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  1. Johnny Barleycorn

    When will you die?

    Well, some would say, to use a favourite media phrase, he wasn’t a great husband or father, but that’s by the by. My point is that, leaving aside the cuddly warm bits, he became in that moment of tragedy much more, and viewed over a longer time period something he more likely than not would not...
  2. Johnny Barleycorn

    When will you die?

    “I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive...
  3. Johnny Barleycorn

    When will you die?

    A friend of mine was wont to say “When you’ve been dead for a thousand years you’ve only just begun.” I suppose if you look at things from that Ozymandias-like perspective you could argue Chapman sent Lennon both into eternity and also into legend and if he robbed the Beatle of anything it was...
  4. Johnny Barleycorn

    tell us about the last Film you saw

    I think I probably saw the film of the year last night. They Shall Not Grow Old is a digitally enhanced and colourised reconstruction of footage from World War I. The project was led by Peter Jackson and funded by amongst other organisations, the Imperial War Museum. It starts off in the...
  5. Johnny Barleycorn

    tell us about the last Film you saw

    There are several dramatisations about the 2008 financial crash, but Margin Call (2011) is clearly the best in my opinion. It stars Kevin Spacey (whatever happened to him?) and Zachary Quinto - without the pointy ears - but it is Jeremy Irons who steals the show as the boss of a fictionalised...
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    tell us about the last Film you saw

    Good choice. They have tried to remake that at least twice without (clearly) success. The film was adapted into a comic which I loved so much as a kid my Mum bought me both the novelisation and a cash-in sequel novel one Christmas. The latter book was full to the gunnels of highly explicit...
  7. Johnny Barleycorn

    What is currently your favorite television show(s)?

    I got to the end of Hill House and despite a mid-season lull (which come round very quickly these days) I thought over all it was pretty good. There were some great set piece scares. I wish modern horror movies could produce similarly jarring frights. One thing I wondered was Hill House...
  8. Johnny Barleycorn

    What is currently your favorite television show(s)?

    I’m watching The Arsenal versus the team our American cousins like to call Les-chester City. Fun fact: Arsenal was Osama Bin Laden’s favourite club. Until his timely death and being sent to sleep with the fishes Luca Brasi style Arsenal fans would sing the following to the tune of Volare...
  9. Johnny Barleycorn

    What is currently your favorite television show(s)?

    I agree on Billy Bob, but I have only ever seen him in three things, all brilliant. Another Coen Brothers thing called The Man Who Wasn’t There, which in my opinion is a masterpiece; a truly great film called A Simple Plan, and series one of Fargo, which I snaffled up and loved it so much I...
  10. Johnny Barleycorn

    What is currently your favorite television show(s)?

    I get my Fargo series deaths mixed up, but if you can’t see Billy Bob Thornton I recommend the first series with, well, Billy Bob Thornton and Tim out of The Office. The unnecessary quotient is again quite high though. David Thewlis as the revolting yet mesmerising VM Varga in series three is an...
  11. Johnny Barleycorn

    tell us about the last Film you saw

    You old softy, you.
  12. Johnny Barleycorn

    tell us about the last Film you saw

    Woodcraft Folk not known for their socialist activism, I assume? Edit: Oops. I stand corrected. How interesting. Were you ever attacked by Nazi terrorists?
  13. Johnny Barleycorn

    tell us about the last Film you saw

    I finally got around to seeing Hereditary, the horror film touted at time of release as a modern day equivalent of The Exorcist. It isn’t, but it’s a superior film of its genre by today standards. That sounds as if I’m damning it with faint praise, but there are genuinely chilling moments. Those...
  14. Johnny Barleycorn

    what to do with appr. 70 vinyl (60s+80s)?

    I stay with Apple because of the faff of learning Android and changing everything over. I’m sure there are Android users who feel the reverse. I haven’t upgraded for a while so I’m stuck on the 6s. None of the new ones excite me. Facial recognition? No thanks. I’m the only person I know who has...
  15. Johnny Barleycorn

    what to do with appr. 70 vinyl (60s+80s)?

    Not frightfully exciting, I’m afraid, somehow faintly suggesting my previous story was. It was a grim month late in the year 1990. Too awful for October, yet not quite carrying the depressing prospect of a family Christmas, so I’ll guess November. For some strange reason we decided to head off...
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    what to do with appr. 70 vinyl (60s+80s)?

    I’m not someone who fetishises vinyl in the way I used to. I can still appreciate the cover art but it makes sense to me that an intangible art form should now be intangible. Plus the new method of carrying thousands of songs and audiobooks and BBC drama and comedy in my pocket tickles my latent...
  17. Johnny Barleycorn

    what to do with appr. 70 vinyl (60s+80s)?

    It was shit. Joking. I lived in Swansea for a couple of years after University and I first heard it there. My ex-wife played it continually and, of course, sometimes a record will seep not just into your consciousness but become intertwined with a point in your life. I think I prefer...
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    what to do with appr. 70 vinyl (60s+80s)?

    That’s a terrific album. I associate it with Swansea. The answer, I would suggest, is to check on eBay to see what the albums you have are going for in good condition. That way at least you have some idea of potential value. Pro tip: Under no circumstances check the value of the albums you...
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    tell us about the last Film you saw

    Star Trek: Into Darkness is the second of the alternate timeline Trek reboots and its pretty good. I’ve seen it a few times now, but it looks even better after tasting the relatively thin gruel of Star Trek Discovery. The design of the characters and technology is certainly far superior. There’s...
  20. Johnny Barleycorn

    What is a devil's triangle?

    If you are genuinely suggesting an unsubstantiated accusation should be enough to destroy someone’s life you are describing a central tenet of every totalitarian regime in history. I’m particularly surprised to hear you put that forward with your record of sexual deviancy with horses. There. See...
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