Hooked Lung
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So the other day I saw Jimbob from Taint jamming with the current drummer from Sepultura via Zoom / Skype / whatever.
Anyone else doing anything cool / interesting /unusual during these lockdown times?
I don't think I am, so I wish to live vicariously through your cool stories (bro).
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I've seen Crippler in Fuel and Rancour possibly also in Fuel. Both some time within the last 5 years. Actually Crippler was on my birthday.
My excuse for slack gig attendance is that I've lived in the South East of England for 12 years and I don't go to gigs there either!!
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15 hours ago, BlackHowl said:
...that beautiful shot where they go down into the big crater and the camera hovers across the water as they skirt around the outside? All I could think of was the logistics of the steadycam operator stepping onto some crane platform. Basically that for the whole movie. Even though I was consciously trying not to look for the digital cuts, I couldn't help myself.
OK well that description alone has given me the horn so I'm putting this film on the to-do list.
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19 hours ago, JayX said:
Negative, off topic is our brand.
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TBH Tarantino stuff usually clicks better with me on the second viewing. I will give it another go at some point but it's by no means high on my to-do list.
Sicario - noted. I think I watched it on a tablet while in a hotel room!! More fool me, I'll give it another spin.
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Can't be arsed with a thread for each film but I've watched a few more this month due to lockdown:
13 Hours - Best Michael Bay film, possibly his apology for the turd that was Pearl Harbour. It seemed to sneak onto Netflix quietly without the usual Michael Bay hype. Based on some siege/SEALS/CIA snafu in Libya after the fall of Gadaffi. The CIA hate it.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - Clunky, awkwardly paced/edited, and I am fully fucking done with Tarantino's feet fetish. Pulp Fiction it ain't.
Siege Of Jadotville - Decent, obviously very polished compared to the true brutality of what went down that fateful day. Funny bit where the enemy is charging across a medium sized field, yet seems to take about 10 minutes of running to do so.
Ad Astra - Meh. Tommy Lee Jones should have gone full Colonel Kurtz at the end. Good cinematography I guess.
Sicario 2 - First one was decent, this one is really fucking good.
Bonus photo of Imogen Poots with a skateboard for no reason.
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There's some new UKHC zine bouncing about in PDF format called Mentally Vexed that has a feature on Nuclear Family Records. I've uploaded it to this post.
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You 100% have the wrong person. Stay off the cough syrup.
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Anyone seen? It's like an episode of Black Mirror meets Inside Number 9 with a light sprinkling of The Shining or maybe the Omen. I'd say the premise is stronger than the execution, I'd give it 6 out of 10.
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Preacher is vaguely on my radar now as a few people have said this, so I will get to it soon. I also have the 'Killing Joke' Batman thing because people raved about it. Oh and the Maus thing about the Nazis. I don't want to hoard, I'd be happy to just have a handful of the really ace ones and if that means missing out on itty bitty little storylines elsewhere then so be it.
The current situation is a great excuse to chill in the garden reading this shit.
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Best one I heard was that the world is in lockdown because someone almost reached the end of the flat earth, and so now nobody can travel or the secret of the flat earth would be exposed.
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I'm supposed to be at the Nurburgring in Germany right now. We booked it in Jan, and by mid March we knew it was off. We are rescheduling for Sept (we went in Sept last year) but I think even that is hopeful.
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12 hours ago, stillagoth said:
Cheaper than the expensive free from bourbons you used to buy. I’ve never forgotten that!
Must have been the posh vegan custard creams I found, I've never bought bourbons that weren't the cheapo 'vegan by default' versions from corner shops.
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(And live in Eastbourne).
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McKee here. Nothing useful to report, I just work and eat Oreos.
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Graphic novels. I wouldn't even say I'm 'into' them really, but growing up comics to me was the Beano, not 2000AD or Batman or Dredd or whatever. I never really got it or cared. Then at work I asked a couple of guys who were into comics etc to recommend me something that was
a) all in one book cos I knew I wouldn't have the patience for collecting loads of issues
b) bleak and grittyThey obviously said Watchmen. I'd seen it in shops and on Staunch's shelf but never knew or cared what it was. I bought the graphic novel that weekend and read it twice immediately and it took my head off. The film came out a year or so later - it's good but it didn't blindside me like the book.
When I moved to Eastbourne I went into the local indie comic shop Scorch and said 'talk Watchmen to me' and the owner told me all these headfuck facts like how the 'new 52' range of DC Comics and their rebooted timelines all stem from Dr Manhattan interfering with the universe (or something). I now have the Doomsday Clock book, some of the Watchmen character origin stories, and I obviously lapped up the recent TV series.
Basically I didn't realise comics could be that smart or densely constructed, and now I'm kicking myself over all the good shit I must have missed over the years.
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I borrowed a pressure washer and it's the greatest thing. Anyone that breaks the social distancing rules within range of my yard gets pressure washed in the face.
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What Are You Watching on Netflix/Amazon etc
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Innit. That dry ski slope is especially shit.