Chet Desmond’s wonderful trailer for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, re-imagined in 1940s noir style.
Related: The Other Blade Runner
Paul Bridgeman writes:
The team here at Vocal have created the digital trends survey 2013. It is an investigation into the differences between what marketing managers think, ceos think, agencies think and students think….some alarming results!
“I am back in the same studio some weeks later to watch a taping of Friends, having been invited to Reprise Records. Friends has become the most popular TV show in the world, showing life as it is commonly lived in America’s carefully preserved unreality. The cast is friendly, and I am immediately taken aside by the scriptwriters and asked if I’d jump in on a newly jumbled plot-line where I appear with the character Phoebe in the Central Perk diner, where I am requested to sing ‘in a really depressing voice.’ Within seconds of the proposal, I wind down the fire-escape like a serpent, and it’s goodbye to Hollywood yet again.”
Morrissey in ‘Autobiography.
Also…
On being disliked:
“Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.”
On the recording of final Smiths album, Strangeways, Here We Come:
“I begin the vocal for ‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before,’ when Stephen [Street, producer] stops me, even though he hasn’t heard this one before. ‘Er, Morrissey, I think there’s a grammatic error here — Who said I lied because I never …’ he aids, helpfully. ‘Yesssssssss,’ I hiss, like an adder on heat, ‘it’s meant to be there,’ and now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”
On an encounter with Siouxsie Sioux, with whom he’s fallen out with after recording a duet:
“On the doorstep [Siouxsie] asks me whether right or left would be the best direction to find a taxi, and although her best bet would be left, I suggest she turns right. It is churlish of me, but it is she who has set the pace.”
On a breakfast with friend David Bowie:
“David quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.'”
Join the club.
The 25 Most Morrissey-y Quotes in the Morrissey Autobiography (Oliver Lyttelton, Vulture)
Previously: Catholic Guilt By Page 5
Thanks Barry H
The genes from some long extinct beast,
Have been found on a hill to the east,
The papers don’t care,
That it’s merely a bear,
So news of the Yeti’s released.
John Moynes
Illustration: NHK
ProtoGIFs
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Images created by the Phenakistoscope or ‘Fantascope’ – the first mechanical animation device – invented in 1829 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau 158 years before Compuserve introduced the world’s first Graphics Interchange Format image in 1987.
In later life, poor Joseph (top left) stared into the sun for 25 seconds to demonstrate the persistence of luminous impressions on the retina and ended up completely blind.
There’s a lesson there for us all.
MORE: an extensive collection of phenakistoscope images archived at The Richard Balzer Collection tumblr.
(Pic: Wikimedia Commons)
Sharon Murphy complained to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, on behalf of Galway One World Centre. She claimed there were, what she believed to be, racist comments made on Classic Hits 4FM, namely on The David Harvey Show, above.
In her complaint, Ms Murphy stated the comments expressed were clearly offensive, cruel and had a negative impact.
The BAI upheld the complaint.
It found:
In his submission to the BAI committee, Mr Harvey said his show is specifically targeted at RTÉ’s Liveline listeners.
Also, when explaining his use of the term ‘black babies’, the BAI noted that Mr Harvey described the term as “a colloquialism, which was a part of the language used in Irish schools and general conversation throughout the country during the 1960’s – 1980’s. Clergy, teachers, parents and pupils to collectively describe the work of Irish missionaries, usually in Africa, used the phrase ‘Black Babies’.”
Read the full report here
Well Placed
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Anon Contrib writes:
I saw this poster on East Wall Road [Dublin] yesterday (outside Aldi if you want to see it in real life) – it displays the importance of a well placed star…
Sugarcubes without Bjork.
Might work.
In Dublin city?
Well the road crew for UK band Lawson, who play the Olympia tonight, have been having difficulties on Dame Street, Dublin.
Pics: Elisa Duncan Cullen and Nollaig Tracey
It’s the buke they’re all talking about.
The one that makes Morrissey’s autobiography seem trivial, pointless and shallow.
We have three (yes THREE) copies of Put The Kettle On by Juanita Browne to give away to a tay lover of YOUR choice.
Do you know a iron-bladdered brew lover who likes a good read?
Just complete this sentence.
Would you please send this buke to____________________as he/she manages to get through___cups a day.
Rough estimate tay brand and ‘how they like it’ allowed
Kettle off at 2pm.
Previously: The Tao Of Tay