didn’t work then… above you’ll see an oversized copy of the ‘new’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy novel (about as ‘canon’ as a scribbled-out idea for a Doctor Who New Adventure written by Lawrence Miles in a Silvine exercise book in which The Doctor meets James Corden and plays Wii Soccer), [...]
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Tags: brighton pier, dirk gently's WAP-enabled widescreen hoverboard of the soul, doctor who, douglas adams, james corden, last chance to see, martin freeman, marvin on studio b15, reasons to be miserable, stephen fry, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the salmon of doubt, the whale, they'll be doing a new Philip Macalpine novel next, they're neither triple breasted nor from eroticon six, where's alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb when you need him?
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The Greg Grunberg Commentary Masterclass
March 25, 2009#1: Expression Of Appreciation For A Dramatic Scene Imaginatively Rendered
“Ahwwwwwwwwww!”
#2: Reaction To A Visually Impressive Special Effect
“Ahwwwwwwwwww!”
#3 Suggestion Of Sexual Attraction To Fellow Cast Member
“Ahwwwwwwwwww!”
#4 Thoughts On Own Implementation Of Acting Technique
“Ahwwwwwwwwww!”
#5: Advanced Level – Use Of The Above In A Multi-Participant Commentary Environment
“Oh man, Zach is such a cool actor, he plays it like [...]
Posted in 'Genre' Television |
Tags: "ah i remember doing this bit - walking across the yard...", "Ahwwwwwwwwww!", "i an actor" by the peppipam, "is it commentary ben?", "john... connie... prunella... john again...", ali larter, greg grunberg, GRR GRR THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT PETER BREWIS TO DO COMMENTARY (FOR SOME REASON), heroes, matt parkman, nathan petrelli, peter petrelli, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, sylar
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