and that's not a reference to britney spears. it's not. even if you think it is. man. you're out of control with all of your thinking, and what not. gosh.
no. it's a reference to our cousins across the pond on the little island. they're always making some good music, film, and, yes, television.
in honor of quantum of solace opening today, this week's plugs are all britishly minded.
word.
film plug o' the week -
casino royale.
i loved sean connery. he was the best. no doubt in my mind. george lazenby, while no sean, was pretty awesome. he was definitely in one of the best bond movies of all time. then came roger moore. he reminds me a lot of adam west and william shatner. those three guys should be in a movie together. wow. and then timothy dalton. really? what were they thinking there. i mean, i remember not hating living daylights, but i also remember not really caring. and then there was poor pierce. pierce brosnan has always been one of my boys, but sadly, the writers and directors decided to suck a lot and make his bond cheesy with bad oneliners. luckily, 24 and the jason bourne series seemed to wake the bond people up. why not have a badass bond that actually got injured and couldn't make everything magically happen his way? daniel craig. god bless that guy. it made me a believer in what bond could be again. i think ian fleming is smiling somewhere.
music plug o' the week -
their satanic majestic request - the rolling stones.
these guys have always rocked my face off. even when i didn't know anything about them. when 'she's like a rainbow' was playing on the new imac ads 10 years ago, i instantly fell in love. i had to search hi and low for that noise. thank god i had a crazy roommate who loved them as well and had that song. he played it one day and i was like, 'what the whosits?!?! that's my jam!!!' it may not have actually completely gone down like that, but i'm taking artistic license. oddly enough, when i went to find the actual album this is on, i only know one other song. '2000 man.' another one of my favorite from them. i'm totally checking out this whole album later. you bet your sweet bippy.
television plug o' the week -
mi-5 aka spooks.
this is a good spy show. i mentioned 24 earlier. that to me is not that good. i mean, people are always hyped about it, but that seems so formulaic to me. like, jack is an agent. the world is in danger. every main character dies. except for jack. and there's a bomb. and there's a poison. and there's a mean boss. after the third season i was pretty done with that. now mi-5, which to our british bretheren and sisteren is referred to as spooks, is a frakkin' awesome show that deals with british spies. the characters are great. the story is always getting change ups. and the style is really amazing. the camera work is beautiful and the music score ever more delivers. the double edged sword with this show though, is that characters can be replaced, killed or disapear forever. what i like about that is that you never know who will make from episode to episode. what is sad about that is that characters i like are gone. but, that's not unlike life. so, i can live with that. word up. anyway, it's good, action packed, spy thriller, chocolate coated entertainment. enjoy.
clever plugs those.
chip chip. bravo. tea. biscuits. lad. cheerio. posh. football. by jove. chips. english jargon and the like.
1 comment:
Seeing as how I'm in the mother country this week, I'll lend my opinions of three UK anti-plugs.
- Food. Aside from a very good steak last night, everything I've had here sucks. The Coke tastes weird, all of the meats taste old and have a consistency somewhere between oak and a hockey puck. The beers are too gassy (I watched the hotel bartender last night pull a Beck's from the tap, and even 2 or 3 minutes after he was done, it was still gassing up and the head was spilling over the glass) and nothing really has any flavor. The dozen or so locals that I've been hanging around concur that their food sucks.
- Late-night TV. Most channels have random assortments of gameshows that appear to be a mix between family feud and scrabble. People pay to randomly call in and guess letters and numbers. After a few minutes, you want to beat your head with the claw side of a hammer.
- The Tube. The Tube (or Underground) has both the best and worst aspects of mass transit. It's cheap, the maps are relatively easy to read, and fast. But it's also cramped, hot, and smelly. On my first day here, there was something on one of the tracks, and an entire line stopped for about 45 minutes. 45 minutes a few hundred feet underground with 400 of your closest friends in a non-air-conditioned, non-air-circulating sardine can.
wationte.
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