Nothing important: just saw a wonderful snippet of an interview with Michael Caine from 1967: Peter Whitehead’s Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London. Michael: “You see, we don’t want to get drunk, or go out–what is properly known as–womanizing until 2:00 in the morning, what we want is the freedom to do so should we wish. We don’t want a lot of rules and regulations. To me, the pubs closing at 11:00 pm and more expensive clubs keeping open later is the most condescending piece of class consciousness I’ve ever heard. It’s to keep the workers out of the pub so they’re not drunk and up late for work in the morning–this was the original idea of it for the munitions factories of the first World War.” He then objects to mini skirts and such, while Whitehead gives us footage of him primping for the cameras. Great stuff.
Day: November 8, 2005
the high wanking men of wome
did we have a discussion already of hbo’s “rome”? well, it’s crap anyway, and the fact that i’ve watched all the episodes to date speaks only to the utter tedium that is my life. and now i’m posting about it. somebody help me. it is badly written, the performances are overly serious, and it has the worst opening credits sequence of all time. so, why do i watch? i mentioned the utter tedium thing; plus it is on hbo ondemand and watching it helps justify the price i pay for digital cable; and i’m a sucker for finding out how stories end (and damn you, whoever it was that got me into watching stupid “lost” as well!). i wait for jeff to tell me why i should like this more. and for notlaughing schmucko and angryrabbit to mock me–ach, i remember the halcyon days of this blog when we had commenters with real names (like lesbian anime girl).