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Rock 'n' Roll Nigger - Patti Smith

Words - Neil Young

Oh dear God - I actually have a tear in my eye. Glad she's home.

I went to see the B52s in Camden last week and now I've taken to listening to them in the mornings. I'm definitely a lot perkier when I leave the house.

I do have many issues with TV (lowest-common-denominator programming being pretty high up there) but really the main thing is that I ditched TV when it went face first into the reality-TV trough. Reality TV is part and parcel of this awful celebrity-culture cult that is sucking the life out of culture today. I don?t want Jordan and Peter Andre in my living room and I am sad that so many people obviously DO want them. If you switch on a TV, even just to watch the news, you are exposed to the inanities of BB/ X factor / Shagging Island / I?m a Celebrity (says who?) Get Me Out Of Here etc ? there just isn?t any escaping them once the box is switched on. I?m not good at blocking these things out. Bob ? I?m sure you?re spot on about BBC4's viewing figures. That?s something else to be depressed about! I?m not wearing a badge of honour; I just truly did vote with my feet and ditched the box. I still watch DVDs.

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

Tie Your Mother Down - Queen

Menier Chocolate Factory is a fantastic venue - and easy access for South London / ED.

Yes I do agree. A few years ago the "business" was manufacturing boy and girl bands right left and centre. They were easy to spot; you could see them coming and get out of the way. Right now there are so many manufactured (to my mind) indie bands. One band is interchangeable with another. Instantly forgettable.

Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front? F*ck off! We're the People's Front of Judea

My problem with TV is that it?s dumbed right down to lowest-common-denominator level. If there is anything on there which might be deemed ?good? then it goes to DVD and I do watch the occasional DVD on my laptop.

The RSC's Hamlet (David Tennant - Hamlet and Patrick Stewart - Claudius), in London this December, has 99% sold out already to RSC members and doesn't go to public booking until 12 September. There are only a handful of nosebleed seats left but if anyone on the Forum really wants to see this and doesn't mind sitting in crap seats then PM me and I'll help if I can. http://www.rsc.org.uk/buyonline/booktickets/tickets/production.aspx?PerformanceNumber=7121

L'amour Looks Something Like You - Kate Bush

Yes I'm highly selective about what I listen to, what I read etc. TV is more intrusive. For example, if you watch something on C4 you get plugs for Big Brother in all the ad breaks whether you want them or not. You don't just get what you want; you get the ad breaks and the trailers and the plugs. Whereas, if you buy an Elbow CD you just get Elbow.

Let's not forget Danny. My favourite moment in the whole film is when he takes of his sunglasses. I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

I daresay that there might possibly be 10 hours decent viewing in a week. But the prospect of trawling through all the dross to find it is enough to make me want to open up a vein. Truly.

Bruce walks on water and can do whatever he wants. I've just come back from a week in New York. Don't even get me started on American TV. OK then - "infomercials" - WTF?

I spent last Thursday night in a hotel and I had a little tour of the telly with the remote whilst I was there. Granted I was drunk at the time but I saw nothing but 57 channels and nothin' on.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello Maddie. > I will start with what I consider the best. It's > 'Withnail & I' > When Uncle Monty gets into the cottage, comes up > the stairs and to the fear of his nephew and > companion, enters and finds the 'boys' in bed > together terrified. > Withnail - "Monty, you terrible c@nt" > If there's a better sweary scene, then I'd like to > know. There are ones that are good. There are ones > that are cursier and more profane. But more > appropriate to a scene and that make you still > laugh, and know that when you show it to someone > for the first time, it'll make them gasp. With > pleasure. > It's perfect. I swear to God - as soon as I saw the title of this thread I thought to myself, nothing can beat "Monty you terrible C***". And then I opened up the thread and there it was. Bless you Honaloochie.

I don't have a TV; haven't had one for years. Every minute you spend in front of the box is a wasted minute. TV is rubbish and it's getting worse. If you're wondering where your licence fee is going let me tell you that the BBC has spent a small fortune trying to get me to buy a licence. Go figure. They just won't accept that I not everyone has a frigging telly.

Here's a link to the Heavenly Records line-up on the South Bank http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/festivals-series/forever-heavenly

They are beyond ugly and I wouldn't be seen dead in them.

These are muddy waters. I always sponsor my friends/family/colleagues when they ask; partly because I genuinely want to support their endeavours, but partly because I can afford it. I do have a lot of sympathy with those who can?t readily afford to keep giving though because requests for sponsorship do come thick and fast! I always give more if it?s to a smaller charity and not one of the big, obvious (rich?) ones. One of my close friends ran the marathon this year to raise money for the Motor Neuron Society. Her husband had died from motor neuron on the day of the marathon a few years back. She?s a stranger to exercise so it was no walk in the park for her. Training was a struggle but she found the fundraising an even bigger hurdle. She had never asked for sponsorship before and she genuinely thought that people would give it up for her, especially as everyone knew that the charity was close to her heart. That just didn?t happen and she did get very down about it all.

Heavenly Records, home to such as Manic Street Preachers, Saint Etienne and Edwyn Collins, is having itself a little 3 day birthday bash on the South Bank in September. The full line up will be announced tomorrow and I'll post here. Could be some great gigs. Separately, there may be a sniff of a Kraftwerk outing in the not too distant future.

Lovely to C U - Goldfrapp