Comments on: Friday is Going for Cirrhosis by Noon

By: adam

adam — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:20:13 +0000

1. I’ve occasionally been drunk and/or oblivious enough to think that it’s alright to try and copy the film moves for something like ‘Shake your Tailfeather’ and that nobody will mind.
2. I think the buffy musical (‘Once More With Feeling’) is brilliant, but then I think buffy is generally brilliant. I love the fact that they’d reached a point in various narrative threads and arcs where they all distrusted each other, they all were lying to each other, they were all becoming isolated from each other and, essentially, nothing but a musical could save them.
3. ‘Having It All’ in Absolute Beginners ALTHOUGH if it’s possible to put the leads to one side (as they were, in their very different ways, dreadful) I really really like Absolute Beginners – partially it’s context, it was something we all kind of decided to support when it came along, we even dressed up to go together to the first night of release – but it’s full of brilliant cameos, and some fantastic studio sets and camera stuff, and even if it didn’t work I’m very pleased they tried.
4. There was a bloke in my first year at university who had the full on miami vice look and used to dance very expressively indeed to the then-as-now contemporary ‘never gonna give you up’ and I used to stand at the side and laugh and wait for them to play ‘I Want You Back’ again or the strange house (??? possibly, or I may just be very very bad at genre labels) thing that sampled it.
5. All of them.

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:06:38 +0000

This is my dancing inspiration. This topped VH1's list of worst music videos ever made. VH1, apparently, are oblivious to the concept of irony.

By: yashin

yashin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:41:54 +0000

1. Everyone always gets a bit crazy during ‘Strip the Willow’ and throws eachother around, but I suspect that’s not what you mean.
2. This Is Spinal Tap, ‘Big Bottom’ or any of a their tunes, really.
3. Any musical ever.
4. Any of mine, which is why I avoid it. Aside from that I always thought that bit on Blockbusters at the end where they all did ‘hand jives’ was fucking hilarious.
5. I put ‘Graceland’ on the turntable today for the first time in ages and realised I knew all the words to every song. My mum bught it along with everyone else’s parents and it was played it in the car. I can remember my mum telling me that Paul Simon was married to Princess Lea and thinking he was the coolest guy on the planet.

By: Gav

Gav — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:09:47 +0000

Best of luck for the House Gig! Have a great weekend!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:09:40 +0000

Yes, Anchorman.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:59:11 +0000

Liking your RBQ work, Rhi.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:45:58 +0000

I haven’t actually. But I really thrown my back into the aaaahhh aaaahhhh aaaaahhhh.

Also, Anchorman? Really.

By: Rhian

Rhian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:39:49 +0000

Anchorman?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:28:23 +0000

ANCHORMAN!!!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:25:40 +0000

the bit in Anchorman when they sing Afternoon Delight – skyyyyyrockets in flight!

Nailed it. Brilliant call.