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chebs? what the fuck is a cheb? if i might misquote the song, i aint got no chebs.
that song is originally from hair: the musical. you know i love nina, we all love nina, but its not her song. its from hair: the musical. i am very protective of hair, because as i believe i may have mentioned on here- possibly some years ago, but i still cherish the foolish idea that someone out there has the content of every single one of my posts catalogued in a file in their mental catalogue, you know, im deludedly solipsistic, you know that about me- it is my absolutely most favourite musical. i am also fond of west side story- the orchestration, the lyrics, rita moreno, the dancing, dear kindly sergeant krupke, i love all of it and everything, but the thing is, if you go and see west side story youre not going to see any cock are you. when i went to see hair in 1994 i saw john bannerman's cock! i gotta say, it was awesome. i got a pretty good look at it; great girth. i havent spent that long thinking about it over the intervening 13 years but i could probably still draw a pretty accurate sketch if you asked me too. also, sinitta's bush: sparse. her interpretation of 'frank mills' was sensitivie enough to compensate, however.
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This sounds interesting, anyone ever watched this TV series:
Attachments is a BBC TV Series that ran for two seasons from 2000 to 2002, a total of 26 episodes. It focuses on a group of young professionals in London that work for an Internet startup company called "seethru" during the dot com boom. The fictional company ran an internet portal website at seethru.co.uk updated as the show progressed, and still exists today. The show was criticised for being too offensive. While the show was originally released on VHS, there are no mentions that it is to be released on DVD.
Seethru was started by Mike (Justine Pierre) and his wife Luce (Claudia Harrison). Other major characters include Jake (David Walliams), the site designer, Sophie (Amanda Ryan), the content writer and Brandon (Iddo Goldberg), the nerdy technology expert. Posts: 1396
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quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: Wait, was Steely trying to be funny?
No I was providing information for newbies and not so newbies who arrived here after the Seethru days. Seethru ended over five years ago now and loads of people have never heard of it. Especially I suppose the recent influx of posters from Flirtbox.
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I finished I Married A Communist, which I enjoyed, and am just about to start The Human Stain (good title).
I'm afraid I'm about to give up on contemporary fiction. I knew disco was bound to be right, but I went ahead and read A Million Little Pieces. What a load of unnecessary shite. Was I really supposed to give a fuck at any point? I also read The Time-Traveller's Wife, rather naively hoping it would be more science-fictiony than actually about wives. The central gimmick was good, and well sustained throughout, but essentially it's a novel about a couple, and a lot of it's about dull everyday couply life. I can see why it's been so popular, especially with women (very old-fashioned in the way the heroine is "destined" for one man, and her whole life revolves around him), but just not my thing at all.
The above meant I was craving for some proper Literature, and I read Sense & Sensibility, which I haven't read in over a decade, so obviously that was a lovely treat. I'm now re-enjoying Pride & Prejudice and think I'll stick with the nineteenth century for a while.
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I re-read Richard Price's Freedomland last week, which was 500-odd pages of excellence and far better than the disappointing, clumsy bodge-job of Iain Banks' latest novel. I finally allowed myself to go through Lee Child's The Hard Way, which I finished within one 20-hour period I think. It's reliably solid but not the best Reacher: a disappointing lack of tension and violence, actually. Some decent humour in Reacher's displacement to London, then Norfolk ("Must remember the etiquette. 'A pint of best, landlord," Reacher declared. 'And a half for the lady. And would you gentlemen care to join us?'") but disappointingly and contrary to the blurbs, most of the novel is set in NYC rather than the UK.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I went ahead and read A Million Little Pieces. What a load of unnecessary shite. Was I really supposed to give a fuck at any point?
This is depressing. The book is waiting to be read after I have finished On Beauty, which is a dull book about a family who don't matter in the slightest.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I've just read 'Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About' by Mil Millington, adapted from the website of the same name from 2002.
Quite sweet, a bit two dimensional but very funny in places I'd give it 7 out of 10.
He has a column in the gardian, or did have anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I watched a fair bit of Van Helsing last night. Jesus...
It's about the worst film this side of League of Extrodinary Gentlement, innit.
I'm reading the Penguin History of the World - there was a column by Charlie Brooker a few weeks back in which he said that watching the news is like watching an episode of the longest running soap opera, but never being told the beginning. I kind of agree - the Economist tries to, and often succeeds, write in a style of non-patronising back-filling explaination, but most papers and news sources eschew this. Anyway, thought I'd read the earler scripts, as it were, and try to get an idea.
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I'm struggling through London Fields at the moment. It's my first Martin Amis, and probably my last. It's so much about plot construction and being clever, rather than being interesting, that I'm finding it tedious. Still, I'll carry on as not finishing a book is sinful, and there's still a slim chance I may begin to give a shit.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: [b] I've just read 'Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About' by Mil Millington, adapted from the website of the same name from 2002.
Quite sweet, a bit two dimensional but very funny in places I'd give it 7 out of 10. [/qb]
He has a column in the gardian, or did have anyway.
Yeah, his column was called 'Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About'. It had a picture of its author, Mil Millington, at the top. He looked like a versatile man.
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I'm afraid not detective. Mil Millington writes a column detailing things he and his girlfriend have argued about. Harley writes about not being able to get a girlfriend. I know you like to go with your gut instinct, Benny, but I think you're wrong about this one. I'm going to use science to find the truth. Smoke a fag and swear a bit; I'll be back with some fibres in half an hour.
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When I was listing my books on Green Metropolis last month, I looked at the shelf with the Martin Amis stuff on it and thought why? I still wonder why I put myself through that.
I managed the first chapter of Freakonomics on the train the other day. I am not sure if this 'counts' as proper reading.
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quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I'm afraid not detective. Mil Millington writes a column detailing things he and his girlfriend have argued about. Harley writes about not being able to get a girlfriend. I know you like to go with your gut instinct, Benny, but I think you're wrong about this one. I'm going to use science to find the truth. Smoke a fag and swear a bit; I'll be back with some fibres in half an hour.
But time travel! 2002 he argues with is girlfriend about things - 2007 he is single and needing a new girlfriend (perhaps because he argued about things with the old one).
Actually, perhaps we should check some fibres and wait for the lab report...
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Having just read this dude's web-page, I can see how you could spin an amusing enough 100-word column from the premise, but a whole book? It's quite wearing reading about two people bickering for that length of time, surely? Although it did make me grateful that I'm such a seething mass of repression that's never had the backbone to contradict someone in real life, that my girlfriend and i rarely argue.
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: I managed the first chapter of Freakonomics on the train the other day. I am not sure if this 'counts' as proper reading.
Surely it can only count as improper reading if you are a small boy panting over a porn mag under the bed covers?
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: I looked at the shelf with the Martin Amis stuff on it and thought why? I still wonder why I put myself through that.
Lol, yeah - good one. London Fields and Money are absolutely fantastic books. Octavia is reading London Fields at the moment, and every time she laughs out loud (which is alot), I get her to read what it was that made her laugh, and then I laugh too. There's a thread on Barbelith where half-wits can parade their stupidity by pretending that those books are anything less than great. Why don't you piss of out of here and join them you dumb headed fuck?
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Having just read this dude's web-page, I can see how you could spin an amusing enough 100-word column from the premise, but a whole book? It's quite wearing reading about two people bickering for that length of time, surely? Although it did make me grateful that I'm such a seething mass of repression that's never had the backbone to contradict someone in real life, that my girlfriend and i rarely argue.
It's maybe a third of them having conversations and the odd arguement and the rest is a story about a university librarian who ends up embroiled in all sorts of nonsense involving the Triads, human skeletal remains, highly toxic nerve gas and the university he works for..
It's the sort of book Steven Moffat would write if he wrote books..
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I was about to buy London Fields just now from Amazon, following the comments above but gather from a couple of the reader reviews that it's maybe not the best one to start with, that it might be better to become attuned to Amis with one of his others first. Does this sound sensible, and if so, which would you recommend as the book to start with?
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I wouldn't listen to them. London Fields is only the second Amis I read (after Money) and there's nothing you really need to get attuned to. Unless you feel you need to get attuned to incredibly lively and relentlessly funny writing that's obviously written by a clever person. Other than that, I wouldn't have any reservations about diving straight into London Fields.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I was about to buy London Fields just now from Amazon, following the comments above but gather from a couple of the reader reviews that it's maybe not the best one to start with, that it might be better to become attuned to Amis with one of his others first. Does this sound sensible, and if so, which would you recommend as the book to start with?
I think Amis is a bit patchy and haven't liked all of his that I tried. I enjoyed the book about his father the most and I liked some of the essays in his book with Cliches in the title, but I thought London Fields was OK. Not the most brilliant of books but not that bad either. Not enough to buy any more until his auto?biography came out. Sadly I haven't read Money because one of that.
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HIppy - If you do try London Fields or, I presume, others, you'll have to get used to the feeling of MA saying 'do you see what I did there' in your ear now and then though.
It could be, however, that I just don't 'get' it, due to being a thicko, rather like just not 'getting' opera. Or that I just haven't got the heart for an argument with Thorn.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: HIppy - If you do try London Fields or, I presume, others, you'll have to get used to the feeling of MA saying 'do you see what I did there' in your ear now and then though.
It could be, however, that I just don't 'get' it, due to being a thicko, rather like just not 'getting' opera. Or that I just haven't got the heart for an argument with Thorn.
Could it be because it is a blokey bloke's book? I know at least one woman likes it and one man doesn't, but the majority feeling does suggest a gender divide.
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There does seem to be a gender divide. At least, Thorn likes him and I seem to remember that disco doesn't, which is the world in microcosm and good enough for me.
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I'm surprised you're struggling with Amis, herbs, I thought you'd appreciate his cleverness and enjoy his character descriptions (being a wry observor of human wankery yourself). His working class characters are ruthlessly brilliant.
I read Night Train ages ago, but recall it being rather different to his other stuff in tone, so people might like to try that.
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Poor Octavia! I imagine that after months of resisting relentless Thorn-nagging she eventually caved. “Thorn, if I read some of this Amis stuff, will you promise not to shit in the kitchen sink again? Even if it’s empty??” Seconds later there’s a stained copy of London Fields being thrust into her hands. As she settles on the sofa with a nice cup of tea and opens the battered paperback, a bony elbow nudges into her ribcage “well, well, are you enjoying it yet?”
“I’ve only read the first line.”
“It’s a brilliant first line, though isn’t it? Genius. Sparkling with cleverness and wit. Isn’t it? Isn’t it a brilliant first line?”
“Er, yeah, possibly”
The reading continues. She’s curled onto the sofa. Thorn’s staring at her with the intensity he usually retains for other women’s breasts. His eyes haven’t left her since she started. He’s trying to read her body language, desperate to get a single nuance of pleasure from her posture. It’s not possible. She looks bored, slightly disgusted with him, as though she’s about to put the book down and pat him on the head.
“It’s really good, isn’t it? Doesn’t it make you laugh?”
Octavia forces a bitter almost-giggle from between lips made numb by ennui.
“Which bit was that? Which bit? Read it out!”
Octavia read a couple of paragraphs. She wonders how it all came to this. She blames TMO. She wonders how long it will take her to pack up five million quids worth of expensive cooking utensils. She wonders how long Thorn will last, alone, with only a porn dungeon to fall back on. She concludes he’ll still be there, even post potential-apocalypse, wanking away with cockroaches for company.
“Se, it’s brilliant, isn’t it? Is’t it great! It’s like, the best book ever, it’s so witty and erudite and beautifully written!”
Thorn’s so excited he’s got his cock out. He’s starting to masturbate.
“Not in the living room! Not without the paper down, remember!”
Thorn collects yesterdays Guardian, or the bits that haven’t already collected the leaves of expensive vegetables to be recycled in Octavia’s compost heap.
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