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Culture consumed in quarantine

Started by Thomas, March 18, 2020, 07:15:41 PM

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buttgammon

The Library is a classic, definitely one of the best early episodes. Bookman is indeed brilliant - they did a great job of gruff, surly older men (like Elaine's dad).

purlieu

Quote from: Inspector Norse on March 20, 2020, 12:40:47 PM
Yeah I started on Seinfeld series three a couple of days ago and have that one up next. Have never sat down and properly watched Seinfeld in order, just caught random episodes whenever reruns were on, so there's still a lot I haven't seen.
You're in for a treat, it works so much better in order. You'll get loads more of the jokes.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

I knew the BBC's scheduling of Seinfeld was the worst (the worst, Jerry!) but it's been odd finally seeing it all listed in order on All4. I know I saw The Library way back when (my best friend and I used to imitate Bookman's signature turn and point all the time at school) but then I was unfamiliar with almost every episode until season 7. I remember Mr Pitt eating a Snickers with cutlery, but I'm pretty sure that's the only time I ever saw him before now.

Blue Jam

Audible have just made loads of literary classics free for anyone to stream:

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

ollyboro

Diego Maradona Channel 4, Tonight, 9pm.

It tells the story of the world's greatest footballer, turning up at unheralded Napoli and the ensuing success and mayhem he left in his wake.

I watched this on a flight in December. It's fucking insane. I would recommend it to anybody, whether you have an interest in football or not.

Thomas

Two today:

Sabotage (1936).

Great. I was shocked the
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busload of innocent people
[close]
actually
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blew up
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.

The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1997).

Weird and terrible. Not a percentage as good as the lovely original.

Still not seen Cats. Waiting till everything gets really bad.

chveik

I've been listening to a bunch of Jon Wurster calls. always a delight

peanutbutter

Little Women: Big bag of shite, wasn't it


Loads of absolute drivel on youtube


Super Nintendo games: mostly trying to set netplay up to see if my friends would be interested in some No Mercy multiplayer (they wont be, but I can try).

Schmo Diddley

Started another run of XCom2 on the PS4. Also started a Football Manager 20 run with Guiseley, got back to back promotions but spending all day hunched over a laptop in my dining room for work has kind of put me off spending a few evening hours hunched over a laptop in my dining room playing that for the moment.

Finally getting round to A Handmaid's Tale on the telly.

Reading The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawn.

Gonna watch the Maradona doc probably later today. Also watching Star Trek TNG, on the episode where Picard gets assimilated.

Blue Jam

Quote from: peanutbutter on March 22, 2020, 01:40:15 AM
Little Women: Big bag of shite, wasn't it

Is that streaming anywhere? Might bother watching that because Saul Goodman is in it, might not.

Re: All these recent cinema releases which are now streaming because the cinemas are all shut- where are they? Any on Netflix?

Pranet

Quote from: crankshaft on March 19, 2020, 10:01:08 AM
I've been doing the same. Anything to keep the dark thoughts at bay.

I'd recommend Bazza H's channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAtlgWePobtHz4AijnFCBuQ) - he plays Speccy games and swears most entertainingly.

Also Rose Tinted Spectrum (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDTjXnyGM5flG6Xk6fiMAg) - interesting overviews of games, lightly witty, doesn't seem to be a cunt.

Thanks for those

Blue Jam

Quote from: Schmo Diddley on March 22, 2020, 08:35:54 AM
Finally getting round to A Handmaid's Tale

Cheery... First series is good but bleak, second series it turns into middle-class torture porn.

I'm glad I finished V Wars before all this kicked off, even if it is the most stupid drama series about a pandemic ever made.

Ferris

Lord of the rings audiobooks. Nerding it up on lockdown.

Deyv

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on March 22, 2020, 02:47:08 PM
Lord of the rings audiobooks. Nerding it up on lockdown.

Lord of the Rings isn't solely nerdy. I love it and I'm quite cool.

Blue Jam

...while I'm a massive nerd and I don't like Lord of the Rings at all.

Ferris

I certainly like to think I'm very cool, but last week I made bagels and reread The Silmarillion so something somewhere isn't adding up.

I leave it to the audience to decide.

Blue Jam

I made pretzels recently, just embrace it Ferris.

Head Gardener

Just finished Shock & Awe - Glam Rock & It's Legacy (highly recommended and 2" thick) makes me want to watch the series Vinyl that came out a few years ago.

Ferris

Listening to Lionel Nimrod%u2019s Inexplicable World, via fourble.co.uk/podcasts

It%u2019s really good.

Small Man Big Horse

#79
Eugenius - A really fun stage musical that the makers have put up a video of on Facebook, it's all about a teenager in the 1980's who's writing a superhero comic that a Hollywood producer becomes interested in, and is packed full of nerd culture references in a non-annoying way, the songs are all fantastic and it's great in general. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=519159602015175

Hedwig And The Angry Inch - I loved this when I first saw it back in 2002, and now loved it even more second time around, it's perfect comfort cinema and just astonishingly adorable.

My Left Nut - A BBC3 series that's airing on BBC1 on Tuesday, it's kind of like an Irish Inbetweeners if one of them suddenly realised he had testicular cancer. It's actually pretty okay, nothing amazing, but I found it amiable material.

The Magicians - The final season (though they didn't know that when filming it), it's as great as ever, but I've tried and failed to get people to watch it before and so won't be starting yet another unloved thread about the show.

Godspell - Gave up about 25 minutes in, fucking hippies weren't entertaining at all.

Ferris

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on March 22, 2020, 08:08:22 PM
The Magicians - The final season (though they didn't know that when filming it), it's as great as ever, but I've tried and failed to get people to watch it before and so won't be starting yet another unloved thread about the show.

Mrs Ferris loves this. She tried to get me to watch it, but there was NO CHANCE.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on March 22, 2020, 08:16:52 PM
Mrs Ferris loves this. She tried to get me to watch it, but there was NO CHANCE.

I've always said that Mrs Ferris has excellent taste, except in men. The frustrating thing is that the first five or six episodes are pretty weak, but then it turns in to one of the best genre shows ever made.

rack and peanut

Replaying Dishono(u)red has an all new immersive vibe about now.

hummingofevil

Quote from: ollyboro on March 21, 2020, 07:08:25 PM
Diego Maradona Channel 4, Tonight, 9pm.

It tells the story of the world's greatest footballer, turning up at unheralded Napoli and the ensuing success and mayhem he left in his wake.

I watched this on a flight in December. It's fucking insane. I would recommend it to anybody, whether you have an interest in football or not.

Just came here to post this. Like the other docs from Asif I didn't love it but it was fine.  Like most genre docs it sacrificed vibe for detail. Maradona was/is arguably the greatest icon of a century. As good as it was I felt that it ultimately left me feeling a bit cold; it didnt't cover enough of how Maradona is objectively the best FOOTBALLER of all of FOOTBALL. So much more to probe. 4/5 though. Would recommend.

My isolation culture of choice is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw Just listen to the last 5 mins on a loop for ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw

Actually, the legit correct answer is YouTube. Turn off Twitter, Facebook and here and go rooting through YouTube. Its the best invention humans had ever invented.


Sony Walkman Prophecies

Camille Paglia's Glittering Images. Off a site.

daf

To take your mind off the imminent collapse of civilization, why not download some Big Finish Stories for free!

Survivors - 'Revelation' by Matt Fitton
QuoteIt begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying.

When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces.

Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again.

When people begin to die of a new strain of a flu virus, newspaper journalists Helen Wiseman and Daniel Connor investigate. They uncover a terrifying story - but will anyone ever get to read it?


dissolute ocelot

Catching up with Dr Who, then catching up with the Dr Who threads here. A lot of 80s pop music videos and Top of the Pops. Who would have thought Shakin Stevens and Neneh Cherry would be on the same episode? And Comedy Central Extra has been showing the later, mediocrer episodes of The Office (US). Yay for working from home!

I've got an unwatched Koreeda box set which would be a more productive use of my time, and a Tarkovsky box set most of which I last saw 20 years ago. Stalker seems peak Coronavirus viewing.

Dex Sawash


Endless scroll through wish.com looking at oddball undergarments

Captain Crunch

Can you watch early Drag Race online anywhere please? 

pancreas

Quote from: Captain Crunch on March 23, 2020, 09:45:17 PM
Can you watch early Drag Race online anywhere please?

Oh it must be on tpb.