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I found a pair of old Docs…
I watched a couple of vintage documentaries about two of my favourite writers on Ye Olde Interwebs this week that I haven't seen for bloody years. I guess it says a lot about my particular strain of temperament that [a] I can get genuinely excited about watching vintage documentaries I haven't seen in bloody years and, [b] I never previously thought of checking the likes of YouTube or GoogleVideo for hot-damn, good-shit examples of the aforementioned [a] that I didn't bother videotaping when they were first broadcast. Proof if proof were needed, then, that I'm still an analogue man living [...]
Heath Ledger 1979-2008
I heard about Heath Ledger's death just before I went to bed last night and it floored me. Sad, sad news. This was a formidable talent who was at his prime and, I'm certain, would have gone from strength to strength.He also played The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight, the sequel to my all-time favourite superhero flick, 2005's Batman Begins. From what I've seen of this performance already it looks as though Ledger more than nailed it. Dark Knight co-star Michael Caine recently had this to say about his performance:“I tell you the big surprise in the new [...]
James Joyce’s Digbethers
The great Irish writer James Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle briefly lived in Birmingham's Digbeth area, apparently.
Neologism: Generation X-Wing
Generation X-Wing noun A generation of people born between the mid 1960s and the mid 1970s who's childhood and adult life can be characterised by a fanatical devotion to George Lucas' original Star Wars Trilogy.Disillucased adj An extreme, specific form of mid-life crisis common amongst members of Generation X-Wing [see above]. Characteristics of this psychological disorder include an overwhelming sense of betrayal, regrets for wasting so much of one's youth watching low-grade space opera and a firmly-held conviction that - whatever anyone else might say - "Han shot first". First identified in 1997, cases of Disillucasism reached epidemic proportions in [...]
