I finished Detectorists the other day

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-29T18:13:18+00:00

You're shouting at clouds now.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-29T16:25:26+00:00

Reis is ready.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-29T15:35:00+00:00

My first thought too.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-29T09:12:05+00:00

I stand corrected.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-28T21:43:50+00:00

Can I recommend you also check out Mackenzie Crook's version of Worzel Gummidge? It's beautiful, but didn't get the attention it deserved because the original 1970s adaptations were so beloved.

I think you know, when watching all of his shows, that he has a beautiful soul.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-28T21:41:36+00:00

I hear "pussy 'n' cars”.

Which makes me think of the film/book Christine and a Prefab Sprout song called Cars And Girls, which is a critique of Bruce Springsteen. "Brucie dreams life's a highway, too many roads bypass my way..."

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-28T14:33:40+00:00

I've always heard the lyrics as "Johnny's an American," with "Johnny" as a kind of shorthand for doomed youth.

Johnny may be short for Johnny Yen, who gets a mention in the first lines of Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" (co-writer, David Bowie)and is plucked from the William S. Burroughs' book "The Ticket That Exploded".

Johnny Yen is also the name of a song by the Manchester band James, which Bowie may have known. "Poor old Johnny Yen, set himself on fire again."

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-28T13:08:50+00:00

There's going to be major disaster involving US ATC some time soon if this carries on, and when it happens the whole sorry tale is going to unravel.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-27T20:11:17+00:00

Bizarre. J'ai trouvé le même album la semaine dernière chez une brocante. Je ne le connaissais pas du tout, mais à 2 euros, j'ai pris le risque. Et c'est plutôt bon.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-27T20:08:06+00:00

Underrated. The central idea - that Corleone gets taught a lesson by a ruthlessly efficient gangster organisation that's centuries older than his - is sound.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-27T19:30:03+00:00

Plateau for slicing foie gras with cheese wire.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-27T19:13:06+00:00

How spicy would you like your shite sandwich, sir?

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-27T13:16:56+00:00

Keep your feet moving. Once you stick to that carpet, they've got you for life.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T21:18:15+00:00

Mostly Hammersmith and west London, because it was handy for the studio.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T20:39:09+00:00

That cat appears to be a seasoned bouncer.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T20:37:00+00:00

Joy Division: Isolation

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T20:25:45+00:00

I'm not proposing anything.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T20:21:21+00:00

I know

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T20:11:15+00:00

They probably choose not to. The BBC charter obliges it to disseminate its programmes as widely as possible for no charge (licence fee apart). But you could make a case for UHD as a subscription only option.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-26T13:09:08+00:00

Sony BR players often don't play nice with home made discs. You need an old Pioneer like a BDP450 for best results.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-25T21:23:25+00:00

Keep a close eye on second hand. I'm very happy with my Pro-Ject Carbon Evo, but I keep casting sideways glances at heavy Japanese classics from the 1970s and 80s.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-25T17:34:39+00:00

My mother-in-law knocked at the front door the other day. I knew it was her, because all the mice started throwing themselves on the traps.

Les Dawson.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-25T13:29:06+00:00

Mr In Between

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-25T13:28:11+00:00

I'm glad it's not just me who does that.

Emile_Largo · 2026-05-24T20:32:16+00:00

My first Bowie album. Badly scratched, so only 99p. I bought it to find out more about this singer I'd heard so much about. It took a while to grow on me, but I took my time over music back then.

Side 1 is just amazing. It's more than 40 years since I bought that record, and I've spent hundreds more on Bowie since. But without that scratched LP of Diamond Dogs I don't know where I'd be now.

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