Here in the UK it's marketed as the Egg Master and received a good review in the Guardian. The review is good, the Egg Master, not so much.
As a citizen of the United Kingdom a lot of references to American culture go over my head and I just take them at face value - then years later I'll come across the original cultural relic, the penny drops, and I always feel a bit disappointed that the audacious left field flight of fancy that amused me was just a…
I tried hot turnip juice for the first time a couple of weeks ago - they actually sell it at the local Polish supermarket. I can sympathise with the Shelbyvillians - it was disgusting.
Stewart Lee's How I Escaped My Certain Fate is a very, very good memoir/analysis. I think it includes an annotated transcript of the Gaping Anus.
I didn't think the TV version worked as well as Blue Jam, the original radio programme. Aired late at night - on Radio 1 - to be listened to as slipping in to sleep. Weird sketches mixed with left field music. There's a decent CD which collects some of the sketches, and most of Jam originated here too.
Marc Maron mentions Lee a fair bit as someone who changed the way he thinks about stand up after interviewing him for WTF.
Richard Herring is also a prolific podcaster as well as hardworking stand up. Saw him last week on the last date of his current tour, no doubt he'll be on the road working out his material for this…
Track 1 from Like Swimming by Morphine is a nice way to slide from sleep to wakefulness.
Track 1 from Like Swimming by Morphine is a nice way to slide from sleep to wakefulness.
I came down here to stick up for the Long Pigs, I was singing She Said in the kitchen the other morning. But I've just realised I only know one other song of theirs - On and On, which wasn't that good.
Captain Amazing!
Also, wasn't he in Auto Focus? It might have been called something different in the US.
I think This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This is their magnum opus, but it sounds pretty dated these days. I think after that they went a bit more dancey, and before they were lo fi indie. Now For A Feast has that era covered. They're my two favourite anyway, but I wouldn't have linked them to the man who…
People interested in this stuff might be interested in the story of the BBC's 1986 Domesday project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
They were just a bit ahead of the technology of 1986, but have recently got it all online.
Did Butthole Surfers cover Hurdy Gurdy Man, or did I dream that?
My decision to read more than one page of these year old discussions has been validated by this comment!
The weird bunny rabbit scenes creeped me out too. Being left with a lingering unsettled feeling is worse than a quick jump shock which is resolved in one second.
The Friday 13th 3D installment has a nice aerial shot of corn popping out of a pan, and I think a yo-yo scene too.
Always reminds me of that Albert Brooks trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Adam and Joe
Adam and Joe from UK's BBC radio 6 do some good novelty songs, my favourite being Adam Buxton's Too Beautiful for a Cranky Old Bag Like Me, an upbeat Latin-influenced number with lyrics inappropriately lifted directly from an article in lady-mag Grazia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/…
There's also a good vid…
Simon Quinlank: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Yes, I love Spaced! Although I wasn't so keen on series 2. But looking forward to next week's write up, Art might be my favourite episode of anything, ever.