Posts by Joe Wylie
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* Watch out for that director and whoever edited and produced it. Thats some seriously polished work on a small budget. Get those people out of music videos and into features or TV.
Aaaaaah, so it's a showreel. Gottit. All that fuss over a little cunt or three whose towering ambition is to clean up bigtime pimping cognac to coloured kids. Or wannabe coloured kids, more likely.
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. . . an alternative national news weekly that ran 17 issues and faltered due to lack of lawsuits (free publicity!) and money...
Right, money. This highly singular entrepreneur bankrolled the glorious Nation Review through its twitchy startup phase, and occasionally stepped in to prop it up when it faltered. An interesting guy.
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All those stories about Elton John spending 10 grand a week on flowers make more sense when you know that "Flowers for performer" is the standard entertainment industry accounting euphemism for money spent on drugs.
And for those who have the money, but aren't necessarily users, drugs must surely offer the most lucrative return of any short-term investment. That said, it has to be Rupert Murdoch's deeply-held moral convictions that cause his media empire to go into overdrive whenever the possibility of drug-law liberalisation rears its uppity head.
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Get your middle class attitude over the existence of ladies of the night.
So it's not even a teensy bit middle class to assume they're all "ladies"?
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Uninvited racism from taxi drivers is always quite a highlight.
Best one I can recall, re. Pacific Islanders: "These people don't mind being hit on the head, but the one thing they can't stand is being bitten by a dog."
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. . . some spindly ol' pinion gear with the great grinding flywheel feathering one's flights of imagination . . .
"There's got to be more to life than fighting for fish heads!"
Richard Bach, J L Seagull -
Trace Hodgson
was there ever a book of that ongoing, deeply strange, strip he had in the Listener? I loved that...
Apart from Shafts of Strife (thanks Stephen Judd) there was The Television, which kind of faded out after a promising start. When he was on form, which was most of the time, Trace Hodgson was the badger's nadgers.
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And you asked for this:
Blearggh!!!
By way of an antidote - and not to forget that in its day that shonkily-animated item featured more hand-rendered blood than anything outside of Japan: -
Watership Down
But we're only at page 17 - isn't it a bit soon for that plateau of profundity?