"What are you in for?"
"I set fire to Keir Starmer's house"
"What, number 10 Downing street?"
"No, where he used to live"
"So just some random fucker's home?"
"Yeah"
"You thick bastard."
Not really a confession but posting it here as the parallel made me laugh
Tom Cruise is doing a talk at BFI Southbank tonight, followed by him introducing a screening of MI: Fallout at the IMAX
The question is, will he be:
a) walking the 5 minute walk from BFI Southbank to the IMAX,
b) getting a car across or
c) doing some sort of stunt to promote the new MI film?
If you see him, tell him not sit too near the front, like I did the last time I went to the IMAX, it's a bit much.
There's truth in this but also it's a bit of a blind alley. The instinct to dismiss all criticism as subjectivity is a boring place to end up, as it leaves little to discuss. Some art is better than other art, and it's interesting to think why.
What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out
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Alan Moore - Read Terrible Books - Storytelling - BBC Maestro
YouTube video by BBC Maestro
The poet Wendy Cope said she became a poet because she was working as a teacher and had to mark kid's poems would read them thinking "well if you just changed this bit, and that bit, you might be onto something" and thus a writer is born.
I woke up with Duran Duran's Notorious in my head. Specifically the No-No-Notorious bit and I listened to it and notice it's syncopated. Those nos are between the beat - this is what makes it a little bit funky/catchy, that's why it's good. Made me wonder if that's a Niles Rogders' choice and yep.
If you had to desecrate a much loved landmark for a TikTok video what would you choose?
Mine would be bit difficult to pull off, but I'd drill holes into Christ the Redemer's hands and rig up a couple of hose pipes to get the full water fountain/stigmata experience.
