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Posted by FCS on 11/08/06 04:08
But, yeah, while I'm here, wassface? Barkeep from
the Duke of York? Next time you're in laughing down
your nose at me running around as a menial to make
ends meet consider this:
Bars runs on regular rosters and the new minimum
wage and contractual regulations were in force, so
far as I remember, when they did him.
He walked to and from between a regular residence
and a regular workplace working regular hours.
With the role of benefits in the gang's lifes, despite
their representatives presenting them as random,
violent and ignorant I can't help feeling she knew
damn well who he was before she went in.
My guess is she fancies the bomber.
But, oops, that's not funny and it suggests that not
only is justice blind but it never learnt to talk or listen
properly as a result.
The funny stuff is below. Or above. I'm not interested
in comedy. That is really not sour grapes--if you doubt
it come talk to me again. I'm not interested in doing
comedy like that. I have warmed audiences up to a
guffaw level of uncontrollable mirth off the cuff.
Justice was not served WRT the Duke of York. And that
isn't funny. And had you noticed? No-one else seems to
have said aught if they did happen to notice...
Too many fucking nobheads round to bait and defame
and they're such very very nice people and they work
so very very hard. Perhaps you should do the 12-step
AP way to the press aeon?
G Daeb
COPYRIGHT (C) 2006 SIPSTON
FCS wrote:
> This post uses a rating system, thus:
>
> 1/5 - poor
> 2/5 - alright
> 3/5 - OK
> 4/5 - might rent for a family occasion where everyone gets to choose a
> film and non-participation is frowned upon
> 5/5 - actually watched this and more than once without feeling I'd
> rather be reading a book/playing backgammon/preparing tinned
> salmon/extracting my own toenails with molegrips and cauterising the
> wounds.
>
> shaun of the dead - 2/5
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> I'm sure you'll consider I should feel I've missed out if you're still
> riding your own ego bareback like you were. But you brought me no
> samples of your work, and left me contact details, not even of an
> agent. Otherwise, apart from the fact I have a strong urge to kick
> their lying teeth down their throat, whoever sent you in my direction
> quite clearly had no idea of my sense of humour or aspiration. I could
> with knowing who that was as, albeit I can promise I've been a pacifist
> since before "Spaced" aired, it may be I could do with getting them
> into a courtroom.
>
> Otherwise, having seen your work but, in it, little more than a glimmer
> of reasonable competence and certainly no signs of brilliance or genius
> I can only say: we would not get on.
>
> This is not a matter of one of those abrasive relationships from which
> truly great, precise, studied writing is born. Even if there'd been a
> financial penalty I'd've probably walked out. I can only say I have the
> same kinds of regrets at not jumping at the chance you thought you were
> giving as I have at not being actively bisexual. If I believed all the
> hype I might but the evidence my own eyes give me suggest it's really
> neither here nor there.
>
> Now despite various people having tried to get to get me to watch this
> particular film in the kinds of atmosphere containing a veiled threat
> of violence if I don't laugh with everyone else, and any non-amusement
> signs showing triggering an explicit shot-by-shot recapitulation heavy
> in pronouns, reinforcers and onomatopoeia, such as one finds in the
> avergae primary playground when a film's on after half the kids'
> bedtimes, I managed to put it off until a point in time when there
> really was absolutely nothing else I could reasonably have been doing.
>
> Once you've learnt to pack in the laughs slightly more densely than a
> level-three Cantor dust across the duration of a film, you might be
> alright. It kind of played like a few good rejected snippets from your
> early days worked into a crochet-mat of turgid typecasting and which
> you then tried to pass off as a tapestry.
>
> Obviously I'm not a populist by any means. I find contemporary Britain
> both ignorant and violent past any level I can reasonably laugh or
> shrug off--which you quite clearly can. As such, I can only say that
> whoever sent you my way in the first place was probably taking the piss
> out of both of us.
>
> If you left me no samples because you were afraid I'd rip off your
> intellectual property we might both have a case for slander against
> them.
>
> In short, I dislike Clive Barker because Weaveworld is full of Catholic
> imagery which makes no sense whatsoever to me; the Books of Blood were
> OK. But I still found Hellraiser funnier than Shaun of the Dead.
>
> I hadn't recognised you until after I'd watched it. All I can say is
> that your attention was, is and will remain both unsolicited and
> unwanted; so don't go spending the repeat fees for "Spaced" before
> you've both consulted a lawyer and have some idea of just how unwelcome
> bits of it were.
>
> Otherwise I should really get back to your Playstation if I were you:
> having, in the meantime, driven around London and its boroughs, which
> is where I took "Shaun" to be set, I wouldn't use the same casting
> agency again if I were you.
>
> I agree it would be nice to get away from the kind of misty-eyed
> romanticism that nods to the atrocities of Imperial Colonialism as an
> apologia but doesn't given aught like a true picture of the
> way some people carried on, but Shaun wasn't the way to go in my
> opinion.
>
> As I say, it should be quite clear I'm not a populist (and, after all,
> who has the box office receipts to wave around at Chinawhites? Er, not
> me) and I can also say there was no really no need to be offended by my
> rejection of your advances. We would not get on. End of story.
>
> It's not that it's you that co-wrote it; I don't want to give you that
> idea. It's just if this is where you wanted to end up you weren't ever
> going to get there working with me. I hope you're now grown-up enough
> to accept that.
>
> I just prefer material that doesn't rely on the audience having the
> mnemonic capacity of a tiger barb and I'd be no good for the popular
> culture side of it because I'm into cannabis rather than "drugs".
>
> I get more laughs out of the teatime news than I had out of Shaun of
> the Dead.
>
> But, please, do enjoy your acclaim while it lasts.
>
> Don't worry =) I didn't like Hitchikers Guide either: Arthur hadn't
> enough teeth, Zaphod hadn't enough heads, Trillian hadn't enough
> appeal, Slartibartfarst hadn't enough gravity and Marvin hadn't enough
> despondency.
>
> G Daeb
>
> COPYRIGHT (C) 2006 SIPSTON
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