Search results

well, that wouldn't be in the public interest ;) all i can allow myself to say is: <a href="http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/?action=view&current=bodgerandbadger_1_396x222.jpg" target="_blank"><img...

ha. i had wondered what his "method" had entailed this time. you know- he boxed for two years to make that film about a boxer, what did he do- take over an oilfield? single handedly sink derricks in the desert? fwiw i enjoyed the film and given its quality and popularity it's not a surprise to...

This is an interesting point- usually when you hear such things reported the wording is "in the public interest". but as far as i'm aware, the current precedent-setting case in Europe was brought by Princess Caroline and if you look at that case as reported the wording is "A public interest"...

no. rabbits are a con. an ex lived with a couple who let their huge fucking rabbit wander round the house. the way it moved around looked really graceless and unnatural indoors. you looked in its eyes and there was...nothing. just a beady rodent void...plus after a few smokes it's somewhat...

i read them in reverse order, and it was fine. mishima is a don! having been slightly acquainted with him i just read howard goorney's history of the theatre workshop. really a bygone era. it's virtually impossible to imagine anyone entering the arts with the such high ideals now. the...

haha. if she did she'd try and cast it that's how the likes of creed "practice" innit... the nature of the media is very different now i'm sure you allow. i suppose they didn't have the internet in the renaissance tho ;) are you speaking from personal experience? i think there's a...

aww. that's great. i got a bit choked up at the end!

demographically it was proved to give 70% of their viewership a soft lob. you could be right- i always thought the goth aesthetic was pretty misleading, they were putting out shonteff and shit like that, but the sleeve would suggest softcore s and m (tho of course they did that too...). i don't...

sure- it's just smaller distros of more leftfield stuff are going to feel the bottom line more, but as the marginal flourishes online it's their product that proportionately gets copied the most, maybe. i reliase there's ways round this but anyway...i allow myself to feel at least a little...

christ, i was considering going back to 9-5 but this has really put me off. people bellowing incomprehensible but presumably insulting shit at you from rapidly passing cars- what the fuck is up with that? i really can't understand why anyone would want to do this at all.

possibly not a coincidence that tartan films have to be amongst the most widely fileshared. i'm as guilty as anyone of course.

yes, sure these things go in phases etc. however- just as its hard to imagine a way back from mainstream american film having more in common with theme park rides than cinema its hard to imagine how the balance can tip back-because this is about the interface of art and the media, which is a...

well- that's what the art mainstream constitutes just now for the most part. the british artists in the public eye are mostly art graduates. the two aren't completely divisible. i'm not of that opinion. it's just taken on a closed-shop, prejudicial feel in the last 20 years in this country...

i think you know exactly what it means. it means gatekeepers like you telling people they have no right to their opinion because they aren't educated the way you say they should be. it means art that aims to be exclusive. in any case- i took the trouble to answer your question without getting...

haha. whenever i hear people reminiscing about "balearic" it sounds awful! there's a weird tho i suppose inevitable exclusivity about these "early days" reminiscences- the idea that this was a beautiful thing until the masses got hold of it. whereas an alternative history might be that that's...

I don't expect instant gratification and never said i did. of course learning can enrich our experience of anything. my objection here is to the art establishment and to art as currently taught. to teachers concerned with turning out instant "revolutionaries" rather than giving people the basic...

this typifies the kind of arrogance that turns many off contemporary visual art, and the problem with your contributions to this thread. we aren't in one of your classes now so you don't have to be didactic. i misunderstand nothing. it's a quote. perhaps you misunderstand me. works of art...

Exactly. and it feels like a lot of the real oral history is already dying. People HAVE died, burned out...etc...but probably not in this version. it's like a fuzzy echo of the sensationalist tabloid coverage of the time.

to paraphrase dr johnson by way of mr james etc: "The public are the ultimate judges: if they are pleased, it is well; if not, it is no use to tell them why they ought to have been pleased." the arts/ media establishment seems to have moved away from this and now speaks internally. the fact is-...

Well...with the dude in the waistcoat playing guitar...snippets of the prodigy etc...not a big fan of the whole showbiz"festival medley" approach! that's all. yes- very slickly done, no doubting that. you forget, Americans aren't capable of sarcasm gumdrops ;) imagine oasis trying to do a...