Twerps

The best thing to come from down under since... mm. The best thing to come from down under.

Santa Stevens

Towing the festive line

Party Wit Kim

If you are really going to miss the Great Leader (his son ain't got no game I agree), then you will be reassured to find you're not alone. The British Communist Party (Marxist/Leninist) - because there are genuinely two other British Communist parties (did anybody watch the news in the late 80's? Fall of the Iron Curtain etc) - are struggling to deal with it too. Not only did they say some beautiful words but they are also throwing a 'memorial meeting'/party today (I can see it going on all night) to celebrate his great achievements. Assuming they manage to find out exaclty what those were.

Fresh Re-United

Neither of the Vivians showed up and there's no Jeffrey the butler (I have a horrible feeling he might be dead and that's why) but still.absolutely.fresh.

What He Said

Fascinating film, it's always interesting to see Woody simply as an actor. In terms of the general cinematography and script it's no match for most of his own, but it is a compelling story about an interesting problem.

Getting There

Obligatory festive picture of Bill and a video for the one genuinely wonderful christmas song
It is very nearly christmas! It doesn't look like it's going to be a white one, but as I have to pick up my girlfriend (interestingly, I stopped writing this blog at almost the exact time we started going out - coincidence?) from the airport on Boxing Day that's not entirely a bad thing, although it does look so very pretty around here when it snows. I might just post some pictures of last year instead. Christmas is a wonderful time of year, undoubtedly the most significant day of the year. If not in fact being the only genuinely and popularly significant recurring and adhered to date in modern Western society. This is also my last christmas as a student, this time next year I should be unhappily employed/ surprisingly happily unemployed. Maybe I'll be a weather man, or an astronaut or a.....

Flavourwire

Bob Dylan doing something with somebody in the 70's (i probably found this via flavorwire)

Flavorwire, in spite of its infuriating lack of a 'u' (part of what constitutes the single most irritating abuse of English by the Americans), is a brilliant site. Updated regularly (something which is extremely important to me) and actually manages to offer a readable, digestible, pleasurable look at all of these topics; literature, art, music, film, tv and general media junk. All on the same page. I'm quite certain its like does not exist anywhere else on the internet and its quality can only be attributed to the overall coolness of its authors (except maybe their music 'guy', the one man that contributes frequently and is invariably rubbish). Its articles are almost entirely written by women, which is in fact unusual in this day and age, and they of course proceed to do a vastly superior job to pretty much any site aggregated by penis wearers. It's very good, so if you are reading this, and want to go somewhere else and read something interesting, do go there.

Brown Recluse

lovely music

Kim's Gone

Perfect prick/The last of a golden generation

The death of international meme superstar Kim Jong Il will have devastating repercussions. Not, of course, in North Korea. The situation there will most likely remain exactly as it was, the security services look like they have got a pretty tight hold and Kim Jon-un  carries all the hallmarks of a perfect prick. But for the meme farmers of the internet, and those seven or eight people desperately waiting for a Team America sequel, it must have been a tragic announcement. WHO will they turn to now? Ahmadinejad?

Mikal Cronin

+ Ty Segall = the new Pavement? I think that's how the theorem works. Anyway, the Mikal Cronin half of that equation is my favourite.