@winston

the Fez story is luverly & reminds me of something Doctor 11 would do to help a young child….

@dentarthurdent

Big tick on Serenity (yes, there’s a River too). NOT selling DVDs? Sounds like a supermarket deciding to stop selling fruit!

agreed. Streaming🙄🙄

at one point I had Apple (free for 8 more weeks), Shudder (about to not be fre…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

on westerns have you seen Whedon’s “Firefly.”

a space western with 14 eps & BRILLIANT. 9 major characters all dancing onto screen with a full set of backstories rarely seen in telly series – even in Who (barring S5 with our Ponds).

@oochillyo

I rewatched The Day of the Doctor. 11Doc laughs at bit at Tennant’s “I don’ wanna go” which prompts the tongue in cheek comment,  “he says that a lot.” 😁

@dentarthurdent

Yes, rewatched The Only Water in The Forest Is The River arc & recognised it wasn’t ‘backwards’ but that River & the Doc met out of sync? Hence syncing diaries &a…[Read more]

@JanetteB me too! thank you…❤️

I will have a chat with you later on that pub or sofa thread….now I have to clean the bathroom…😔

@blenkinsopthebrave

yes! Unfortunately what you’ve said is correct.

for a long time, I thought something was wrong with me because I couldn’t face Inception.

It was inspired, apparently, but I felt dull witted. Spoilers ahead……

there’s a type of bad rap called Mumblerap, & Tenet is SO incredibly murky sounding & the voice tracks so muted &am…[Read more]

The inverted concept comes from a film on Netflix, a Christopher Nolan movie, Tenet, which was pretty awful.

I love timey whimey worlds,  cleverness and complexity as much as the next person, but if the characters seem cold and …dead, I can’t relate.😁

Indeed in the timey world he be 16…

In the chronological, non inverted anti-entropy world, he’s 19

@macca

normally, I welcome newbies but I haven’t been around in awhile, so welcome.

You mentioned whether people would read your stuff?

If you try paragraphs, it’d help. As a good friend once told me, they’re your friends. 😁

I’m in my 50s and disagree with some of your analysis and I checked in with my son and his friends who are 1-2 years o…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I tried to contact Craig couple weeks ago via email about passwords etc aaand no reply.

point is, I hope he’s OK.

So, Forum be rocking! 😉

puro.

our dearest @nerys

Condolences and love from the other Aussies, the Puro fam. I’m so, so sorry to hear about your dad. It seemed like he had a life, well lived, which is fortunate.

And I’m sure he was very proud of you  -as well. And that matters too.

Quick visit this one, but hope for a longer one after I’ve watched the Who special & to wish…[Read more]

@JanetteB

and all the South Aussies (&, as always, the Sydney siders) we’re feeling your pain in Brisbane. We’ve been insanely fortunate in many cases. “cases” had a different tone to it now.

Thanks to those who got in touch when I mentioned my late mum. I realise it looked as if Puro had passed away but nope, I’m still here & we’re doing…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave doesn’t it? How are the Blenkinsops? Well? The wine cellar depleting at all??? 🙂

@mudlark GOOD to see you! I wonder about the futile & litigious nonsense Trump will follow could help so that the Reps will eventually melt away? On another note, glad your digestive system is working! A happy bowel is a happy Mudlark….

So,…[Read more]

@winston good to see you out there!

@oochillyo welcome to Forum

@blenkinsopthebrave @nerys and… humour be good 🙂

We’re all still rumbling along in Brisbane with restrictions eased, then returned, then eased…then…then… It’s like a Tardis really. Evolving, regressing, retreating, re-reading. Or re-treading.

@winston we’re also doing…[Read more]

So…..I thought I’d start in the pub…And as you know I love all animals, cats, dogs, Gretchen….

Has anyone caught the German series Dark?

There’s a Gretchen loop. Tonnes of clever stuff. I can’t actually understand much of it but it seems plenty can.

Old Syzygy. Or is it Syzygy always & forever…

Ya’ll know I pump out some Bowie, from time to time, But I thought I’d post this which I saw on telly yonks ago.

There was a big argument on telly last night as to how influential Lil Richard was…did he start rock ‘n’ roll? Probably not, exactly, but boy did he influence Lennon, Jagger, McCartney’s solo career, Elton, The Cure, The Clash. The…[Read more]

@whisht. Man, I knew this was coming!

I had that feeling. 🙁

Tutti-Frutti was something I danced to with my mum when I was younger. Everyone loved it.

@miapatrick oh jeepers, I shouldn’t laugh about The Brain and Me! You should must write a novel! You put up with a hellava lot & still make jokes? Amazing. I hope you chase up those darn urologists. Widening the plumbing….sounds somewhat painful 🙁

@whisht Ah, the boy will survive. Thane The Boy Who Lives (a bit much?).

Denmark? DENMARK??…[Read more]

Julian Cope, a musicologist, thought Kraftwerk & the not-always-so-related Krautrock were like Chinese Whispers to the Brits. He suggested Kraftwerk was misinterpreted outside the German music scene -to the extent it lost its flash.

Judging by the spread of Kraftwerk  -Johnny Marr was riveted, for example- I don’t entirely agree with Cope.…[Read more]

Bowie said people who get music get silence. I’d heard that before -from Hockney the painter.

Something radioactive. It kinda fits.

@missrori  @whisht

Absolutely great advice from Whisht & others. it’s true: life aint fair. I’m real lucky that due to Crohns I have “self isolation down pat” -as my niece said when COVID blew in.

That was just after devastating fires where thousands of people & animals were displaced. Entire towns with huge histories gone overnight even though…[Read more]