Larsen B

The Room

A little background on this film: Writer/Director/Star Tommy Wiseau raised 6m to make this movie out of his own pocket. He wrote, shot and starred in this movie which in it's entire run in the cinema made around 2,000.

It is hailed as being the worst movie ever made.

Y'know when someone says that something is "so bad that it's good" but they really mean that it's shite but you'll laugh at it once or twice?

Not so with The Room. The Room is so endlessly awful that it is gut-wrenchingly hilarious from start to finish. The actors can't act, the script is terrible, the plot is awful, the scenery is horrendous, the metaphors are clumsy, the plotholes are unbleievable.

This 'romantic drama' is so infinitely shit that it was remarketed as a black comedy and since then a cult following of people now go to viewings and chant along with the farcically long 'pan across scenery' shots, do laps around the aisles during the painfully long, uncomfortable sex scenes, correct the inaccurate dialogue and (the highlight for me)

when a framed picture of a spoon appears in the background on the set. the list of 'memes' (for lack of a better term) surrounding this movie seems endless and it's an utter riot to watch, especially in a cinema full of people who know the 'memes' that go along with it.

If you see this movie showing anywhere, go see it. It's a cinema experience unlike anything I've ever seen.

Wiki for more info.

10/10

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Yes, it was ace wasn't it!!! (assuming you were there last night and it doesn't so happen that it was the last film you saw, but somewhere else altogether)

So very true. I find it's pretty useless as a moral criticism of war, whichever side you want to argue, because for every war someone might criticise as illegal there's probably another case of intervention which was technically illegal, but which they think is justifiable on humanitarian grounds and so on. The whole notion of international law is itself a grey area too of course.

I have New Art Riot EP, but it's on CD not vinyl.

Any idea what time this is likely to finish by?

The Hercules Moments site the Eoin and Russ run.

Aah, pretty that you wangled a promo copy of that particular album.

Night At The Musuem 2 - Jumped the shark pretty early on, not as good as the first one.

**

A Mighty Wind - Funny mockumentary from the folks behind This Is Spinal Tap. Not as funny as Spinal Tap, but funnier than Best In Show.

***

Rocky Balboa - A lot better than I remember. Beats the shit out of Rocky 5 that's for sure.

***

Tyson - A documentary about the rapey ex-boxing champ, Tyson's life story as told by Tyson. A fascinating glimpse into his mind and a lot of great archive footage of his fights.

****

HEY, Wha' happen'!?!?

Out on the 28th, I'm listening to a review copy. I was trying to get the review done today but I'm still tinkering.

Who you reviewing for, just out of nosiness (nosyness?)?

A perfect moment for the old rustling around in your pockets before you let on that you've found something, before removing hand from pocket and flicking him the Vs.

You also should have brought him up for calling you 'mate'.

That would have been good, but it's a case of weighing up momentary victory against subsquently getting decked. I do wish for once I'd go for the momentary victory though, at least take the risk. If I was your height I probably would.

Let's commence the trolling of this post now then...

Panda Strong, you go first.

Just did a fine job yourself.

As others have already mentioned, if that seriously bothered you then perhaps you should think about why you actually go to gigs. Every Mogwai show I've been to there has been some kind of Celtic paraphenalia on show. Who fucking cares? I was at Hampden but couldn't have cared less once I got to the show.

The show - moments of utter genius with a few flat bits. I've seen them play better, but overall still an amazing band.

I thought the crowd was a bit flat. 11 year wait? Fitba come-down? Venue? Dunno...

Yes, oh yes. Hail hail boys.

The one thing I disliked (and dislike about DJ sets in general) is that people didn't dance properly. Too much gawping at the DJ. For me it kind of kills the atmosphere a bit. Nonetheless it was decent, although a mix of booze and (prescription) pills make it all a bit of haze for me. Kudos to Hush Hush for getting the fella up at an extremely reasonable price.

Some cunt with shaggy blonde highlighted hair in an appalling check shirt was giving me "What the fuck you smirking at mate?!?" because I dared to be both smiling and looking around the same time. At least I was smiling cos I had a decent night. Hope the boorish twat died all the same though.

Apparently there's a good chance of new Kate Bush this year.

Warp / Records / Broadcast / A statement

Basically what it says there. Very sad news.

skinner: Well, that was wonderful. A good time was had by all. I'm pooped.

Chalmers: Yes, i should be...go-od lord, what is happening in there?

Skinner: Aurora borealis?

Chalmers: Aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

Skinner: Yes.

Chalmers: May i see it?

Skinner: No.

yes yes yes yes!!!!

Anyone ever read Ginsberg Poetry?

I find it a bit crap, dunno, I hear what he says an all but it's ranting as far as I'm concerned.

I went through quite the Ginsberg phase about 6 years ago. I always found him fairly hit and miss. Occassionally very direct poems overly adorned which beat generation jive talk.

I've just finished Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov and was going to start Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino, but I'm expecting a copy of James Yorkston's book is the post for review so I'll wait for that rather than start anything else. I never read more than one book at a time.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Well done!

Dead Man's Shoes

"mmm, Juicy Fruit"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if I'm right (although my first instinct was California Man!)

"I'm out for a good time - all the rest is propaganda!"

i didn't know everyone was up his arse, but that's probably because i don't pay attention to the music press (and nor do i really care). anyway, the klavierwerke EP is so good. looking forward to it.

They are and the result will probably be that a load of dubstep (or whatever he's being called ourists are gonna have a big ole' backlash and treat him like a watered down version of what they're all about, but I think he's more immediately likeable because there's more tangible pathos in his music. Seven quid is pretty good really. Not a fan of the Feist cover though.

I'm struggling to think of anything in particular other tham just list artists I like who haven't released anything this year. So Wild Beasts the most probably. I've got a promo of the new British Sea Power album and it's pretty iffy.

NME's completely up his arse but surely for a good reason. May just pop by..

EVERYBODY'S completely up his arse.

Is exactly what it feels like. I think that's why chilli likes it as well.

No it ain't because I am pretty much incapable of liking music which is experimental for the sake of being experimental and love this album, therefore it ain't. It's scientific now.

Morely shouldn't be listened to for anything.

He was in the video for 'The Look of Love' so you're mental.

Daft. Who'd have thought people liked different music, eh? Music I don't like, I find boring, because I don't like it. Remarkable break through. The opinions of other people mean nothing in that stance, otherwise it can be argued that whatever this years Christmas number one will be (probably X Factor guff) is the best song on the planet because so many people bought it. Which would be ludicrous, because it's already nailed on to be shit.

Actually the acts of music criticism and buying a record are quite different. I don't believe anyone when they say that their own taste or opinions are free from the influence of other people's opinion. Morley gets on my tits sometimes, but I think the opinions of "learned" music critics are frequently enlightening and music needs picked apart to a degree.

Hidden is a sparkling inventive LP. To use the word boring is wide of the mark

As is apparent from my list a few pages back I'm with Chilli (and NME!) on this one. I think a lot of their live shows have lacked the gear and musicians to meaningfully recreate Hidden, until recently when they had shows that were actually under the banner of "Hidden Live". I think a lot of people who aren't taken by 'Elvis' (posted above and from their previous album) would be pretty impressed by Hidden. It's a big leap forward from Beat Pyramid. As well as being inventive it's actually also pretty direct, they don't mire themselves in experimentalism-for-experimentalism's sake. I think Jack Barnett's voice will still be a stumbling block to some though.

Here's a track that's actually from the album