Christien Pheby

Director Hwang I’m sorry man we gotta give some of your effects budget to Fincher. Will this work

Really enjoying SQUID GAME 3 but was not expecting a Tarkin-level CGI monstrosity. Can’t decide if Netflix gave this show too much money or nowhere near enough

GOAT warm weather album

from the writer of GUY RITCHIES ALADDIN

GUY RITCHIES AMADEUS

Jason statham: name's salieri. famous fucker, me. until - *freeze frame and record scratch on mozart* this precocious prick plonked his arse at the piana fuckin forte

All of Some Girls are Bigger Than Others. Bad lyrics on the merits, made worse by following There is a Light, and by the fact that he did *that* to one of Johnny Marr’s best guitar tracks

(Mild pang of regret that I didn't ask about the likelihood of this move even happening)

The design for Manchester United's new stadium was mocked as a "circus tent" online, but new YouGov research shows that the club's fans mostly like it - and support the decision to leave Old Trafford. More here: business.yougov.com/content/5181...

hey fair enough, I guess everyone of a certain age has an old-timey video game aesthetic they enjoy

Isometric stuff just ages better, Infinity Engine games became classics for a bunch of reasons but one was def that matte paintings and sprites look much nicer than a situation where everyone has fingerless cubes for hands

Argon Dreamcast Evangelion @synthandlasers Stan Lee: "So this guy has the powers of a spider. But we need a villain. What's the natural enemy of a spider?" Jack Kirby: *claws his way out from under a three-hundred pound pile of cocaine" "Goblins"

UEFA considers scrapping extra time from knockout games - but are football fans happy to go straight to penalties? More fans support the measure than oppose it. Fans also more likely to support bringing back the "away goals" rule.

New YouGov polling on rumours that UEFA plans to remove extra time from CL knockout stages: 45% of football fans are in favour, 35% are opposed.

Also asked about bringing back the away goals rule - 47% would reinstate it, 28% would not. More here:

business.yougov.com/content/5164...

🧵/ A round-up of recent YouGov polling on Ukraine and defence

With Keir Starmer saying he is willing to send British soldiers to Ukraine as peacekeepers, alongside other European nations, 58% of Britons backed such a move in our 16 Jan poll

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PANEL 1: A pig in an empty green space. PIG: "Last night I dreamed I was one of the main gang on Seinfeld. It was Jerry and Elaine and George and Kramer and lil' ol' me." PANEL 2: The pig is sitting (in color) in the iconic Monk's Cafe from the television show Seinfeld alongside the show's characters (in lineart only). PIG (v.o.): "They even had an extra chair at the iconic diner booth for me now." PANEL 3: George close up. PIG (v.o.): "And they came to me with their/our suicide pact --" GEORGE: "A *real* pact -- not one of those that *some people* always wriggle out of!" PANEL 4: Jerry putting his arms up in surrender. PIG (v.o.): "The 90s will never come back, they said. They said the acid of their observational irony had eaten away everything of value: love, friendship, sex, community, essential government services..." JERRY: Alright, alright--*no wriggling*!" PANEL 5: Kramer gently patting the pig's arm. PIG (v.o.): "All that remained was to diminish and go into the west." KRAMER: "Let's all slide through this last door together. I'm too weak to go alone."

the pact

Mixed feelings on A Complete Unknown but thinking a lot about Inside Llewyn Davis, which takes a fairly similar character - abrasive, gifted, unyielding, unpleasant to women, sees phonies and rogues everywhere etc - and sort of says: you have to be Bob Dylan to get away with this kind of personality

Yes! Forever embarrassed by how long it took me to connect the dots between "I'm eating huge quantities of nutritionally dubious food" and "I feel bad all day"

You don't actually have to eat until your stomach hurts. Pizza doesn't "just feel like that in the belly"

(Tiny violin stuff but suppose it's a real dilemma for console manufacturers - release a More Powerful Black Rectangle and you're accused of playing it safe; release anything more interesting and you get Homer's Car comparisons)

There's been a lot of commentary about Nintendo's Switch 2 design. We asked British gamers about it, and:
- 51% like it
- 41% are neither positive nor negative about it
- 5% dislike it
More here:
business.yougov.com/content/5146...

Garth Hudson, Organist for The Band, Dies at 87 The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on "Chest Fever," gave the group a "sound twice as big" and his mates music lessons.

The story in "The Last Waltz" about how the other members of The Band paid Garth Hudson $10-a-week for "music lessons" so that he could tell his parents he was a teacher, rather than in a band, is one of my favorites. In the doc, he's rarely in the spotlight, but always brilliant. #RIP

Cartoon by Stephen Collins. Here's the full script: 1 [title panel] 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BOB DYLAN WENT ‘CATS’   2 [Rock historian in interview scene]  It seems normal nowadays, but back in the 60’s it was a real shock.   3 [Empty stage at folk festival] I mean, this was a hardcore folk crowd. We were all expecting him to come on with just guitar and harmonica…   4 [On walks Dylan, prancing around dressed like a cat]  But then he turns up and launches straight into ‘The Rum Tum Tugger’   (Dylan with his tail: mraaow swish swish)  5 It was mindblowing. (Mrowwww prrr)   6. [New interviewee - an old hippy]:  You’ve got to remember, this was 20 years before Lloyd Webber. Nobody had ever seen anything like this before.   7. About half the crowd were really digging it. Then halfway through ‘Mungojery and Rumpleteazer’, this guy shouts   JUDAS!   8 Dylan just froze... [Dylan freezes like a cat] He leapt offstage into the crowd...   9 And started doing sexy cat stuff on this guy’s lap. (Mraow) 10. Dylan [Still doing sexy cat stuff in man’s lap]: Prrrrr….  I don’t belieeeeve you   11.   [Still doing sexy cat stuff in man’s lap] You’re a liaarrrrr  Mraaaow…   12. [Hippy:]  It was actually pretty arousing. That might have just been the acid though.

Newport '65: Bob Dylan goes Cats

Dylan bio is very watchable but sort of exactly what you expect, the story of a cool mean guy terrorising some goodhearted simpletons with a Stratocaster

Oblivion’s failings are some of the most memorable things about it - scaling system that makes no sense, V/A budget blown on audibly uninterested Patrick Stewart/Sean Bean so four actors voice 200 characters, Lynchian NPC conversations etc. If it’s “good” by 2025 standards it’s not really Oblivion

Have been happy enough with other remakes (RE4!) but this gives me pause. Oblivion one of those games where quality of life improvements - and not sure “soulslike blocking” qualifies - might meaningfully detract from the original’s janky charm

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Polled this recently and fwiw most Britons are comfortable with the idea of solo cinema trips (although they don't do it v. often). People who think it's odd can be very loud about it but wonder if the stigma of seeing a film alone is largely just self-consciousness at this point

Spent all day looking for a copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and then I found it and the sheer heft unmanned me. I no longer possess the mental energy required to get through a 900 page novel about a cowboy called Woodrow and it is time to move to a place of acceptance

got me and my wifes anniverseary mixed up with 9/11 again. in my defense the numbers are kind o f close together. "Im sorry Toots"

Remembering jazz drummer & band leader Max Roach, born on January 10, 1924, in Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina - he died on August 16, 2007, in Manhattan, NYC. This legendary musician worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and many others.

Nah no thanks not doing Spotify wrapped for all the money I’ve spent travelling from Essex to London and from London to Essex and from London to Hemel Hempstead and from Hemel Hempstead to London

For years I didn’t get into The National purely because I seem like a guy who would be into The National. I closed myself off to something I knew I’d like to spite a hypothetical person who might (but likely wouldn’t) make a reasonable assumption. A silly waste! Never getting into Tame Impala though