In the woods there grew a tree. And a fine, fine tree was he.
Friday Night Lights is unbelievably earnest, the team have group prayers before games, Coach Taylor (using the power of his hair/sunglasses) gives cheesy locker room pep talks and they all chant ‘Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose’ at some point every game to motivate themselves to victory. Matt Saracen (oh number 7 you’re the prince [...]
My kind of love song.
“I’m glad that I’m so lucky to make you feel yucky everyday.”
Penny whistle at 1:57!
Fiver’s vision of blood over the fields, and the weird bit with with the rabbits heads coming down the warren network and then combining in a mass of red eyes and teeth? Yeah.
I know. Me too.
As a child I found Watership Down genuinely scary, and it made me cry (Bigwig in a trap… Hazel trying [...]
Claude Francois IS the discotheque, and his snake-hips are the light-up dancefloor. Sadly his amazing dancing didn’t mean he had the smarts not to change a lightbulb standing in a half-full bathtub. But that’s no reason not to watch every video of him dancing you possibly can. If I walked into a club full of [...]
Heavy machinery! Quarries! Preteens blowing shit up under the supervision of ANDREW W.K.!
I imagine this is what a fucking massive insurance premium looks like, ie the best TV show in the world. If they manage to incorporate gunge, it just might be perfect.
In my dreams there’s a theme tune that goes ‘we build, we destroy, [...]
With this nice weather I have been able to spend the day living the dream – drinking gin for breakfast, smoking cigarettes, and falling asleep reading the TLS. This might only be ‘the dream’ if you are an English graduate or alcoholic academic, and I also cleaned my bathroom, but you get the picture.
It’s also [...]