the queen

helen mirren is rad.
Prime Suspect Five is one of my favorites.

Niave - The Kooks

marry me !

my new favorite gay man - simon amstell interviewing britney spears

never mind the buzzcocks with noel fielding (mighty boosh)

I found this very funny. The host Simon Amstell is such a jerk and yet the more I see of him the more I enjoy him. Quite quick witted and seemingly shameless.

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new look

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.

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.


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sweet and more

Boosh shorts

SWEET



HOW TO TELL WHEN A RELATIONSHIP IS OVER



I just love Julian Barratt

the real robots in disguise

robots in disguise - girl



god knows what this is.

Noel Fielding and Midfield General

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

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

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