thanks @Craig – I’ll put the nothing in the nothing-shaped space on my mantelpiece.

If I’m honest, nothing actually looks good there.

Better than it did before.

I think I should take up Wabi sabi.

bloomin’ ‘eck.

I come back and as I read down from @Craig ‘s post from having bought SFX (you really do always go the extra mile don’t you Craig?) I read that I’VE WON giving me a pervading joy, only to then read 4 comments later that I’VE LOST.

I didn’t even know there was nothing to win.
Yet I’ve managed to lose it anyway!

[sob]

story of my…[Read more]

@Craig – that remixed version made me smile as with that initial thudding base I thought of someone banging on the Tardis doors!

Let the buggers in!

Ok, this one’s for Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

Here’s the original album version but this is not a bad live version from Jools Holland show (humbly suggest you play it loud)

https://www.yout…[Read more]

… and if we’re gonna look further back than the 1980’s then how can we forget Le Voyage dans la Lune from 1902??!?

[sigh]

ok – last one. THAT jump-cut match-cut edit between the spinning bone and the spaceship.

ok, that’s it from me – off to post a choon…

Yeah @JimTheFish – the opening sequence is fantastic (I’d forgot to mention how the music is perfect – bombastic fanfare, turning to minor key worry then ‘action’ again. Weirdly only link to it I can find is on this guy’s site).

btw – in terms of iconic scenes in Doctor Who, I’d say that Tom Baker holding two wires and the fate of a species in…[Read more]

Ah – lists!

Yep, probably in the mildly confused agreement with everyone here. An odd list (presumably they’d suggested these to be voted on, which says something about them as well as their audience).

Anyway, off the top of my head, the “greatest moment in sci fi” (until I change my mind) would be the opening of the original Star Wars.

Titles…[Read more]

@purofilion @JanetteB et al – I’m sure there is better slang that we can use.

Over to you….
(more of a Friday post but the buggers at the beeb put this up on a Monday!)

@Phaseshift – Soundgarden, long time no hear.
I remember the track but not the video (which seems true of most music from the 80’s, 90’s heck even noughties yet its not like I’ve been living in a video free cave.. don’t really know why it should be but most videos bring back Top of the Pops!

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@TheKrynoidman – excellent!
Spirit in the Sky – muscular boogie with sweet vocals and harmony – a pure glam classic.
Glam wasn’t effete and I think this is a great example (‘brickies with glitter’ but can’t remember who’s quote).
I first heard this song as a cover by Doctor and the Medics and instantly dismissed it as fluff.
Stoopid me.
I shoulda…[Read more]

@Phaseshift (et al) – in terms of Davison episodes, I’ll happily go with the general opinion of people here.

However, as I must’ve missed it as a kid, I will now definitely be watching Kinda etc at some point soon!
Even if that’s not the one chosen, the way you guys have spoken about the ‘classics’ has made me want to watch them (possibly for the…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – ah Buddy Holly – you’ve made me smile!
Buddy made me think of sitting at the dinner table maybe 20 years ago and my dad saying “ah Lonnie Donegan – now he was a wild man”.
He didn’t elaborate much, but then my dad mentioned that he’d helped roadie/manage a skiffle group in Ireland! Probably in the 50’s/60’s. He never elaborated on…[Read more]

ha ha – no worries @TheKrynoidMan

As I say – they were rubbish ‘jokes’.
(Suarez has been known to bite players and my Jaws clip was for the early exit of Spain.
Schadenfreude karma? hey ho!)

Anyway, that’s enough of my stoopid footy-related music!

ah – thanks @TheKrynoidMan

Playing that now just before the Uruguay v England match.
Sets a nice tone.

I presume Jaws is in honour of Suarez?*

*(I promise no more rubbish footy jokes)

A bit cruel, but…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34v1hyfHXdQ

(only of even marginal interest if you’re following the World Cup.

and not Spanish)

Interesting @FatManInABox – I know nothing about Six Years and a very quick google only gets me a band that doesn’t have that track (but probably is them!).

Weirdly as I watched the video and was musing “Is that Canvey Island?” based on nothing other than having seen “Oil City Confidential” I came across this.

Incredibly terrible crap TV show…[Read more]

Ah Puro – yes Mr Rossi was a fave of mine as a kid – mainly for the artwork!

anyways, here’s a Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy tribute:

Am really enjoying seeing this for the first time (must have missed seeing it as a kid).

Completely agree about the dialogue etc though must say that I think Duggan is being played as though this is a ‘farce’.

Its all a bit too much for me – while trying to figure out how to describe what I meant I read a description of farce:

a comic…

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