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Just found this while researching some forthcoming stuff. Quite hilarious if you're into that sort of thing. Never heard of the movie but if you follow the online survey you find out what breed of dog you would be. Apparently i'm an afghan hound - something to do with being tall, brooding and a bit stuck up!
Go to
http://gone2thedogs.com/index.html?/breeds.html
and click on the nice whippet at the bottom of the page.
I haven't heard much of the 'new' album from the Beatles. I hope I don't have to. It's incredible that such a shameless money-making scam can be dressed up as a wonderfully creative project. "It must be ok, the remaining two Beatles have given their blessing". I wonder why.
Grease Megamix Jive Bunny Beatles - Lap it up Ringo
Back in Brum on a customarily drizzly november afternoon and just met up with Kate Chapman to pin down the arrangements for the adaptation of 'Intimate History' which will go out as four fifteen-minute episodes on Radio 4 next year. It's all very exciting with various instrumentation (cello, vibes, percussion, accordion) being drafted in to embellish the grand piano. All of which is to be performed as live pretty much, quite a prospect.
I passed through the central library complex on the way to the meeting and remembered i was going to give a bit of bile to the poor excuse for a regeneration project that is the all new Paradise Forum. For those that have never been to Birmingham it's pretty much the centrepoint of the city, an indoor walkway that links cultural and retail quarters. It gets a massive amount of footfall as a result and as the billboards will tell you is undergoing a refurb and rebrand. Since the capital of culture fell through and the new library bombed, the brutalist library building that frames the forum seems to be staying. That in itself isn't a problem for me.
The galling thing is that in this case refurb and regeneration (Costing 2 million quid) seems to translate as giving the existing crap outlets - McDonalds, Wetherspoons, Baguette Du Monde (that's right, bread rolls of the world) larger and brighter advertising space. That's it. My question is this, is it only in the U.K. that our urban spaces are ruled by the highest bidder instead of the good of the community? Or are other countries equally adept at shitting on their immediate environment?