Start Me Up
Posted by smurphy on 11 July 2008 - 10:46am.
I am half way throught the first season of "Teh Wire" (sic) on DVD, and loving every goddam perfect second of it!
The word brought me here - what other cultural necessitiesd has the Word brought into your lives?
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Blogging
Never thought I would be bothered. Now I am.
Same here
I'm an old Usenet hand and old habits died hard, but die they did.
Me Too
Blogs never previously interested me . Now, my day is somehow incomplete if I don't get round to reading/contributing to those on The Word website.
Tinariwen
and Nick Lowe
A Bunch of Opinionated Knobheads
That have given me some of the best musical laughs in ages.
Together with some great tips.
Oh a blogging!
"Wasting all my precious time"
Doing this. It's great. (Opinionated Knobheads to replace Irregulars as our calling card. Now. Nicest thing I've been called in days.)
And a bigger overdraft and less space in my cubby hole, no matter how many BENNYS (copyright Ikea)I purchase, holding 160 CDs a pop.
Retro, you need..
either a bigger cubby hole or to upgrade to a set of BILLY's.
An afficianado, I see.
I am familiar with the Billy too, known affectionately, at least chez nous, as a Bjorn...
Podcasts
I had no interest in the new fangled podcast suff till Word - now I have 104 of them sitting in iTunes waiting to be listened to. In fact Word got me onto an iPod as well, thinking about it.
Podcasts
Try my podcast mebs. www.classicalbums.libsyn.com
Speak for yourself
I'm just stalking David Hepworth. I'm afraid if I listen to the podcast I will believe he is talking just to me. So I don't.
The aliens made me do it.
hey smurphy
you have so much great drama coming your way! Series two is fantastic too...
Hooray and Hoorah !
Someone else who thinks that season 2 wasn't weak. The new locales and new faces - especially not seeing the orange sofa - take a bit of getting used to, but it's worth it.
Hey, if he's only half way through season 1, that means he still doesn't know that. . .
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Series 2
Better than 1 I reckon. Much more story and some genuinely surprising moments.
I agree
on series 2 - at least as good as the first and some great characters around the docks. I am now half way through series 4 and am enjoying it even more than the first three.
As for new things brought to my attention by The Word, lovely music by Epic 45 and July Skies, and Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay - just a fabulous read.
Gawd
it's so good. Love Bubbles - what a character, what an actor. And NO SPOILERS PLEASE> If he dies, I don't want to know.
Bubbles is perfect
He is immoral, selfish and greedy whilst still being immensely likeable. Brilliant acting.
blogging
Talking bollocks on here with everyone else and you dont even have to leave your chair to go down the pub to do it!! Also had some great musical tips , not just from the mag but on here too.
One more thing
I love the way The Word uses the old blog site as in asset of magazine production. How many times have blog debates translated into articles. Hats off you canny sh*ts.
It works both ways
The magazine feeds the blog, which feeds back into the magazine etc.
But it's often more serendipitous than it appears. There's two ideas for possible forthcoming features in the magazine I can think of that have been discussed in the office over a fairly lengthy period, and both have cropped up as topics on the blog over the last week or two.
Fraser....buddy......
Stop trying to wriggle out of our Christmas Party Invite. Can't wait for the entertainment.
Mmmmm...
Would that be 'why do blokes have beards?' and 'The Beatles were quite popular'
When do we get our royalties?
Lets be honest
If the blog was used more to fill the mag, we would have 40 pages on Richard Thompson, 30 pages on why Radiohead are crap, 20 pages on folk music, 20 on prog and some pictures of attractive offspring of celebs.
Sounds even better than the current mag!
What can we callit?
I know!
God ("The" optional)
Teh Wrod?
I think this is a vast improvement.
I would not buy it
Not enough pages of Prog
What about
a regular column for Margaret Thatcher and a jazz section!
Titled
Dear Margaret!
No Morrissey Reviews allowed
Thus we won't need a legal department.
Disco in the Gym! Disco in the Gym!
As above
Indeed,
that makes us "staffers" and eligible, at least, for the office christmas party, yes?
Stringers, surely
It sounds so much Wirier, you see.
Incidentally, according to the characters' backstories section of the HBO site, that nice boy Russell was known as Stringer because he used to work as Ted Nugent's guitar roadie before he took over the towers.
True dat.
You would have thought so
We probably wouldn't have to be invited, more like we'd be expected. After all we are contributing to the corporate giant that is Development Hell !!!
It's not a corporate giant
It's merely a media empire.
Speak for yourself, Valparaiso....
...but as bingham knows and hopes, we are short, squat, bald and hideously ugly. Wearing ill-fitting wigs.
I've grown a beard....
as a badge of my Wordiness, though it verges on the tidy.
Let me just say..
I know this is all a wee bit of free market research and I think it´s great. It´s nice to be asked your opinion.
I have been turned onto many a great artist through the pages of The Word and from this blog. Same goes for movies and books, but I´d like to congratulate everyone who participates here for their, ..how shall I put this..., well, Civility and Good Humour. I can assure you that on other sites this is not the case. It´s a jungle out there!
I hope you all have a Jolly Nice Day!
Feck off, ya mealy mouthed apologist.
Not really, only jesting.