Gill’s Dad has gone into hospital again and Gill has gone off to offer help and support. This is a bigger deal than it might sound as he lives in Barbados. So she got a flight out yesterday morning and will probably be there for about a month. This leaves Jordan and I to fend… Continue reading Barbados
Month: May 2004
Solid Geometry
I’ve just noticed that tonight Channel 4 are repeating Solid Geometry. If you like Ian McEwan (and doesn’t everyone like Ian McEwan?) then it’s well worth watching. It’s a brief (40 minutes) adaptation of the short story from First Love, Last Rites. It’s not an easy story to film (and if you’ve read it you’ll… Continue reading Solid Geometry
Palme d’Or
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the 2004 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This will hopefully make it more likely that the film will get a US distribution deal at some point before the election.
Prepackaged Rebellion
I liked Alex Petridis’ take on Avril Lavigne in his review of her new album. Nearly everyone under of 15 appears to have swallowed the official line on Lavigne: that she is an authentic symbol of punk rebellion, a scowling refusenik antidote to manufactured production-line pop. Everyone else is perplexed, largely because she could be… Continue reading Prepackaged Rebellion
Ilium
Like many people, I’ll be off to watch Troy when it opens this weekend. For a while I’ve been thinking that it would be a good idea to re-read the Iliad so I’d know what I was talking about when I was comparing the film with the book, but I was surprised to find that… Continue reading Ilium
Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore’s new film Fahrenheit 911 was shown in Cannes yesterday. Sounds like it’s going to be hot stuff well worth watching. Here are reviews from the BBC and the Guardian.
Media Guardian
I was going to link to an interesting story in the Guardian about how Stelios Haji-Ioannou is planning to get into the music download business with EasyMusic but the article requires registration, so I won’t bother. Notice that on that web page, Stelios talks about the licensing being based on copyleft.
The “Acceptable” Face of the BNP
Meet Jennifer Griffin. You’ll probably be seeing a bit more of her as she’s the daughter of BNP leader Nick Griffin and they will be using her in their party political broadcasts for the forthcoming elections. Like many BNP members, she doesn’t seem very bright. She was interviewed during filming for one of the TV… Continue reading The “Acceptable” Face of the BNP
Hoax Resignations
As is often the case, some of today’s best political commentary is to be found on the Guardian‘s letters page. Piers Morgan has been sacked from the Mirror because he was fooled into printing the hoax photos of British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. But what about all the editors who were hoaxed into printing stories… Continue reading Hoax Resignations
Not Spam
I just got an email from The Motley Fool that started like this: To prevent this and other Motley Fool email newsletters from getting swept up by an overzealous spam filter, please add our “From” address (removed@xxx.xx.xx) to your address book. Several problems with this. Firstly, not all email programs have an address book. Secondly,… Continue reading Not Spam