I just thought I would see if my earlier post had earned (ex-’transport supremo’) Mark Bradshaw any more Twitter friends, only to discover that the blighter has blocked me!
Good to see a politician with such a healthy interest in engaging with local people, as ever 
Following the booting out of the Labour minority cabinet at Bristol City Council, ‘transport supremo’ Mark Bradshaw has been wondering what to do with himself.
Tweet your suggestions to @mark_bradshaw
ETA:
I see Terry Cook has also discovered the jobseeking potential of Twitter.
Discussion:
DO NOT KEEP ANY OF THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR POSSESSION
- FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, EXPLOSIVES, FIREWORKS OR PYROTECHNICS.
- LETHAL WEAPONS INCLUDING BLACKJACKS, BRASS KNUCKLES, POCKET KNIVES EQUIPPED WITH SPRING RELEASE BLADES, SCISSORS OR STRAIGHT RAZORS…
Dude – this is the Marine Corps!
Rules for new recruits from the opening to Sidney IPCRESS File Furie’s The Boys In Company C – one of the finest Vietnam films of the late seventies featuring Craig Wasson. Well, one of two, fine or otherwise.
Posted in Framed Documents, More Wars, The Pictures
Tagged Craig Wasson, R Lee Ermey, Sidney FUrie, Sidney J Furie, The Boys In Company C, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Die Hard
John McTiernan’s top-of-its-game hijacked building actioner. Taut, well put together, witty, imaginatively shot, two thumbs all the way through.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Not as good as the first, but definitely better than the second. Suffers from not being confined to a small space. Samuel L Jackson is good fun as Zeus, and Sam Phillips is knee wibble-inducing as mute killer Katya, but Jeremy Irons’ English-thesp-does-Euro-terrorist is not great.
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
Simon Pegg as the English hack in New York in amusing but by no means great adaptation of Toby Young’s book.
Ghosts Of Mars
John Carpenter’s career-stopping SF actioner with Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Pam Grier and Natasha Henstridge kicking ass on the Red Planet. I actually rather like it, for all its pace-destroying wipes and odd editing choices.
I came across a project called CllrTweeps earlier today. It intends “to compile the definitive list of UK councillors on Twitter, no more, no less.”
I noticed that there were no Bristol City Council members listed, so I emailed one of my ward councillors, Jon Rogers (LibDem), with the link. I pointed out that currently I know more about Northern Irish municipal affairs via Twitter than I do about what is going on in my own city by ‘normal’ means.
Anyway, Jon has now joined Twitter, so we shall see. I have also emailed local Green councillor Charlie Bolton to see if he was interested.
Obviously neither blogging nor twittering is a substitute for actual local democracy and accountability, but having spent the best part of two months reporting the same blocked drain to the council (officers, not councillors, I hasten to add), I am game to try anything.
ETA
Local councillors, MPs and other politicos now on Twitter:
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Shitty Council, Municipally Yours
Tagged Ashley, Bristol, Bristol City Council, CllrTweeps, Jon Rogers, St. Paul's, Twitter
Is Paris Burning?
Different French Resistance factions prepare for liberation.
The Long Riders
Walter Hill ‘does’ the Younger-James gang with high concept use of thespy brothers (the Carradines, Quaids, Keaches and Guests) to play various sets of real-life brothers and cousins.
The Happening
Insanely bad M Night Shyamalan biohorrortwistthriller watched purely for Graham Linehan’s BadMovieClub. Bees, pipes in walls, cars that appear from nowhere, a planet that fights back. Zooey Deschanel looks permanently stoned on tranquilisers, Marky Mark displays the acting chops that made him an international underwear modelling superstar. Pretty much nothing of interest happens in The Happening, BTW.
Revolutionary Road
DiCaprio and Winslet, reunited at last! In a portrait of the drawn out death of a relationship in early 60s American suburbia! With added botched home-abortion ending! The Valentine’s date movie to end them all.
Posted in A Week In Film
Tagged Is Paris Burning?, Revolutionary Road, The Happening, The Long Riders
Only just seen via Facebook. Nice quality mp4 on the Adamish website from whence it originally came.
Prim RSM Lauderdale (Dickie Attenborough) outlines his plan of attack in Guns At Batasi, a rather well-produced little post-Empire potboiler which has its wits about it, which understands the value of not playing it too straight, and which underplays its box office-satisfying romantic subplot (involving Mia Farrow, of all people). There are excellently understated performances from the likes of Errol John, Earl Cameron, Percy Herbert, David Lodge, Bernard Horsfall, John Meillon and pornographer Graham Stark.
The BrisTwestival was a giggle.
£5 in, got a goodie bag and free drinks & scran, heard some nice bands & beatboxers, the LLF made fun of TwitGeeks (despite being herself a BBS addict 
), and we got pleasantly toasted on £2 cocktails. A nice wedge was raised for Charity:Water, we didn’t win any of the raffle prizes, but we did make it home without incident or accidents. That is a result in my book.
Posted in Bristol, Clubs+Gigs+Fests, Events & Happenings
Tagged BrisTwestival, Twestival, Twitter
Another episode of Ian Bone‘s Anarchism In The UK radio series is up on the podcast page – this time round it’s Ed Lyon, talking about getting into anarchism via punk rock, the Situationists and the Poll Tax riot, with forays into Class War, the ACF, MA’M, J18 and much more.
Posted in Activista, Big A, Little A, Podcasts & Radio, Politik
Tagged ACF, Anarchism In The UK, Anarchist Com, class war, Ed Lyon, FIT, FITwatch, Forward Intelligence Team, Haringey Solidarity Group, Ian Bone, J18, MA'M, Movement Against the Monarchy, munist Federation, Poll Tax, Poll Tax riot, punk, Reclaim The Streets, Resonance FM, RTS, Situationists
Least this time it’s legible:
Le Hollandais
FRIDAY
The Restaurant is closed
for a
Private Function
UK Funky is a style of modern electronic dance music, heavily influenced by various styles of house and beyond, including contemporary funky house, electro house, and increasingly, broken beat, soca, and afrobeat. It mixes traditional UKG beats, bass loops and synths with latin percussion and contemporary R&B-style vocals.
Percussions such as bongos, tambourines, and drums are used to give a dark exotic african sound due to the constant rhythm of the bongos. The crazy snare which people will remember from Garage and Bassline, is non-existent in funky house.
When funky house is slow, it can sound soulful. When it’s fast, it can sound like ska.
So sayeth Wikipedia, anyhow.
It sounds thus:
UK Funky Volume 1: An Introduction mixed by DJ OneDrop
From The MashUp Show via seen (by way of Gutta or Doppelganger, can’t remember which).
Posted in Genre Rider, Hearings, TapeDeck
Tagged 2 Step, DJ OneDrop, UK Funky, UK Garage
Graham hath spake: the BadMovieClub is go, and it shall start with The Happening!
Posted in Events & Happenings, The Pictures, Watchings
Tagged BadMovieClub, Glinner, Graham Linehan, Twitter
A fancy-pants menu from the restaurant that is the location for Peter Greenaway’s The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover:
Le Hollandais
TUESDAY
LES SPECIALITÉ DE JOUR [sic]
It’s all a bit too fuzzy to read, sorry 
The cassette coked-up dealer Rahad Jackson (Alfred Molina) is playing when Dirk, Reed and Todd come over to rip him off in Boogie Nights:
MY AWESOME MiX TAPE #6
Posted in Framed Documents, The Pictures
Tagged Alfred Molina, Boogie Nights, Rahad Jackson
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