Tough week at work meant most nights I just chilled with a movie this week, manage to catch After Hours, which has actually a pretty good wardrobe for the main character and catched that New York mid-80's art world/young professional crossover look quite well I thought. His suit actually looks a bit like the wash n' wear one I got of TJ, although I think mine is more early 70's I think they still look similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLHM-wPecz0
anyway the film has a great dream/nightmare like quality, a bit like The Hourglass Sanatorium, but less trippy.
And as for tonight I thought I'd watch The Diner cause I never have. No opinion as of yet.
I like After Hours, it has that quality of a dream you just can't wake up from. One of those that seem to gon all night but probably only last a few seconds.
Enjoy The Diner.
TV wise I'm watching The Wire just now from the very start. About 5 episodes into season 2 and forgot how good it was. I'm as, if not more, gripped than I was when I first watched it.
Lester Freamon is the man. He has a little more style than the rest of the cast too. Which is saying very little I know but still, he's a cool motherfucker.
Last edited by Liam Mac (2012-03-31 18:00:25)
Porn mainly, to be honest.
After Hours was a good film, as I remember, haven't seen it since my sixth form days.
I see that Alex Cox's Repo Man is being reissued with documentaries and additional scenes, that's worth watching again.
I thought I'd check out MS' Made in Milan too. Nicely shot. But when Giorgio Armani talks to his models when looking at them in the mirror you soon realise this film was a blueprint to any make-up or haircare product advertisement for the last 20 years.
http://vimeo.com/9594035
And it is funny you should say that about After Hours, after I watched it, I fell asleep and had the weirdest dream, then woke up realising the film had to be written from a dream experience. I suppose there is only so many times you can get away with writing films based on dreams, but I like how After Hours ties itself up at the end, and you soon stop judging the film as being real, and you literally end up appreciating the dream-like logic of it all.
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For me the Wire still hasn't been matched by the now ever popular American mega-series. Although I like Walking Dead, not yet got into Broadwalk Empire.
THink you guys would like this part of the documentary most.
http://vimeo.com/10300815
Is this an insight to Hepcat at home?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpIT1W5wf-0
Ha! My uncle who was and remains a confirmed batchelor once warned me, that the first victim of marriage is your record collection. And there's a fair bit of truth in that, unless you're willing to fight and stand your ground.
My CD and record collection is indeed by genre: modern jazz, trad jazz, latin jazz, big band, bossa-nova, Americana/Roots, country outlaw, rock and pop. No one goes near, except me, it is a sacrosanct shrine to good taste.
And of course, there's ska and reggae. And a twist of classical.
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Last night it was Belle du Jour, which is currently 99p to download on't itunes.
tonight it is 8 1/2. which is free, on yout'ube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKcsnTyZ … re=related
Last edited by Oo Bop Sh'bam (2012-04-02 12:46:04)
I watched two episodes of The New Twilight Zone last night on the Horror Channel. So awful, they were good.
The Universal Mind of Bill Evans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … snh21ae6YI
The London Nobody Knows.
James Mason wanders round London in 1967, looking at the architecture and the habits underclass. Pretty interesting, and mildly depressing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sobP9TXYlmA
The Wire
The Sopranos
Curb
Braquo
Romanzo Criminale
Ha! I recommend green tea, and work related stress. Watch those pounds just drop off.
Oo Bop Sh'bam wrote:
Ha! I recommend green tea, and work related stress. Watch those pounds just drop off.
Aww, come on, Oo, you`re gonna have me feeling sorry for you in a minute, carry on like that.![]()
Or a Gulag.
After Spain booted out the French last night, I watched "The Mission", starring De Niro, and Jeremy Irons. The basic plot is about the 18th century Jesuits attempt to build a mission in South America.
What a film indeed, very moving.
All coupled with Morricone's thought provoking score.
I didn't realise there was a documentary on Bill Withers on TV yesterday afternoon. I'm waiting till it comes on iView.
Ah its on now - later tonight I'll watch.
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/23503
fxh wrote:
I didn't realise there was a documentary on Bill Withers on TV yesterday afternoon.
^ How do you turn a duck into a soul singer?
Put it the oven until its Bill Withers....
BOM BOM...
Duck walks into the chemists shop.
Duck:: "I'll have a large condom please"
Chemist: " I don't want to be rude but we don't get many ducks in here and I have a few questions"
Duck: "OK Fire away"
Chemist: " Well first up where are you gunna put it on and secondly how will you pay"?
Duck: "Just put it on my bill"