jeff leopard

I used to go to Thursdays for years for DJ Hammy's indie disco on a Wednesday night. It was there that i heard Pro>gen by The Shamen and What Time is Love by the KLF for the first time, they tickled my balls, I can tell you, and freed me from my self-imposed status of '100% indie-kid'. The 90s were crazy times.

Were will he be found and will he be dead or alive? My guess, he's called in a favour with his drug cartel buddies and is in a safe house in south america somewhere. Either that or he's retreated to his undersea lair.

The Clash - Sandinista! As messy and mad as a badger that’s smoked way too much weed and is going through a major dub phase. Frustrating in places but hugely rewarding in others.

here's my top 10 british bands. well, seven bands and three solo acts. radiohead buzzkocks the smiths the clash my bloody valentine spiritualised joy division syd barrett four tet clark the ten british bands which I dearly loved during my youth but don't listen to anymore. iron maiden orbital the chameleons underworld status quo carter usm pink floyd the wedding present magnum queen

ENG 566-9 WI 285 all out England have decided to bat next to get a quick 150 or so, let the pitch wear down some more. Its what the Aussies would do but the Windies looked hopeless in the last session, scoring very slowly before giving their wickets away. But saying that, England looked really good, fielding well, bowling economically and taking wickets when it mattered. If Strauss can get another good total it will do him the world of good. But a couple of quick wickets would surely bring back memories of the 51 all out horror show in the last test (proper). Its been a good game and it could well have some twists and turns in its tail.

swann has got 5 wickets and is doing clever things with the new ball. and the windies are in self-destruct mode! the follow-on looks likely, let hope the wickets keep tumbling

Timecop (or as my girlfriend described it 'Hooray for the magic future-car') Science fiction has always been the realm of the fantastic, but few could have foreseen or comprehended what was to come in Timecop. Made in 1994, it dares to dream what life could be like in…..2004! Too much of a mindphuq, man! So what will life be like in 2004? Well, much like 1994 apart from small collars on suits (the standard near-future fashion development) and cars will have no windows and be driven by robots, although this turns out to be a plot device used to show-horn in the happy ending rather than the future of automobile design. So yeah, it’s a cheap, tacky Terminator rip-off, whose interesting premise is ruined by being rewritten by Hollywood committee, and fittingly for a time travel film, it allows anyone paying attention to see into the future and clearly predict what will happen. On the plus side, its got just enough going on to elevate it above the dirge of cheap sci-fi (this must be something to do with Sam Raimi being one of the producers), using the time travel set up to instigate much kick-boxing action. Its also Van Damme's best film by several light years, but that’s damming the film with the faintest praise known to man. Well, his best film up until the recent JCVD, the art-house/post-modern biopic which has revitalised Van Damme's career and given him some of the critical and artistic worth that he's been seeking. And some bright spark at Sainsbury's saw this as the opportunity to shift that box of Timecop DVDs for a £1 each. And its easily worth a £1 of anyone's money. There's something very likeable about Van Damme, much more so than Seagal or Stallone or any of the others, bar Arnie. Until he speaks that is, no one has mangled the English language like this man, and in Timecop, he fluffs every single one of his tacky pay-off lines, 'have an ice day'. Apparently, he's off to make sequels to all his hit films (I hope he can remember what they are because I cant), but with the emphasis on character this time round. And who knows, if Terminator 4 is a hit, maybe VD will jump inside the magic-future car one more time. 1984 out of 2001

strauss is looking very good, he's remembered you dont have to spend 5 hours getting a century. lets hope he can keep going. we have to be thinking of a 500+ total from England check this out for an unbelievable cricket moment on youtube http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/feb/15/australia-new-zealand

and then cure aids in league 2

i just made an entry in my diary, it simply reads, 'bugger'. spirited but too little too late.

Why do women remove their body hair? Obviously I don't know the answer but I guess that its based on our particulate culture's (male) vision of female beauty, thin/hairless/childlike. If the vogue was for hairy women, would they go through the pain of removing it? I don't know. I'm a very hairy man, in some places it looks good, and in others in looks ridiculous, but then again, that could also be down to what's deemed culturally acceptable. The hairless look makes me think of American porn which by and large is awlful. They want it to be graphic but pubic hair is still deemed to be dirty (in a bad way), bloody sex-obsessed puritons (a bunch of God fearing paedo's). My afternoon coffee has kicked in and i'm rambling...

as i said, 'the classic furry triangle', not hairy legs/arms/mouth/back/palms etc. but sometimes some light underarm hair can do funny things to me (its probably going to too many raves with skanky psy-trance types...)

anyone who likes a bald muff either wants to have sex with a barbie doll or a six year old brazilians/runways, who are you? craig david? give me the classic furry triangle anyday

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if you willingly leave the house to go and see Epic Movie, on purpose and gladly paying, then you'll probably not going to like The Thin Red Line Oops, my little cultural fascist popped out then :-# Check this out, try watching it in three 45 minute blocks, from the start to the eve of the assault, then all the combat scenes (the two attacks on the hill and then capturing the Japanese base, all as good as the beach assault in SPR, one after the other), and the last part is the aftermath of the battle and the troops fighting their private demons and waiting to be sent home. It works really well as there is a lot to take in in a single viewing. Or don't do this at all. people died in wars so we can decide that ourselves.

I've got to agree that SPR, despite some mind-blowing combat scenes, sinks under the weight of its sentimentality. But a couple of years later, Speilberg pulls the same trick off with far more success in the fact-based tv spin-off Band of Brothers, starting and ending each episode with the real members of Charlie Company looking back on what they did during the war. It just worked so much better in the tv format for some reason. I know we've been here before and the battle lines are still clearly visible, but SPR is just the poor man's Thin Red Line which can boast career best performaces from all involved, great combat scenes, striking realism, bucket loads of existential angst and practically no coying sentimentality, all filmed by one of cinema's greatest artists, Terrance 'Tel' Mallick. Yeah, Red Dragon, despite an excellent cast, just limps off the screen. After about 20 minutes I had to put my hand in the toaster in order to revive myself. Manhunter captures the best and the worst of Mann, IMO. Its all shiny surfaces, crumpled suits, designer stubble and quasi-futuristic skylines. But when push comes to shove it hits all the right buttons. The Tooth Fairy is properly disturbing and the 'Garden of Eden' conclusion is gripping in an edge-of-the-seat air-keyboard solo kinda way. I was never a huge fan of Silence of the Lambs, hated Hannibal and have nothing but pity for the turgid Red Dragon, so Manhunter is my fave of these films too.

Yeah, its very good but falls a little short of being great. The Devil's Backbone, on the other hand, is utterly amazing. I watched it for a second time and whilst the ghost story wasn't as terrifying, it works brilliantly as a human (and non-human) drama. Full of unforgettable moments (the aftermath of the explosion is staggering and I challenge anyone to watch it and not think of Iraq) and takes risks that a Hollywood film would never dare. I didn’t realise before that it was produced by Pedro Almodóvar (All about my Mother, Bad Education, Volver) and features many of his favourite character actors. Its just amazing and works brilliantly as a companion piece to Pan's Labyrinth. 9.9 Ohhh. Some reviews were great for this, others said it was Allo Allo with tits and fanny and human excrement.

damn straight. i'm watching the shield at the moment as several people have said its as good as the wire, buts its not, nowhere near. season 5 is great. there's a hilarious scene toward the end involving a certain irish cop and the feds who are building up a psychological profile on the 'serial killer'. but i shan't spoil it for you. the main thing that gives me faith in Obama is that the wire is his favorite tv show ever.

heart and maybe captain beefheart (apparently where you grab your gentleman's sack and push the balls up so it looks like a heart. his uncle did it to him once)

51 all out, an innings defeat in what should have been a draw so all the sports teams i follow are sh1t, really really sh1t at least the skates lost

Dead Set The Big Brother zombie thing written by Charlie Brooker just about got the balance right between trashy fun and thought provoking satire. It scores points for its 18 cert gore and its nihilistic ending. Dont like the running zombies though, they're dead and decomposing so they should move like ket-heads and oap's, not tri-athletes. Teeth Enjoyably weird high-school body-horror flick in which the female hero comes to terms with being a bit bitey downstairs. It takes pot-shots at the current trend for the Christian right to decide what children are taught at school, in particular the re-emergance of abstinence classes in place of sex education. It doesn't really come to any earth shattering conclusions but represents brave film making, in its own low-key way. Its also infinately better than Juno, which tried so hard to be hip and indie but was at heart deeply conservative and left a nasty taste in the mouth.

Apparently the lighting guy has a track record of playing around during takes, its like having a major band in the studio and ****ing around with sound levels during recording. Bale must be embarraed by his outburst but no one can be in any doubt to who is wearing the trousers on that set. The moment McG hired Bale he effectively handed him control of the film. If Bale turned around to the studio and said fire the director or I'm off then we all know what they would do. There are no reports of Bale being any other than a gentleman when working with directors who he has respect for. But going back to the original thread topic, this BBC witch hunt is going to get worse the closer tories get to power, they'll unlesh their attack dog (the daily kunting mail and its army of hate filled grannies) time and time again. Unless its a Thatcher being a racist, in which case its a case of the liberal BBc over-reacting. We're all phucked and when the BBC is gone we'll have to live with ITV and Sky and millions of hours of offensively bland output.

shoot! the cramps fricking rocked i'm gonna throw up and think of him

England are slowly wriggling off the hook, the Windies have switched off and we could still potently build a match winning innings. of the batting order, who are certainties for the ashes? imo, cook, bell and collingwood should all be worried about their england future.