Entertainment For Lively Minds
When does Saturday come? Once a month
I try to explain The Word to my colleagues here in the USA.
"Music", "culture", "intelligent life on Planet Rock", "witty" "suitably (ir)reverent" are amongst some of the words I use.
I struggle to explain why it also seems to be so quintessentially English - and I mean that as a (rare) compliment. And that got me to thinking. I subscribe to When Saturday Comes - the half decent football magazine; it is, I suspect to football as Word is to music. But:
What else am I missing of a similar ilk? What else should I read? Sport fan, music fan, literature, comics, movies, television - there has to be more out there. TV Cream scratches some of the telly itch, but I feel there is a rich seam of something that I'm missing. What does the Massive recommend?
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Hmmm
I sense a message, but my radar is not working on the subtle frequency.
Can you translate into explicit?
Youtube clips
which you possibly can't see if you're viewing via a phone or some browser than can't handle embedded clips
These were the clips I was linking to:
I think
the OP was looking for magazine recommendations which would fulfil the same role for other genres that Word & WSC do for theirs.
For my part, I'd recommend Private Eye, just for a jaundiced eye on political, media etc. goings-on.
I subscribe to 3 mags
Word, WSC and Sight and Sound.
All the most, erm, thoughtful (or po-faced some might say) of their kind. But actually worth reading. I can't abide any of the other football mags that all believe in the non-existant intrinsic importance of the game (as opposed to the extrinsic importance it has because people enjoy it - or at least spend time following it) and gave up on other film mags when the proportion of borderline soft-porn actress photos passed 50%.
WSC
What is it like these days? I used to buy it way back in the late 80s, during the football fanzine boom, but soon after I started to find it worthy but very dull.
The piece about what it was
The piece about what it was like to write a player history section for Bury's programme a few months ago was tremendous.
It was the most recent issue
It was the most recent issue that prompted my original post. I rarely read one issue all the way through without stopping, but I did on Friday. Really enjoyable evening.
I understand the worthiness element, but less so nowadays.
And as alluded to in another thread - anything that publishes the review of Tim Lovejoy's book that it did will get my money.
WSC
Ah WSC! Used to read it regularly in the early days. Remember when England were going to play Albania in Tirana when the communist regime was still in power. As foreigners were only allowed into the country in officially sanctioned groups, WSC organised an excursion for readers. I never went but did buy the special t-shirt they had made up for the occasion with a special greeting on the back in Albanian along the lines of "we the fans of England greet our fellow Albanian football fans in fraternal brotherhood..." or some such. I still have the t-shirt to this very day.
I enjoyed the last issue
After not having read it for a number of years. It was the World Cup review one. I could almost hear the sarcasm. It is not a jolly read by any means, but most football fans are prone to melancholy - so it is genuine. WSC isn't "funny ha ha" most of the time - but it does have some excellent takes on football.
The piece on James Cordern articulated something I had felt for many years - the fact that football isn't funny and when comedians try to extract comedy value out of it, they miss the point.
Word? WSC? Private Eye?
You are all me, and I claim my five pounds.
Oh, and a word for Viz, too. Its letters page and Profanisaurus usually have me chuckling.
Got to be Viz.
The British sense of humour for gentlemen of a certain age in a nutshell.
Forgot about Viz. I like it,
Forgot about Viz. I like it, but not enough to subscribe
Asked a colleague to bring me back a copy when she went to London. The look I got when she got back after exposure to it was priceless.
yep
always good for a train journey, and not just because people are less likely to sit next to you