Train of the Dead
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fingertroubleI've started work down in Twickenham so unfortunately have to brave The Train of the Dead - the Richmond Silverlink service - otherwise known by Kirk as the Ugly Train - which goes through such cultural highlights as Acton, Gunnersbury, Brondesbury and Willesden Junction. Let's just say you don't start conversations, or really want to find out if the other people on the train are human; just keep your nose wisely in a book.
Not snobbish, just true...weird human specimens inhabit that line, and I'd rather not find out whether they are zombie, daemon, vampire or werewolf. Actually the reality is far more depressing...
Just watched Shaun of the Dead again and it's still SUCH a great film! Simon Pegg also had a cameo in Land of the Dead (also watched that last week - noticing a thread here?) which was a Romero classic and had interviews about when Shaun Met George (if you remember the photo booth scene, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were those two zombies)
He will be in Mission Impossible 3 - ironic since I have actually sort of met Simon Pegg, behind me in a queue for Mission Impossible 2 with Kirk where I quite loudly said 'WHO?' when Kirk got all excited; being a massive Spaced fan...so from queing up to see the last one to actually starring in the next, it shows you his meteoric rise. And yes I DO know who he is now...
I seem to be on a zombie kick at the mo, well with the grey weather and Londoners as they are it's hard to tell zombies from the real thing...unless whales appear and then everyone gets all excited. Me and John were joking that it was George Galloway on his way to shell the HOuse of Parliament; or some terrorist in a whale suit. Sad how it ended tho.
Other thing I've just bought and finished The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin - VERY good and better and darker than Maybe the Moon - I'd heard there is a movie with Robin Williams so I had to go read the book before Mrs NanuNanu Doubtfire herself went in a messed up all the good writing and characterisations.
I'm sure it'll be a) terrible and b) have toned down all the gay sex and paedophilia and dark humour and shifted it into a morality play. Somehow I doubt Mr Williams has regained his acting 'chops' he had circa Fisher King / Dead Poets - I can see the casting call now. Ooh he's in his 50's, has a moustache like Armistead and played in Birdcage...SOLD!
It's a great book, not only dissecting an author's habit to embellish or put their own lives in it; but also growing old as a gay man in your 50's (do you actually need someone?); relationships with your father and partner breakdowns, I think but can't be sure there's a lot of Armistead in there (sly stuff like Gabriel Noone and his father having the same name; Jess his partner always sorting out his business for him and being political and defending him), but it doesn't matter if not as it hits home quite well. Does kind of beg the question whether he was approached by a Gavin Arviso type character? Who knows, and maybe we'll never know...
Parting question: Why no more Armistead novels?
Not snobbish, just true...weird human specimens inhabit that line, and I'd rather not find out whether they are zombie, daemon, vampire or werewolf. Actually the reality is far more depressing...
Just watched Shaun of the Dead again and it's still SUCH a great film! Simon Pegg also had a cameo in Land of the Dead (also watched that last week - noticing a thread here?) which was a Romero classic and had interviews about when Shaun Met George (if you remember the photo booth scene, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were those two zombies)
He will be in Mission Impossible 3 - ironic since I have actually sort of met Simon Pegg, behind me in a queue for Mission Impossible 2 with Kirk where I quite loudly said 'WHO?' when Kirk got all excited; being a massive Spaced fan...so from queing up to see the last one to actually starring in the next, it shows you his meteoric rise. And yes I DO know who he is now...
I seem to be on a zombie kick at the mo, well with the grey weather and Londoners as they are it's hard to tell zombies from the real thing...unless whales appear and then everyone gets all excited. Me and John were joking that it was George Galloway on his way to shell the HOuse of Parliament; or some terrorist in a whale suit. Sad how it ended tho.
Other thing I've just bought and finished The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin - VERY good and better and darker than Maybe the Moon - I'd heard there is a movie with Robin Williams so I had to go read the book before Mrs NanuNanu Doubtfire herself went in a messed up all the good writing and characterisations.
I'm sure it'll be a) terrible and b) have toned down all the gay sex and paedophilia and dark humour and shifted it into a morality play. Somehow I doubt Mr Williams has regained his acting 'chops' he had circa Fisher King / Dead Poets - I can see the casting call now. Ooh he's in his 50's, has a moustache like Armistead and played in Birdcage...SOLD!
It's a great book, not only dissecting an author's habit to embellish or put their own lives in it; but also growing old as a gay man in your 50's (do you actually need someone?); relationships with your father and partner breakdowns, I think but can't be sure there's a lot of Armistead in there (sly stuff like Gabriel Noone and his father having the same name; Jess his partner always sorting out his business for him and being political and defending him), but it doesn't matter if not as it hits home quite well. Does kind of beg the question whether he was approached by a Gavin Arviso type character? Who knows, and maybe we'll never know...
Parting question: Why no more Armistead novels?
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:07 pm (UTC)If you like zombie films, check out the new Dawn of the Dead. It goes nowhere and has no real conclusion but LOTS of zombies! The DVD has some cool extras as well!
Obviously, that is if you haven't seen it...
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