Alice in Chains – Doing rather well. Although they can’t match the Layne Stayley stuff, I like where they are now.
Slayer: Should have called it quits when Jeff died as Lombardo was no longer in the band as well, so it was left to Araya and King to drag the dead horse around the world.
Metallica: Not quite the same after Cliff died, but did well for a couple of albums. They’ve been a nostalgia band for decades.
I was visiting family in Nailsea (nr Bristol), yesterday, and we had a pretty spectacular lightning storm. I didn’t hear any thunder but we were in the curry house at the time.
does anyone really listen to those crazy cookie-monster vocals and endlessly recycled sub-Iommi riffs and doom-laden lyrics about endless armageddon and necrophilia in mythical places?
Yes. I do, as do millions of people around the world; but hey, you stay there cocooned in your own, special little world so you don’t infect mine.
The Spoons here in East Grinstead is pretty decent: cheap booze and cheap, decent (good enough for a night out, anyway) food. Bland atmosphere but we don’t spend the whole evening there.
Which is a point – why has there never been a Blake’s 7 reboot?
I can’t imagine there’s much commercial appeal for it. I can’t see there being a big call for it in the States and most UK broadcasters can’t really afford to do a proper job.
They could have built a shelter beside the waterfall and lived not as stealth and instead of trekking for fish. 3 creatures in a few hundred square km’s of area, yet appear in seconds, arms sharp enough to cut almost everything , but a car roof is impossible. I could go on.
– Perhaps the ground around the waterfall wasn’t suitable for building a home?
– Given their hearing is so sensitive, they could be quite a long way away and still hear. Having said that, if their aim is to stamp out all noise-making creatures, they would most likely stay in an area where they have heard sounds until it has been cleared of said noise-making people.
– Sharp doesn’t always equate to hard.
I agree, it’s not a perfect film (I thought they played a little loose with the noise thing), but none of it really detracted from the film, IMO.
or basically some people who had seen some go pro’s and decided what the track was like before turning up
No one in their right mind would watch any of the footage that has been about and say the track is “smooth”. It’s also pretty obvious the track is fairly technical, up to the point where they hit the town; at which point, it just becomes a borefest. I’m sure there will be some exciting racing, though, so I’m looking forward to the new series getting under way.
Generally, I agreed with this sentiment. However, there are some series that had a pretty good premise but were done really badly. Lost in Space was one of those. As a result, some series are probably worth re-booting, whereas others are not.
I didn’t realise they were doing LiS until last week so I’ll probably check out the first episode.
I’m all for urban DH but the section here adds nothing: it’s neither steep nor technical. Its just tacked on to make the track longer and result in a picturesque finish. Its BS.
The lyrics to this are pretty brutal, especially when you get to the last verse:
They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice
Now we got more electricity than we can ever use
They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out
But they got paid so there ain’t nothin’ else to think about
Some of them made their living cutting the timber down
Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town
T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast
Lots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest
Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek
Bought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseas Fifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would want
‘Til all that backed up water had to have some place to go
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write
Never held down a job, or needed one in his life
They assured him there’d be work for him in town
Building cars, It’s already going down
The cars never came to town and the roads never got built And the price of all that power kept on going straight uphill The banks around the hollow sold for lake-front property
Where doctors, lawyers, and musicians teach their kids to
Water-ski
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write
So there was no note or letter found where he died
Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side
The simple fact is that disallowed goal wouldn’t have been enough to put City through: They would have needed to score another 2, without conceding. Yes, it may have changed the course of the game but, then again, maybe it would have inspired Liverpool into action. Who knows?
In the end, you can’t concede 5 goals in the CL and expect to go through. Yes, it does happen, but it’s unlikely.
Looking forward to this one, but will wait until I’m actually in a quiet place (my front room) to watch it. The sound of people munching/texting/chatting is bad enough during a regular noisy film.
There was an article on the BBC the other day about noisy eaters being shamed into shutting up by this film. This can only be a good thing.
I saw it in a full screen in the Leicester Square Cineworld and, fortunately, the munching was mercifully quiet. There were people walking out with virtually full bags of popcorn :-D
I’ve just watched the highlights of todays race: Marquez was an effing liability. It’s all very well giving him a 30 sec penalty, but it doesn’t give Rossi back his track position.
hmmmmm. Bristow’s coments about sexual abuse in football and the victims not being ‘real men’ made him out to be a rather ingnorant fool. The gushy obituaries in the media today conveniently forget the last time he was making headlines in the same outlets it was for rather poor reasons.
Yep. Can’t say I’ll be mourning this one too much.
Still relevant because it’s the people’s game in Canada, just as football is here. There’s very little trouble at Canadian / MLS soccer games, so by the same token football doesn’t have an issue?
When the Vancouver Canucks lost in the Stanley Cup a couple of years ago, there were riots in the streets of Vancouver. The following day, many of those responsible went back and tidied up :-D
