tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post6607740904422716885..comments2024-03-26T17:15:36.793+00:00Comments on New Amusements: That was the year that was: 2011Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-17484564397927611852013-03-21T09:55:22.259+00:002013-03-21T09:55:22.259+00:00Well there you go. I believe this is where I say &...Well there you go. I believe this is where I say "it's a small world"...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-60287422070861720612013-03-21T09:54:55.638+00:002013-03-21T09:54:55.638+00:00We were contemporaries, I was at UEA 1987-90 so I ...We were contemporaries, I was at UEA 1987-90 so I was a third year when you started - American Studies and mouthing off at union meetings. More of the latter, really.Adamhttp://pretendinglifeislikeasong.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-7011838715792247552013-03-21T09:54:19.079+00:002013-03-21T09:54:19.079+00:00I know what you mean about the SMM track, but here...I know what you mean about the SMM track, but here's the thing (as I might say if I was from across the pond): no, it's not her best work (I prefer <a href="http://newamusements.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/music-in-adverts.html" rel="nofollow">Beasts</a>), and no, it's not as good as the <a href="http://youtu.be/DMQbzLrvwlE" rel="nofollow">original</a>. It's not even my favourite cover of this song, that honour belonging to <a href="http://newamusements.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/moves-pretty-fast-you-dont-stop-and.html" rel="nofollow">Dream Academy</a>. And no, I don't especially like the saccharin advert that SMM soundtracks either. But it gets an honourable mention because, good, bad or indifferent, it made me stop and listen, hard. Not too many new songs did that in 2011. I, er, probably haven't listened to as much new music as I would have liked lately either...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-17812008107322393902013-03-21T09:52:40.012+00:002013-03-21T09:52:40.012+00:00I moved to Norwich for UEA too, '89-'92. ...I moved to Norwich for UEA too, '89-'92. I left afterwards, but have since moved back. Were we contemporaries there, I wonder?Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-22851907014663675072013-03-21T09:52:19.010+00:002013-03-21T09:52:19.010+00:00Slow Moving Millie? Really?Slow Moving Millie? Really?Rolhttp://rolhirst.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-1949150098830737762013-03-21T09:51:47.870+00:002013-03-21T09:51:47.870+00:00I went to UEA and lived in Norwich for ten years -...I went to UEA and lived in Norwich for ten years - I would have cared.Adamhttp://pretendinglifeislikeasong.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-92098600168084938232013-03-21T09:51:16.873+00:002013-03-21T09:51:16.873+00:00Some great choices Adam. Maybe the Adrian Mole ref...Some great choices Adam. Maybe the Adrian Mole reference has worked its way into my subconscious because of the diary entries our hero writes that make up part of the book. As for gigs, I have to use Songkick to keep track of mine now - I say "have" like it's a chore, but actually I love Songkick - here's my <a href="http://www.songkick.com/users/pip" rel="nofollow">gigography</a>. And I really want to see Never Let Me Go, but am making myself wait until after I've read the book. Oh, and I was going to invert the cultural snobbery by including a sporting highpoint, but I didn't think too many people would be that interested in Norwich City getting promoted back to the Premiership...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815567696079354237.post-11085500871584410952013-03-21T09:50:27.524+00:002013-03-21T09:50:27.524+00:00Album - Tiny Birds 'Hymns for the Careless'...Album - Tiny Birds 'Hymns for the Careless' is the only new album I've been listening to over and over.<br>Song - Alex Turner - Hiding Tonight - from the Submarine soundtrack, funnily enough.<br>Gig - I don't think I've been to a gig this year. I can't remember if the Fleet Foxes was June 2010 or 11. I find this quite funny.<br>Book - I liked 'Submarine', film too, although I got in a happy argument with some people afterwards about some of the links to other things - it doesn't feel at all 'Catcher in the Rye' or (god help me) Adrian Mole to me - I think he has more insight than any of those narrators, maybe more like Billy Liar which was always my favourite of 'those' things anyway. The last Wallander book. Can't remember what else.<br>Film - I liked Submarine very much - I liked Never Let Me Go very much even though I didn't think it really worked (and got into an ever bigger argument online on the guardian's site about it). I watched 'Drive' the other night and enjoyed that a lot too.<br>Television - I got around to The Wire this year and have watched the first two series of that now which were very good indeed. If I can cross between this and...<br>Comedy - .. then I would also add Stewart Lee - the TV show and various other things I've finally caught up with. The only 'stand up' I saw was Mark Thomas talking about walking the wall in Israel/Palestine which was excellent<br>Play - just to get a bit of cultural snobbery in, in a tourist kind of way the only thing I saw was Frankenstein which was fantastic.Adamhttp://pretendinglifeislikeasong.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com