Just finished the pilot for “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” …dear lord this shit is off the charts.
Tower Block Dreams (ep 1. 1/6)
The series follows young people trying to make a career in music, and escape lives of crime and deprivation. It explores the pirate radio stations, raves and drug deals that are at the heart of the urban underground.
///DH: This whole way of life is out of control. I’ve had friends who were total wastoids/criminals, and I always wondered where they found the inspiration to be such monumental fuck-ups. But to keep yourself on self-destruct and run a pirate-radio station - now that’s a rare talent.
…speaking of Channel 4 - they have the best broadcast design on the planet.
///DH: Just watched the latest episode of Channel 4’s “Misfits”. While the “delinquents with super-powers” premise is a bit silly, it’s refreshing to see a youth-orientated show that isn’t complete bullshit. Unlike the American networks, who sanitize youth-culture to a point of cartoonish idiocy, the Brits have the decency to recognize the existence of things like track-suits, dub-step, yayo and the word “twat”.
Synth Britannia (Part 1/9)
“In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain”
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace: “Love-Song”
I just remembered that I saw Lady Soveriegn in Amsterdam on the way out of town. She had one of those souveigner toques (that’s a knit cap for you non-Canadians) in hand, and got into a cab. I guess I have a thing for stylee hood-rats, as I’ve always found her oddly bewitching.
Jah or Nah?
Clip from “Jam” another Morris classic, not a news satire this time around but a sketch show.
clip from “The Day Today” another Morris classic.
Clip from Brass Eye’s “Sex” episode - another Morris classic.
“It was horny as the bullets went inside of me.”
Chris Morris interviewing Jerry Springer for Blue Jam, ages ago. I’ve listened to this interview 5 times in the last couple days, Morris is so fucking on point it wets my pants, magically?
“Village Idiots”
