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It’s the name of a chapter in Roland Barthes’s Mythologies. No tassels needed, just a minor grasp of literary criticism.
The first thing I thought when I saw this video was: “That’s an odd aspect ration.”
I hate myself.
i.e The sound effects guy from Police Academy has still got it. So much of it. Perhaps too much of it. He should certainly consider giving some of it away to more needy people. Seriously, this is fucking incredible.
I was on the tube today, on my way to interview Russell Kane, and look who I saw! Only the tiny-eyed shadow chancellor Ed Balls.
At first he was reading the FT, scowling through the pages, but he soon gave up and whipped out, best-selling, which-one-of-them-dies, rom-com-pitch-disguised-a-novel, One Day.
Although he also read this with same angry furrowed brow. Though I must say, he did have reassuringly shit shoes on.
Just some choice snaps from me and gf’s holiday to Portugal. This was my first time shooting with EOS 600D, and I really enjoyed it.
With my old Nikon I tended to stay in the same mode almost all the time, purely because changing the mode didn’t seem to really affect the end result. However, with the Canon, the difference is much more marked. Also the creative-auto mode is a fun addition, though probably not one for the purists, but certainly a nice feature for a mid-level entry DSLR.
Putting this feature together it made me glad that we live in a world where there are so many genres. Not just for variety’s sake, but because without them, we wouldn’t have the opportunity for these taste-shreddingly awesome cross-over covers would we?
And I think anyone who watches even three of these covers would agree with me.
A clip from the Today Programme about public schools pimping out snaps of their sexier A-level students.
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I want to know precisely the circumstances by which this video came about. Then I want to make a film of that story, with this playing during the credits.
Me and Soph flicked onto Sky Movies Comedy the other night, we had no idea what was on. MacGruber was on. It was amazingly funny. Not clever, just very funny — like Hots Shots 3 for the noughties, but with Kristen Wiig, being predictably awesome.
Yeah it’s almost a year old, but this is still one of the funniest things I’ve seen all this year. This, and those 10 seconds from MacGruber which features the line: “You think your shit don’t stink, well I’ve got news for you, it does stink, it stinks of shit.”
So Marcus du Sautoy’s Wonder of the Universe for Maths, The Code, finished last night. It was fine, and at points, really interesting, but I did notice that Marcus himself clearly isn’t completely sold on the whole “maths” thing.
He made this big song and dance about being able to predict the flight of this ball with maths alone, and fair enough, he did. However, he isn’t so convinced that it stops him lifting his feet to protect himself as the massive thing flies towards his smug little face on his deck chair.
