Brian Hiatt, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone magazine #1050, Shine A Light movie, The Times, promotional supplement on Hull, WW2 blitz, young Brits today will prove equally unswayable, for we unlike sheep are not going astray mate, Sky-TV remaking Blake’s Seven with no winking lights I hope, The Charlie Green Moment on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ had me doing Restart! I never use the term ‘pants’ because it is… whatever it itself means.
08h38-BST Saturday 26 April 2008-CE
Brian Hiatt interviewed Mick Jagger in Rolling Stone magazine #1050 about the Shine A Light movie, which I have decided not to see because of the close-ups, as mentioned in a previous post. Magger said of the lingering shots: “It was a little bit too much, I felt… …I didn’t care for it too much. Boring…” Maybe a new cut can be made in some future re-release. I love this bit from the Mag in the interview:
“…The thing about rock & roll is that it is expected to be real, sincere and heartfelt, or something -it’s not supposed to be manufactured. Pop music is allowed to be silly and saccharine, and nobody minds as long as they like the tune…” The Stones, Mick Jagger said, are not stuck in classic-rock mode. They have lots of other facets. I hope RSM gets to be loved by young Brits of the current generation. It has everything. Go to rollingstone.com
The Times had a promotional supplement on the city of Hull, once called Kingston-Upon-Hull (in full) which is slightly dull. Certain gentlemen, who think the Brits of today will cave-in and start head-banging (in any sense other than on the dance-floor, to a Heavy Metal beat) need to learn about the recent War in which I was born. This is a relevant clip by Jayne Dowle:
“It has been a long struggle for this historic port on the Humber. During the Second World War, Hull was bombed more than any city outside London with 95 per cent of homes being damaged…”
I am glad to see Sky-TV remaking Blake’s Seven (an SF serial on BBC TV from 1978 to 1981 written by Terry Nation). I watched it for the excellent character conception & execution. Sadly, some out-of-touch Beeb-bod in Properties RUINED IT by representing computers with plastic junk and flashing lights when jets, ICBMs, and the Apollo Moon Program had already hidden away micro-electronic parts in smaller and smaller plain boxes. Go to: timesonline.co.uk/tvand radio
I hate the Opportunity Knocks type shows because of the mockery element. But surfing along yester-night I cleanly caught Charlie Green being ushered on stage and performing. I have no clue whether this show was live, a first, second, third, fourth, or millionth repeat, or what. To ME it was a brand new surprise and utter delight. THAT is the stuff any sane person would want to see in ‘Britain’s Got Talent’: a superbly talented star ZAP out of nowhere!
I have long disliked the term ‘pants’ to describe something of which the arty left-wing disapproved. I saw it as something David Letterman had invented. But on CNN this morning, in the Truth-o-meter feature with Bill Adair on the Jonathan Mann show, all become clear. It is an abbreviation of “pants on fire” so it means simply: an obfuscation, moronic mal-perception, or untruth. It is a useful enough slang term. But it is far too late for me to start liking it now.
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