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and what's Drifter being canned for?

Quotes or it didn't happen.

Slight variant, the Cathartic Church?

First off, got to defend Rosanne at least on one point. She didn't threaten to bake Jews in an oven. She as a Jew (or occasional Jew if you want to be cynical) did an interview and posed for photos with an acerbically satirical Jewish lifestyle magazine. I seriously question the integrity of a journalist that reports it as such. Also, I liked that show, the original and the reboot and wish we lived in an age where an actor's ability to pull off comedic and dramatic roles was seen as entirely separate from their ability to have a coherent opinion on current affairs. Like, it turns out fucking ALF was racist between takes, and we were blissfully unaware of it. Well, most of us were, I'm imagining a hypothetical black kid in the audience that day who forever more saw ALF suction cupped to car windows mouthing the word "n_____" As for shock comedy in general, maybe it's going to die down because it's got to die down. Most of it bores me, generally because I'm hard to shock, especially if it's coming from one note offence dispensers. Bill Hicks, Charlie Brooker and the like, I see as full range humourists, they can still be cutting because they delve into something real and relevant, they're not just rendering the profane innocuous, it's funny because it hurts a little. There is the aspect of age, both in years alive and the age we've been born too. I think of my childhood, growing up in a Catholic country, where shit like this just wasn't talked about. We had our rules and our boundaries and we had sexless moral guardians called priests, then, and you might be ahead of me here, we found out they weren't so sexless and they weren't our guardians. The world changed, and we all realised that there was more to the world than we were told. It wasn't a culture of vulgarity that enabled their crimes, it was politeness, a conspiracy of politeness. But years pass, and it seems like blue humour hasn't chased the evil out of society, so I can only imagine what it's like for the generation that's coming up behind us to live in this vulgar new world where nothing is sacred and seemingly nothing gets fixed.

Been listening to some classics. It's good to revisit guilty pleasures once you've abandoned the concept of guilt.

I've been run over by far too many hype trains to get truly excited, but I'm looking forward to this. There's been talk between the two movies as to what is the proper tone for Dredd, truth is there never was a consistent tone for Dredd. It's been running almost as long as 2000ad has, and they got bored and they tried new things and it could be a wildly different kind of story from one week to a next. Usually it's about meeting an entirely new group of citizens, learning how they live and more often that not how they die. If they can stay true to that and keep the ideas flowing, it'll be something great. The only concern I have is seeing the state of the Preacher series, a show that struggles to depict the version of America that already exists.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-writer-rob-williams-has-completed-judge-dredd-pilot-script-comic-con-1128980?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&__twitter_impression=true

I've really no idea what this series is going to be, nor do I think there's been any details, now would be a good time to wildly speculate! Personally I really like the direction it's been taking with Discovery (I'm only five or six episodes in, don't spoil me) and hope it follows on from that thematically. Definitely want to see it painting more nuanced chaotic worlds, hopefully we're truly done with the spaced out laudanum'ed vibe of the Nineties (thought I love it in its own way)

If this excites you, how would you feel about a new series set in the Friends Universe, staring Matt Le Blanc?

https://deadline.com/2018/08/patrick-stewart-star-new-star-trek-series-jean-luc-picard-cbs-all-access-1202440156/

Incredible Hulk managed to go somewhere different every week, pretty sure that show turned a profit.

Ah fuck it, need to make sure everyone's heard this.

To be honest, I'd be quite happy if ginger dude just faded into the background like Dave Stewart/ Chris Lowe/ Danny Brown's guy and Killer Mike just handled the vocals. Course they'd need about 75% more lyrics, but I honestly don't think that would even be a problem.

Aye, they seemed to have done this before. To be honest, I have this problem with almost all gigs, I spend an hour or two processing my own thoughts, in this case trying to spot any black people in the building discounting those that were paid to be there, by about the encore I'm willing to concede that some things are just arbitrarily determined to be of interest to white people and it's OK for me to admit I am one and enjoy some music and then it's time to go home.

Not quite this band, but this song. Nothing against their other stuff, I just haven't heard most of it, listening to another of their tracks now, but generally I don't want to check out more Coup just yet, I just want to hammer this track again. ( oh, if anyone knows how to get the movie Sorry to Bother You on poor people VOD, let me know) Speaking of hammers, I discovered (or rediscovered, there've been some blurry years) this track. Several times a day: Saw Danny Brown support Run the Jewels(who definitely have their moments), he was gash live, I'm not used to live hip hop, I don't know if he was missing some flanking hype men or if we just failed him as a crowd, or maybe he's just one of those people that can bottle lightning, but can't generate it on command. Anyway, on record, especially on his heavier tracks, it was the quieting noise I need. As do these young women: Also, everyone as a qualifier of World citizenship, everyone should listen to the album Wild Planet by the B52's who are actually the greatest band of all time, a fact masked all through my childhood by the sheer adequacy of Love Shack.

Jesse's a Feminist. Partly. He's even read the texts as he tells his mother. Obviously not your standard Feminist, but he has a go, incorporating the man he is, he's had a varied upbringing. As his father instructs, he has to be one of the good guys. He's not a man not an angel, but compared to the too many of the bad, the Villains are always those that use their power to serve their vanity or for personal gain, and/ or those who take pleasure from others without ever seeking to return it. That's referring to the comics version, the real Jesse. The version from the show, I don't know who he is, which was appealing for a bit, but I wish if it was going to depart from the source material, it would have kept going in it's own direction, or at least keep going whatever it does. I assumed after the first series, it was going to unhook it's characters and have them go on a proper road trip. So far it seems that we're getting one major location per series, and that seems less for narrative reasons as for keeping set budgets down. We shouldn't be spending this long in Angelville, once he's got what he needed from that place every fibre of his body should be set on getting the hell out of there or burning it to the fucking ground. The series works better for me, the further it gets from the source material, I'm not sure if that material is genuinely better, or if I can just better appraise it on its own merits. But trying to bring in the whole supporting cast, or at least their bizarro TV versions and trying to have moments of tension while still maintaining a series long status quo, the plots tying itself in knots that I can't be bothered untangling.

Oh my.

Hot news in, don't fuck it up Paramount! Wildly Popular 'Iron Man' Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film

Incredibly. And Paddy's day is the celebration of all that is Irish and shite. Strangely Shrooms comes from the director of I Went Down, which I thought was quite good. No, you're missing the point, it's not offensive enough. When I say you should watch some Leprachaun, I mean you should watch some Leprachaun!

Paddy's day is when the Irish people and the people who inexplicably want to be Irish people celebrate their massively inflated sense of pride and conversely their complete lack of self respect. These are all important movies about Ireland that have something to say about the place beyond the caricature of the event, why the hell would you want to watch them on that of all days. Get some fucking Leprachaun on for christ's sake. Oh and Shrooms, you'll need some Shrooms.

The Night Marchers - In Dead Sleep (I Snore ZZZZ)