| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10764 Registered: 05-2005 |
I finally started watching Slow Horses today, years after people started recommending it to me. They were right, I do love it. I've watched the first five episodes of the first series and now I'm about to watch the sixth and final episode. And there are three more series waiting after that. Hurrah. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10776 Registered: 05-2005 |
I never thought I’d be promoting a morning TV show, but this interview with Bob Ezrin on a Canadian channel about why he renounced his US citizenship is very interesting. You can probably guess why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b68NGF6c 16U | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10777 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also, I’ve just finished watching the first season of Bad Sisters, which was great. Ireland looks so beautiful in it. Knowing some of the places it was filmed helped. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10790 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oswald Acted Alone: JFK Assassination Solved https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdr Y | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10791 Registered: 05-2005 |
James Carville, telling it like it is about the state of the Democratic Party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdNO7n3L p-4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10801 Registered: 05-2005 |
A fascinating series by a man who set up a reissue label, about the process, how shoddily he was treated by some major and indie labels and how the likes of Cherry Red and Edsel often rip tracks from vinyl for their CD reissues even though the master tapes are available. https://www.youtube.com/@RubellanRemasters-j8t | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 843 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Eyes of Laura Mars One of two films I saw at the short-lived President Cinema in Bath about a million years ago. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/349 45 The only other film I saw there was Fellini's Satyricon. I think I enjoyed The Eyes of Laura Mars more... High culture, low culture, Yin, Yang... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10822 Registered: 05-2005 |
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afetnw70 S04 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10823 Registered: 05-2005 |
And this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR3Xid q84 | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 864 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, that's great. At least somebody isn't cowed by Trump! (Oddly, of course, Rupert Murdoch hasn't been, yet...) | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 264 Registered: 05-2005 |
The second series of Karen Pirie. Drama about a woman and her son who were kidnapped about the time Spring Hill Fair was released. 40 years later the boy is told that his mother’s surname wasn’t McLennan it was Grant. A coincidence or is Val McDermid a fan? | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 265 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just found a post from Simon in 2009 about the novel it’s sourced from. Doesn’t look like a coincidence. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 868 Registered: 08-2005 |
Burgers, I thought I'd posted on here about the Karen Pirie episode but apparently not. I picked up on it straightaway, though had forgotten about posting about the novel in 2009. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10829 Registered: 05-2005 |
I googled “Val mcdermid the go-betweens” and something called AI overview offer this response: “Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, not a character in L.P. Hartley's novel "The Go-Between". While Val McDermid's novels feature complex characters and intricate plots, similar to the way Leo Colston is a character in "The Go-Between" who becomes entangled in adult affairs, Val McDermid is a real-life author, not a fictional one within that specific novel.” Stupid robot. And people are afraid these no-nothing clowns are going to take over the world? They don’t even recognise a stellar indie pop band name. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 869 Registered: 08-2005 |
Yep, what could possibly go wrong? It's not like Musk's Grok could suddenly spout pro-Nazi views... This does make me very glad that I'm very near the end of my working career; I'd hate to be starting out in journalism these days - even the very specialised areas in which I work. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4974 Registered: 03-2005 |
For a moment I got really excited thinking that McDermid is pulling together different threads from the band and also from the Hartley book just to tweak the sort of people who might cross between literature and music. But no. Not even the vaunted AI can do that I guess. Simon, I've been glad I'm no longer working on a lot of occasions for a lot of reasons. I'm sure many companies are now thinking they can use AI for the legal advice I used to provide. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10830 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can scarcely believe I wrote “no-nothing”, rather than “know-nothing”. AI must be having a right laugh at me. Oh, the shame. (And the irony.) My only excuse is it was late where I am. But AI wouldn’t care what time it was. Maybe it’ll take over the world and lead us into damnation after all. I, for one, bow to our artificial overlords. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 870 Registered: 08-2005 |
I didn't notice - and I've been a sub-editor for 30 years or so. I'm pleading age! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10831 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Byrne shopping for records in Amoeba in Los Angeles. This is just lovely and joyous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJT1H5O LeE | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10832 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to see Weapons in the cinema this afternoon. It's great. If you like Blair Witch/Twin Peaks-style gothic horror, then go see it. |