Just a note to ask if anyone has a copy of the I’ll Be Your Dog edition of DANNY V2 that they no longer want.
As is the way of all things human, since we announced we only had one copy of the Dog left there has been a steady stream of people looking for it. We sold the last copy on the day the newsletter went out, and we have none in stock now so we can’t help.
We have two (or three?) people now who have done the rounds and been unable to turn a copy up anywhere, so if you have one, or know of one, you, or someone else, no longer wants, then please leave a comment on here or write to Max at poisonpixieltd@btinternet.com and we can marry you up with a poor sad reader looking to buy one.
I have been in hospital for 6 (miserable) days and am now 10 days behind on my edit of 2:3, but I’m back on the job, being too bloody sore to even put a hairband on, never mind move about.
I am, hopefully, going for a MRCP (an MRI scan for gallbladder) on the 6th of December, which should identify where any trapped stones are. After that, if they find said stones, I will be having an ERCP (it’s all CPs here) to whip the cunts out. This is done with a hot wire down my throat while I am still awake – I kid you not.
Feel less than thrilled by that, but it will beat hobbling like an old woman and throwing bi-monthly fits that resemble something out The Exorcist – right down to the projectile green vomiting (the new feature of my latest attack – that was fun).
So, please let us know if you have a spare Dog, and I’ll try my best to live long enough to get 2:3 out on schedule.
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Glad to hear your out of the clinic, must have been horrible. I hate having to stay in hospital and that wire does not sound nice.
I went to see a film called Snowtown about an australian serial killer, it was very good. Brutal and realistic, nearly everyone in the cinema walked out, also it had that very dark, blacker than black comedy running through it, like The Ordeal.
Also saw Resistance, after WW2 and the germans have won, a small group of them move into a welsh village where all the men have left and one of the nazi’s gets obsessed with a farmers wife. That was slow but they had some good moments of tension together.
I’ve also seen the new Twilight, it was funny in a bad way. If you ever watch it, keep an eye open for the wolf baby love, the likes of which they did not manage to explain away the wrongness of. Also there’s a scene where to wolves speak to each other which may be the worse piece of cinema I have ever seen.
I’ve got some good stuff coming for christmas to send onto you, hopefully take you minds of the evil stones from hell. Hope you feel better soon.
P.S. No ones having my dog.
P.P.S. Please excuse spelling, had to write this on my phone.
I am indeed out of the hospital, but not out of the (horrible, thorny, nightmare) woods. Unfortunately, as the 2nd attack was worse than the first, it’s left me in more pain and more fragile. Worse than that, it’s left me anxious, neurotic and paranoid. I watch every twinge and burp for signs of a full-blown attack. I’ve turned into a Victorian invalid overnight. By some bizarre coincidence I started reading David Copperfield just before I had the attack, so I’ve been steeped in his world throughout the illness. But I’d fit right in there now; eccentric, sick and slightly mad with pain.
Resistance was one of the films I liked the look of. I shall be hiring that when it surfaces. Recently I’ve seen The Resident (well acted, atmospheric and with John 2 in it [Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Bardem being John 1]), but unfortunately the script was SO fucking dull. Nul points. I’ve also seen Hereafter - too angel-fairies in the garden, isn’t-London-just-precious for me. Not quite nul points, but not good either. Bad Teacher - a bit disappointing, although I’m not at all sure why. Water For Elephants - spoiled by a cardboard cut-out OTT villain, but enjoyable. The first disc of Justified (about 6 episodes). I was deeply disappointed in that. I’d been going to buy it for Xmas and, fortunately, it got too expensive, so I skipped it. We got a hire library subscription again, so I watched disc 1 from that. Glad I didn’t buy it. It’s okay, but just a police procedural in a hat, really. Bit like True Blood means CSI. Certainly not the cutting edge TV I’d been led to expect. I think it’s suffering from fanboys-love-to-wank-over-Elmore-Leonard-because-he’s-a-legend syndrome.
By far the best thing I’ve seen recently is The Beaver. Have you seen it? If not, you should. It’s really Donnie Darko for middle-aged men, but without the stylistics. Jodie Foster made it and it has a brilliant central performance form Mel Gibson. It’s a real slow-burner and very, very unusual. Recommend it.
Out of your stuff, See No Evil had a great atmosphere and performances, but, oh Christ, how annoying was that fucking old, OLD chestnut, Brady is just nuts; it’s Hindley who was evil? Sexist bilge. Pisses me off. Also, the same old shit of no back-story showing even the vaguest reason in hell for them to be so nuts. Nothing on Brady at all (understandable since he’s tight-lipped about his background, but, seriously, can’t writers make shit up? Why employ one if they can’t at least conjecture?). As for Myra, she was shown to have a grumpy dad. Grumpy? That’s it, your reason for serial killing is grumpiness? Oh spare me. Shame, because it could have been great.
Lourdes seemed pointless, but I did find it strangely compelling. I made the mistake of watching the DVD extras and listening to the director. She was fucking mad, waffling for hours about God only knows what, and she kept doing strange sound effects. Afterwards, I was more confused than when I started. Still, it was strangley enjoyable. The film I mean, not her mad French art ramblings.
The Martina Cole thing started out great in the first episode. Really dark and dramatic with some very unusual touches. I watched it in the dead of night in a darkened ward (being the only fucker up), lying flat on my back, watching it on my chest, on a tiny screen with headphones on my bought-so-I-don’t go-mad-portable-dvd-player. Loved it. But somewhere after that (maybe episode 3? - I really couldn’t pinpoint it), it went seriously adrift. By the end I disliked both protagonists, who seemed to have become strangely boring self-interested little farts. Didn’t like Cumming’s ridiculous panto dame at all. And the lead male really failed for me, particularly vis a vis his relationship with the heroine. He never seemed that bothered about her. Ever. He was singularly passionless. And yet, there were obvious WH parallels (Cathy? Seriously?). I really feel he let it down, but I’d be prepared to accept it might have been bad scripting. Certainly when you compare his hero to the hero of Danerous Lady there is no comparison.
But like I’ve said to you before, Cole isn”t actually a good writer, in my experience, so the failure could be hers. Terrible shame since the lead actress was very good, and it was a great plot, and right up to the pervy kid’s home creep it was doing fine. But after we got to panto dame land, and that awful selfish and somehow DULL hero. Nul points all over again. Curses.
Have you cracked into The Wire 3 & 4 yet? They’re good, with some real shocks - one of which REALLY pissed me off. My least favourite series is 2, which I didn’t like at all, but I am prepared to admit that may be because we lost the Barksdale/Bell storyline. Now that I know that happens I may like it better on further viewings. Can’t see it though, if I’m honest. I’ve always hated the hanging on doggedly to something that’s dead idiocy - even as a kid. It frustrated me then and annoys me now. Max liked it. But my favourites are 1, 3 and 4, with 5 being good but not great. I can send that up if you want to see it. Let me know.
Can’t wait to see your new/Xmas goodies. I’ve bought House 7 (you really do need to watch that you know. You’d love him, honest.) The Good Wife and the new Upstairs Downstairs. Got some Amazon Vouchers coming so I’ll be getting more goodies with that in the new year.
Off to the hospital tomorrow to have an MRCP done (an MRI for gllbaldder), so say your prayers for me that it turns out well. Night.
P.S. 1. Going to watch the trailer for Snowtown.
2. I shall some day no doubt see said Twilight, but will not be running towards it with open arms.
3. No, no-one else is parting with their dogs either. One of the poor deprived souls gave up and bought the set of the new edition instead. I was worried it was a book collector, but they appear to be a (discerning) and bona fide reader, so that cheered me up.
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I hope everything with the hospital went ok, has the pain gotten better?
I saw the Resident the other week, I liked it and agree entirely with the John comparison. Love it when he’s on the floor under her bed licking her fingers, freaky and obsessive, and right up my street. I did get a bit bored of the bits without the nearly John and started fast forwarding it towards the end. I’ve seen Bad Teacher, I actually quite liked that one, but didn’t expect to because I fucking, fucking hate Cameron Dias, and for once I didn’t want to peel my skin off and suffocate her with it. Also Justin Timberlake dry humping someone will always be good in my eyes. If you get a chance watch Just Friends, I thought that was a good general film. I’ve not seen Beaver, I saw the trailer and thought it would be interesting but didn’t get round to seeing it.
TV break, new series of This is England 88, I’m so excited about this. I shall return…
How can you NOT have seen Beaver? Go out now and mug an old lady for a copy. Easily the best film of the year and Mel’s best performance since Man Without A face. Know what you’re saying about Cameron Diaz, though, I find her kind of icky as well, but it works to her advantage in Vanilla Sky - one of the best creepy portrayals in film ever.
Ha, I shall make a trip to blockbuster and be sure to punch an old lady on the way, I’m excited to see it now. Vanila Sky was such a strange film, it was one of them where I though, what the hell was that about and then its never left my head. Also I have the Jarod Leto film you mentioned coming for Christmas, its quite expensive so I got someone else to buy it for me, I’m looking forward to that one.
Punch one with a shopping trolley, they’re the worst!
I haven’t seen See No Evil for while I’m going to watch it when it comes back, I read about Myra Hindley though and she was meant to have been beaten by her family, so I don’t know why they’ve made out nothing happened. It’s weird though, you’d think it would take much more than that, but you never know what’s not been said. The part that I found interesting was Ian Brady, from what I read nothing really happened to him. His mother gave him to a family to raise him and they were nice. His mother didn’t tell him who she was until years later, but he wasn’t abused. I wouldn’t think abandonment issues would create a man who tortured and killed children. But he is was committed, he may have born mental. I’ve read some article he wrote when in prison as well, he was so articulate, he’s never asked for release as well, never contested anything just campaigned for his death. He wrote about Myra Hindley, he said she was something I can’t remember the word for but it meant she changed her personality to be whoever she was speaking to wanted her to be. He said with her she’d been a monster, with Lord Longford she was a god fearing, reformed character, with the woman prison guard she was a lesbian. He said she became the person she was required to be, I can’t remember the word, so it may have been more that reason than her upbringing.
I agree about The Runaway, I loved the first episode but it tailed off, the boy didn’t seem to care, he didn’t try to find her and she was meant to be his big love, I watched the first episode a few times when I first saw it but then it fizzled out and I haven’t seen the last episode yet. Towards the end I preferred the obsessive policeman to the main character. I didn’t even notice the Wuthering Heights crossovers, I’m not the best at noticing parallels in fiction, I never caught on when I did Film Studies. Everyone would be talking about how the director was making reference to this or mirroring the other and I would sit there blank faced. Now you say it though I can see what you means, but I think the male character is more Kathy, when he loses his lover he makes do with what he’s got, whereas Cathy (who is heathcliffe, this is confusing) doesn’t rest until she finds him, then turns bitter.
I’m going to get into The Wire over Christmas, I did like the first 2 series but I think its in the same vein as True Blood and Boardwalk Empire, some parts of it are amazing and I can’t wait to find out what happens next, then some parts are boring and drag on.
I’ll look forward to your Amazon purchases, ooh I also have The Skin I Live In on pre-order, I think I told you about it, it was really interesting.
I hope everything went well at the hospital and you’re feeling better.
Yeah, Myra herself mentions the ‘beatings’ in passing, in See No Evil, but it’s done very casually and really sounds rather more like the ‘leatherings’ that were traditional in that era. Child abuse, yes (although socially accepted), but enough to make a serial killer? I don’t think so. As for Ian Brady - I don’t believe a word of it. I don’t believe the family that reared him were ‘nice’ and I don’t believe he wasn’t abused. UNLESS, and it’s a big unless, there is something physically wrong with his head. You would have thought he’d have been tested for that - after all, he was diagnosed as criminally insane and sent to Broadmoor - so they surely tested his brain fucntioning to make sure it was lighting up like it ought to. If he was an ordinary citizen, they couldn’t oblige him to have tests, but a criminal, certified, they could test him to hell and back, I’d have thought.
He is, of course, very anti-authority and quite capable of not complying with anything they throw at him, but I still feel if there was something wrong with his brain it would have shown up somehow, somewhere. Also, the things he did were very traditional. I mean, he didn’t think he was Jesus who was nailing his victims to crosses to save their souls. That’s the sort of thing that might indicate trauma, missing frontal lobe or some such. But he was such a stereotyped serial killer, right down to having a doting accolyte he could bully. Picking on kids cause they couldn’t fight back. Even reading de Sade and Nietsche (that is so not spelt right - can’t be bothered looking it up. I’m writing this with a red-hot hot water bottle at my back, trying to fend off a gallbaldder attack, but it’s failing, so forgive me.) It’s all copy-book ‘my mother used to fuck me with an egg whisk and pulled my nails out instead of cutting them’ kind of behaviour. The man was abused. Very badly. By someone. I’d stake my life on it.
Watched the first part of the Deathly Hallows Potter (I think? I have got the last fim here, haven’t I?), but just found it confusing. I had no idea what was happening half the time. Of course, we did have our neighbour’s cat staying for Xmas, and it was her first night, so she was howling round the house and we had to keep turning it off to see to her pain and loss, or at least stand a chance of knowing what was being said. So it was all fractured up - I’m sure that didn’t help.
Also saw Beastly last night. That one was a missed opportunity. Started out great, with him as a smug cunt, adn a really good turn from an Olsen twin as a spooky witch (those girls have seriously strange faces, and they don’t eat, which adds to their weirdness), but it got all bogged down in the middle with them playing it as a teen romance and some very strange plotting re her father. Shame, it could have been really good. Of course, they couldn’t run the risk of making him really ugly, so they made him interestingly tattooed. While that looked great, it made it impossible to believe a) that anyone would stare at him if he went out or b) that he was in any shape, manner or form genuinely disfigured, or in any way a ‘beast’. Ah well.
Right, got to get on with my editing. Time is fleeting and gallstones wait for no man…….