I bet it's better than this...
https://laurencefox.bandcamp.com/album/a-grief-observed
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2023 21:19 (seven months ago) link
... OMG I just listened to it!
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2023 21:22 (seven months ago) link
this is the stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41KgNJ9qGDI
― mark s, Friday, 22 September 2023 09:24 (seven months ago) link
"next time you see my name it'll be on page one!"
things not say say on endeavour
― mark s, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:24 (seven months ago) link
the ep that combines a mary whitehouse-alike with a pink floyd-alike and a gay news-alike* (plus a simon dee-alike) has a moment where morse is harrumphing abt rock criticism
my usual beef: huge surges of anachronism poorly steered thru but lol his actual crit (of a mode of interviewing and writing that didn't really exist yet in 1967) is not inaccurate! though its problems go more to the difficulties of self-taight musicians getting across to non-musicians how music gets collectively put together, than to the brainlessness he prefers to think it (never change lonely grumpy high-culture dude, yr instincts are good but their expressive framework is terrible)
*it compresses the gay news prosecution of 1977 (for blasphemy) into the oz prosecution of 1970 (for obscenity)
― mark s, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:12 (seven months ago) link
decriminalisation only took place in 1967; gay news was in fact founded in 1972 and an equivalent would hardly have needed a mary whitehouse-alike to get it shut it down five years earlier
how much does all this matter (besides driving me the actual person watching very bonkers)?
― mark s, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:25 (seven months ago) link
sylvestra le touzel is p good as the whitehouse-alike lady tho -- she does the accent as a full thatcher, which is cheeky but nevertheless effective
― mark s, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:32 (seven months ago) link
also it gets into the toxicity of LSD *and* the vagaries of copyright law and who wrote what 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
― mark s, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:41 (seven months ago) link
i’ve been watching the original inspector morse series and it’s wild how much pussy this guy gets pic.twitter.com/TAZGIHqpBj— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 24, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 September 2023 06:31 (seven months ago) link
phil daniels klaxon (thursday's brother)
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
(also thursday i guess)
chekov's minefeld lol
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 15:11 (seven months ago) link
i have hugely come round on this daft nonsense (endeavour)
(w/its relentless commitment to tackling the most serious historical matter in the goofiest possible anachro-historical context)
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 15:14 (seven months ago) link
the ep set in a public school is kind of a rip of le carre's a murder of quality iirc (which is lol NOT his best book) and the only bits i'm enjoying in are the (v short) exchanges where morse, a copper sneaked in as a suubstitute classics teacher, discusses authors like ovid or suetonius with his pupils. it's not convincing especially, it's just funny
it's the late 60s but here's one of (real) teachers describes a punished child as being "under heavy manners" -- a phrase that entered normie english via rockpaper-chat courtesy a prince far-i album title c. 1977 (and beyind that, according to jonathon green's dictionary of slang, from jamaican political manoeuvring… )
the scriptwriters just have a permanent tin ear for conversation of the exact period they're trying to recreate and as someone who lived through it it is just exhausting
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 17:50 (seven months ago) link
i ended up watching most of an episode on Friday night, mainly because of this thread tickling my inclination - it was the one that ends up with Morse and Friday in Venice toting guns, it was as silly as fuck but it was the good entertainting kind of silly (which is most silly) tbf
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:34 (seven months ago) link
i mean i have not given up in disgust 🤣 i am carrying on (despite the disgust)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link
i never ignored it because of daftness, it was more about not being tonally satisfying, but i'm coming round to the idea of it being v satisfying because of the daftness. like the other serieses
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:39 (seven months ago) link
the gunplay shd probably get the fuck out tho
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:40 (seven months ago) link
it's often a complete mess but it can be quite ambitious in unexpected ways (which i like) -- the anachronistic speech stuff grates bcz i am just the age to catch the worst of it somehow but i imagine bothers nearly no one else
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:45 (seven months ago) link
"Paper says soviet tanks in Prague, Morse"
<Morse, sucks teeth> "Pussssy'oles"
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
in the years since Endeavour started that kind of anachronism has been claimed as a feature not bug cf Cheeky Blinkers and its ilk
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
and for better or worse they didn't adopt the "shit 80s indie background music" trope
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 18:48 (seven months ago) link
morse shd be listening to adam and the ants the entire time (as shd we all)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:07 (seven months ago) link
time for the killer to be a thunderbirds puppet
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:10 (seven months ago) link
"the pelican man!"
very good and funny scene
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 17:35 (seven months ago) link
"i am a bagman not a yesman!"
morse somewhat shakily referencing the climax of michael clayton to explain why he shd *not* be taken off the case
― mark s, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:49 (six months ago) link
endeavour s8 and it's roughly 1972 i believe: i wouldn't expect *everyone's* hair to be long -- it didn't really happen like that -- but it's funny that the one character whose locks are descending faintly collar-wards is the recently widowed chief superintendent bright :)
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:27 (six months ago) link
"it's a rum caper!" (thursday on the craft of acting, which he appears never to have encountered until now)
― mark s, Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:20 (six months ago) link
lol just checking out a character ("lord ormsby-gore") who features in this ep bcz it seemed like vaguely actionable (?) to include a real-named person as potentially a killer (ep not over, no spoilers!) and either way a total dipshit
and the actual real person with rouhgly this name and title at this moment (david ormsby-gore, 5th lord harlech) died in a traffic accident in the village next to the village i grew up in, almost certainly in a near-legendary traffic blackspot which the family (ours not the OGs) had to negotiate on a daily basis
(we weren't involved though, i'd already left home officer)
the younger ormsby-gores were famously all over the rolling stones -- and worse, eric clapton -- at this time (1972) and things didn't go well for them really
― mark s, Saturday, 14 October 2023 19:42 (six months ago) link
(harlech died in 1985, in case you want a test)
― mark s, Saturday, 14 October 2023 19:44 (six months ago) link
i am and have been right about endeavour and it is correct to say so
the anachronisms or incorrect details are certainly a feature and not a bug the entire thing is as daft as dr who but infinitely better because the casting and production quality and attention to (wholly incorrect) detail and the nods and flourishes are all deeply enjoyable and satisfying
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:00 (five months ago) link
i want a full season of joly for short
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2023 20:10 (five months ago) link
just discovered that Max is also the guy who voiced Gollum in the Bakshi LotR and dubbed Pigsy in the (quite annoying) UK dub of Monkey
:O
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:01 (three months ago) link
subs not dubs! (sorry max)
― mark s, Saturday, 20 January 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
Was also the original Estragon (Peter Hall's 1955 production)!
― Michael Jones, Monday, 22 January 2024 17:17 (three months ago) link