I listen to a lot of Radio 2 at work, and Mark Lamarr has been playing a lot of a band called The Snugs, who are quite good. Their song "Strugglin'" is up on their Myspace page here.
Also, Drewsie sends evidence of the following complete bloody travesty involving the newly re-famous Lovejoy.
In other news we're off to Lake Geneva for the weekend (that's Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, not Switzerland) to stay in a garden shed disguised as a cottage, where Ian McShane will have no chance of finding us and recruiting us to save the world.
Also, Drewsie sends evidence of the following complete bloody travesty involving the newly re-famous Lovejoy.
In other news we're off to Lake Geneva for the weekend (that's Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, not Switzerland) to stay in a garden shed disguised as a cottage, where Ian McShane will have no chance of finding us and recruiting us to save the world.
posted by Tom at 7:56 AM
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I hope some stupid with a flaregun didn't burn the place to the ground...
I don't get it, what's this film travestising?
Yeah, I didn't get that either, unless you're talking about Susan Cooper who, whilst alright, was essentially sub Alan Garner...
It is indeed an adaptation of the first of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence. As far as I'm concerned, much of the atmosphere of the original books is generated not from the magical sequences but from the descriptions of everyday life -- Cooper makes the experience of childhood seem kind of strange and magical in itself, which I very much like. The trailer for the movie, which updates the setting to what looks like generic American suburbia, makes it seem as if the movie has lost a lot of this quality, which is my favorite thing about the books. I disagree that Cooper is just sub Alan Garner. What I really like about the DIR books, which I don't remember from Garner's stuff, is the sense that the Dark is completely undefined in its aims and completely unexplainable -- there's a strange drifting feeling -- which, again, helps to create the unique atmosphere, to the adventures that I don't associate with any other children's fantasy.
(mental note to oneself to pick literary squabbles more carefully)
I'll leave Cooper alone then as I can't really remember that much about reading them, but I have to take a little bit of issue with your analysis of Garner. The vast majority of the time you don't see or hear the evil elements, and even at the end they usually remain completely unquantified and seemingly indescribable. I always thought it one of his main strengths that he very rarely describes the dark elements, but largely confines himself to people's reactions to them, or even the threat of them, without ever directly engaging in a description of them. Anway - on to more loosely related topics:
Relatively prominent english actors, suddenly starting to appear in Hollywood films in the latter half of their careers. I give you Christopher Eccelstone:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001172/
and Ian McShane:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574534/
However, look at their filmographies - what happened in 2004? I like to think they shared some sort of batchelor flat in Hollywood whilst trying to break into the big time.
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