h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Careful with that spliff, Eugene, it causes condensation...

That'll make for easy researching, thanks! I'll add that to my agenda for the weekend. Of course, I fell asleep on the couch last night and forgot to set any tunes aside for today, so I won't be able to listen to them till later.


One of these days, after I've finished ripping several hundred CDs to the hard drive, I will buy a Zen player and will no longer need to dig out tunes for work. But I'm sure it will take me a while to get around to it. Like everything else I set out to do. Sigh.


Meanwhile... more movies

Ghost World
Glen or Glenda
(The) Graduate
Gozu

East Is East

Out Of the Blue
O Lucky Man! (ooh, I can't wait till my DVD arrives in 2 weeks!)
Opening Night

Queen Bee
Quadrophenia

Youth of the Beast

Ooh! Here's a reference I only spotted recently:
'If I Had Possession Over Pancake Day'

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/blues/iihpojd.html

Does your heroin lose its glamour on the washboard overnight?/ Do you steal your brother's Giro?/ Do you talk a load of shite?

I liked the sound of Ghost World, but never saw it. Quadrophenia pissed me off. Not only for its appropriation by the whole turgid Britpop machine, I just hate anything involving Phil Daniels. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing...

The only other thing he's associated with that I've seen was "Chicken Run", though I mean to get around to seeing "Scum".

You're a choosy little bugger, ain't ya?

"Ghost World" was pretty cool. I related to it on a kind of personal-ish level, so I possibly like it more than I should. Plus Steve Buscemi is strangely attractive to me for some inexplicable reason.


Shall I keep racking my brain...?

I thought Ghost World was remarkably faithful to the book.

(Are we allowed to call graphic novels 'books'? I guess so. They're not scrolls, are they?)

O - Orlando. Featuring one of my biggest heroes as Queen Elizabeth I.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107756/

One of the Stately Homos of England

I hope we can call graphic novels books, I've read a fair few of those. I had the complete Sandman and Preacher set - With luck they're all still with Candy. My good friends Si & Mary went to London recently though, and came back with a copy of A Game Of You signed for me by Neil Gaiman.

Apparently Phil Daniels was in Bugsy Malone, uncredited as a waiter. He was in Breaking Glass too, don't like the sound of that. *cough*

(relax if you want to PC )

I did try Sandman - but I never really got on with it. I'm no Graphiv Novel afficianodo - but I do like 'Love and Rockets', 'Cerberus the Aardvark' and a few others.

btw - is Phil Daniels famous for anything else apart from Q/phenia and that Blur video? I did see him in the TV version of 'The Long Firm'. Excellent book, btw. Especially the section with the Phil Daniels character.

He's in Eastenders nah. Caw blimey stroik a loit, iss a jawly awliday wiv you Merry Pawpins.

That'll explain why he's escaped my attention, then.

I really like "Breaking Glass", and I remain unconvinced that you won't just on account of one little man you don't like. I've managed to like movies with cast members who I dislike. "Office Space", for one.

I would consider graphic novels books, too. I can't get into Gaiman, sorry, not even his novels (excepting, of course, "Good Omens"). I like "Love and Rockets", though I haven't bought any on account of my Nagging Need For Complete Sets and a feeling that I shouldn't actually buy all that. We've got a really cool hardbound one called "Safe Area Gorzade" (http://www.amazon.com/Safe-Area-Gorazde-Eastern-1992-1995/dp/1560974702) that I really, really like. K's got various titles I can't call to mind at the moment. And I've got two "Monkey Vs. Robot" volumes and the Teddy Scares graphic adventures thus far.

Haven't read "Ghost World" yet, though.

>>I haven't bought any on account of my Nagging Need For Complete Sets

You can get Hernandez Bros books, you know.

I've not read 'Safe Area Gorazde', but his Palestine one is very good.

I haven't seen the Palestine one yet, but it's just moved higher up my list.

Atheists with a predilection for the grotesque *looks around* will enjoy Preacher. There was talk of a film but that's become talk of an HBO series. The GN series is definitely worth a look though.

Speaking of cockerney monkeys, I notice that Steve Harley will be at the Ipswich Regent next month, for Children In Need (BBC telethon every November). A few days before Rufus Wainwright will be here, who I'd love to see if I could find someone to join me, with a spare £25.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_%28comics%29

...and if you can tell me how to pronouce "Proinsias" I'd appreciate it.

You've done it all, you've broken every code/
And pulled the rebel to the floor

I've just discovered that The Wedding Present covered that (presumably in the year when they released a single per week). Also...Duran Duran - although I'm sure it won't compare to their cover of '911 Is A Joke'.

Rufus W was in Glasgow this week. A colleague said he was spectacular.