Chimpanzee that!
I impulse bought The Beatles: Unseen Archives a few weeks ago, which has "over 200 photographs...never previously printed". I was hoping to find some gems, but there's a reason most of these never saw publication. They aren't terrible pictures, just a fair number of bad angles, half closed eyes, goofy faces. Lots of candid shots of smoking, eating, chatting, dancing, posing and being mobbed by reporters. Probably not worth the buy even if you're a diehard fan, since the text is just a rehash of the basic history of the band, and poorly written to boot. I was going to scan the few choice photos, but my scanner's fritzing so I'll talk about some other stuff from across the pond I'm digging lately:
Creature Comforts
BBC America
Still haven't seen the Wallace and Gromit movie yet, but I'm making up for it in adoration for this silly show. In case you don't remember the original short, which used to air on Nickelodeon all the time, it showcases interviews with ordinary British citizens which are then put into the mouths of claymation animals. It sounds goofy, and it is, but it is so wonderfully entertaining and watchable. My favorites are the dog and cat above, but I also love the horse with the Deniro impression.
JonnyB
JonnyB's private secret diary: Dispatches from the Norfolk Village Frontline
This is my new favorite greatest and most amusing blog ever. Just a guy blogging about British country life, it's very funny and utterly foreign (to me anyway), with it's cottages and pubs and village shops and rabbits in the garden and the like. Since there aren't any photos on the website, I am using Google's first image result for "Norfolk Villager".
Peter Jones
American Inventor
I never thought I'd be so into an American Idol clone, but here we are. Has reality TV really fallen so far? Where are the beauties, like The Mole, Joe Schmo Show, Mad Mad House? Being Bobby Brown better come back soon, because Flavor Flav can't do this by himself.
I kid. I actually think this show is great, if only because the stakes are so much higher for these inventors than "I came all the way from Houston to sing for y'all!". When the latest episode didn't get recorded I thought I was going to have an aneurysm. I can't stand listening to Simon Cowell for two minutes, but Peter Jones dressing down old ladies for having a go at him for making fun of their marvelous invention (it's just paper!) is an entirely different story.
Stephen Merchant
extras, The Office, The Ricky Gervais Show
Karl Pilkington's really the star of The Ricky Gervais Show, but it's Merchant who keeps everything on track. Hundreds of songs on my iPod and I can't stop listening to three guys arguing about monkeys.
Creature Comforts
BBC America
Still haven't seen the Wallace and Gromit movie yet, but I'm making up for it in adoration for this silly show. In case you don't remember the original short, which used to air on Nickelodeon all the time, it showcases interviews with ordinary British citizens which are then put into the mouths of claymation animals. It sounds goofy, and it is, but it is so wonderfully entertaining and watchable. My favorites are the dog and cat above, but I also love the horse with the Deniro impression.
JonnyB
JonnyB's private secret diary: Dispatches from the Norfolk Village Frontline
This is my new favorite greatest and most amusing blog ever. Just a guy blogging about British country life, it's very funny and utterly foreign (to me anyway), with it's cottages and pubs and village shops and rabbits in the garden and the like. Since there aren't any photos on the website, I am using Google's first image result for "Norfolk Villager".
Peter Jones
American Inventor
I never thought I'd be so into an American Idol clone, but here we are. Has reality TV really fallen so far? Where are the beauties, like The Mole, Joe Schmo Show, Mad Mad House? Being Bobby Brown better come back soon, because Flavor Flav can't do this by himself.
I kid. I actually think this show is great, if only because the stakes are so much higher for these inventors than "I came all the way from Houston to sing for y'all!". When the latest episode didn't get recorded I thought I was going to have an aneurysm. I can't stand listening to Simon Cowell for two minutes, but Peter Jones dressing down old ladies for having a go at him for making fun of their marvelous invention (it's just paper!) is an entirely different story.
Stephen Merchant
extras, The Office, The Ricky Gervais Show
Karl Pilkington's really the star of The Ricky Gervais Show, but it's Merchant who keeps everything on track. Hundreds of songs on my iPod and I can't stop listening to three guys arguing about monkeys.