Here for your listening pleasure is Blue Azure's rather marvelous monthly music show featuring (around the halfway mark) my weird and wonderful mix of Euro-centric cinema soundtracks. Was a pleasure to do and bizarrely the first time we've ever collaborated on something (outside stop-motion movies as kids) in 48 (!) years of friendship. And yes he's correct when he says I probably know the exact date we met. And for anyone interested, here's the tracklist 1. G. Lolli – Chiaroscuro (Chiaroscuro) 2. Riz Ortolani - Shake The Disco (Cosi Dolce...Cosi Perversa) 3. Sigi Schwab, Manfred Hübler - The Lions And The Cucumber (Vampyros Lesbos) 4. Stelvio Cipriani - La Polizia Sta A Guardare (Theme) 5. Bruno Nicolai - La Coda Dello Scorpione (Seq. 1) 6. Goblin - Profondo Rosso Theme 7. Riz Ortolani - Beat Fuga Shake (Tiffany Memorandum) 8. Giuliano Sorgini - Manchester M2 GLD (The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue) 9. Stelvio Cipriani – Bay of Blood (Theme...
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Smiling At Strangers.
Blatant self publicity alert! Just to let you know that I'll be joining Blue Azure on Totally Wired Radio this Saturday evening ( 8pm till 10pm) where I'll be unleashing the weirdest and most wonderful mix of Euro-centric cinema soundtracks on an unsuspecting public. You have been warned!
The Gi(f)t That Keeps On Giving.
‘Her baby in her placenta’. 'Circumcision causes Autism'. 'Paracetamol!' 'Something, something wrestling bears'. Thank you my American cousins for giving us the gravel-throated comedy genius that is RFK jr.
Autistic Mindset Movie Annoyances (Part 1).
A few (oh so slightly pedantic) Autistic mindset movie annoyances to break up the usual grumpy posts. Enjoy safe in the knowledge that your brain doesn't work like this. In the movie Kiss Me Deadly a doomed female hitchhiker drags PI Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, murder and suspense as he tries to uncover the secrets of a mysterious package. All well and good but at no point in the film are kisses shown to be lethal. The movie is called Seven Samurai but only six of them are actually samurai. 13 Assassins - They're not assassins but actually samurai (oh yeah and a crazy bloke who lives in a forest). Star Trek III: The Search For Spock - They don't have to search for him, they know his body is on the Genesis planet. Alien Resurrection - It's not the aliens that are resurrected but Ripley (and they get Fu...
Is it just me...
...or is the FaceBook ad for 'Autism Detect UK' really sinister? I mean do you get a reward if you 'out' us to the relevant authorities?
Breakfast?
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” Born on this day in 1924, my favourite author, Cassidy's namesake (and my height twin) Truman Capote. Let's forget all the shite going down in the world and celebrate today with a 'special orange drink' and a good old bitching sesh!