My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s
A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented!
Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s
NO-ONE CAN FIND THE CREAM
My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed
Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces
New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times.
Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire
READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it.
I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating
I think about this a lot
READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED
THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored.
ME: it was authored. By me.
A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one
I made it 30-40% more authored and they still didn’t want it ;)
Sounds like a good deal!
Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.
THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored.
ME: it was authored. By me.
Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall
The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech
There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling
God bless us, every one.
Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now.
Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?
Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?
In accordance with the tradition
In accordance with the tradition
THE FLY (1986)
