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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 695 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just started this thread as I think I have a crush on Adele Pickvance! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also chloe sevigny who was in boys don't cry, sorry folks, had two glasses of red wine and am pogoing to Wire by U2 | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 691 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do they have to make good music? Cuz if they don't, I vote Shakira! Beyonce ain't too hard on the eyes, either... If there is the requirement that they actually be good, I vote for Neko Case... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 752 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not strictly beautiful, but I think Kim Gordon is pretty sexy. She actually looks better now than she did in the 80s, she must be in her late 40s now at least. The only thing is, you never see a clear , close up pic of her. they are always shot from a distance or are grainy. maybe up close she doesnt look too hot? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 527 Registered: 04-2005 |
Good category! Going with Hardin's second requirement and picking someone whose music I like, I'd probably go with Beth Orton, narrowly edging out Polly Jean Harvey, Chan Marshall, and Neko Case. Neko, by the way, for all her beauty, has a snaggle-tooth they usually manage to hide in photos. I used to think Liz Phair was the gold standard for female musical hotness, but her music's sucked for a long time so she's been demoted. It happens to the best of us, but Kim Gordon is getting kind of old-looking up close, Kev, hence the distant and/or soft focus pictures. But she was pretty hot in the '80s. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 698 Registered: 03-2006 |
Not sure about their music, but the Pipettes (or "pee-pets" as they pronounce it) are gosh darn purty... And, probably only Kurt has heard of this artist, but Tift Merritt is lovely - she is the wood nymph of my dreams... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 531 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh, yeah, Tift Merritt...good call. I agree about the Pipettes but didn't mention them because I'm unconvinced by their music. I am on record as diggin' the blond w/glasses, after all. I suppose it's only fair that we invite the women on the board to start a "most handsome male musician" thread, isn't it? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 532 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ooo, boy. If Julia Motzko checks in on this thread . . . . Or Abigail, she's sure to administer a well-measured verbal caning. At an earlier happier time, I would have proposed Carlene Carter. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 543 Registered: 05-2005 |
We're going to get hell boys... Neko is pretty special. Polly Jean is the sexiest performer I've ever seen. There's a woman unafraid to use her sexuality. And it's not a bad thing because the music is, mostly, great. Unlike the talent-free hordes from Madonna down to Britney and Shakira. My love for Kim Deal also endures. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 702 Registered: 03-2006 |
I would love for the women on the board to start a most handsome male musician thread, or to weigh in on the most beautiful female musician, for that matter...that would be entertaining. Kevin, without having an opinion on her music one way or the other, I think K.T. Tunstall is not unpleasant to look at...I saw her on Letterman, I believe. Great dimples. Isn't she from your country? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, shes from Fife which is maybe 30 miles from me. Her mother is Chinese, which gives her a slightly exotic look. the music is dreadful. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 706 Registered: 03-2006 |
Now I'm convinced you truly never sleep, Kev... But thanks for the explanation - that does explain the unusual look...her (delightful) mug is all over the place here in the states... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hardin, I am at work, finishing up in about 10 mins - 0630 UK time. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 708 Registered: 03-2006 |
Padraig, when I scanned your post, I thought at first that it said, "we're going to hell, boys"..which sentiment could be true, too  Btw, sounds like a line from a Pogues song...have we discussed them on this board? I think their classic stuff is quite wonderful. I can't think of a more thrilling or moving moment than "A Rainy Night in Soho".... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 768 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Irish Rover is the one for me. Collaberation with The Dubliners. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 699 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guys! Jeesus! Wow! Yep, Kim Deal circa late 80's was a looker. PJ Harvey from 98 onwards, once she'd clipped her eyebrows really did it for me too. The lass rom Drive by truckers (no jokes about driving!) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 85 Registered: 01-2006 |
Rainy Night in Soho is my favourite Pogues song. I was just listening to Red Roses for Me a few nights ago, a great debut album and one of the best versions of the Ould Triangle. I saw on a Wilco related website recently that Jeff Tweedy and/or WIlco have done a cover versiion of it, that would be kinda interesting to hear! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 383 Registered: 08-2004 |
Shakira's a good one. I have had unrequited unrelationships with many over the years. Bjork, Nina Perrson (Cardigans), Meg White, Harriet Wheeler (Sundays), Beth Gibbons, Isobel Campbell, Nico, Janis Joplin, Keyboard player from The Sugarcubes (can't remember her name, probably why "we" never happened), The dark haired lady from Lush, The Duchess, Danielle Dax... ... and many more. It's a miracle if a day goes by that I don't cry myself to sleep. Still never mind. Rainy Night In Soho is a cracker, it's all in the title. | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 127 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shakira? Maybe if you stuff a sock in her mouth so she cannot sing. How about Sinead? Yeah, completely mental but she's a looker. Of course, not very fond of her when her hair is any longer than clipper #2. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 86 Registered: 01-2006 |
Hope Sandoval, formerly of Mazzy Starr now with the Warm Inventions (Colm O Ciosoig, drummer of MBV). Ex of Jim Reid as well. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 711 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spence, you have a knack for creating fun threads... I left out two nobody will agree with: Sade Emmylou Harris - she may have some "snow on the roof", but I think she's quite byootiful...it doesn't hurt that she's my favorite female singer. Jerry, Nina Perrson is a good call... Btw, I'm suffering from the cultural gap - what is a "cracker"? Is it a good or bad thing? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 174 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hmmm, French folk singer Francoise Hardy in the 1960's was pretty hard to beat. She was also in the 1967 movie Grand Prix as the second Ferrari drivers girlfriend. Jane Birken is still pretty hot in her mid 50's! Emmylou Harris in the 1970's with her long black hair! In the 1980's Kate Bush was my favorite. In the 1990's and lately it's been jazz singers like Diana Krall, Ann Hampton Callaway, Karrin Allyson, Madeleine Peyroux and a new Italian jazz singer named who lives here in the states now, Roberta Gambarini. Plus Roberta has been endowed with a huge set of..., well let's just say that the advertisement of her first album in Downbeat certainly got my attention. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 712 Registered: 03-2006 |
Was Jane Birkin the one that sang that salacious song with Serge Gainsbourg? I was disappointed when I heard a version with English lyrics..they're pretty much gibberish...guess it's all in the performance... I've seen Ms. Peyroux perform...she is a loverly girl... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 177 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yep, that was Jane! I have that Serge and Jane album! They were married for a dozen years or so. Madeleine has a new album out next Tuesday. The Canadian jazz station I listen to plays a lot of her cuts. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 540 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey, speaking of Canadian, Feist is very attractive. I haven't warmed that much to her music yet, though. | ||
| Andy Robinson Member Username: Andyblue Post Number: 44 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence - I know what you mean about Adele! I had a similar yearning for Kirsty Maccoll. And no-one mentioned Amanda! Hardin have you The Pipettes stateside? They haven't really broken over here yet. I'm not entirely convinced about the long term effects of their music but for here and now I think it does what it says on the tin! I've seen Christine Collister a couple of times and she has a certain something . . . . Michael you didn't mention Julia Fordham who I think has a voice that wraps me in a warm kinda love. Currently I think Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) is striking musically and in looks. A propos another thread Rainy Night in Soho is one of those introductions . . . | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 542 Registered: 04-2005 |
Christine Collister! Good call, Andy. I saw her live two or three times in the late '80s with Clive Gregson, and besides looking great, what a set of pipes! I think we Yanks on the board only know about the Pipettes because of Jeff. I don't see them breaking in the States. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 714 Registered: 03-2006 |
Speaking of all these famous French chanteuses, how about Claudine Longet, famous murderess and wife of Andy Williams.... And, Catherine Deneuve, circa 60's....wait, scratch that, she didn't sing... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 544 Registered: 04-2005 |
I don't remember--didn't Claudine Longet have a career before become a Famous Murderess? Actress? Model? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 717 Registered: 03-2006 |
I believe she was a singer - I vaguely recall seeing her making a game effort at going through the motions on one of Andy's awful X-mas specials...as I recall, she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket... But that's my extremely blurry remembrance...we need our resident expert on obscure 60's pop...Randy, you out there dude? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 718 Registered: 03-2006 |
This thread really has staying power, doesn't it? It occurred to me that the married guys are probably really enjoying it as a crafty way to talk about women without their better halves knowing: "What are you doing in there?" "Just talking about the Go-Betweens with the lads, dear"... | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 45 Registered: 05-2005 |
The green eyes of Fiona Apple... And yes Françoise Hardy, she keeps her charm. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2005 |
Right then.... Debbie Harry Julianne Regan (All About Eve) Louise Wener (Sleeper) Holly Valance Naterlie Imbruglia I may or may not like the music from some/all the above, but I'll leave it up to you to sort out. Cheers Jon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 178 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andy, your right, how could I have missed Julia? Claudine was a pop star of some note before THE incident. Hello, Hello: The Best of Claudine Longet, has been in my cd rotation at work for a couple of months now. It's a nice carrer retrospective. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 169 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote This thread really has staying power, doesn't it? It occurred to me that the married guys are probably really enjoying it as a crafty way to talk about women without their better halves knowing: "What are you doing in there?" "Just talking about the Go-Betweens with the lads, dear"... unquote hardin, that made my day... beautiful female musicians? i think there are a lot of beautiful women around in the pop business, but what makes someone beautiful? there must be a bit more than the looking of someone. charisma, voice, intelligence. i think nico is someone who must be named (which jerry did above). and hope sandoval is not only an eyecatcher. her voice fascinates, too. i have always been fascinated by debbie harry. and p j harvey is surely not everyones darling, but she have the certain something which attracts. i liked penelope houston a lot. attractive and a nice one. another beautiful one (to me) is emmylou harris. still. heh, and in 1972 my 'first loves' (and not only because of the music) were suzi quatro and linsey de paul. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 549 Registered: 04-2005 |
It's easy to forget that Nico was stunning in the '60s because she did such a great job of ruining her looks with drugs and whatnot. As did Marianne Faithfull and plenty of male musicians, to be fair (Keith, Lou, and Iggy spring to mind). | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 724 Registered: 03-2006 |
Glad to be of service, Andreas...btw, you frequently make my day with some of your trenchant observations... Nico possibly had sex with more famous musicians than Stevie Nicks or Courtney Love and, hell yeah, she was quite beautiful back in the day... I read a funny quote by Bill Wyman someplace where he talked about how booze destroyed M. Faithfull's looks, and he thought Kate Moss was going down the same path.... Two more (I tell ya this thread has legs, baby!): Susanna Hoffs (oh my goodness) Chrissie Hynde (back in the day, when she wore that red pleather jacket) And, two from the world of opera: Anna Nebtrebko Cecelia Bartoli | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 171 Registered: 04-2006 |
...and if you are in love with the music of saint etienne then you are in love with sarah cracknell... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 730 Registered: 03-2006 |
I forgot one of the prettiest, the original California girl, Michelle Phillips. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 735 Registered: 03-2006 |
Sabina Sciubba | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 709 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, yeah I think you'll not be happy that Nico used to shag John Cooper Clarke!!!!! http://www.johncooperclarke.com/ Suzi Quatro!!!!!! Hope wae gorgeaour too. I still fancy Adele!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 779 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hope Sandoval (Nico and JCC were both heroin addicts so doubtful if they remember the copulation ) | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 220 Registered: 07-2005 |
I've been away one week and look what happens!!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 711 Registered: 05-2005 |
how was the hols jerry? | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 221 Registered: 07-2005 |
Great, had 4 days in Rome, but with a 3 year old doing the sights is limited ( which gave us the opportunity to just chill out sit in cafe's, eat pasta etc,)Its such a great place the Italians are really friendly and every one was so well dressed. Then my daughter and I went up to scotland in the Camper for 3 nights. Back to work now with the unsick and sick of Preston having waited for me to return. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 780 Registered: 05-2005 |
Where abouts in Scotland did you go Jerry? Anywhere in the Central belt - Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh? | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 223 Registered: 07-2005 |
No Kevin just went over the border into Dumfries and Galloway to Kircurdbright which is really beautiful. I've been to the central belt before and have been to Glasgow quite a few times and am never disappointed. Unfortunely I've not strayed to the north of Scotland but am sure I would like it. Where are you Kevin? some where around Edinburgh? so if I've trod on your toes with my liking for Glasgow many apologies.The edinburgh accent always turns me off nearly as much as a home counties english accent does. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 180 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hardin, Yes, Susanna Hoffs is still a looker. She has those great dark eyes. Andreas, Sarah Cracknell, good one!I think I played "Hobart Paving" 10 times in a row once. Belinda Carlisle after she left the Go-Gos and lost some weight was stunning. She even did a Playboy spread a couple of years ago. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 557 Registered: 04-2005 |
I was looking at the pictures in the CD booklet of "Under the Covers," the Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs CD, and was amazed at how she looks pretty much the same as she did in the '80s, while he's become a big, sloppy, hirsute David Crosby-in-training. I'm guessing they're not a couple, or if they are, it's a Beauty and the Beast thing. In my earlier posts, how could I have forgotten Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 782 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am in Stirling Jerry, which is pretty much equidistant between Glasgow and Edinburgh, so I get the best of both worlds. If pushed I prefer Glasgow. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 715 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev my cousin Paul Callaghan lives over the bridge out of Edinburgh, is that your way I cannae remember!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 783 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence if you mean the Forth Road bridge its not too far from there to where I live. I actually live in Bannockburn(for all you Braveheart fans) which is a suburb of Stirling. Although come to think of it, I'm sure Mel Gibson was so authentic with his storyline that I remember hearing the film was shot in Ireland and not Scotland!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 563 Registered: 05-2005 |
So you'd be Stirling Albion fan then Kevin?! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 787 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, I think you already know the answer to that one! Are you going to be able to watch the Celtic vs Man Utd Champions league game on Wednesday? I suppose you wont watch it live because it starts at 7.45pm UK time, which I am guessing is 4.45am Thursday morning your time. Might be worth getting up early to watch though, should be a cracker. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 564 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Aussie mate of mine is in Co Tyrone with his wife (who is Irish) at the moment. He has two tickets for Old Trafford. I am very envious. He's a mad Celtic fan, and also a Liverpool fan. So he has double the reason for not wanting Man U to win. I won't be watching the whole thing live, but will see the second half. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 184 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kurt, Susanna is married to the guy that makes the Austin Powers movies. They have a couple of kids. I wonder if Matthew is still hung up on Winona Ryder? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 113 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wot? No votes for Natalie Merchant then? Perhaps hers is not a conventional beauty, but she has a certain allure and is a charismatic/enigmatic live performer. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 783 Registered: 03-2006 |
Speaking strictly for me, NM is problematic. She is indeed a beauty and has a great voice, but either she or I lost the plot somewhere...I love the stuff she did with her Maniacs, but her solo stuff has invariably left me cold. Too smarmy, too self-congratulatorily (that may not be a word, though it is now) sensitive. And then when her music was used on 90210, that was sort of "all she wrote"... But that reminds me of a worthy addition to this list, who sang on a NM record: Katell Keineg. Her "Jet" is one of my alltime faves and she is a lovely girl, tall with that great porcelain complexion - trust me, you don't see that much in CA, where everybody sun worships till their faces look like catcher's mitts. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 590 Registered: 04-2005 |
Natalie Merchant is also easy to dislike because she's so squeaky-clean PC. She wrote a "child abuse is bad" song years after Suzanne Vega did it--that's hardily the sign of an imaginative, brave political artist. Plus, I've heard that she kicked opening band Bettie Serveert off of a tour of hers because they played too loud for her fragile little audience. That alone disqualifies her for me. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 199 Registered: 04-2006 |
stina nordenstam, for sure! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 803 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have to keep reviving this thread..hate to see it go the way of all threads, drifting into obscurity... Howzabout Vienna Teng, beautiful Asian songstress?...no idea if her music's any good, but I saw a pic and she is luverly. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 219 Registered: 01-2005 |
Least we all forget, Brigitte Bardot was Serge Gainsbourg's female singing partner before Jane Birken took over that role. French women rock! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 759 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've always held a candle for Marianne Faithfull, she's not too well at the moment. I hope she gets better soon. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 399 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bjork is getting back with The Sugarcubes for a one-off show in... Iceland of all places. Can I nominate Anita Dobson. | ||
| Andy Robinson Member Username: Andyblue Post Number: 47 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jerry, the thread was going so well but suddenly has descended beyond the realms of decency. While I fully understand concepts like "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "beauty is only skin deep" and "beauty is on the inside" (surely a paradox there?), please expand on the concept that singing very dodgy words to a soap theme and cloning a rock guitarist haircut constitutes being a "musician" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 762 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry do you have a curly perm too? And I'm not talking about Roly!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 401 Registered: 08-2004 |
AD didn't just clone the hair, she became Brian May & vice versa. As a youth, to me, she was the embodiment of female evil. I felt we needed a juxtaposition to all the beauties mentioned. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 154 Registered: 11-2004 |
Sorry Spence, but I believe Adele kicks with the other foot. Chan Marshall aka Cat Power and/or Isobel Campbell would be my 90s/00s ones and Françoise Hardy for the rest. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 771 Registered: 05-2005 |
What! A left footed football player! How dare she!? Yeah Cat is bootiful sir! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 869 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's back! The thread that won't stay down...I just thought of another: the girl who goes by M.I.A. (Her real name is actually, Mia, right?)...saw a pic and she's very cute! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 661 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think M.I.A. are her initials. According to Wikipedia, her name is Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. Maybe she's a neighbor of Apu's from the Simpsons. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 621 Registered: 05-2005 |
She's English, her parents are Tamils from Sri Lanka AFAIK. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 425 Registered: 08-2004 |
Lauryn Hill Joss Stone Charlotte Church Lily Allen I don't know. Is there an age limit? | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hello everyone, I am a bit surprised that Tina Weymouth hasn't been mentioned, given the age group. I have probably ruined my reputation instantly and beyond repair by making my first posting here in this thread. Plus: I had a crush on Tina Charles as a teenager! | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 178 Registered: 11-2004 |
Tina Weymouth does get overlooked in a Moe Tucker sort of way, if that makes any sense. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 750 Registered: 04-2005 |
No offense to Moe, but even in her '60s heyday, she wasn't going to make any lists like this one. Tina, back in the late '70s/early '80s, might have. I still enjoy her outfits and moves in the Stop Making Sense film. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 829 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Tina is adorable, so cute esp in the early days, on the whistle Test doing Psycho Killer, yep she has it! PS I always used to like jenny belle star and the guitarist, not the blond haired one the other oone, stella? she was older looking but sent my hormones a rushing to I don;t know where! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 270 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, It's The Sign Of The Times! I was going though a divorce in 1983 when it was all over MTV and I had the hots for a couple of them as well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 744 Registered: 05-2005 |
As a callow youth I once professed a drunken desire to meet Janet Jackson; a yearning that lay dormant until, post 'wardrobe malfunction', she appeared on my radar again. The dirty old slapper. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 858 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, Janet eh??? Who's a naughty boy! your line reminds me of Uncle Monty's line from Withnail and I when he comments something about being a vegetarian!? " As a ayouth, I used to weep in butchers shops!" | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 272 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin wrote: >I actually live in Bannockburn(for all you >Braveheart fans) which is a suburb of Stirling. >Although come to think of it, I'm sure Mel Gibson >was so authentic with his storyline that I remember >hearing the film was shot in Ireland and not >Scotland!! Kevin, I wonder if Mel was lazy and couldn't find a bridge in Ireland for the Battle of Stirling Bridge, or he wanted to alter history and eliminate the bridge altogether? Lots of holes in the Braveheart script, too many to mention here. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 978 Registered: 03-2006 |
Poison Ivy, from the Cramps. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 747 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm not sure Monty was a vegetarian Spence. I think he just did not like handling raw meat - which was ironic given his interest in Withnail. I could be wrong though. I must get that film, I haven't seen it in years. The last time I saw it was when they cleaned up the print and re-released it in cinemas around 1997. I saw it in Belfast with an old flame. It was assigned seating but, as we'd been given rubbish seats and there were only about 12 people in a 200 seat cinema, we just sat in decent seats three-quarters way back. And sure enough, two Belfast women came up behind us and said "They're in our seats, hey." Unfuckingbelievable. Only in Belfast. I also was wary of laughing at the three Irish references in the film - what with it being Belfast; not knowing where way the other cinemagoers' political sensibitities lay; and our earlier experience over the seats (we did not move btw). But I did laugh at those Irish gags anyway, wary or not. And I did notice that nobody else laughed as loud as I did! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 864 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, yes you are correct, I am useless at verbatim stuff from films, and music!! I watch itonce a month, sad innit!? Its a feel good factor film for me, even tho th eend is sad. I met McGann at tthe 10 year anniversary showing at Electric cinema in birmingham. He came down with his girlfriend. We were drunk, and we kept popping to the loo, and on the way out once I caught sight of McGann as he had a 2 seat thing next to the aisle, and he was grinning from ear to ear, its apicture that will stay with me forever. I later met Withanil, Mr Grant at a MAC expo in late 2001, I was standing right next to him purchasing a MAC laptop in order to start my design business, and he was buying some programmes, and I looked at him and he looked at me, and he said, Oh, go on then, and proceeded to give me an autograph. We watched hime leave, as the building was very transparent and glassy, he got into a black Mercedes and fled. Not a battered old Jag!! The remastered souvenir Metal box of Withnail and I has just been released, treat yourself for Christmas Padraig and put yor feet up ma man!! Its fascinating esp Bruce Robinson whose autobiographical screenplay and direction makes the file really, he's featured in an interview, he nearly walked away from it after much bullying from an American producer who thought it was as funny as an orphanage on fire, how worng he was! Bruce is also rock n roll, he's like a pretty keith richards, if I was gay I'd fancy him! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 460 Registered: 08-2004 |
I've met Richard E. Grant. He swans around Richmond in a long coat & scarf like a cross between Withnail & Dr. Who. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 749 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the info Spence. I'll check it out. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1015 Registered: 03-2006 |
This is the Rasputin of threads. It simply can't be killed. Anyway, my newest entry is...the Dixie Chicks. I think their music, while not great, is passable so they're eligible for admission. I particularly like the one named, I think, Marti, who plays the violin, oops, I meant fiddle. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 292 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, Did you catch the Dixie Chicks on Hardball with Chris Matthews? They defended themselves very well and and ID'd the corporate radio culprits who instituted the DC banning programs. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1017 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yep. They are extremely articulate and their politics are in the right place, too...that assessment is in no way swayed by how fetching they are... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 797 Registered: 04-2005 |
I respect and admire the Dixie Chicks a lot--hard to believe a group that achieved fame with the fluffiest and lightest-weight image possible turned out to be the most courageous American mainstream artists of the early part of this decade. Obscure indie bands don't risk much when they make unpopular or controversial political statements. But for a multi-platinum act that was wildly popular in the red states and with children and old people to take the stand they did--that's just brave. It's only their entire career they were risking. But they survived and, I suspect, picked up a whole new audience in the process. And their music has gotten better too. I daresay in some ways, in terms of attitude they're a punk band, in the best sense of the word. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1020 Registered: 03-2006 |
Well put, Kurt. Yes, you have to give those ladies props, and not just for their babeliciousness. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1082 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frazey Ford - The Be Good Tanyas, they are amazing and she's pretty amazing to look at too. |