Well, You Could Always Set It On Fire
Nov 19, 2007 · 1 minute readAmazon Kindle: useless outside North America! Hurrah for the Internet!
Amazon Kindle: useless outside North America! Hurrah for the Internet!
Gilmore Girls: The only TV series where teenagers slow dance to a Billy Bragg song…
UPDATE: Oh, yes, and Black Box Recorder's Child Psychologist making an appearance. (there's a case to be made, if one had the time and inclination, that GG probably has the most British indie/punk soundtrack of any show since, well, The Young Ones?)(warning. contains material that will send Doctor Who fans into a misty-eyed haze…)
Has anybody actually seen a copy of Paul Morley’s new book? A Thursday release date is just odd, and the 2-3 week waiting time on Amazon is a little worrying (mind you, the same thing happened with the Death’s Head collections from Marvel UK and they turned up eventually; on the other hand, Yesterday’s Tomorrows did not).
And It. Still. Hasn't. Leaked. Neither has X if I hear right. They might just have cracked this whole promo-leaking affair…EDIT: God bless the Internet.
Reasons why Tangled Up hasn’t leaked yet, despite it coming out on Friday in Ireland:
Moments of self-realisation: Waiting for the 1808 train to London at Bicester North, en route to see The National at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
BBC One is showing a shortened version of Helvetica tonight. Worth the license fee all by itself (perhaps). And for those of you wondering just how a documentary about a font could give way to such a warning…you haven’t met Erik Spiekermann yet…
Up the WGA! I’m actually quite impressed; there hasn’t been a television strike on the same level in this country since the ITV strike of 1979, and I was all of two months old back then. Again, I was young (nine) during the last WGA strike in 1988, but I have this feeling that UK networks weren’t quite so exposed as they are currently. Though if it causes Sky One to have troubles after spending so much money to poach Prison Break, I will enjoy a hearty laugh.
Hurrah for Jon Stewart, as ever. (Also, I love the idea of John Oliver as union rabble-rouser. I want Scargill-inspired shorts when you come back!) And all this for eight cents…