Archive for the 'heroes' Category
In Film Club at school this week, we watched Air Guitar Nation, the 2006* documentary about the 2003 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland, which were entered that yearby Americans for the first time.
I got three punters, all KS5-ers, and we all enjoyed it a great deal. It’s not only funny, warm, full of [...]
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I’m following the Olympics, of course, hoping for something exciting to happen, like a raised fist of protest, or a slogan scrawled on a teeshirt. So far there has only been a small war in Georgia, and a presidential resignation. To coin a paraphrase, the Olympics is a good seventeen days on which to bury [...]
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Tags: events, news, olympics, politics
Torch Would?
I did enjoy the anti-Olympic protests yesterday. Did the country proud. How many of us, if given the opportunity in 1936, would have protested against the Nazi Olympics in the same way? Who thought it would be a good idea to surround the torch bearer with sinister shell-suited Chinese security officials? They looked like Russian [...]
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Tags: politics, sport, sports
I’ve previously noted Shelby Lynne’s tendency to reinvent herself, so it’s not unexpected that when you visit ShelbyLynne.com at the moment, there is no mention of her previous record, Suit Yourself, or the one before that, or indeed any of the records she’s released since abandoning her short-lived country career and turning to blue eyed [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Entertainment, Luvvies, Music, Nostalgia, TV, Television, The Seventies, heroes | 1 Comment
I’m not one for writing reviews-of-the-year, but if I had done, I’d have discovered another year had gone by without my purchasing or even listening to much music. I haven’t even got the dubious compensation of having made much music of my own, as the three tracks I managed to record back in the summer [...]
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Born to be Bob
Television situation comedies are the topic for the 2008 GCSE Media Studies exam, which means I’ve been trawling through the archives looking for good, bad and indifferent examples to discuss in class.
It’s fair to say that the sitcom is in crisis, and has been for a number of years. If the likes of My Family [...]
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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
I really enjoyed the BBC4 documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel lives, in which Mark Everett, a musician from a band called Eels who styles himself E (I’m pretty sure it’s Eels and not The Eels), investigated the life and times of his late father, the physicist Hugh Everett.
The film was both intensely personal and moving, a [...]
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Dammit
Having got rid of all the Gh+stbusters hits (by deleting an image and strategically altering spelling, I got dropped from the search indexes), I’m now getting all the Myl+en Kl@ss searches. I feel another image deletion in the air.
I sometimes give images nonsense names that bear no relation, but I have to say it’s hard [...]
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Tags: CMA awards
In spite of it being tripe, I have been following Heroes since the Beeb started showing it, out of professional interest if nothing else. It has come up in class a couple of times.
For example, in a session on the ways in which audiences actually use media, I discussed the situation in which a lot [...]
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Tags: firefly
Spike
Airbrushed much?
Massive spike in my blog stats yesterday (and continuing today) as prurient internetters scour the world searching for a saucy picture of a certain gorgeous 43 year old actress, said picture released to promote the new season of her TV show.
You’ll notice I’m not naming names, so as not to encourage them.
She’s my secret [...]
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