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14 May 07 | 04:18pm |
BBC2's The Culture Show is usually worth PVRing; here are some recent highlights:
1) Neil Hannon's faux-Eurovision song Trafalgar (with ethereal chords, key changes etc ticking the boxes from his longer "how to" piece.)
2) Avenue Q Does Trainspotting.
The latter has prompted someone to post up Adam & Joe's Toy Trainspotting, claiming that the similarity warrants litigation. I can't really see what's the same other than "fluffy things do trailer"; Av Q maps the Trainspotting events to their existing characters whereas A&J is closer to the film albeit substituting toys for people.
Anyway. My title connects a lyric from Hannon's Trafalgar to tonight's big Beeb / YouTube thing which led me down this trap in the first place* BBC Reporter John Sweeney vs Tommy Davis, Spokesperson of the Church of Scientology. Scientology recently posted a shorter version from a different angle in some sort of attempt to discredit John. Showing a man screaming that they're focusing on only the second part of an interview, and not showing the discussion that prompted the outburst - there's irony.
Seemingly I missed this on BBC Plugfest this morning and somehow I wasn't otherwise aware, but tonight's Panorama is about Scientology. 8:30. BBC1.
*This connection is thus better than the title "How Do You Stop An Exploding Man?" as there is no Heroes content in this post
1) Neil Hannon's faux-Eurovision song Trafalgar (with ethereal chords, key changes etc ticking the boxes from his longer "how to" piece.)
2) Avenue Q Does Trainspotting.
The latter has prompted someone to post up Adam & Joe's Toy Trainspotting, claiming that the similarity warrants litigation. I can't really see what's the same other than "fluffy things do trailer"; Av Q maps the Trainspotting events to their existing characters whereas A&J is closer to the film albeit substituting toys for people.
Anyway. My title connects a lyric from Hannon's Trafalgar to tonight's big Beeb / YouTube thing which led me down this trap in the first place* BBC Reporter John Sweeney vs Tommy Davis, Spokesperson of the Church of Scientology. Scientology recently posted a shorter version from a different angle in some sort of attempt to discredit John. Showing a man screaming that they're focusing on only the second part of an interview, and not showing the discussion that prompted the outburst - there's irony.
Seemingly I missed this on BBC Plugfest this morning and somehow I wasn't otherwise aware, but tonight's Panorama is about Scientology. 8:30. BBC1.
*This connection is thus better than the title "How Do You Stop An Exploding Man?" as there is no Heroes content in this post