Community: spirited
This post is really just to rave about a couple of things. The first being new US sitcom Community, which for whatever reason is currently languishing way down in the Sky/Virgin EPG on the Viva channel. This means many people won't have seen it and I can therefore feel all smug and superior as I urge everyone to check out what for me is one of the funniest US sitcoms I've ever seen, certainly on the basis of the opening few episodes.
The trailer, which tells you the basic setup, is below. What is doesn't show is how pacy and sharp the show is, whilst still managing to develop the characters and their relationships wonderfully well. Give it a watch, would be my advice:
#2: On a slightly more worrying note, I've somewhat fallen for Take That's new song (OMG! screeeeeam!! etc). Theirs is one of the most remarkable artist's stories of recent times, the really remarkable thing being how a group who could only draw intense hatred from any males of my generation who were at school during their first, knicker-wetting heyday have come back and become so, well, utterly non-detestable.
Patience, Rule the World and Greatest Day were all decent tunes (we'll forget about Shine for now), but The Flood is something else. Produced by Stuart Price, formerly of ironic cheese-dance act Les Rhythmes Digitales when he was hilariously known as Jacques Lu Cont, now the go-to producer for the likes of Madonna and the Killers who want a sophisticated electropop sheen, this is a proper grown-up pop song - by far the best thing "the That" have ever done and probably Price's career high to boot.
Watch the equally great video here:
Just look at those tight outfits... er I mean the great camerawork. Oh, everything about it's great, especially Robbie. More pop should be like this.
The trailer, which tells you the basic setup, is below. What is doesn't show is how pacy and sharp the show is, whilst still managing to develop the characters and their relationships wonderfully well. Give it a watch, would be my advice:
#2: On a slightly more worrying note, I've somewhat fallen for Take That's new song (OMG! screeeeeam!! etc). Theirs is one of the most remarkable artist's stories of recent times, the really remarkable thing being how a group who could only draw intense hatred from any males of my generation who were at school during their first, knicker-wetting heyday have come back and become so, well, utterly non-detestable.
Patience, Rule the World and Greatest Day were all decent tunes (we'll forget about Shine for now), but The Flood is something else. Produced by Stuart Price, formerly of ironic cheese-dance act Les Rhythmes Digitales when he was hilariously known as Jacques Lu Cont, now the go-to producer for the likes of Madonna and the Killers who want a sophisticated electropop sheen, this is a proper grown-up pop song - by far the best thing "the That" have ever done and probably Price's career high to boot.
Watch the equally great video here:
Just look at those tight outfits... er I mean the great camerawork. Oh, everything about it's great, especially Robbie. More pop should be like this.
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