jeff leopard

I found myself watching the opening scene in the restaurant on youtube the other day, its brilliant/hilarious/heart-breaking and almost unbearable to watch all at once, like the film itself. The strange thing about it, considering just how hard-core the subject matter is, is that when I watch it with other people, the scene that has them crying out in horror is the sex scene between the old folk. This is seems to offend people more than the paedogedden scenes or the cum/dog/mum climax. I watched Sunshine again the other day which captures what's wrong with several of Danny Boyle's films more recent films. Like The Beach and 28 Days Later, Sunshine is a film about people going on an epic journey, and they all work really well up to the point they reach their destination. And then its almost like they don't know what to do next. Sunshine is basically a rather silly but gripping tale of people going nuts in deep space, but then it turns into a ludicrous slasher film, which aims for Solaris + Alien but ends up as Event Horizon which delusions of grandeur (not a good place to be). But it looks good, it's devoid of all the clichéd 'back at mission control' scenes, and Cillian Murphy is red hawt (in a healthy man-love kinda way). 6/10

Agree, if anything, I'd like to see Arsenal win the league with their team of lightening fast midgets. But i do have a soft spot for liverpool. My first ever game was Liverpool vs Spurs in the early 80s, and at Uni i had a mate who was a big Liverpool fan and I admit to standing on the Kop singing 'YNWA' a few times and being quite moved by the whole experience (and not getting my wallet stolen once). The main reason so many people really hate Liverpool is because they won everything in the 70s and 80s. So hating them just become a default setting for most fans, in the same way hating Man U became the norm in the 90s. But going back to the origianl point, I can't take them seriously as title contenders. It already looks like its a fight between Man U and Chelsea.

ditto, my first ever cup win is surely coming i finish mid-table in my first league 6 season, i was top for the first half of the season and then, when it truly counted, my team were like a candle in the wind. unreliable. i'm still some way behind the top club in star rating power. i reckon that if this season i get get a couple of my youngsters up to five star performances, next season i can make a dash for league 5 and maybe even stay there. i've just started a yoof acadamy and i'm literally welling up with excitement at the thought of a saints web league. excuse me.

I'd agree if only fools and horses had run for 5 or 6 series and then called it a day, instead of going year after year until every drop of humour was wrung from it and it had gone seriously bad. as in unrefrigerated meat bad. the office is a much better show for numerous reasons, one of them being knowing when to stop. and its christmas special wasn't $hite, which is pretty much unheard of. series one of extra's was great, but by series two all the guests were trying to out do each other for playing themselves as total w@nkers, instead of actually exposing who they really were, as les dennis did so brilliantly. it was still funny though.

there was this surge in public opinion that 'the importance of being idle' was a great return to form. it was wrong, of course, it was just a lazy rumage through the kinks' back catalogue. it was the sound of a band tired with what they were doing, running merely on fumes. i can understand why people fell in love with them, but they've done nothing but make some tunes that sound a lot like other people's tunes. If they were the kings of a certain genre, it was beige rock, clearing a path for coldplay, keane, kings of leon et al. they've never done anything that can be seen as vaguely innovative or interesting. In this respect, radiohead are worth an infinite number of oasi (oasis's). the thing that's got my goat with oasis is just how much press coverage they got, and sadley, even if this is the end of oasis, that won't be changing at any point in the near future.

I've not had a tv for a couple of years and i've found out a few things - a) not having a tv is bliss! i got used to not having one within a week or so, removing myself from the utterly pointless and offensively bland tabloid tv is one of the best things i've done. b) the iplayer is changing the way we watch television, and the term 'relevision' is going to become increasingly redundant as more people use their pc's. c) like the NHS, the BBC is an institution with a lot of problems, but like the NHS, the BBC is as vital today as its ever been. the tories are going to go after the bbc the moment they get in power, just one reason we can't vote the ****z in. BBC1 and 3 are both already ruined by the competition with sky, 2 and 4 are still useful. But if you phuck with the BBC the biggest and most destructive effects will be on its radio and internet news, both of which are absolutely world-class. when they're gone, this country's media output will be consumed by the awful bland sludge of itv and sky. d) to get good tv these days, its all about US boxsets - Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Ad Men, Flight of the Conchords etc. they really are miles ahead of us. And yeah, Murdoch is all for the free market economy, thank god he's not some power-hungry media dictator who wants everything for himself.

I loved the first album, and somehow it still sounds pretty good, morning glory was the soundtrack to my first year at uni but the rot had already set in. Everything since, including their baffling amount of press coverage, has been utterly pointless, imo. How will pop history judge them? If i'm writing it then it will be as a 3rd rate version of Slade. I'm proud to say that, when push came to shove, I was always a Blur man. At least they had the originality to use syd barrett and ray davis as their icons, and not just the beatles (yawn).

I think the time is right for you to start experimenting with puncuation. I nearly fainted trying to read your post.

I know what you mean. Its on a lesser scale, but at Uni, especially on campus, you get lots of screaming and shouting at around 2/3am but you learn to shut it out. One night there was screaming that went on for ages and looking back I guess I should have had a look. Its turns out a guy had impalled his hand trying to climb over a fence and spent the longest night of his life screaming in agony and passing out through blood loss. ouch.

you should like this...someone posted mercy seat by ultra vivid scene on facebook and it got me falling back through time via youtube - the pastels, the pooh sticks, bachelor pad, and still going strong. the sound of the end of the world a masterclass in backing vocals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5cZED6dkA a massive racket

Jesus Christ on a bike... (speechless) You've got to hit the fans were it hurts (metaphorically), kick them both out of the competition and dock them points. Then see how much they like reliving the 'glory days' of the 70s and 80s. t w a t s

And I'm guessing that the American administrations and corporations that funded the IRA, back when being a (white) terrorist was romatic and rightious, will be next on their hit list. If Libya does pay up, will the families of troops who died in Iraq start pressing Iran for compensation?

Its probably a virus. Call IT.

That's the thing about compassion, it doesn't weigh up against anything, it just is. Compassion can't come with strings attached, its an all or nothing deal. The bible doesn't say 'forgive your brother's sins, as long as you're pretty certain he won't go off and have a party afterwards or sin again'. All of this is brought into sharp relief by comments made by the mother of one of the victims of 7/7. Ever since her son died, she has been publicly asking for people to forgive the suicide bombers. As a Christian she understands compassion and forgiveness, and absolutely rejects the demented cry of 'an eye for an eye'.

its going to be interesting for sure, but as long as we don't panic, or try too hard to break through, we should get there. but however it turns out we can all take pride in how England have come back after the 4th test, and how, slowly but surely, Strauss has started to resemble a world-class captain/opening batsman. It really wasn't that long ago he was on the verge of being dropped, and then the only big scores he could make were through grabbing ones and twos. And now against the Aussies he's playing some beautiful, aggressive cricket. Whilst Trott, Broad and (hopefully) Swann can spend the rest of their lives claiming that they were the one who really won the game and the Ashes for England, let us not forget little put-upon Bell, who's unconvincing 72 played a massive role in getting the team past the horror of the forth test. Good luck England!

What does champagne leftie mean? Some one that doesn't automatically regergitate tabloid headlines, written by retards for retards? In which case, cheers, that’s a great compliment. Scotland should be commended for standing up to the US, we could learn a thing or two from them. Just about anyone outside of America. This whole thing is political, the UK and Libya have a struck a trade agreement and the release of matey was obviously a key part of this. Its not right but that’s how it is. Comrade, my flute needs refreshing!

home taping is pruning the music industry this film looks really interesting. i'm really digging my battlestar galactica at the moment, and this seems to be going for a similar line in using sci-fi to address the kind of issues people aren't quite ready to address full on. battlestar galactica is all about looking at the war on terror from lots and lots of perspectives, including those of the terrorists themselves. and it draws the conclusion that if the roles where reversed somehow, america would very quickly adopt terrorist tactics, breaking down the stigma of the 'evil terrorist'. and this seems to be south africa looking at what happened during apartheid, and what still goes on today. i reckon if you don't watch babylon 5, stargate and deep space whatever, then you are not a geek.

What sickens me the most over this is the attitude of the american relatives. its understandable that they're upset over this development but it highlights the hypocrisy of America in general. It talks the self-rightious talk and yet repeatedly fails at walking the christian walk. The spokes person of the bereaved families was on the today programme last week, spitting feathers over how this man can be released on compassionate grounds when he's displayed none toward his victims. i'm no christian but doesn't the Lord's prayer, the definitive prayer, say something like 'if you forgive the wrongs i commit, i'll forgive those who do wrong against me'. Americans must say this to themselves countless times over a lifetime, and yet their justice system is still based on revenge, picking slogans from the old testiment which we all know contains a lot of very dodgy stuff which has no place in today's world (things about stoning your neighbours for x, and murdering your own children for y, who you can and can't have as a slave). and once again, this spokesman for the american families went on about 'closure' for the victims almost regardless of whether they actually got the right man. which clearly they didn't. its was most likely the Iranians getting revenge for when a US fighter shot down an Iranian airliner in the early 80s. but it probably is a political move for the UK to get comfy with Libya and all its lovely crude oil.

The whole TSI thing mystifies me, I've trained players for several weeks on the trot and their TSI goes up by about 100. Another player gets dropped and in the first week his TSI goes up almost by a 1000. Very odd. My season is well and truly over after a 3-2 defeat on Sunday. I decided it was time to blood my young striker and he missed two absolute sitters, in a full-blown comedy style. Bugger. My advice for league 6 is to get a good league with as many bot teams as possible. I had three of them in my league, but next season there will only be one so I expect it to get a lot tougher. You might want to get some practice of playing a 4-5-1 formation. I've spent pretty much all my money this season on increasing my ground's capacity, its at around 23,000 at the moment which is over £100 grand per capacity crowd. My next investment is a new coach. But a lot of it is down to the luck of the draw.

You sir, are the $hit! One of the most fun parts of my film MA was writing about his trilogy of death-fantasy films - Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive & Inland Empire - all of which (as you point out) get better and better with each viewing. And then for my presentation/seminar thing, I got the group to try to read the first ten minutes in Inland Empire, which still makes me laugh (I know I'm sad, what of it). I watched all of Twin Peaks last Xmas/New Year, including the absolutely enormous second season. Leland Palmer's death scene is one of Lynch's best ever moments and probably the most moving thing I've ever seen on the small screen. And he's a great actor too!

Fair play to BillytheCat for slapping Jumper down after his 'son of a camel' jibe. *Has an over-powering 'Pipes of Peace' moment* Wow, they're just like us, but blue.

as a real man should! rock night was a hoot! tonight is the last night of the nob fire...if you've got no plans for the day, have a listen to some myspaff tunes and then come along to winch to see a night of lovely folk and soothing electronica, featuring live sets from Rozi Plain - winchester's very own rising starlet of Fence Records and the UK nu-folk scene. http://www.myspace.com/roziplain Nedry - math rock & glitchy dub step with bjorky vocals. they're just about to tour japan with their new album. http://www.myspace.com/nedrymakesmusic Rachael Dadd - more home grown and internationally acclaimed folkiness http://www.myspace.com/rachaeldadd Yaard - lovely electronica with more than just a hint of spacemen 3 skagginess. http://www.myspace.com/yaaaaaaaaaard and here are some pictures of our rave night on friday

I like quite Munich, it’s a bit of a slog but it gets better with repeated viewings, and compared to indie 4, it’s a towering work of genius. I guess you could say the structure of the film reflects their mindset of the protagonists and their attitude to the mission. The first half is pretty tight and exciting but in the second half they're doubting just what it is they hope to achieve, hence it gets loose and problematic. Its brave film-making for a Jewish director to question Isreal's right to go around doing what they please and the final shot is a real kick in the nuts, but I'm not sure about of the downright disturbing sex scene though.

thank god we've not fallen back upon lazy tabloid stereotypes, that would be terrible. let me guess your next point, the poor need to be shaved, sterilised and destroyed.

I strongly recommend people watch 'Sicko' (even if you've been suffering from an adversion to Michael Moore). There is a scene where they play a recording of Richard Nixon when he was Pres and it goes along these lines… Adviser 'We're thinking about starting a health insurance scheme' Nixon 'Look, you know how I feel about health cover' Adviser ' Well, how it works is that people will pay insurance their whole lives, but when they get sick the companies will refuse to pay them anything' And the US helath care system was born. The Health Care corps hire the best lawyers and private investigators to block any sizeable pay outs, or if they can't do that, they string the case out until, you guessed it, the person in question dies of their medical condition. God Bless America.