- especially since they usually prefaced a question on English Literature. Of which more later.
No, what I'd like to do is review BOOJUM! as it was a year ago and two years ago.
Why? Why not!*
BOOJUM! 2014 Vintage
One Of Life's Un-noticed Segues
A "Segue" is a transition with no break between scenes in a film or pieces of music. One example would be the projections slowly coming to life onstage during Roger Water's live tour, or how you move from adolescence to teenager to middle-aged old man with white hair***.
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Anyway, Conrad was listening to Kasabian on his i-pod, "48:13" to be accurate, when he realised that this particular track was quite a departure - no lyrics, and very quick beat, and all electronic; what was going on? Kasabian were trying for the dance audience?
Well, he'd gone past Kasabian and was onto "Kruder and Dorfmeister", who are indeed electronic dance artists, so that much made sense.
Again, if Conrad had time he'd draw out some long pseudy analogy, but he's still too idle and frankly lacks the poetry and insight for <Mister Hand again intervenes to prevent a long, unfunny post with no punchline>
Oh, the *** was *** Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Well, there you are, a whole lot of nonsense about very little, a model we still proudly follow here at the Mansion.
BOOJUM! 2013 Vintage
Anyway, the scene I like that embodies everything right about The Doctor is from "The Silurians". Our hero is poking about in a shady character's house, convinced that it hides a guilty secret, when he rounds a corner and runs directly into a six-foot***, reptilian biped with green scaly skin.
What does The Doctor do? Run screaming in fear? Pull out a ray-gun and start blasting? Turn the Silurian into an emerald pretzel with Venusian Aikido?
None of the above. Instead he goes to shake it's hand, in a universal gesture implying friendship and lack of malice - except someone else blunders into the situation and spoils it. Oh well it would have been a short series with a resolution that quick.
The old-school, non-sexy Silurian. Snogging one of these definitely not on the menu.
Notably absent in these posts - these are just extracts, I'm not going to punish you with the whole thing - is any harping on about Getting Hit With The Coincidence Hammer, so perhaps the Universe wasn't pushing a message back in those days.
Okay, that's a cheap and easy way to pad out the blog, except it's a valuable exercise in how it - okay, okay, it's cheap and easy padding. I notice that the 2015 vintage is a bit less prosy than it used to be, although Conrad still likes to use long words. Apparently, BOOJUM! can come across as elitist - what can one say, you're in good company. We also alloy the mix with a bit of low-brow culture now and then as follows ...
A Little Gerry Anderson Ergonomics
"WASP" - you must think this was a late descendent of "Wings Over the World" a.k.a. "WoW" from "The Shape of Things to Come".
Not so - it's "World Aqua Security Patrol", from the series "Stingray". Apparently in the future the world's oceans need patrolling - I'd love to see how international maritime law copes with this concept!
| The lawyers loved it |
| There's a sting in this tale ... |
Shakeshaft
I now come back to English Lit, as threatened. I don't think this is elitist, more a clumsy parody, and did I tell you how much I hated poetry? Studying it, anyway. Okay, seconds out, right uppercut pending, have at thee, varlet!
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth
It is, to have a thankless child."
Bill, old fruit, you speak the truth
But surely you raised teenagers wild?
These adolescents perpetually hit the roof
Their default emotional state is "riled"
Furthermore, should you need extra proof
Seek where'er these swine are domiciled.
Now, that is unusual, Conrad agreeing with the Swag of Avon. It didn't apply to Darling Daughter in her teen years. We still recall the day she said something nasty to Wonder Wifey.
A Gaping Great Plot Hole
This just occurred to me. In "Arachnophobia" we see the Julian Sands character, a world-class entemologist and
Gives the web a big twang.
BAM! He's instantly killed by - an angry bowl of sentient soup. No! He's killed by a GIANT KILLER SPIDER.
Who'd have seen that coming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXI_UJ6-Jlo
Since I don't seem to be able to screenshot it, there's a Youtube link, and you want it at 27:55 mins.
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| Giant killer spiders are scary. Here's a chocolate sundae instead |
Well, I had a lot more to scribe, but we're probably up to 850 words already <checks> ah, 894, and about 600 of those are not copied from old posting residuum***.
* And once again, whose blog is it?
** I'm not labouring the point too much, am I?
*** Yeah, that's me, sheer elitism.
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