barrymarshall

Love Thy Neighbour ...?

We can but wish, Keef ...

I'd also love some more of the Alan Clark Diaries to be filmed.

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister

House of Cards (and yes I know why it couldn't go on for another series)

*Bob* - hilarious!

"It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." PG Wodehouse

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> barrym - I can sort you out with region 1 Series 4

> if you are interested -

>

> JAH - welcome!

SMG - am very tempted. Very. However, I am going to wait till March as I don't want to binge all at once. I want to spread out the Wire goodness as long as possible! (I reserve the right to get back to you though if I start to twitch from withdrawal).

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Is the Full Moon the one opposite Sainsbury's? Did

> it used to be call something else, the Drowned Rat

> or something?

Indeed it is! Before it was the Full Moon it was called The Holy Inadequate and was a proper rock/biker pub. Before that I don't know...

For me, when I lived in Stoke, we used to see a ska band called the Skalinskis. I think a good way to describe them would be a bit like the Specials crossed with a bit of Brecht & Weill (yeah, a bit oompah), and wrapped up with a kind of Eastern European vibe.

I used to go see them often in a pub called the Talbot, in Stoke, and the Full Moon, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Good memories! Not been back up that way for ages, and when I started seeing them in 2000 or so they had a female singer, but she left. Still great fun though. There are MP3s and stuff on their site

www.skalinskis.org.uk

The other thread is mostly full of the usual crowd: Bowie, Elton John, Prince, Jagger/Richards, etc. They're great but it's not as if we didn't already know that.

So who is a favourite of yours that no-one else (or few others) know about? Who deserves more recognition?

Not necessarily the Best of All Time, but who do you like that generally gets overlooked?

Tom Waits

Radiohead (but that really is down to Johnny Greenwood).

But maybe we're on the wrong path: it's all producers now, you know ...

Waiting for Series Four to come out on DVD, I got a copy of Oz, which was on telly a few years back and I enjoyed. One little coincidence is that Bodie from Wire turns up as an inmate, and there is a cameo from Frankie Faison, who plays Burrell, as a father of a death-row inmate.

I have said this before on the forum, but a lick of paint, some plants in the flower beds and a sanding down of the tables at the front is all it needs. From the outside it looks like a dive, but once inside it is lovely. How many people walk past it but hesitate to go in because of what they assume it's like inside?

I think it lowers the tone perfectly. More I say!

Ah - I didn't check - everyone's had it here!

Edited - duplicate post

I couldn't resist this. Not a joke per se, but doing the rounds in banks and journos' inboxes today:

FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS A WEEK

FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.

Kerviel was known to start work as early as nine in the morning and still be at his desk at five or even five-thirty, often with just an hour and a half for lunch.

One colleague said: "He was, how you say, une workaholique. I have a family and a mistress so I would leave the office at around 2pm at the latest, if I wasn't on strike.

"But Jerome was tied to that desk. One day I came back to the office at 3pm because I had forgotten my stupid little hat, and there he was, fast asleep on the photocopier.

"At first I assumed he had been having sex with it, but then I remembered he'd been working for almost six hours."

As the losses mounted, Kerviel tried to conceal his bad trades by covering them with an intense red wine sauce, later switching to delicate pastry horns.

At one point he managed to dispose of dozens of transactions by hiding them inside vol-au-vent cases and staging a fake reception.

Last night a spokesman for S?c??t? G?n?r?l? denied that Kerviel was overworked, insisting he lost the money after betting that the French were about to stop being rude, lazy, arrogant bastards.

Life imitates art? In politics? Never!

Child benefit fraud fraud

Remember the missing child benefit database hullabaloo?

Well rumour has it that it didn't get lost. In fact it was never even sent.

The guy responsible lied initially because he had forgotten to post it and didn't want to get into trouble. His managers then just went along with it because they didn't want to admit that sending sensitive data by courier was normal procedure.

(From Holy Moly).

This is, I reckon, highly plausible - and actually very funny!

genius!

93 to Infinity ... oh yeah!

mockney piers Wrote:

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> There's something of a the sarah greene in her

> prime, meet saffron burrows. What's not to like?

> Can she teach me how to make my own solar power

> generator out of egg boxes and sticky back plastic

> while fending off a man-eating shark?

have you checked out her facebook page?

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> There is a Green candidate you know. She is

> actually quite good, despite being blonde.

>

> http://sianformayor.org.uk/

mmm, she's nice (yeah I know - shallow)

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Mastering technology has changed over the years so

> the CDs of old will sound different to the CDs of

> late.

> It also seems to be a competition these days with

> record companies to see who can MAKE THEIR CDS

> SOUND THE LOUDEST - often at the expense of

> dynamics within the music, man.

>

Hi *Bob* - have you read this? A great article about the evil of reducing dynamic range and how it is crippling modern music, making it sound awful.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/imperfect-sound-forever.htm

I wouldn't believe anything you read in a paper which supported Mussolini, Hitler and Mosely during the 1930s (both the subStandard and the Daily Mail).

Nice selections Mockney and Jah.

I loved Cat Powers' version of Wild is the Wind. It was also done by David Bowie and Nina Simone (with whom I share a birthday).

In one of Feist's videos was fellow Canadian hiphop artist Buck 65 (aka Richard Terfry). He sounds like Tom Waits rapping over mellow hiphop beats. His song

is a great cut from his album Talkin' Honky Blues.