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A whitey is, in fact, an overdose of cannabis, leading to a pale complexion, mild sweating, inability to construct stable mental thoughts, slight paranoia and full body lethargy, usually brought about after I've told mrs beef 'half a cookie dear, half a cookie' and she scoffs four of the fuggers cos they're sooooo delicious. And overdose of caffeine, can result in similar symptoms, sweating and palpitations, mental confusion, mania, but I'm not sure if it has a common slang term yet. Too much coffee man? Write a comic book about it.

Stood behind him in the queue at Forbidden Planet last year, he was reading a poor collection of Hellblazer rather than anything substantial, and anyone who buys their books at FP is a nob-ed.

I was hoping for a quality comedy programme, but this is five minutes of stand up padded out with drivel (ie the rapper thing, y'know, the thing about rappers, you know don't you, rappers, yeah, rappers, on the bannister, rappers, they slide along 'em, rappers, they do, they're called rappers etc.) Last night I didn't laugh once despite being ripped to the t's and wanting to find it funny. His act really misses Herrring's over eager schoolboy to his aloof indie schtick, and maybe an editor to tell him 'This isn't funny, go and rewrite it till it is'. I'd love to join the Stewart Lee bandwagon that all the reviewers seem to be on, but I'm going to sit on the sidelines and throw the rotten tomatoes till he starts being funny.

Doesn't anyone make their own sausage rolls anymore? Surely they would be best? Buy puff pastry if you don't want to make it yourself, sausage meat from William Rose, herbs and spices et voila! Or are basic life skills passed over in preference to sodding powerpoint presentations nowadays? I remember when deli food was a little more exotic than sausage roll.

'Roar-shack' - and okay, despite my cynical slagging, I'll go and watch it at the Imax,as long as you all promise to lobby for a film version of Lost Girls.;-)

What's going on here? We should be happy local establishments are being recognized london wide for their quality and yet you're all here bickering about f'#kin' sausage rolls and class warfare! Administrator, has the EDF finally disappeared up it's own collective backside?

ما هي لكم جميعا يتحدثون؟ لا أستطيع أن أفهم.

Yeah yeah wow! Better than that Sam Raimi crock of sh......

"Don Fleming too had his problems. Everybody in the music industry is aware of his long running feud with Bono of U2. I remember a show at the Warfield Theatre in San Fransisco in particular. The Velvet Monkeys had dressing rooms next to each other connected by a ventilation shaft. Bono kept yelling through the the shaft at Fleming 'I am the light!' to which Fleming would respond, 'I am the dark!'. Needless to say, this upset Bono a great deal. Years later, while being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera, Bono would respond to a question by saying 'Don Fleming? You mean El Diablo." - Jim Dunbar, famous music industry insider.

We're not the first to hate Bono, we won't be the last. But yeah, we're having fun doing it.

And listening to a puppy makes me want to drop kick Bono. Hard.

Also, Wanted 2 is now in production, I'll be sitting there with Rorschach. Other great comic book movies are Stardust (the director of which is doing Kick Ass along with the screenwriter), Ghost World, American Splendor, Crumb (o.k., bending the rules a little), and Art School Confidential. See, not a superf#ck'nhero in sight. Unless you count Robert Crumb as a super hero, which you should.

I would have loved to see a Terry Gilliam or Darren Aronofsky version, they would have DONE something with the book, rather than use it as a storyboard. And adaptation should be just that, adapted, not dragged kicking and screaming wholesale to the cinemas, and Alan himself has said that his books were never meant to be films, and people should respect his wishes rather than trying to make money from the time and effort he spent in creating original, imaginative and intelligent work. Lets see 'em try to bring swamp thing post #60 to the screen.

U2 are another case of great band, shame about the singer (see also Suede, Blur, Smiths etc).

P.S. You are not hating Bono enough, please try harder.

Yeah, Sin City 2 is on the way, with Frank Millar and Robert Rodriguez at the helm again. I've just seen some screenshots of the new Kickass movie in Tripwire, looking good! The big problem I have with Watchmen is it is so 1985 and we've all moved on a lot since then. The book was very pertinent and groundbreaking at the time but 15 years later the whole concept has become a cliche, due to it being plundered extensively over the years by so many. I will watch it on dvd, along with the Black Freighter animation, just so I can snack and skin up as it trundles along. Being stcuk in Peckhem Plex for that amount of time without a smoke...bbbrrrrrr....

Yeah, forgot about Sin City, what a great film that was, the flip side of course being The Spirit. And I suppose it could be a geek thing, I prefer to think of it as 'media' thing, or opinion on the artistic media of the 20/21st century. We now have film, T.V., comic books, music, gaming and mobile communications that in the scheme of things are incredibly new and young media compared to the traditional.

Nearly got excited about the film till I saw the running time. It took me a year to read the book (nothing compared to the wait for From Hell or even Big Numbers) but I begrudge Zac Snyder two and a half hours, I turned off 300 after 45 minutes! The man is really the most anodyne of directors, unable to drive any ideas of his own he takes wholesale from the comic book world, too shallow to realize the comic book is to celluloid as poetry is to the pop video.

On a similair note, what the hell happened to Burlyman Comics? Doc Frankenstien and Shaolin Cowboy were excellant and I could really do with a shot of Geoff Darrow right now.

The only comic book adaptation that worked was A History of Violence. Can anyone think of any others? Cartoons don't count.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/publicenemies/ looks good.

This very approach to bullying in schools was lampooned in the film 'Drillbit Taylor' (available from Dulwich Library, four stars out of five, made me laugh my milk out of my nose). I've been led to believe that Habs is very attainment orientated, as evinced by its standing in the league tables.

Be thankful it was just people talking, try a barking dog, every night, every day......:'(

After I've bigged up Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Science' can I say that while on the face of it this may seem to be our governments over zealous attempt to '1984' our asses it is, as Huguenot says, something commercial organizations do routinely. Any information gathered is bound to be lost or accidently wiped, and anything pertaining to terrorism will pass under their noses or over their heads. What needs to be held to account is the continuing incompetence of our civil service and in recent years the calibre of our civil servants.

I've gotta agree, this is going to be a good summer! Since the collapse of the pound we'll be holidaying in peckham park this year, hoping that the adventure will be reopened.....

10.15, still going on. Anyone got a ground to air missile launcher? I need to shoot down a clown.......

snoozequeen1 said "We are supposed to believe that she didn't know the kind of people her husband was working for, or the vicious dishonest criminal behaviour they are widely known to be responsible for?"

Should this not have read "We are supposed to believe that he didn't know the kind of people his wife worked for, or the vicious dishonest criminal behavior they are widely known to be responsible for?"?

Soul and Fire - Sebadoh, quickly followed by You F#ck>d Up - Ween, then a continual looped podcast of Simon Bates' Our Tune..

I'm with Jah, gave up music radio in '97ish when xfm was bought up,worried that if I ever unexpectedly heard coldplay i may end up doing time. Since those days it's been the glorious (and not so glorious) LBC (97.3). I even set the alarm an extra hour earlier so mI can listen to Steve Allen in the morning.....

Thank you Sean, thank you.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kshqj1rIyEo&feature=related

and an oldie but a goodie

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EohssoAde10

edit. for those of you on tenterhooks on wether i picked L'Scratch'P's Andrew WK or the new ON U Sound, well, Andrew,s effort sounded like a vague idea of what new york indie has beens think dub sounds like, the other was, well, Adrian sherwood was back behind the desk and, uh, I'm off to check how that 'Tree' thread is moving....

Hi gigirl, to add to your anecdote, Kurt saw the legend 'smells like teen spirit' scrawled across a dressing room wall in Olympia while playing a gig there. I think (from memory) that it was Kathleen Hannah of bikini kill who was said graffiti artist, and also Kurt's better half before Courtney butted in.

Does this mean I've won and the Flaming Carrot really is the number one super hero? Can I have my no-prize?