Seeing as I've been arguing over the Brechtian qualities of the Sopranos elsewhere today, I'll end the weekend with some home-grown villainy, courtesy of The Fast Show.
Monday, 18 August 2008
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"I am by birth a free Commoner of England, and am thereby intailed or intituled unto an equall priviledge with your selfe, or the greatest men in England, unto the freedome and liberty of the Lawes of England." William Thompson, 14. of December, 1647
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XD
So funny. Thanks.
I love us. Were good at taking the piss out of ourselves :)
And they made this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m54cofLHRo
after that sketch ;)
I swear I hear these types of conversations outside in the street everyday. Minus the sudden gun fights. Mostly.
Love it - perhaps you'll scoff! I've not seen that film, but I've got a soft spot for Ray Winstone... now there's a sexy beast for you, especially in his canary yellow thong.
Nah Ray doesn't take himself 'arf as seriously as Tony S. She says blurring fiction and reality :)
Canary yellow thong?!
Check out the beginning of 'Sexy Beast'
Actually, it's not a thong - I think the term is 'rocket launchers'!
evening....
what do you reckon?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/08/why_rhona_cameron_would_be_a_b.html
sorry
try this.
I saw that in the paper today (not that article, but the story). I've got mixed feelings. Bill Hicks means a lot to a lot of people, and what concerns me is that history will be rewritten, and Bill will be made into this Hollywood-style tragic hero, and all the scum who did him down will postumously sanctify him.
The Bill Hicks I love is the guy giving his last interview on Austin public access tv, past caring about the trinkets and baubles of mainstream fame.
Still, his body of work is out there for everyone, and if this will bring him to a new audience I guess that's good. But, as a fan, I'd probably find the movie unwatchable. It would hinge on how the film covers Waco, which I think was the real turning point in his way of looking at the world. It would also depend on what his friends like film-maker Kevin Booth think of the project. If he gave it the thumbs up, I'd be more reassured. But in the end, the Bill Hicks story is an inditement of Hollywood and all this dumbed down trash that we're spoonfed 24-7, and it's doubtful the BIZ would want to tell that tale.
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