Malcolm Tuckers Election Strategy

But please reassure the minions and old timers that I will be unobtrusive while I keep an eye on things. I will be crouching the other side of an invisible line, behind an imaginary Chinese wall inside a transparent box wearing a different hat, running a computer simulation of the current situation from behind an informal desk fellating a made-up banana. They are not to worry about me. Not until I creep up in the dead of night and hit them over the head with a piece of two-by-four with a single six-inch nail sticking out of it.

The genius from the  Thick of It, Malcolm Tucker, is back and his latest election strategy for labour has been published in the Guardian.  Fantastic!

Storm

Still From "Storm"

At the 2008 Robin Ince run “Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People” in London, comedian Tim Minchin performed his 9 minute beat poem “Storm.”  Tracy King was at the event and afterwards approached Tim with the proposal of turning the poem into an animation.  He quickly accepted.  The film is not finished yet (there is a production blog here) but an official trailer has been released and it looks amazing.  I can’t wait to see the full nine minutes.

The full audio is also on you tube:

Alex Chilton

Another one gone.  RIP Alex Chilton.

They called themselves Big Star and never made it big or found stardom, and there, along with a 2:49 song called “September Gurls” that shimmers and chimes with all the hopeless longing you ever felt for someone you never got to hold or to keep, is the pocket history of power pop.

A good essay on the latest four disc box set from Big Star, “Keep an Eye on the Sky” can be found here.

You Shall Not Pass

As everyone else is talking about this so, ever the bandwagon jumper, I thought I would post it too.

I once saw Ok Go live in 2000/2001 in a little pub in Bristol, where they could clearly play but were never going to set the world on fire – although they did play a versions of Totos “Hold the Line” which was quite funny.  To be honest I am surprised they are still going especially as all of their effort seems to go into videos rather than the music.  Ho Hum.

Master Chef

I keep thinking I am missing something.  I wander all over the house, the lounge, the bedroom, the bathroom.  Something is not right.  Until I get to the Kitchen and I realise what it is: “Ready, Steady, Cook”.  I never watch it anymore – is it even on the TV these days?  I have graduated to Masterchef.

However to relieve the tension of not watching “Ready, Steady, Cook” whenever I need to I can simply hire my own Brian Turner for the day and forget all my £5 bag of food worries and the best part is that I won’t have to put up with Ainslie Harriott gooning around either (I wonder what he is like on an off day).

Why Fake Faces is under the impression that we need a replica Brian Turner I am not sure, I would have thought that the real one can probably handle all the required media engagements without too much trouble.  Maybe he doesn’t have a car and this is the only solution.  Odd.