‘Ride Along 2’ TV spot
No.
Best Line:
“I cannot feel my face.”
‘Room’ TV spot
No.
‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ (2008) promo
No.
‘The Mummy Returns’ TV spot
Nope.
Salted Brittany butter - yum.
Ricotta Walnuss Pesto - yum.
Tomato soup with Mexican spices - okay.
RIP Angus Scrimm.
Dear houseguests: you’re clueless about where we keep the plastic bags and about the laundry (twice a week indeed). You’re rude about newspapers, stomp around and talk loudly. You leave doors and the fridge door wide open. You drop things, lie in bed and are incapable of unloading clean things from the dishwasher and putting dirty things in. You had venison soup bought for you but you called it “too peppery” and threw the can in the bin you ungrateful thankless sod. I fixed your umbrella to no thanks and you had the nerve to say “I’m not into recycling.”
I don’t think I’ll bother with ‘The Green Inferno’.
I read a horrible ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ casting story.
Recall ‘Treasure Hunt’?
‘Teen Mom OG’ Quote:
“I don’t need myself having anxiety issues.”
‘Sky News’ Quote:
“Black alerts.”
‘The Guardian’ Quotes:
“Couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood, except for the fact that arrested was pretty much all he could get.”
“Golly-gosh.”
“Ruminative.”
“Appears endlessly satisfying to this once-interesting actor.”
“Deeply inessential.”
“Stealthily bonkers.”
“Child-unfriendly content.”
“Tiresome inevitability.”
“Corduroy-suited sensibility.”
“Presentation worthy of an E180 VHS cassette.”
“Bombast spewing.”
“Displacers.”
“Subtle and serious exploration.”
“Parallel fortunes.”
“Acceptance face.”
“Fearsome opponent.”
“She seductively peeled a carrot.”
“The place stank of vomit and marijuana.”
“Flamboyantly affected sociopaths.”
“Engagement in modern reality.”
“Given to dangling people out windows.”
“Spectre of salvation.”
“Unfocused aggression.”
“Woke on a plane to find a fan looming over her, phone in hand.”
“Nauseatingly self-pitying.”
“Terminally out of favour.”
“Loner-loser.”
“Wanted more air to reach his genitals.”
“Ill-sired.”
“Pulp provocation.”
“Cowpunchers.”
“Discursive.”
“Delusive.”
“An eerie composure.”
“Hamfisted plinky-plonk cover versions.”
“Defiantly refuses to be cowed.”
“Poo relentlessly.”
“Soi-distant.”
Grimy despair.”
“Vengeful of manner.”
“Structural audacity.”
“Pseudo-penitent.”
“No motional authority figure.”
“Cultivate some real intimacies.”
“Swearified.”
“Youthful ire.”
“Does not give interviews, promote new releases or explain himself in any way.”
“Dropping into victim or blame consciousness.”
“Re-emergence.”
“Flight skills.”
“Abetted.”
“Your hips sink.”
“Striking moments.”
“Gymtimidation.”
“It’s been a year since you talked to anyone who is 25.”
“Pappy white bread.”
“25-ft long tapeworms, a misery spread across the empire by the Roman passion for fermented fish sauce.”
“Your mum tells you how to cook, not a book.”
“Anguished shouting.”
‘The Irish Times’ Quotes:
“Snakes in a bottle.”
“Meticulously crafting a bad reputation.”
“It takes a lobotomy to be friends with her.”
‘Royal Wives At War’ Quotes:
“So afraid she might have to receive her.”
“I won’t have it.”
“The China clinch.”
“One step up from a prostitute.”
“Tiny pair of bathing shorts.”
“Most lurid reports.”
“We could only create disaster together.”
“An affront to everything she stood for.”
“Utterly misunderstood what she was playing with.”
“Arsenic in the marshmallow.”
“Eminently dismissible.”
“Could no longer be tolerated.”
“Do not mind fornication.”
“Go away without further delay.”
“Rivers of woe, seas of despair.”
“Anything more ghastly.”
“Hated by jealous women, accused of everything.”
“The waste of it all.”
“When?”
‘Angel’ Quote:
“That which is below shall arise.”
‘The X Files’ Quote:
“Every port of egress is closed.”
‘Highway To Hell’ Quote:
“I may not be carrying a pitchfork Charlie but I think you know who I am.”
‘FTWeekend’ Quotes:
“Fights happen because words have failed.”
“One of the most horrific fight scenes Waters choreographed was a Richard III in which Martin Freeman, playing the murderous king, strangled his wife with a telephone cord.”
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Cleared out a 2001 tape. It began with a ‘Nash Bridges’ ep ‘Bombshell’ in which his nemesis Tamara strides around to the song Bitch. This was not the slightest bit engaging and has an inability to connect.
Then came a ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ ep ‘Spiral’ in which Glory finally knows Dawn is the key. The gang and their shallow arrogance run from Glory and her minions (one of whom is Wade Andrew Williams). This had really bad sound mixing and no worthiness or intellectual heft.
Best Line:
Seriously dead.”
Then came an ‘Angel’ ep ‘Over The Rainbow’ in which the final arc of season 2 splutters and sees Cordy on another planet or something. Cordy talks and this was a vivid display of how not to make TV. This was not a tribute to the efficiency and efficacy of TPTB. It was a thought paralysing piece of smugness.
Finally there was a ‘Kindred: The Embraced’ ep ‘Bad Moon Rising’ in which Julian wants to increase his newspaper circulation. A Nosferatu vampire lurks in a bush in broad daylight and snatches a baby. The baby’s mother can’t act. The opening credits are nice. Julian’s galpal Caitlin (Kelly Rutherford) broods over him. An annoying reporter lurks and cop Frank shows what a substantial miscalculation his casting was.
All the vampires hang out in Julian’s house. Frank is a moron and I’m taken aback by his bad acting. The Nosferatu use the baby as material de guerre, vampires inflict harm and Sasha and Cash aren’t conciliatory. The Nosferatu rebel which is forgotten. This was good if not stupendously scary. There is stiff upper lip stoicism, subtext, the baddie sows instability and unrest, Lillie plots and Julian (Mark Frankel) broods.
Caitlin’s kitchen is full of garlic. This was a vivifying novelty of a tv show. No one has delicate sensibilities and Julian’s eyes are dark pools of disbelief. Frank is certain of his own rectitude and has a Teutonic love of law and order. Shame he is inept at it. Caitlin has a secret. A Nosferatu female has old fashioned virtue. The baddie has no intellectual or moral strengths only boundless ambition. There is a silly fight scene and Julian shows off vampire sexual mythology to his gratified apostle Caitlin in a sexual ambush. This was not an inexhaustible treasure.
Best Lines:
“She’s a good baby.”
“Our savage form.”
“I hope for your sake you don’t.”
“I’m ashamed of my own clan.”
“The lure of the old ways.”
“Look at you. Living in Julian’s basement.”
“I’ll only drink red.”
“Venture slime.”