Julie Burchill forced to apologise for twitter comments , and pay out a fat wedge .
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I was pointing to the fact that they’re both “one lone mad guy” films too. Not sure that gels with what I have in mind (which is also a bit vague and impressionistic).
Youtube keeps recommending me this version of Empty Pocket Blues. It's from 1970 so well into their scientology phase, but it shows that musically they were still on top form when they wanted to be. Rose and Licorice's naïve singing with Robin and Mike harmonising in completely different ways both both on guitar and vocals (both both - 2x2 that's four different ways). All on the edge of jangly mess but it all makes sense and they're belting it out looking like they're having the time of their lives. I've been singing this song all lockdown.
Edit: Of course that's an appropriate song if you've just seen the fees from your dianetics sessions.
Edit: Of course that's an appropriate song if you've just seen the fees from your dianetics sessions.
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Something to do with like traditions? I mean, idk what folk horror really is beyond Wicker Man, which I've seen, and Midsommar, which I haven't. But I think they're both to do with like traditions and that, right?
Yes Midsommar even more than Wicker Man if anything. I think folk horror often means "films that are roughly inspired by or similar to the Wicker Man". So Midsommar, Children of the Corn, Black Death, Kill List etc.. So rural cults, rituals, human sacrifice and entrapment. But that doesn't cover films like A Field in England, The Witch or indeed The Witchfinder General.
Edit: I suppose a unifying factor is that they are all mainly outdoors and mainly daylight (ramped up to 11 in Midsommar). The terror is hiding in plain sight and the films are about building an oppressive atmosphere.
Edit: I suppose a unifying factor is that they are all mainly outdoors and mainly daylight (ramped up to 11 in Midsommar). The terror is hiding in plain sight and the films are about building an oppressive atmosphere.
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Have you seen And Soon The Darkness? I remember that as being a really effective example of outdoors/daylight/pastoral horror. Might be a bit uncomfortable watching it in light of recent events, though. I've only seen the original, no idea how the remake compares.
No, don't know that one. But I've found an article about it locating it as pre-Wicker Man and Texas Chainsaw Massacre daylight horror.
Is this one of the great lesser-known location-based horrors? (lwlies.com)
Is this one of the great lesser-known location-based horrors? (lwlies.com)
ska invita
back on the other side
"Riotous ... currently my on-tour bedside companion" (Bryan Ferry Daily Mail)
"A joy to behold. Burchill knows no fear. I would man the barricades with her any day…any Jew who feels anxious in these days of palpable anti-semitism ought to read this book. It’s funny, and we all need a laugh. But more importantly, it’s a timely reminder that no, my friends, you do not walk alone" (Monica Porter Jewish Chronicle)
"A joy to behold. Burchill knows no fear. I would man the barricades with her any day…any Jew who feels anxious in these days of palpable anti-semitism ought to read this book. It’s funny, and we all need a laugh. But more importantly, it’s a timely reminder that no, my friends, you do not walk alone" (Monica Porter Jewish Chronicle)
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Wow, that is worse than I expected and my expectations were low. Cancel culture has not gone far enough my friends. Not nearly far enough. That book should have got her cancelled years ago and yet here we are still having to hear about her shit opinions.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Oh my days. I absolutely fucking lost it at this one:
I know saying "satire is dead" is a bit of a cliche and that, but I genuinely can't imagine how anyone could write a parody of Julie Burchill that'd be funnier than the real thing.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no, she cannot be outdone
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Can she be done in?
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Good lord, there's more: What did this lesbian rabbi do to make Julie Burchill mad?
Loving Judaism so much that you want to convert but then give up on the idea because actual Jews don't hate Muslims enough is... quite something.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Wrong sort of Jew, obvs.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
A small mercy. I just looked up Unchosen and it is already out of print. So it largely lived up to its name.
I think it's more that it was never really in print - from the Will Self review:
There isn’t a shred of reason in this text, which – one hopes because all the publishers it was offered to turned it down – has been produced by an imprint funded by subscribers including such beacons of enlightenment as Richard Littlejohn.
the crowdfunding page for this book has some interesting numbers - I reckon i could probably raise this kind of interest for a book myself:
Crowdfund a book: Unbound
Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher that gives people the tools, support and freedom to bring their ideas to life.
unbound.com
JB's shallow and obsessive and these traits seem to get worse as she gets older. Ash Sarkar as a sexually liberated, fun loving, witty, left wing young woman represents exactly Burchill's ideal working class woman and also her ideal Jew. Except she's Muslim and supposed to be the opposite of all those things. I think that's the driver of the stalking. Burchill is so neurotic these days, it's hard to take her seriously.
I liked Sarkar's statement blaming the media for sugar coating Burchill's behaviour. I think they're more of a problem than Burchill, who is really just a bit of a weirdo now. For most hacks Sarkar and who she is and what she represents is fair game.
I liked Sarkar's statement blaming the media for sugar coating Burchill's behaviour. I think they're more of a problem than Burchill, who is really just a bit of a weirdo now. For most hacks Sarkar and who she is and what she represents is fair game.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I think it's more that it was never really in print - from the Will Self review:
There isn’t a shred of reason in this text, which – one hopes because all the publishers it was offered to turned it down – has been produced by an imprint funded by subscribers including such beacons of enlightenment as Richard Littlejohn.
the crowdfunding page for this book has some interesting numbers - I reckon i could probably raise this kind of interest for a book myself:
Crowdfund a book: Unbound
Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher that gives people the tools, support and freedom to bring their ideas to life.
Trying to think whether it would be weirder if the one person who paid for this was Jewish, in which case why would you do that, or if they were gentile, in which case why would you do that. There's not really a good answer either way, but at least there's only one of them. A very small Shabbat celebration indeed, by the looks of it.
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