The opera scene in Dangerous Liaisons has new significance in 2022:
Shame and humiliation, er, what's that? The Glenn Close character would claim herself the victim, for sure
The time I met @PublicEnemyFTP in McDonald’s on Shepherds Bush Green in 87! We’d just seen them playing a Def Jam gig so went in & said hello & the next thing I know we’re rapping with them & Professor Griff is beatboxing! The restaurant manager wasn’t so keen & kicked us out! 🤣
@tweetyceline Couldn’t see these mentioned. Not got time for ten, but:
L’enfant
In Fabric (or anything by Peter Strickland)
Babette’s Feast
Chi-raq
Prevenge
@EmmaKennedy The torpedo job they’re doing on PM is astonishing… also largely immaterial as the Conservative political class is in such a parlous state.
BJ could bluster past it with lies, half-truths and (what the press like to call) personality. Not likely to work for anyone else.
Still cannot get my head round the fact humanity is on the verge of destabilising the planet and there are hundreds of media punters telling us not to worry about it. It's proper end of days stuff if a society cannot accept scientific facts that have been understood for decades
To answer the “it’s summer!” brigade
40C is NOT normal for the UK
25C by night is NOT normal
UK infrastructure’s not built for it
Heatwaves are among the most dangerous of natural hazards
Heat records are becoming more frequent
7 out of 10 hottest UK days have been since 2003
The Fall - Hit The North https://t.co/5CpuB8sCBp
Morning Sweet People,
Mark E Smith on voices , & Brix Smith on the Rickenbacker & Sewing Machine , HaHa, It's boss , excellent & bloody great, Off back to bed , Toodelou for , now-Edwyn