July 17, 2013
Before the stock market crash, London in the 1920s. From Stephen Fry’s film Bright Young Things, based on Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, 1930
Oh Nina, what a lot of parties… Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Circus parties, parties where you have to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St.
July 2, 2013
Cheryl Barnes singing Easy to be Hard, probaby the best track from the film version of Hair. The song was written by Gerome Ragni, co-author of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.
June 19, 2013
Here’s Matt Damon’s character Will being interviewed by an NSA recruiter in Good Will Hunting, 1997. I’d forgotten about this genius bit of mouthing off until I saw the clip circulating this morning.
June 4, 2013
Lying in bed at night thinking about the coffee I’ll have in the morning.
Global warming will soon cause a massive decline in coffee production. Since coffee grows in hill areas at a specific altitude and with specific water needs, as conditions get hotter and drier, plantations can’t simply be moved uphill.
May 27, 2013
April 25, 2013
Beautiful. Why are things so overdone now? This was a great set. 1968, BBC, London.
[Sorry about the ads; being allergic to advertising I have ad blocker and never see ads, but I’m told there’s advertising on this one.]
April 24, 2013
Voice from my childhood, though when I hear Ed Asner’s voice I hear him as Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Mary Richards: Mr.
April 22, 2013
April 18, 2013
Went to a bar tonight that used to be great, a neighbourhood bar in the old Arts Club Theatre. What happened? 14 sports TV screens happened, a contempo remodel, and all the clientele that comes with that stuff.
April 12, 2013
Glenda Jackson criticizing the legacy of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in the UK House of Commons this week, during a debate on tributes to Thatcher. For those who don’t think now is the time for this statement, I would refer you to this Guardian article on death and etiquette.
