Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Sunday, 1 April 2007
Doctor Who - "Smith and Jones" 8/10
New blue suit. New companion. Nice simple plot.
Basically this was the best of the series openers. Both "Rose" and "New Earth" leant heavily on whimsy and comedy. Though this was by the same author (Russell T Davies) and was not humourless, it went at such a lick and was filled with such imaginative concepts as upwards rain it was a winner. You actually didn't really spot this was Martha Jones' entrance story or that Rose was missing and that's to it's benefit. As well as introducing Martha (Freema Agyeman) and her family (who won't reappear until episode 6 in May) this was also notable for the debut of the Doctor's electric blue suit, which will share duties with the brown one. Indeed the brown one is back by the close of the episode when Martha gets the TARDIS initiation.
The plot, as it was, concerned a murderous Plasmavore who had been hunted down to Earth by the Judoon. To complicate things the Plasmavore had taken the form of an old lady called Florence (Anne Reid) and the officious Judoon had seen fit to remove the hospital in which she hid to the Moon. This was purely because Earth was beyond their jurisdiction - the Judoon were real by-the-book types albeit with leather skirts and rhino heads. Florence also had a few tricks - she passed as a human by drinking the blood of a consultant (Roy Marsden) and assimilating the DNA, helped by her 2 sexy Slabs ( who looked exactly like leather clad bikers in helmets).
The Doctor is undercover at the hospital as patient John Smith (his usual alias) when he meets Martha and is impressed by her unflappable reaction to the hospital's sudden relocation, while she also has time to notice his 'tight suits'. Later, a barefoot Doctor fools Florence to ingest his blood through her bendy straw (thus making her register as alien once more) and needs Martha to save him. He soon has a chance to rescue Martha and the others from the now airless hospital (the Judoon left on the Plasmavore's demise with not a thought to the crimes she'd set in motion),
Also have to say I liked the Judoon, even though they were a Douglas Adams type piss take of officialdom, and would not mind a return. Anne Reis, in her second DW role made a great villian and relished the opportunity.
And I have no problem with Martha or her family. Martha is actually less annoying as a character than Rose. It has to be said that Freema didn't have anything too challenging to do here, but I've got confidence. Roll on Shakespeare's England.
Basically this was the best of the series openers. Both "Rose" and "New Earth" leant heavily on whimsy and comedy. Though this was by the same author (Russell T Davies) and was not humourless, it went at such a lick and was filled with such imaginative concepts as upwards rain it was a winner. You actually didn't really spot this was Martha Jones' entrance story or that Rose was missing and that's to it's benefit. As well as introducing Martha (Freema Agyeman) and her family (who won't reappear until episode 6 in May) this was also notable for the debut of the Doctor's electric blue suit, which will share duties with the brown one. Indeed the brown one is back by the close of the episode when Martha gets the TARDIS initiation.
The plot, as it was, concerned a murderous Plasmavore who had been hunted down to Earth by the Judoon. To complicate things the Plasmavore had taken the form of an old lady called Florence (Anne Reid) and the officious Judoon had seen fit to remove the hospital in which she hid to the Moon. This was purely because Earth was beyond their jurisdiction - the Judoon were real by-the-book types albeit with leather skirts and rhino heads. Florence also had a few tricks - she passed as a human by drinking the blood of a consultant (Roy Marsden) and assimilating the DNA, helped by her 2 sexy Slabs ( who looked exactly like leather clad bikers in helmets).
The Doctor is undercover at the hospital as patient John Smith (his usual alias) when he meets Martha and is impressed by her unflappable reaction to the hospital's sudden relocation, while she also has time to notice his 'tight suits'. Later, a barefoot Doctor fools Florence to ingest his blood through her bendy straw (thus making her register as alien once more) and needs Martha to save him. He soon has a chance to rescue Martha and the others from the now airless hospital (the Judoon left on the Plasmavore's demise with not a thought to the crimes she'd set in motion),
Also have to say I liked the Judoon, even though they were a Douglas Adams type piss take of officialdom, and would not mind a return. Anne Reis, in her second DW role made a great villian and relished the opportunity.
And I have no problem with Martha or her family. Martha is actually less annoying as a character than Rose. It has to be said that Freema didn't have anything too challenging to do here, but I've got confidence. Roll on Shakespeare's England.
Men at Play - Live show at Heaven
Dunno why it's only just found its way onto YouTube, but here's a glimpse of the shenanigans laid on by MaP underneath Charing Cross station last June.
Saturday, 31 March 2007
Gay Porn Star Peek 55
Gorgeous Tom Walsh lathers up @ EnglishLads:
http://www.myxxxadvert.com/EnglishLads_TomWalsh/index.html
Baby-faced beef: Brock @ RandyBlue
http://galleries.blueloot.com/index.php?id=2168
http://www.myxxxadvert.com/EnglishLads_TomWalsh/index.html
Baby-faced beef: Brock @ RandyBlue
http://galleries.blueloot.com/index.php?id=2168
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Doctor Who - Season 3 extended trailer
Apologies for the apparently empty post earlier - Blogger seems to be spitting them back out lately, especially the ones with YouTube embedded code. I'm getting severely miffed at it.
Anyway, this is the extended trailer currently popping up at the touch of a red button on digital BBC channels. It was premiered to a select Mayfair audience at the press launch last week. I'd imagine some might find this spoileriffic as it includes clips from every story, including the finale, so if in doubt, don't click.
Here's a rapidshare link for those who prefer an MPEG2 download
And here's a gallery of splendid screencaps.
Monday, 26 March 2007
Doctor Who: new Radio Times covers
Not one but two covers to mark the start of the third series at the weekend. Both feature the Doctor, Martha and a stray Judoon but one is from Earth with the moon behind and the other vice versa.
Can't wait to see the 16-page pullout! Will it reveal the last 3 episode titles?
27 Mar update: Those last 3 episode titles are indeed revealed as "Gridlock" (ep3), "Evolution of the Daleks" (ep5) and "Last of the Time Lords" (ep13).
Sunday, 25 March 2007
The Doors @ 40
Another event this year is the 40th anniversary of The Doors' eponymous first album, and certainly this is taken as the official date to celebrate by both the record company and the remaining band members (there's even a logo!).
Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger were on Radio 2 as Johnnie Walker's special guests this afternoon, blatently plugging a new compilation which is released tomorrow (and pictured above). It's a complete remaster on 2 CDs, accompanied by a live DVD and book on the deluxe edition. The interview was entertainingly candid covering Bach riffs, regular LSD use and Jim Morrison's endowment. It can be heard on the Listen Again facility for 7 days from today.
Taken from Amazon, here's the new complilation's 34 tracks :
Happy 60th Elton!
Today marks the beginning of British Summer Time for 2007 as well as the 50th birthday of what has become the EU and 200 years since the UK voted to end slavery but what does shallow me choose to commemorate? Yup, Sir Elton John is 60 today and you just can't help but love him, our surrogate Queen Mother!
I've picked 3 YouTube clips featuring the man himself. I couldn't quite get them to match my favourite 3 tracks, but it's close.
First of 2 duets is "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" with Billy Joel
Then there's a fairly recent reunion with Kiki Dee at Madison Square Garden for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Lastly, a slightly barking David LaChapelle video to accompany Las Vegas performances of Elton's most personal song, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". It's based on a suicidal moment from 1969, with the someone being early mentor Long John Baldry.
As a PS here's a nifty BBC News article on 60 things you may or may not have known about Elton: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6455921.stm
I've picked 3 YouTube clips featuring the man himself. I couldn't quite get them to match my favourite 3 tracks, but it's close.
First of 2 duets is "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" with Billy Joel
Then there's a fairly recent reunion with Kiki Dee at Madison Square Garden for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Lastly, a slightly barking David LaChapelle video to accompany Las Vegas performances of Elton's most personal song, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". It's based on a suicidal moment from 1969, with the someone being early mentor Long John Baldry.
As a PS here's a nifty BBC News article on 60 things you may or may not have known about Elton: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6455921.stm
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
BBC Scotland Watch 24-30 March 2007
Yes, it's gone that far. I'm now going to be keping a regular tally of BBC Scotland's rescheduling arrogance and/or incompetence. I'm not going for every little thing - that would be a full-time job! - and you can always take it as read that Thursdays on BBC Two will be wiped out by Gaelic box ticking between 6 and 8pm.
However two glaring examples screamed out at me from the new "Radio Times", one which I take almost personally.
Next Wednesday (28th) sees both the triumphant return of "The Apprentice" marked by a promotion to BBC One and a football match between Scotland and Italy. Outside of Scotland that's exactly what you get on TV. But in a completely novel and petty manner, BBC Scotland has swapped the two BBC channels over, so "The Apprentice" is relegated back to BBC Two at 9pm. Note that no actual content is tampered with (for a change) but surely this is change for change's sake?
The one that's really got me is the dropping (for that is what it appears to be - no rescheduling is noted) of the new "Weakest Link" Doctor Who special next Friday (30th).
This show was taped last November with the winner kept a closely guarded secret. The contestants who took part were David Tennant, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke, John Barrowman, Nicholas Briggs, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Claire Rushbrook, Andrew Hayden-Smith and K9. Now, despite the huge popularity of "Doctor Who" and the presence of both Tennant and Barrowman in the contest, BBC Scotland have decided we'd rather see the second episode in a week of both "River City" and "Holby City". This is the same "Holby City" that also gets transported to BBC Two for its first episode that week. Consistency is also not one of BBC Scotland's strengths.
Meanwhile the schedule apparently still has time for primetime repeats of "My Family"(26th) and "DIY SOS"(29th).
However two glaring examples screamed out at me from the new "Radio Times", one which I take almost personally.
Next Wednesday (28th) sees both the triumphant return of "The Apprentice" marked by a promotion to BBC One and a football match between Scotland and Italy. Outside of Scotland that's exactly what you get on TV. But in a completely novel and petty manner, BBC Scotland has swapped the two BBC channels over, so "The Apprentice" is relegated back to BBC Two at 9pm. Note that no actual content is tampered with (for a change) but surely this is change for change's sake?The one that's really got me is the dropping (for that is what it appears to be - no rescheduling is noted) of the new "Weakest Link" Doctor Who special next Friday (30th).
This show was taped last November with the winner kept a closely guarded secret. The contestants who took part were David Tennant, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke, John Barrowman, Nicholas Briggs, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Claire Rushbrook, Andrew Hayden-Smith and K9. Now, despite the huge popularity of "Doctor Who" and the presence of both Tennant and Barrowman in the contest, BBC Scotland have decided we'd rather see the second episode in a week of both "River City" and "Holby City". This is the same "Holby City" that also gets transported to BBC Two for its first episode that week. Consistency is also not one of BBC Scotland's strengths.Meanwhile the schedule apparently still has time for primetime repeats of "My Family"(26th) and "DIY SOS"(29th).
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