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| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
[10 Nov 2009|03:41pm] |
A reboot of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy franchise, starting over from the beginning with a new cast... now with punchlines!
The Book (narrator) and newscaster - Peter Serafinowicz
Arthur Dent - David Mitchell
Ford Prefect - Robert Webb
Tricia McMillan (AKA Trillian) - Sarah Alexander
Zaphod Beeblebrox - Jeff Bridges
Marvin the Paranoid Android (voice) - Rowan Atkinson
Eddie (voice) - Bill Hader
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (voice) - James Earl Jones
Vogon guard - James Bachman
Slartibartfast - Steve Coogan
Hotblack Desiato - Meat Loaf
Deep Thought (voice) - Ron Haddrick
Vroomfondel - Jack Davenport
Majikthise - Richard Coyle
Max Quordlepleen (host) - Eric Idle
Okay, this is just a dream of mine. I want to see the awful Hitchhikers Guide movie scrapped and forgotten and replaced with something more true to the source material.
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| Black Books |
[10 Nov 2009|12:38pm] |
Long ago a friend in Britain recommended I watch Black Books, a BBC comedy series. This recommendation was based on my love of British comedies. Some of my favorites:
Red Dwarf
Spaced
Coupling
Blackadder
The Young Ones
Alexei Sayle's STUFF
The Comic Strip Presents...
The Fall and Rise of Reginal Perrin
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Monty Python films and television series
Not the Nine O'Clock News
The Goodies
Fawlty Towers
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, anything with Simon Pegg in it, (because he's brilliant)
Bernard and the Genie (Christmas movie)
That Mitchell and Webb Look
That Mitchell and Webb Situation
Magicians (Mitchell and Webb again)
Extras
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
So, when I finally got off my arse and watched this wonderful show, I was pleased to see the familiar face of Dylan Moran of Shaun of the Dead.
Black Books is goddamned hilarious right from the getgo, so if you're a fan of British comedies at all, I heartily recommend it. It's a bit older, being from 2000, but it somehow slipped under my international radar, being that I'm not a brit, so maybe you've missed out too and I don't have to feel quite as stupid.
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| breakfast |
[10 Nov 2009|08:00am] |
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I made 'Manda a stack of pancakes for breakfast, and a glass of orange juice. The fluffy orange cat licked the syrup bottle and made the cutest face.
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[10 Nov 2009|06:50am] |
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[10 Nov 2009|12:19pm] |
Jimmy ( smashboredom) wrote in powerswitch,
@ 2009-11-10 01:47:00
Mute Magazine. Our wall is a house of cards, and it's falling.
In Times of Crisis: Act!
Monday, 9 November, 2009
It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating’ this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed. Perhaps more significantly, however, this is the first crisis that Eastern Europeans are experiencing since their so-called ‘transition’ from a state socialist to a capitalist ideology. What should we make of this transition since 1989? Rather than engaging in a traditional analysis of the winners and losers of this transition, I am interested in what today’s capitalist crisis has perhaps in common with the crisis of state socialism in 1989. I will explore this question by engaging with the German film Good Bye Lenin!.
Crisis, What Crisis?
The press is currently reporting – on an almost daily basis – that we are in the midst of one of the deepest and most serious economic crises since the 1929 Wall Street crash. While it is clear that most of the media has not quite given up on capitalism – for example, the Financial Times’ motto seems to be ‘Capitalism is dead; long live capitalism’ (Wolf, 2009) – it is nevertheless significant that even the most outspoken apologists for capitalist free markets see a real danger in the capitalist system itself being under threat.
As someone who grew up in East Germany and went through a life-defining crisis in 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall – I find the current capitalist crisis strangely satisfying. Not that I do not have a heart for all those who are currently suffering because of this crisis. There are those millions who have lost their jobs, those who live in constant fear of job insecurity, and the millions who are affected by the massive cut-backs in social spending. The current crisis has unprecedented implications throughout the world. Latvia, for example – one of the ‘Baltic Tigers’ that until recently were celebrated for their ‘transition’ successes – has had to be bailed out by the IMF. This forced the government to cut the wages of public service workers, such as teachers, by up to a half(!), reduce state pensions by 10 per cent and the unemployment rate has risen from around 5 to over 14-15 per cent within two years (for more details, see Kuper, 2009). This is thus clearly a crisis that is affecting millions of people around the world in very real terms. What I find somewhat satisfying is not at all that people are suffering but that a system that just a few months ago nobody thought could ever come to an end is now in a deep economic, political and legitimation crisis. That is, what is good to see is that the over-confidence of capitalism – symbolized by astronomical increases in executive salaries, stock market booms and the construction of ever higher skyscrapers – has now experienced a real crack. For me, there are real parallels between today’s crisis and that of 1989. Back then, too, nobody – even those strategists of the West whose full time job it was to destroy the East – expected the state socialist system to crack and eventually fall in the spectacular fashion it did. Perhaps, then, we have not seen the end of today’s crisis!
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| Hmmm... |
[10 Nov 2009|06:56am] |
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The sun hasn't come up yet but everything seems calm today so I'll venture out . I need some more wine .
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| The mexican epilogue |
[09 Nov 2009|11:04am] |
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This was very touching for me
http://www.vimeo.com/7481076
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Hello lovely people!
So a little while ago, I ended up with a second copy of the wonderful 'Battle' deluxe Boxset and uhmmed and ahhed about what to do with it but as I look towards next year and the few shows that I'm going to, I realise that I need money more than I need a second copy of the boxset.
The boxset is in perfect condition - never been played, the cd's/dvd's/vinyls have never been removed - the only thing that I did was remove the plastic wrap to check for possible Golden tickets - which of course, there weren't any!
So yeah, it's all safe and secure inside the cardboard it was shipped to me in and just waiting for a new home. So if you or someone you know is in the market for one - either comment me here, email me ( bellapie@gmail.com ) or drop me a line on AIM at No More Forlorn .
I'm asking here before I take it to ebay as I'd much rather a fellow 'whore have the goodies!
Thanks for your time :D
~Bella.
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| Brrrrr ! |
[09 Nov 2009|07:21am] |
Today - and yesterday - are the only two cold days of the year so far down here in Alicante . It's blowing such a gale that the trees look as if they're going to snap in two ! Definitely stay-at-home weather ...
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