That's 2008 then. The Bright Ambassador highlights:
- Guitar Hero 3 - how to kill weekend afternoons during a crap summer
- Dexter
- Nottingham Forest's promotion
- Mad Men
- Metallica back on form
- Charlie Brooker's print and TV tribute to Oliver Postgate
- Fleet Foxes
- The sitcom Pulling - deliciously filthy
- Word magazine's Prog edition
- Danny Baker back on 606
- Rebecca Romero
- Son of Rambow
- The rise of Christine Bleakley
- Dead Set
- Jez using a £20 note as a masturbatory visual aid on Peep Show
- The Ting Tings
- Seeing Peep Show's Isy Suttie in the flesh (pictured)
- Elbow finally getting the recognition they deserve
- Kristen Schaal in The Flight of the Conchords
- Armstrong and Miller's Timeghost podcast
- Terry Wogan leaving Eurovision - how about him leaving Radio 2?
- Watson and Oliver at Edinburgh
What didn't float my boat:
- Sam Allardyce not coming to Nottingham Forest
- Graham Norton joining Eurovision
- The way newspapers, especially The Sun and Daily Mail, use the slightest thing as a stick with which to beat the BBC. I'm surprised I haven't seen a headline along the lines of 'Man's disgust at getting papercut from the 1985 edition of Radio 1's Which Way Now? pack. Fat cat Beeb bosses laugh themselves unconscious at the news during the Christmas party WE paid for'.
- The film PS I Love You
- The Ting Tings
- Nottingham Forest playing like a steaming pile of poo from August onwards
- Ashes to Ashes (the telly show, not the Bowie song)
- Dirty Sexy Money - the biggest waste of talent since ELP
- The upward curve of Frankie Boyle's career
- Hole in the Wall
What to look forward to in 2009:
- Guitar Hero: Metallica Edition
- Seeing Metallica in February for the first time in sixteen years
- Anything else Metallica-related
That's me done for this year. Happy Christmas - whether you like it or not. As Geddy Lee says, with alarming regularity immediately pre-interval, I'm 'going to take a break for some brain surgery.' Things are out of my control a little work-wise in the new year, so whether I'll be back sooner rather than later is yet to be seen.
To quote Derek Batey, be good to each other. Ta-ra.
8 comments:
Happy Xmas and New Year BA, I've enjoyed your blogs - all of them, deleted or not - and look forward to your return in the New Year.
PS. Looking through your lists, I realise that I haven't the foggiest who half these people are. Does that make me a foreigner?
PPS: The word verification is "Sapperth" - doesn't that sound like a 70s Rush song about lesbians?
Bye Then!
Merry Christmas and New Year and all that.
My sporting highlight? - Kettering Town kicking County OUT of the cup. AND making them wait for it. heh heh.
Humbug! To hell with y'damned Christmas! The only decent thing that happened to me this year was tracking down a pornographic movie I originally owned in the early '90s. 2008 can drown in a river for all I care.
HUMBUG!
With you on Brooker's Oliver Postgate tributes. Very touching and heartfelt; I'm sure it struck a chord with many of us of a "certain" age.
Cheerio.
Thumper - Yes, you're a spaghetti-shitting foreigner.
The Rush song about lesbians was actually meant for inclusion on Hemispheres. It was about a mutant group of lesbians aboard a spaceship who rebel against Queen Rugmuncher. The working title was Rebellious Intergalactic Bean-Flickers of Ursa Minor. It was scrapped and is expected to finally be released next year on the rarerities collection, tentatively-titled Geddy Lee's Posing Pouch.
Merry Christmas, BA. Buying a real guitar will almost certainly cure you of Guitar Hero. So.. erm.. probably best not to?
Vindicated yet again! Second paragraph from the end:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/20/screen-burn-awards-charlie-brooker
Word verification 'gonerds'. Sounds like something from the profaisaurous.
Merry Christmas old bean, hope Forest make further progress in 2009. At least you're not Leeds, heh.
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