Odd mix of things in the post today.
Evelyn Waugh's Diaries (very strange and repellent man, great author). Married a woman named Evelyn. It didn't work out.
Donna White's A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature (£50 second-hand: I'm a moron)
Pohl and Kornbluth's corporate dystopia Gladiator-at-Law in a beautiful 1965 Science Fiction Book Club hardcover edition with dustjacket
and the Christian Slater movie Pump Up The Volume. It rocks.
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Pump Up The Volume? I loved that movie! Great soundtrack, especially the Pixies' UK Surf mix of Wave of Mutilation... ah, the memories!
I was having a conversation in work the other day about those movies that defined the 90s with their soundtracks. The one that came to mind was The Chase: Charlie Sheen (pre-socially-networked-breakdown) and Kirsty "original Buffy" Swanson played the lead roles, but the show was stolen by Henry Rollins and Flea as the cops who chase them down, while being filmed by a COPS camera crew. Makes me feel like I'm 18 again! (Of course, I haven't seen it since around then either, so please don't judge me too harshly if, in fact, it's utter shite on re-watching it as a grown-up!)
Never heard of it!
IMDB is your friend.
I never said it was intellectually stimulating... but it was good fun and had a mighty soundtrack: Suede, the Offspring, the Rollins Band...
I am a sucker for Britpop on American movies.
OK - I watched it tonight, hoping to find that it was a long overlooked, almost forgotten classic - but in fact it was pretty shite. Sorry if you've gone out of your way to track down a copy at XtraVision or something.
Flea plays a small cameo with Antony Kiedis, not the sidekick cop. I remembered that wrong. I got Henry Rollins right though - he is the funniest thing about the whole movie and has all the best lines...
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Luckily, I hadn't rushed out to buy a copy.
How was Paddy's day in Utah?
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