Archive for February, 2007
I haven’t written about politics on Brlogsbane for a while, mainly because I’ve been utterly bored and jaded about the whole dismal pastime. In the words of Billy Bragg:
Outside the patient millionsWho put them into powerExpect a little more back for their taxesLike school books, beds in hospitalsAnd peace in our bloody timeAll they [...]
Today I saw A Prairie Home Companion. It’s a masterpiece. It’s of the same calibre as the best Robert Altman movies like Nashville and Shortcuts; in many ways, there’s even more to love about it. By turns hilarious, haunting, and shamelessly sentimental, it’s the kind of two hour meditation on death that [...]
I haven’t written about politics on Brlogsbane for a while, mainly because I’ve been utterly bored and jaded about the whole dismal pastime. In the words of Billy Bragg:
Outside the patient millionsWho put them into powerExpect a little more back for their taxesLike school books, beds in hospitalsAnd peace in our bloody timeAll they [...]
Today I saw A Prairie Home Companion. It’s a masterpiece. It’s of the same calibre as the best Robert Altman movies like Nashville and Shortcuts; in many ways, there’s even more to love about it. By turns hilarious, haunting, and shamelessly sentimental, it’s the kind of two hour meditation on death that [...]
I saw Little Children this arv, the latest film in the wave of American movies about suburban existential dread: American Beauty, The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing, The Safety of Objects, In Good Company, Me and You and Everyone We Know, etc. Little Children was one of my favourites. It’s got its [...]
I saw Little Children this arv, the latest film in the wave of American movies about suburban existential dread: American Beauty, The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing, The Safety of Objects, In Good Company, Me and You and Everyone We Know, etc. Little Children was one of my favourites. It’s got its [...]
I’m going to have to buy this guy’s book. This article is classic. Link. Extract:
No single event marked the shift from eating food to eating nutrients, though in retrospect a little-noticed political dust-up in Washington in 1977 seems to have helped propel American food culture down this dimly lighted path. responding to [...]
There are clips floating around the net from this BBC interview series in which Ricky Gervais talks to his heroes. The interview with Larry David is fantastic, and David seems like a really nice guy: Link.*
There’s an interview with Garry Shandling too, and somebody has put excerpts up on Youtube: Link. Shandling is [...]
I’m going to have to buy this guy’s book. This article is classic. Link. Extract:
No single event marked the shift from eating food to eating nutrients, though in retrospect a little-noticed political dust-up in Washington in 1977 seems to have helped propel American food culture down this dimly lighted path. responding to [...]
There are clips floating around the net from this BBC interview series in which Ricky Gervais talks to his heroes. The interview with Larry David is fantastic, and David seems like a really nice guy: Link.*
There’s an interview with Garry Shandling too, and somebody has put excerpts up on Youtube: Link. Shandling is [...]
