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Young Justice (the comic/team) was amazing, one of the first DC ones I followed when I got into comics in 1998. I loved how it just told jokes. Like ad adventure was a really muted/dour past incarnation of Mr.Myxlzptlk being accidentally summoned in a techno-magic ceremony (never elaborated on) and then just trying to work out why humans found things funny, by ruining a halloween party YJ were attending, but not actually doing anything. And I remember being so confused by a line in that very issue at the time - a girl says to Robin, "Is that a batarang in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?". I kept wondering what she was on about. :p I was 7/8, deal with it. I remember genuinely LOLing at some of the jokes - especially Impulse. In one issue he gets a concussion and thinks he's Batman. It's amaze. *sittin reminiscin*

Pixie Lott just epitomises The Dull British Pop Scene to me. It sounds like walking down an unremarkable street in Generic Town in the UK feels like. Can be reasonably enjoyable - I sortof like All About Tonight after being bombarded with it, but the effect is wearing off. --- Since Tori Amos has apparently come good and returned to being good again after a few years of being cringe-worthy, I've fallen back in love. There is nothing more visceral than Boys for Pele or as sonically implacable/unplaceable as From The Choirgirl Hotel. I only JUST heard/saw this for the first time and am struck all over again. Loved the song on the album but live she's combined it with Tubular Bells (from The Exorcist) and Smalltown Boy by Bronksi Beat. HER EYES/HER HANDS. Her complete control and energy. Wow.

Wai? Words are useless, especially sentences. They don't stand for anything - how could they explain how I feel?

Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear springs to mind. But then gurls gotta get thur moneh.

+=====+ +=====+ The trailer stunned/I liked Fish Tank/I'm was ready for the story (I've never read it but know it from various sources.). It was a beautiful film, like breathtaking cinematography, but not in a "Oh look at that gorge landscape!" way, more like "Oh I'm stunned by like mist in the air/really original compositions and close-ups of things/selective focus etc.". It's in 4:3, which was a joke. I enjoyed the relative lack of dialogue, though ultimately it did lend the film a hollow feeling, which fitted for the bleakness and horror of it all, but not for the 'love story'. Which I kinda liked? I dunno. My friend said he hated the acting, but I didn't notice it being bad as they had so little lines to say in the first place. I thought Kaya Scoliedarioriroiro was good in her one "dramatic acting/'YOUR VEINS ARE FULL OF ICE"" bit. The two child versions of the characters were more compelling though. But yeah, NATURE was protrayed so gorgeously - a character in it's own right. And the whole thing was so sensual. I was sort of hot and bothered afterwards, despite it being really not a film you'd think would do that. Maybe it was just me however. The horse+smelling hair bit = yes. LMFAO at the

Although I hate when people aren't patient when the other party is genuinely busy. There's only so any times I can say "I don't know when I'm free next week, I've got a whole project to do and my schedule fills up at random times, leading up to my assessment in a week." It's like...I'll see you, just let it breathe. [/related to my situation more than anything in this thread]

That was atrocious, can't believe I sat through it all. Comedy Rainbow (genuinely) > that.

I love. / it's awful, but such a joke. It feels like he's somehow written himself into his own fictional universe, and he can't escape, having become one of his own characters.

- I very rarely see it used in any way other than negative/derogatively, though you didn't actually use it that way explicitly, I noticed. I felt like posting anyway.

The collection. I liked it. They were beautiful little stories (some). Hardly feminist manifestos.

I only ever read when there's a bigger purpose to doing so these days. I was rereading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons as I got to Uni, but then it had no reason to be reread so it was lost. I read Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber which was very enjoyable, but for a project/research - now am alternating between Film Art (really just a very readable textbook) by David Bordwell and Lynch on Lynch by someone who is interviewing David Lynch. But both are obviously for research, and I'm somewhat skimming the latter for certain nuggets of info in any case. Like I'm half-way through the book after only a few hours of reading.

It's one of the coolest sounding albums I've ever heard. The production is everything. It sounds like the 90's crossed with the 40's or something. It's not typical pop stuff, much more experimental than that. It all sounds so hazy, like there's steam in the room. Which is appropriate. I don't believe people who don't think that song is groovy.

Re: Radiohead vs. Nando - Just cause you don't like it doesn't make it bad.

It was out on the 21st Oct, but seems only good (idea not the big chains) are showing it. I had to go to Wimbledon to see it (not that bad a trip tbf, like 20 mins on the bus. But considering the Odeon in Kingston is meant to be the best evar and screens opera live to the screen (why?), you'd think they'd bother showing very big arthouse/not even arthouse, just vaguely more independent than some films.

Have you listened to her earlier stuff? Like A Prayer, Erotica and Bedtme Stories are sublime. Are you joking? It's the exact opposite! It didn't move me, but then I found her kinda lacking other than some strong singles, especially among the 2009 surge of electro women.

Yeah looks (literally) stunning. And I'm so in the mood for Snow White as a thing. And the music. I'm reminded of Rita though (Thereon's character in Arrested Development).

Ready.

@ReZourceman, can you me and chair have a battle one day? Thing is, all our clix at my house in Edinburgh, so it's not simply a case of 'meeting up in London'. One day, it will be ok. [/Delta Goodrem] I love board games but have only played the very famous. Cludeo, Monopoly (OBV), Taboo, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit yawn,

(That said, I've yet to connect with Ok Computer, despite it being my first Radiohead album. I have no personal feelings toward it the way I do for Kid A, for example. Still OBVIOUSLY stunning though.)

He's fine but doesn't really have much room to do much other than act as a counterpoint to Tilda's character. But it works.

It's neither. It's an incredibly intense piece of drama. Go see it. Now. It's a film that isn't just a diversion, it's worth it to see. Tilda Swinton is a fantastic actress who I enjoy in everything I've seen her in - I love how she can court Hollywood and do whatever indie stuff she feels like too. She comes from an indie/art-film background, having worked with people like Jarman and Potter and stuff...so it always feels like whatever she's in, she sees some sort of artistic merit to it. That said, havent seen Narnia, and am dubious about it's artistic merit. :p

I too am just back from Really, really brilliant, and yeah...left me with the signature dry throat of an intense film. Very powerful and just...really good. Loved how it was structured...felt like an artist had it all on a palette and was applying it in the most interesting way to the composition. Gorge. Tilda is a real good one.

Listening to the album on Spotify now actually. With Ur Love makes me want to shake it right down to the ground, and hold it there for a while, before bringing it slowly back up. All the while flipping my weave left to right. [/Pole-dancing personality breaks through momentarily] Mike Posner's bit is disturbing, Cher Lloyd is like..17 isn't she? TMI. It's legal in the UK though, we can all calm down. Maybe it's his creepy voice. [/should we have a Cher Lloyd thread?] [/DO we have a Cher Lloyd thread?] EDIT: OH I suddenly love Swagger Jagger now too! She's actually been my idol all this time. *ties big ribbon into hair*

This is my favourite image. I wish to paint it, then use the painting as the cover for the deluxe edition of my debut album 'Obsessed Warrior Princess'. You could be in the video for the title track and also first single, too, if you wanted.

With Your Love is a perfectly serviceable pop song, quite enjoyable. Swagger Jagger isn't as offensive as people make it out it be, it's a lol. I'll give it a listen eventually.