BLANCANIEVES (2012) in slightly more than 140 characters

Good points:

Looks beautiful.
Sounds beautiful.
Excellent Snow White Jr.
Amazeballs eyelashes.
At one point Maribel Verdú looks like Super Yob Dave Hill from Slade.

Bad points:

I really can't get behind a bullfighting film.
Very clichéd view of Spain.
Modern clothespegs.

Prometheus (2012)

Let me see if I can sum up my thoughts during the film in the order they happened:
BOWIE'S IN SPACE
BOBBY SANDS IN SPACE
STRINGER BELL IN SPACE
I WISH IT WAS THE ENTIRE CAST OF THIS IS ENGLAND 86
IS THAT ALIEN OR PREDATOR AT THE END?
BRING BACK SOOTY
WATCHMEN
I WONDER WHO WON THE FOOTBALL
SHE IS QUITE FAT; THIS IS A GOOD THING.
IS HE MEANT TO REMIND ME OF RUPERT MURDOCH OR IS IT JUST A HAPPY ACCIDENT?
IMAGINE HOW GOOD A SPACE FILM WOULD BE IF IT WASN'T JUST RIPPED OFF OTHER SPACE FILMS.
I WISH WOMBLE OF THE UNIVERSE WAS PLAYING OVER THE END CREDITS.
I WILL NEVER GO TO THE CINEMA AGAIN IN MY LIFE.

Hangover Lounge 10th June 2012

Do you want a souvenir of yesterday's Hangover Lounge to go with your Real Ale Disease? Or perhaps you were unable to make it and would like to hear an approximation of what you missed when I took to the wheels of steel and mashed up da place?


Here are 128kbps mp3s of the two CDs I took with me. I didn't play all of it, and it wasn't in this order:


http://www.mediafire.com/?ocos3stw4s3hp5c,j42ghpeobtibzzl

1. Slave To The Rhythm  4:23  Grace Jones

2. Tour De France 5:11  Kraftwerk  

3. T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)   3:47  Dexys

4. Are You Ready For The Country?   3:39  Neil Young

5. Ranglin Satta  3:40  Ernest Ranglin   

6. Wasn't Born To Follow      3:30  Dusty Springfield

7. Egyptian Reggae      2:33  Jonathan Richman

8. Where Angels Play    4:12  The Stone Roses

9. Honey Hi 2:41  Fleetwood Mac

10. Nobody Told Me      3:34  John Lennon

11. Let's Stick Together      2:47  Wilbert Harrison

12. Revolution Version  3:51  Sly & Robbie

13. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N Roll Star 2:38  The Byrd

14. Smiling ladies      2:31  Heron

15. What Did The Hippie Have In His Bag?  4:13  Cornershop

16. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself   3:20  Morrissey

17. New York City 1:57  The Jesus & Mary Chain 

18. Things And Time     3:59  The Wailing Souls

19. Deep & Wide & Tall  4:02  Aztec Camera

20. When You Walk In The Room 3:03  Jackie DeShannon

1. 1.     Pogles Walk      2:38      Vernon Elliott    
2. 2.     How Wild The Wind Blows          1:19      Molly Drake
3. 3.     Never Get Old    4:25      David Bowie
4. 4.     Black Pride       4:15      Kofi      
5. 5.     A Love from Outer Space (Original Mix)    5:08      A.R. Kane
6. 6.     Jhooteh Laareh  5:01     JK & Tru-Skool             
7. 7.     Into Your Arms  2:44      The Lemonheads
8. 8.     The World Is Rated X      3:52      Marvin Gaye
9. 9.     Brand new day (Theme from The Landlord)           3:45      The Staple Singers        
10. 10.  The Words That Maketh Murder  3:41      PJ Harvey         
11. 11.  There Is No Safe Side But The Side Of Truth        3:54      Johann Johannsson
12. 12.  Winterlong         3:40      Neil Young & Crazy Horse         
13. 13.  Lost Weekend   3:16      Lloyd Cole & The Commotions   
14. 14.  Without You      3:10      David Bowie      
15. 15.  I Just Want To See His Face      2:53      The Rolling Stones
16. 16.  Eight Miles High            4:55      Roxy Music      
17. 17.  Don't Challenge Me        3:04      The Makers
18. 18.  Sign of the Times           2:28      Bryan Ferry
19. 19.  River Song         3:47      Dennis Wilson
20. 20.  Free Again (Original Mono Mix)   2:47      Alex Chilton

We All Agree Manchester City Are Rubbish

I am grumpy about Man City and the general reaction to yesterday's events. I think it's just a convenient way to channel my grumpiness, but it all feels very coherent to me.

1) People countering the buying success argument with the idea that the manager has to "mould a team" - maybe so, but on the evidence of this season, that is the one thing that hasn't happened at Man City with Tevez and Balotelli and probably some others.

2) Mancini being a toadying lickspittle towards his paymasters.

3) the idea that you have to be mentally deficient if you don't enjoy football.

4) The idea that the events of yesterday were in any way unusual. Name a year when nothing exciting at all happened in football anywhere in the world and you could win a pair of tickets to the Barclays Premier League match of your choice.

5) I really really wanted Gareth Barry to end his career without ever winning any "silverware".

6) I do not wish to see a gurning Liam Gallagher on my television screen, thank you very much. I would not mind if it was Billy Duffy though.