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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.155.179 |
Has anyone here ever seen this?  Two series were made in the early '00s, and a friend lent me this set - I find it very funny, but I've never heard of it before. I may be wrong but I'm guessing it could have been shown late at night on BBC3 or summat. Sean Lock's great anyhow... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.155.179 |
"Hello mum, it's me, Errol - the Chinese one..." | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
It's genius, genius genius. I love this series. Errol is one of the greatest comic creations ever. The only problem I had was most of it was shot in muted light, so it gave me eye strain at times. Felix Dexter as the stealth evangelist is also brilliant. I want to buy this now you've mentioned it. Can't believe that Mark Lamar helped write it though. I always thought he was a bit shit to be honest. Clearly not though. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.87.217 |
"Come clean your hands on me coat"! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
It could also be a cover for Ballard's High Rise though he would have to be chewing on a dog.} | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
... and there would have to be an empty swimming pool somewhere in the picture. Which makes me want to read more Ballard, I've read not nearly enough. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.55.39 |
I was thinking of ordering High Rise eventually. Anyone read it? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
Years ago - read Concrete Island and High Rise back-to-back. Both well worth the read. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Both absolutly f%Īkin stunning novels. I reread them both the last year or so. I can keep reading those novels, and the last three he wrote (minus Kingdom Come)- ie Cocain Nights, Super-Cannes and Millenium People. They are almost perfect novels... That he hasn't been awarded a nobel prize astounds me. Another great novella of his is 'Running Wild' which is the most creepy, haunting thing- and amazingly illustrated by Janet Woolley. All those children with small bodies and big heads- works perfectly. His autobio came out end of last year which is great. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I wasn't over-keen on Cocaine nights. I thought I'd love it but it just somehow never grabbed me. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
'Crossing frontiers is my profession. Those strips of no-man's land between checkpoints always seem such zones of promise, rich with the possibilities of new lives, new scents and affections. At the same time they set off a reflex of unease that I have never been able to repress. As the customs officials rummage through my suitcases I sense them trying to unpack my mind and reveal a contraband of forbidden dreams and memories. And even then there are the special pleasures of being exposed, which may well have made me a professional tourist. I earn my living as a travel writer, but I accept that this is little more than a masquerade. My real luggage is rarely locked, its catches eager to be sprung.' The opening paragraph of Cocaine Nights. That opening paragraph didn't grab you Weber? Gosh I realized that I have a signed copy of this...Ah from Andy at Cold Tonnage... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
It's a nice opening but... I just couldn't engage with the story or the characters. I don't know what it was about the book but it just didn't do anything for me. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Anyone see that Ballard made-for-TV movie a while back? About a guy going loopey in his home, his loft expanding and stuff? Creepy stuff. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
I'm such a sophisticate. I just reduced one of our finest novelists to "a guy going loopey in his home".  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
What Ballard TV movie? The director who did 'Cube' tried to bring 'High Rise' to the big screen for ages...so far nada. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.87.217 |
Gary F. - sounds like HOME - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396641/ |