I've missed this drama but it could go either way. The lefties being offended that he's being transphobic, or whatever, or the right because he's going after Trump Almighty. I'll google it.
Edit. He's a racist. There you go!
Edit. He's a racist. There you go!
Quote from: Thorn on August 28, 2026, 05:53:38 PMFinished 'Dead Europe' (Christos Tsiolkas) the other day about a Australian guy of Greek descent who comes back on a photography trip, a lot of nightlife and drugtaking ensues and no small amount of graphic sex. An interesting look at the seedy underbelly of a decaying continent . Must have a look around for the movie of it.
I read it years ago and enjoyed it at the time, but the details are hazy.
Weren't there ghosts hovering in the background? Tsiolkas is an incredible writer- his sex scenes are graphic indeed, and that's just a feature of his writing. They can be challenging
I think I own all of his books at this stage. You should try The Slap, which was the first of his I read, an amazing drama about the fallout among a group of friends after an adult slaps someone else's child who is being a brat. Incredibly told piece of fiction. I have to revisit it because, again, it's been a good decade since I read it. Barracuda is another beaut. I was only thinking the other day he must have a new one on the way as it's been a couple of years since his last one, but whenever I see something new by him in the book shop, I dont bother looking around at anything else, I just grab it. Same with Ian McEwan. Some writers you just don't fuck around with!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 28, 2026, 10:15:04 PMWho is seeking to ban Ali G?
Hilarious isnt it. Next it'll be the Beatles because they took drugs.
Quote from: Barnacle Billy on August 28, 2026, 08:46:36 PMQuote from: leatherface on August 28, 2026, 08:34:05 PMIncredible how things change, if these people had seen Dennis Península or even the early Ali G stuff from beck in the day. Are these the nu-generation puritans?. What a boring grey world we are in now.Bring back the red triangle
Did you mean 'Dennis Pennis'..?
Yes, corrected
Quote from: leatherface on August 28, 2026, 08:34:05 PMIncredible how things change, if these people had seen Dennis Península or even the early Ali G stuff from beck in the day. Are these the nu-generation puritans?. What a boring grey world we are in now.Bring back the red triangle
Did you mean 'Dennis Pennis'..?
Incredible how things change, if these people had seen Dennis Pennis or even the early Ali G stuff from beck in the day. Are these the nu-generation puritans?. What a boring grey world we are in now.
Quote from: Barrytron on August 28, 2026, 04:42:12 PMHere Barry....QuoteGo on so, I'm surely missing a trick by misunderstanding why they should be so popular. Is there a particular tune that will make me appreciate their non generic chops?Big ZZ Top fan here - they are weird alright, a song might seem like nothing but you can't shift it out of your head for weeks. Like AC/DC for every great tune there is 10 also-rans. I think my fave era is Deguello (79). Try that - Cheap Sunglasses is great. So cool. They've a lot of great little tunes though. I love the Afterburner album as well, Planet of Women - what a tune
What's your take on the jump from the little bit of experimenting they did on El Loco {1981) to the huge sounds of Eliminator (1983)..?
Talk about "the Great Leap Forward"
Brilliant brilliant band...
The Afterburner (1985) tour of 1986 was the highest grossing tour of that year, and there was some stiff competition in the mid 80's....
A wee story on the ZZ druqs:
Beard struggled with addiction in the 1970s, claiming to have spent "every bit" of his money earned from ZZ Top's tours on drugs. Beard explains that he had different reasons for taking different drugs, saying "the pills thing came about just from the workload. And the heroin thing came about because I just liked it. I mean, you ever done heroin? It's great. It's a fucking vacation for the mind, and I liked it. I liked it a lot." Beard entered rehabilitation in the 1980s and was sober as of 2020.
Hill would "[occasionally] partake" in marijuana until one occasion in a hotel in Amsterdam, when Hill was smoking marijuana with guitar tech (and eventual replacement) Elwood Francis, who noticed that a metal bar was embedded into the window frame of the hotel room. Francis, seeing an opportunity for a prank, jumped out the window and (unbeknownst to Hill) grabbed onto the metal bar, making it appear that he had committed suicide. Hill apparently never smoked marijuana again after the incident.
Quote from: Emphyrio on August 28, 2026, 07:48:15 PMThe new Ali G movie is causing a furore already. Cinemas are being called to ban it.Cue him becoming a billionaire, ffs...