tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post114587766600753185..comments2024-03-29T08:08:48.276+00:00Comments on dan hancox: Why should the Russians get all the gloom?dan hancoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14335192225001443427noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1167039759832823502006-12-25T09:42:00.000+00:002006-12-25T09:42:00.000+00:00Hi all! Very nice site. promise online photo http...Hi all! <BR/>Very nice site. <BR/><A HREF="http://promise.xbuv.info/" REL="nofollow">promise</A> online <A HREF="http://promise.xbuv.info" REL="nofollow"/> photo http://promise.xbuv.info/ promise read <BR/>ByeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146730894450019972006-05-04T08:21:00.000+00:002006-05-04T08:21:00.000+00:00Actually can I retract Great Yarmouth. I went ther...Actually can I retract Great Yarmouth. I went there on Saturday and it is the funniest place I have ever been. Really. Can I substitute: a puddle, in a car park, in Ipswich.Stephen Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635062892917034876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146730750097329142006-05-04T08:19:00.000+00:002006-05-04T08:19:00.000+00:00Hello Dan, thanks for rummaging my little web-cran...Hello Dan, thanks for rummaging my little web-crannie. I agree with Heleina on The Office (and would add the first series of I'm Alan Partridge); both Talking Heads (Bennett; partic 'Lady of Letters') collections; The Caretaker; Larkin (particularly Aubade, Love songs in age, church going, and the ones about death - oh that's all of them, then). Birchanger services on the M11. Great Yarmouth. And really, honestly: 'Little Goes A Long Way: The Autobiography of Syd Little'. He has the most depressing life I know, though I was pleased to hear him back on the radio yesterday. Oh: Hancock's Half hour, watched with someone next to you who always, without fail, says "of course, he was very depressed you know..."Stephen Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635062892917034876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146563687230358132006-05-02T09:54:00.000+00:002006-05-02T09:54:00.000+00:00Heleina is right - touching down at Heathrow is de...Heleina is right - touching down at Heathrow is depressing. The holiday is over.<BR/><BR/>So why do I find the first sight of the White Cliffs of Dover so cheering when I am on the Ferry?Big_Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04466244965776073121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146363401819061392006-04-30T02:16:00.000+00:002006-04-30T02:16:00.000+00:00pulp, the office, philip larkin. more broadly, tou...pulp, the office, philip larkin. more broadly, touching down at heathrow is the quintessential miserable british moment. it's always drizzling lightly and the skies are iron grey and the terminal's deserted and everyone looks like they want to cry. <BR/>xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146134187014868162006-04-27T10:36:00.000+00:002006-04-27T10:36:00.000+00:00Ok well in that case, Dunblane. Tragic and Britis...Ok well in that case, Dunblane. Tragic and British.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1146091052970949832006-04-26T22:37:00.000+00:002006-04-26T22:37:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145979964457921042006-04-25T15:46:00.000+00:002006-04-25T15:46:00.000+00:00"I want your nominations for the best British trag..."I want your nominations for the best British tragedies, examples of the most perfectly articulated gloom. Here are a few off the top of my head"<BR/><BR/>Hey, Little Jonny Contradiction.<BR/>The Man said nowt about Art.Big_Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04466244965776073121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145976260984082262006-04-25T14:44:00.000+00:002006-04-25T14:44:00.000+00:00Animals dead on the roads not a great example of m...Animals dead on the roads not a great example of miserabilsim in art though.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145974029303689222006-04-25T14:07:00.000+00:002006-04-25T14:07:00.000+00:00*Sighs*1) Twentyfourseven - the Bob Hoskins film -...*Sighs*<BR/><BR/>1) Twentyfourseven - the Bob Hoskins film - it was filmed in 97 in B&W and it EVEN has a Roxy Music soundtrack(imdb it)<BR/>2)Roadkill<BR/>3)Hospitals<BR/>4) Hospices<BR/>5) The tears of your parents<BR/>6) An injured cuddly animal<BR/><BR/>*Smacks head into keyboard, crying and mashing fists into desk rythmically*Big_Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04466244965776073121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967975099934872006-04-25T12:26:00.000+00:002006-04-25T12:26:00.000+00:00They were all me. Sorry. Got a bit overexcited w...They were all me. Sorry. Got a bit overexcited with the "login and publish" button.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967709761133292006-04-25T12:21:00.005+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.005+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967705400772142006-04-25T12:21:00.004+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.004+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967705399766532006-04-25T12:21:00.003+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.003+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967705398900602006-04-25T12:21:00.002+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.002+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967702448804642006-04-25T12:21:00.001+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.001+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145967702441126412006-04-25T12:21:00.000+00:002006-04-25T12:21:00.000+00:00I remember SUNNY, she used to be Shawn Michaels th...I remember SUNNY, she used to be Shawn Michaels the Heartbreak Kid's valet in the early 1990's, she was really hot, although later she got on crack and did porn and whored and stuff.<BR/><BR/>Is that not what you meant?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145961447153184532006-04-25T10:37:00.000+00:002006-04-25T10:37:00.000+00:00yeah don't get it twisted y'all, i was miffed with...yeah don't get it twisted y'all, i was miffed with the weather for like a day. i remain SUNNY. :)<BR/><BR/>tom your stuff's angsty and if anything angry rather than miserable though (imho), which is a COMPLETELY different kettle of haddock.<BR/><BR/>god mike leigh. that's the kind of british miserabilism i can really not be bothered with. as much as i know and accept he's an important intellectual force and makes good films which reflect the heretofore unreflected gloom of lower middle-class suburbia yadda yadda yadda. i can do without it. life is sweet is just... UNPLEASANT. i don't care how hilariously ironic the title is.<BR/><BR/>also: miserable=mike leigh=dull CF:<BR/>melancholy=gericault's raft of the medusa=fucking incredible.<BR/><BR/>miserable bad, melancholy good.<BR/><BR/>both the smiths and arab strap i like cos they're so witty. without that they'd be stultifyingly depressing.dan hancoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335192225001443427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145959809564217092006-04-25T10:10:00.000+00:002006-04-25T10:10:00.000+00:00sticking with manchester... joy division? further ...sticking with manchester... joy division? further north, we've got arab strap of course (and you can't find a band who embrace miserablism quite like them).<BR/><BR/>pretty much every film by mike leigh? eastenders isn't exactly a laugh a minute either. I'd say our culture is doing miserable fairly well.<BR/><BR/>see, I have no problem with "miserablism in art". some of it can be dull, but it doesn't have to be. more often than not, it can lead to some very inspiring, uplifting art.<BR/><BR/>people seem to mistake 'sad' for 'depressing' far too often. but then, I guess I produce a fair amount of miserable, angsty art so maybe I'm biased.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145958466931330662006-04-25T09:47:00.000+00:002006-04-25T09:47:00.000+00:00dude why all the gloom and doom??for starters if w...dude why all the gloom and doom??<BR/>for starters if we were in Moscow in the winter you wouldn't even be able to get naked to get into the shower. Visit anywhere outside the Garden Ring in Moscow anytime outside of August and you'll feel the sheer coctail of misery - atmospherically, architectually, culturaly and socially. Truss.<BR/><BR/>And I'm not saying I don't hate the weather on days list Monday either. Just I think from a quasi-outsider's perspective the British are a moany enough people as it is, moaning is like therapy to us. Nothing like having a good moan, right? Frankly however, even though things aren't perfect at least we're not the guy who wrote the movie Ben Stiller was directing in Extras.Alex Bok Bokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625196533865711283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145949758683882742006-04-25T07:22:00.000+00:002006-04-25T07:22:00.000+00:00Yeah of course it's I Know It's Over. I think the...Yeah of course it's I Know It's Over. I think the problem with the Smiths are that they're too damn funny most of the time to be that depressive. Even Heaven Knows I'm Miserable is hilarious and has that wonderful twanging guitar part.<BR/><BR/>Nil By Mouth, but it's more harrowing than tragic I guess.<BR/><BR/>Related, but aside, why is Hamlet a tragedy? They all should die except Ophelia and her father.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585405507412293641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145921932608563282006-04-24T23:38:00.000+00:002006-04-24T23:38:00.000+00:00y'see the central flaw in my blog post was that i ...y'see the central flaw in my blog post was that i agree with meera completely, and on the whole find miserablism in art really dull.<BR/><BR/>but, yknow, it was like freakin manchester in the middle of winter today for fuck's sake. in late april!! not much else would make me think of the smiths these days, as much as i like them in theory. that's <I>i know it's over</I> you're quoting btw i think.dan hancoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14335192225001443427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16924295.post-1145918236183978422006-04-24T22:37:00.000+00:002006-04-24T22:37:00.000+00:00"Oh mother, I can feel the soil pouring over my he..."Oh mother, I can feel the soil pouring over my head..."<BR/><BR/>cheer up chaps. the fact that we have, frankly, sod all to moan about is a remarkable achievement of collective human endeavour, and something which should be celebrated. DAILY. <BR/><BR/>i'd trade pogroms and the modern slave trade for sub-heroic post-romantic cultural artefacts any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com