Invoking the spirit of Shatner in my T.J. Hooker piece earlier reminded me of possibly the finest thing he’s ever done – this version of Elton John’s Rocket Man for a 1978 Sci Fi Awards ceremony: So good is it that it not only has a Family Guy parody courtesy of Stewie, it’s also referenced [...]
Archive for August, 2009
I’m A Rock Et Man
Posted in Sure it's only a bit of craic, tagged Beck, Family Guy, Rocket Man, Stewie, Where It's At, William Shatner on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 10 best ’80s cop show opening credits
Posted in TV, tagged 80s cop shows, A-Team, Cagney & Lacey, Equalizer, Hardcastle & McCormick, Hart To Hart, Knight Rider, Matt Houston, Ohara, Spenser For Hire, T.J. Hooker on August 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Of course I say cop shows, but most of these guys were private eyes who had an unorthodox way of getting things done, dammit! And note that these weren’t necessarily the best shows, but the best credits – the sequences that made you go, “man, I want to watch this…”. The frequent disappointments which followed [...]
Having the craic with Jimmy Bullard
Posted in Sport, tagged Hull, Jimmy Bullard, Peterborough, player idents, Sky Sports, Soccer AM, Wigan on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not that there’s much competition, but Jimmy Bullard must surely be the Premiership’s funniest player. Here he is filming his player idents for Sky: And this is his legendary message to his old club Peterborough United, followed by some on-couch blather with Lovejoy and Hells Bells which, to be fair, isn’t quite as entertaining:
He’s never bloody here
Posted in General guff on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Off to Barcelona now til Sunday night. Get me etc. Stay tuned next week for my 80s cop show extravaganza.
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Posted in Movies, tagged Jacques Mesrine, Killer Instinct, Mesrine, review, Vincent Cassel on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
French gangster movies have, in the past, tended to be unpleasantly brutal, shouty affairs, populated by a rogue’s gallery of vicious hoods and sadistic, bent cops that, more often than not, leave you wanting a thorough shower afterwards. So while it’s certainly not all roses, Mesrine: Killer Instinct is un plaisir particulier by comparison, coming [...]
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Posted in Movies, tagged Action Force, Cobra, G.I. Joe, review, Rise Of Cobra on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yo, Joe, whaddaya know? It’s the latest toy-franchise-derived summer blockbuster rolling off the Hollywood assembly line, and like Transformers, it’s steeped in nostalgia for anyone who grew up in the ‘80s. Back then, of course, we knew G.I. Joe as Action Force; while our older brothers had Action Man, with his realistic gripping hands and [...]
Videos I Like: Florence and The Machine Rabbit Heart
Posted in Videos I like on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a little bit Wicker Man, a little bit Alice in Wonderland, and hey, don’t us kids just love it? For some reason the official Universal vid on Youtube (as you can see below) is a bit shonky in quality, better official version here.
I’ve been away you know
Posted in General guff on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the lack of recent updates, I was in deepest Cavan for a while, where the internet is dialup (remember that?!) and blogging is a technological impossibility. They don’t even have YouTube – how can they live? Anyhoo, stay tuned for some new musings coming up nnnooooo… soon.
