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King of the Lounge Lizards,,,Dave Graney
Dave Graney and Co. reprise their seminal album Night of the Wolverine (but so adagio that you want to scream) in bustling Adelaide. We last saw Dave at the Wheatsheaf, a funky Sapphic pub you pass on the way to the Port Adelaide docks, but whether he is in his Endeavour Tron, Leaving the Mount, or mooning about the world’s lounges in a reptilian fashion, Dave is a citizen of the world; a louche. knowing, Peter Lorre-style Master of Groove. See and Hear him! At Adelaide Town Hall over the same weekend, ASO gives us Felix Mendelssohn (with whom P shares a birthday) and some of…
Continue Reading →Harmony Crochet Bag
As All Annabels know, I am a fan of Lucy from Attic 24. And I am not alone. The colour-wise people at Crafternoon Treats who designed this beauty :- Have now made a fat-bottomed bag using the Lucy’s harmony squares. Isn’t it pretty!- I’m making my own and doing my best to use their muted colour palette. Here is progress so far with some floral experimentation. Now I need to block the square, gather it all up, crochet the top, add the lace and flowers and make the handle. That’s all!!
Continue Reading →Mel Gibson’s Bum
(photo of Mel by Alan Light)
The actress Arletty, when chastised over her wartime liaison with a German officer during the Nazi occupation of Paris, pointed out that “My heart is French but my arse is international.” For some reason, that mad old snarler Mel Gibson, wants us to look at his backside. He displays it for no apparent narrative reason in these films :- Bird on a Wire Tequila Sunrise Gallipoli Forever Young, and Several entries in the Lethal Weapon franchise. He managed to find a doubtful historical pretext in Braveheart, but TVC wonders if possibly he chose to do the film because it allowed him to…
Continue Reading →Black Mass
(Dir. Scott Cooper) (2015) Johnny Depp is good when he is serious (“Dead Man“, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, “Finding Neverland”, “Donnie Brasco”) and terrible when he is being silly (“Mortdecai”). TVC suspects that he is good in this very serious would-be “Goodfellas“. But it’s hard to say because the pale contact lenses and the weird comb-over skullcap which have been inflicted on him are too silly to allow the viewer to be sure of anything. Similarly, Joel Edgerton’s brow keeps disappearing under his off-centre werewolf widow’s peak and Jesse Plemons (a plumped-up Todd from “Breaking Bad”) is hidden underneath a wild-man clown…
Continue Reading →The Hermit Kingdom
I’m well aware I’m a little dumb, When it comes to fact I am under your thumb But how can I possibly believe These things he does when in a peeve? Shooting men with some anti-tank gun For nothing; presumably, for fun Because he can. Oh, I know his hair Is silly, but that cannot be fair, When we’ve Hillary and Donald Trump. Showing their dead wigs on the stump Before adoring crowds, which they all share. How do we know he doesn’t care For his people? They talk a different game And subsume their souls unto his fame, They venerate…
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