Bitten by the Nostalgia Beast.
If you are under 30, or didn't grow up in this country, chances are this won't mean a thing to you. But otherwise, it may stir a memory or two:

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One more video. The attached is only a sample, but Bella Gaia looks awesome. It's just the latest in a long line of this sort of thing - see The Space Movie,l or various bits of the Orb - and its rather longer on atmospherics than hard data, but still it's incredibly beautiful:

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Courtesy of info_sthetics

With thanks to ashfae:

This is a wonderful piece of performance art, from a Ukrainian talent show. I love the constant evolution, and Surreal quality of not knowing how one thing is going to become part of something else. It's eight minutes long, but really worth the effort:

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And from the sublime to the ridiculous, but if you are about my age, and ( Read more... )

Possibly the oldest LOLcat in the world

Courtesy of languagelog

Evening enlivened by the discovery that a quiet corner of my DVD collection contains what may be the only commercially available film of Pete Atkin doing his thing. To wit, "Mermaid Frolics", from the Amnesty boxset I'm working through, contains a very silly song about trains. He's playing second or third fiddle to Julie Covington, who at that ( Read more... )

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When the time comes to hand out the 2009 Whisky Tango Foxtrot? Awards for Truly Appalling Journalism, my money is likely to be on the following:

Parents warned against taking their children to "swine flu parties"Apparently, "no firm evidence has yet emerged of such events taking place". But that shouldn't stand in the way of a good dose of family- ( Read more... )

The limitations of the print media in this age of instant communication have been cruielly shown up by this month's Q magazine. Its major feature on Michael Jackson, commenting on his upcoming 50-show residency at the O2, and projected new album, hit news-stands on Saturday morning, a little over 24 hours after his death. The copy therefore reads a ( Read more... )

I have been an enthusiastic seeker after Wonderfully Awful British Accents On Film. There are some peaches out there. But sooner or later you have to stop fishing for minnows, and go back to the source. Enter Bert the Chimney-Sweep...

With brain and body blenched, it's time to take a trip back to childhood, and be swept away by Mary Poppins...

"You don't look well", he pronounced
"Indigestion" I replied
"From what?"
"Reality"
"Join the queue"

[Carlos Ruiz Zafon - "The Angel's Game"]

Yes, it's pulp. Yes, no guignol was ever grander. Yes, the plate-spinning of multiple plot-lines and characters comes unstuck from time to time ( Read more... )