Vile Families.

Transparent

Judith Light singing hand in my pocket?  Whats not to love.

This is a gentle show, beautifully filmed with gut punching moments of hilarity and anguish which pepper the unfolding relationships of a dysfunctional family.

All three grown children are despicable and completely self involved but they are mesmerising in their naked vileness.

Me? Well, I'm just a backroom boy.

So the Americans have adapted a much loved show of mine.  House of Cards.  They threw Kevin Spacey in there which sealed the deal for me.

I hoped for wry comments to the camera, discreet confidences just between the two of us that would compel me to accompany him as the tale moves from an amusing political fantasy to something altogether darker. So far I have not been disappointed.

Of course Spacey is utterly hammy but so was the malevolent Francis Urquaht, we should hate these characters, but you can't.  You watch the tale unfold, so chillingly possible, so wicked and cunning it could be said it's a modern day Macbeth.  Well, as Francis would say, you might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

Revenge

So it's been a while.

I'm stuck in a world of Revenge currently. Not directed at anyone, there is no one in my life that I would waste so much energy on.

No, no the Revenge I am tangled up in is the most vile tripe I've ever seen on TV.  That said, like a heroin addict, I'm hooked, disgusted with myself but unable to function without a dose of cheap TV.

I am not the demographic that this show is aimed at.  The cast are all young,  incredibly attractive and independently wealthy.  Obviously this is aimed at a younger generation still wishing to obtain this life style... I already have all of the above.  What? don't believe me?  Then I shall have the butler release the hounds.

My main obsession is watching Victoria, the Queen of the show whose sultry ways have captured me.  Apart from her walking around with a tea cup..Come on America...that is not what us posh folks do...she has neither stepped nor had a hair out of place. She's vile, like all good villains, an older female and attractive. This pleases me greatly.

Now its basically Dallas at the Hamptons but as I sit waiting for American Horror Story to come back with my beloved Jessica Lange I'll fool around with this little show.

Course I'll need a course of anti biotic's when it's all over.

Today I'm gonna party likes it's my birthday!

cause it is.

I am finding it hard to stay awake in the heat, perhaps a little afternoon partaking of booze is also affecting my alertness. So I can't comment on The dead, John Houston's last film, as I have only watched the first fifteen minutes three times. 

I've spent the day sending text messages to my friend who's currently stuck on an insufferable blind date. For which party the suffering is happening I couldn't possibly say.

Hello Ms XXXX this is an automated message from your health clinic please make a non urgent appointment to see your mental health care worker ASAP.

I have been watching Girls.  Lena Dunham writes, directs and heads up the cast in a HBO comedy watching a group of girls in their twenties.

I see your face.

It's not SITC.  

It is a smart, funny, incredible well observed portrayal of youth.

The awkward moments and destructive relationships Lena puts her characters in remind me of some of the best Woody Allen Movies.  

She also wrote, directed and starred in Tiny furniture, a film in which her real life mother and sister play her fictional mother and sister. Lena's character returns to the family home after college unsure of what to do with her life and with the inexperience of youth falls back into her child like behaviour.  However her mother and sister have moved within the family structure leaving Lena's  character  wading through the reality of life on her own.

A favourite scene for me is where Lena's character is berating her mother,who clearly is wishing her offspring would move on with her life, and a fatigued Lena's mother wearily asks  'Do you actually like living here?  This line sums up the shifting mother and growing daughter role for me. 

Lena creates rounded, and at times hilarious, roles for each character.  I'm not sure at 24 I was so self aware or indeed had enough thought to understand most of my peers actions let alone those of my siblings or parents.  

I'm a little bit in love with Lena.

Marwencol 2010

Marwencol. On April 8, 2000 Mark Hogancamp was leaving a bar when he was attacked and almost beaten to death.  He has no memory of the attack or his prior life. This documentary focuses on the present where we meet a solemn and intelligent man who is caught up in 'Hogancamp'  a tiny fictional world where Mark is finding a manner in which to deal with his trauma. It's hard to describe what makes this film so special, it is a quiet, tenderly beautiful story of a man who stepped back from the edge of a near-fatal incident and creates his own therapy through art. The photos he takes of his tiny town are crisp and beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vNKPEp6aEqQ

About!

Moi? I'm a fabulous Glaswegian on the loose. 


I'd love to scatter this with accolades of my amazing academia in the world of film and TV, I have none.  However I have watched more films and TV than the average Joe and posses a degree in IT and computing, not full computing note,  as that involved maths beyond the skills of a normal person. 


When I say normal I mean someone with a drinking habit.  


As pointless as my degree was and continues to be it allowed me to gain access to the world of TV and indie films through skulduggery and pirate ways..


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