Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
second season of Nathan Barley
So there is this amazing satirist named Chris Morris. He makes me feel like a disney character that is how angry he is. I just watched all of Brass Eye, his show from a few years back that was a parody of tabloid shows. He has this amazing episode about pedophile that I guess was quite controversial and yet looking at datelines to catch a predator it is quite apt.
So a couple of years ago Chris teamed up with Charlie Brooker another amazing and angry gentleman. Check this article out on grafitti artist Banksy to get what I mean. And they wrote a 6 episode sitcom called Nathan Barley, ridiculing the scenesterism in a part of London. This by rating standards was considered a great failure, literally. It had the lowest ratings the channel had every had for the time and night ever. Many Morris fans thought it was terrible, that he had lost his edge or sold out. But I stumbled on it a month or so ago and found it to be really quite good, if not one of the best shows I'd seen in a while. I am admittedly prejudice because it has my favorite person Julian Barratt in it. He plays a writer who works for sugaRAPE magazine, which is essentially Vice. He hates the culture that surrounds him, calls everyone idiots and the more he rejects it the more they want him. He also discovers he cannot work for any other magazine or publication because he is in fact an idiot as well. Noel Fielding also makes an appearance as Jones. Who is actually a bit cynical as well and is one of my favorite parts in the second episode, the preacherman episode, where he looks at Nathan Barely who is performing this terrible song and just says, "you are rubbish."
Anyway despite criticism and poor ratings it seems that it is going into a second series. I have not found much information on it. I am very excited. I hope Julian and Noel are in it again. They are going into the third season of The Mighty Boosh this Spring though. Apparently this comedian Will Adamsdale is in it. Doing what? I dont know.
Anyway people really hate this show because they are the hardcore Chris Morris types and think this part of his downfall or people really like the show because it's funny and character driven and absurd. I think it is very different from what Morris has done, because it is a sitcom and not a parody/ satire of a news show, and that could be why people have such disapproval of it. Sometimes, myself included, people take comedy too seriously. Morris is quite a serious comedian so maybe it's part and parcel to it but I think Nathan Barley should be considered without the baggage and history of the creators of the series and appreciated for the creation of the game cock muff bumhole.
It is hard to like and quote when in essence doing that is sort of becoming part a victim of the criticism of creators, and you become a sort of Dan Ashcroft character. Yes it is quite complicated.
Peace and fucking.
Labels: anglophila, nathan barley
Saturday, February 10, 2007
a story of the nativity told thru rock
just when you think you've seen everything excellent on youtube you stumble on to this.
almost as good as eye candy. almost.
Pt. 1
Pt. 2
Pt. 3
Friday, February 09, 2007
the real robots in disguise
robots in disguise - girl
god knows what this is.
Noel Fielding and Midfield General
Monday, February 05, 2007
shuffle around the foutain
taken from recess bandit's page.
itunes on the good old shuffle.
Opening Credits:
November Spawned a Monster - Morrissey
Waking Up:
The New - Interpol
First Day At School:
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
Falling In Love:
This Island, Come and See, The Landlords Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drowning - The Decemberists
Fight Song:
East West - Morrissey
Breaking Up:
I Won't Share You - The Smiths
School Ball:
Radio America - The Libertines
Life's OK:
Kingdom of Doom - The Good, the Bad and the Queen
Mental Breakdown:
Same Kooks - The Hold Steady
Driving
Underneath the Waves - The Twilight Singers
Flashback:
Robin Hood - Rifles
Getting Back Together:
God, Make Up Your Mind - Cold War Kids
Wedding:
C'mon People (We're Making It Now) - Richard Ashcroft
Birth of Child:
Little Boys - Devandra Banhart
Final Battle:
Flesh and Bone - Brendan Benson
Death Scene:
As I Rise - The Decemeberists
Funeral Song:
Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballe
End Credits:
You Know - Athelete
robots in disguise
those guys from peep show and that mitchell and webb look are the guys behind the UK mac commercials. good old robert webb and david mitchell.
i don't know if I would ever buy a computer from a british person.
some mitchell and webb sketches
Saturday, February 03, 2007
potential is like your bank balance there is always a lot less than you think - dylan moran
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is an amazing British sitcom that I just started watching. (Elliott I think you would love it and I will make you a copy of it and the It Crowd very soon.) Basically it is a horror hospital drama parody, with commentary from the creator, Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness), a Stephen King type character and his publisher Dean Learner ( Richard Ayoade (amazing)) that cuts into the episodes explaining what was so revolutionary or where inspiration came from. It has these amazing and purposely bad edits.
Garth Marenghi - I'm A One Track Lover
Thursday, February 01, 2007
trancecore
one simple odd word, not really technically a word, but Trancecore.
Enter Shikari - Sorry you're not a winner
Enter Shikari are touring with Billy Talent in the UK.
I would definitely see them if they came here. It would be hilarious or overated.
Now two words:
New Baggy. I am also so trying to get my head around this idea. laddish louts shouting about drugs and fighting. I am immensely enjoying The Twang right now however, I feel quickly I will be quite annoyed by them. I quite enjoy this comment about them in the guardian: "...so if you fancy watching a poorly-constructed "homage" to the likes of the Happy Mondays, Oasis and Stone Roses while having beer thrown at your head, catch them at a venue near you..."
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2002955,00.html
They're not even attractive looking guys. Not like that's important but the artic monkeys and the view all of this, 'hey we're young' look to get away with their teenaged bravado.
Baggy was what the music, generally from manchester in the late 80s and early 90s was called. Manchester was called Madchester also. It's sort of a fusion of dance music and rock'n'roll with endless guitar riffs. Some examples would be The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and The Inspiral Carpets. It essentially set the stage for britpop.
STONE ROSES - SHE BANGS THE DRUM
THE HAPPY MONDAYS - KINKY AFRO