August 2009
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This week I have mostly been:
trying to find the time to sit down and watch FFF’s Fred Deakin interview, but unfortunately I’ve been buried under the European Email Mountain and some people are great big huge pains in my bum and I can’t find my desk any more and AAARGH
booking a holiday.
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This film is on: Bullets Over Broadway
God only knows how I’ve made it this long with seeing Bullets Over Broadway. I’m an on-off fan of both Woody Allen and John Cussack, and this film belongs in both their best-ofs. It’s just great, the sort of thing Allen should do more often – it has a story and everything! Plus Diane Wiest and Chaz Palimenteri, actors I always thought of as nothing more than dependable support,...
No.Zine
Patrick Fry’s No.Zine is a gorgeous two-colour independent arts zine, each issue conceptually centred around it’s issue number. The first collection, 1 to 3, features a variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators. Hurry up payday, I need to get my hands on these.
More smasing work by Fry here.
“The average single Londoner’s day runs as follows: You wake up and watch a...”
– Charlie Brooker points out that Earth has been invaded by screens.
“Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we’ll never get a 30-cent...”
– The design flaws of a certain astromech droid, from the most epic fails in Star Wars design.
“God, he told us, had fired a beam of pink light directly at him, at his head,...”
– Valis, Philip K. Dick (found in reference to This is a magazine, here).
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This film is on: High Fidelity
Watched High Fidelity with Dr B the other night. Although we had to keep pausing it so that I could explain that, yes, men are that idiotic, I think she enjoyed it. And so she should – it’s a bloody good film, a perfect addition to the john-cuss-rom-com genre (alongside The Sure Thing, Say Anything and Grosse Point Blank). It’s pretty much perfect from beginning to end. Except …
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“I originally was hired, and then they fired me because they decided to make the...”
– Hmm. Fisher Stevens kind of justifies his dubious role in Short Circuit in a new AV Club interview (see also a rant about the racism of my childhood).
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed...”
– Francis Bacon (spotted on Counter-Print)
“Clients don’t understand their success is reliant on standing out, not fitting...”
– Don Draper. Now come on Beeb, where’s my season three of Mad Men? Hmm?