In the most unexpected of places…
Brilliant archive
Santa was good enough to get me the latest and very splendid Divine Comedy (Victory for the Comic Muse) for chrimbletide, which features a track called Party Fears Two, which in turn features one of the absolutely most wonderful riffs pop music has given us. For all you thirty-somethings out there, here, courtesy of YouTube, some 1982 TV programme I don’t know the name of, and the late Billy MacKenzie, is the original version from The Associates, featuring some pretty incredible vocals (for the record, I’m pretty sure the lipsynching is better than this edit lets on). Not sure about the uniform, though…
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Via Grammar Puss, I discovered Literally, a web log. And seeing that the widespread abuse of the word ‘literally’ is something I find particularly galling (you might say it literally gets on my wick, but then I’d have to hate you if you did), pretty damn happy I am to have happened upon it. Together, we might not be able to eradicate painful instances of literally, but at least we can point at the silly people and have a jolly good laugh.
“The police are really good at understanding someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of money. It’s a lot harder to get them to buy into ’someone stole my magic sword,’”
My quote of the day, found in a BBC online article about security in online gaming:
Inevitably, the Snakes on a Plane film name variations are doing the rounds at the moment, and yo-ho-ho if some of them aren’t actually vaguely amusing. But this is one of those lovely occasions where reality trumps most of the obvious gags; this is how I am able to present, with an entirely straight face, and no mugging whatso’ver ma’am, no:
I expect by now you’d like to know a bit about the plot. Here’s imdb’s summary of the film:
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel.
Sadly, HIAHH is one of the lowest rated indie films on imdb. I can only hope a similar fate doesn’t befall SOAP.