Thursday, 8 December 2011
FIGHT!
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
MY HIT LIST-F*CKIN IN THE BUSHES: OASIS
I was never a fan of Oasis, I basically missed that particular boat so have little knowledge of their output. This song, however is a superb slice of Rock 'n' Roll. It features samples from Murray Lerner's Documentary Message To Love, which is about The Isle of Wight Festival of 1970 and has contrasting views expressed by organisers and residents. The festival itself features stars such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Free, The Doors, Miles Davis, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. F*ckin' in the bushes is a worthy tribute to that event.
Snatch Version
We put this festival on you bastards
With a lotta love
We worked for one year for you pigs
And you wanna break our walls down
And you wanna destroy us
Well you go to hell
With a lotta love
We worked for one year for you pigs
And you wanna break our walls down
And you wanna destroy us
Well you go to hell
Original material
From The Festival-The Who
From The Festival-The Doors
From The Festival-Jimi Hendrix
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
MY HIT LIST: WASTELAND-THE JAM
http://youtu.be/qTDMbqTot6g
Wasteland
Great Band Great Song.
WASTELAND
Meet me on the wastelands - later this day,
We'll sit and talk and hold hands maybe,
For there's not much else to do in this drab and colourless place.
We'll sit amongst the rubber tyres,
Amongst the discarded bric-a-brac - people have no use for,
Amongst the smouldering embers of yesterday.
And when or if the sun shines,
Lighting our once beautiful features,
We'll smile, but only for seconds,
For to be caught smiling's to acknowledge life,
A brave but useless show of compassion,
And that is forbidden in this drab and colourless world.
Meet me on the wastelands - the ones behind,
The old houses - the ones left standing pre-war -
The ones overshadowed by those monolith monstrosities -
councils call homes
And there amongst the shit - the dirty linen,
The holy Coca-Cola tins - the punctured footballs,
the ragged dolls - the rusting bicycles,
We'll sit and probably hold hands.
And watch the rain fall - watch it, watch it -
Tumble and fall - tumble and falling -
Like our lives - like our lives -
Just like our lives.
We'll talk about the old days,
When the wasteland was release, when we could play,
And think - without feeling guilty -
Meet me later but we'll have to hold hands.
Tumble and fall - tumble and falling -
Like our lives - like our lives -
Exactly like our lives.
©Paul Weller
Monday, 5 December 2011
MOVIE MONSTERS TOP TEN
THE CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTER
Director John Landis has written a book about Movie Monsters, and let’s face it who doesn’t love a good monster. He puts forward his view on the best of those monsters. Mark Kermode's excellent BBC Blog delves into the theme and with that I mind I had a think about my own top ten. The rules I've set are simple. Must be non human; leaving no place for Leather Face or Norman Bates. Must not be an actual animal; Ruling out Cujo or The Shark in Jaws, can be an alien or mythical or otherwise otherworldly and must be in the movies. So here’s my personal top ten of movie monsters, some frightening, some silly and some just plain fun. Some from great movies, some from awfully great movie. The Bad The mad and the ugly.I have a particular love of the rubber costume, stop frame and non CGI and these choices reflect that. there are also specific films that have a memory for me. Some are obscure and some are well known.
Mad science gone awry, puny humans meddling with things they don’t understand. Radioactive nightmares awoken by nuclear tomfoolery. Ancient artefacts in the wrong hands, Aliens disturbed from slumber, catacomb dwellers and assorted twisted manifestations of a twisted mind make up the world of the movie monster.
Kong is king amongst these monsters; an icon and a victim of unreasoning fear. Gojira; bought to destructive life by the whims of a voracious mankind. The Thing, sent to conquer and the Alien a killing machine in three incarnations.
Then there’s The Judas Bug, created by man and hunter of its very creator as is The Host, bursting to life in an ecological fable.
The Children of Hydra and Q, sorcery and ancient malice their birthright
Ro-Man the robot Monster possibly the most ludicrous of monstrous creations and Pinhead one of the most terrifying.
These are ten of the monsters that have graced our screens and poked at our imaginations.
Who are these guys?
TOP TEN
THE THING (1982)
THE ALIEN (1979)
PINHEAD
THE JUDAS BREED
Q THE WINGED SERPENT
Sunday, 4 December 2011
MY HIT LIST: SMASHING TIME
TV SPOT-Switched on Birds!
Smashing Time is a 1967 movie about the pitfalls of swinging London as experienced by two northern girls. Written by George Melly it is far from a hard hitting expose of the London showbiz world; it's a jolly romp.
You have to think that Mike Myers must have watched this umpteen times when formulating his Austin Powers character.
It's a snapshot of the times and I for one find it a great deal of fun.
Smashing Time is a 1967 movie about the pitfalls of swinging London as experienced by two northern girls. Written by George Melly it is far from a hard hitting expose of the London showbiz world; it's a jolly romp.
You have to think that Mike Myers must have watched this umpteen times when formulating his Austin Powers character.
It's a snapshot of the times and I for one find it a great deal of fun.
Carnaby Street, baby
The Swinging and groovy twosome
Saturday, 3 December 2011
MY HIT LIST: BLACK HAWK DOWN
A Blistering War movie from Ridley Scott with a rock solid cast delivering the action in Somalia. Based on true events Scott handles the subtext and action with aplomb. It's almost a western in it's unfolding.
It stars Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Sam Shephard, Ewen Bremner, Hugh Dancy, Ron Eldred, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Piven, Orlando Bloom and Tom Hardy, also Matthew Marsden late of Coronation Street. In this casting Scott creates an ensemble piece that is stirring and compelling in the way that an old fashioned war movie used to be.
Scott is a director of great talent and this is an overlooked movie from him.
It's undoubtedly a man's movie and it contains not only an underlying theme of courage but of the western powers getting involved in foreign affairs.
It's as gritty as Saving Private Ryan, with a dash of the wild bunch and She wore a Yellow Ribbon, but with the political questioning of Platoon. It has moments of dark humour alongside pointless death and destruction. Perfectly scored and edited with great precision.
Most of all it's a great, men on a mission, action movie.
Friday, 2 December 2011
KILLER Bs Double Bill
MIMIC (1997)
Entomologist Susan Tyler
Two great old fashioned style monster B movies released within a year of each other make a perfect double bill. Ancient Monsters and Mad Science, glamorous scientists and tough cops, creatures roaming the streets of iconic American cities all come together to deliver a double bill of dark thrills and spills.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Curiosity Corner-Strange Aftershave
Nuts & Bolts Colton Company
Yes these are all bottles of Aftershave from yester year when novelty was all the rage one can only imagine the fragrances contained within!
007 aftershave
Avon appears to be the main culprit.
AVON Leather
AVON Owl
AVON Fuse
AVON Volkswagen
American Eagle Wild Country
AVON Traffic Signal
AVON 'CALLING'
AVON Alsation
DUNE BUGGY
AVON HUD
Special mention to MACHO by Faberge taking the art of subtlety to new lows
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