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Well just seen the Bodies finale and as it's repeated tonight


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Odd seeing Rob with Polly, just didn't connect them. Two interesting plotlines proving to be the catalyst for the final outcome, but there's still that niggle of no definite closure for Rob.

Still, fantastic series, and perhaps the last bastion of BBC 3's brilliant period of drama output with Funland, Conviction, and Casanova etc.(although the former is coming back for a second series)

More Bodies Spoilers here....


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I thought it was great, as always, although I did get the feeling that they compressed a season into 90 minutes. Skipping 3 years was a good plot device, and Rob and Polly was a surprise although not too strange. Rob did always seem a bit keen to p**s on his own doorstep, so getting involved with another doctor didn't seem so strange to me. He was always selfish and self serving in his private life, excellent qualities in any 'hero'.

Can't help feeling, though, that we have been robbed of a decent, thought provoking season of Bodies in favour of less deserving fair. Never really understood its appearance on BBC3 either. Its a pretty serious drama, with something to say, and BBC3 is now the home of Torchwood, and continual repeats of Two Pints of Lager. Nothing wrong, per se, but it might have been taken more seriously if it had been on BBC4 or a more high profile slot on BBC2. I can't take it seriously what with that great big DOG all over it, telling me its brand new like I'm an idiot who can't figure it out for myself.

If we need DOG's at all, can't we have them in the bottom right corner instead, where they are unlikely to draw attention to themselves, or get in the way of people's eyes. I find it incredibly irritating and almost makes it unwatchable to me.

Rant over, Bodies was generally good stuff, and will be missed.

And I'm on leave now till the New Year. Lazy days!

Paul, loving The Killers new album. I've listened to it almost non stop since release, and they were great on Jools Holland!

I'm ignoring the Bodies stuff for now as I taped it and come mid-week when I am on hols (yay!) I will be watching it then.

The BBC are doing a Spooks spin-off called, wait for it, Rogue Spooks. It's about young (and no doubt roguish) MI5 agents (Spy Kids?) Hmmm, that's just asking for trouble.

Saw an old L&O today with Reed Diamond and Molly Price (I think that's her name, Faith from Third Watch).

Nil else to report. Will be back once I've watched Bodies. Oh and about four episodes of The State Within.

http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=multimedia&id=320148

I only have 36 so far.

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Originally posted by snarkygirl:
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=multimedia&id=320148

I only have 36 so far.

you've only bought 36 of the top 50 albums? that's some street cred

Have you watched Bodies yet. or more to the point, have you seen any of season 4 of The Wire per chance?

I watched some of it again today and it bemuses me that Simon said the majority of the US wouldn't watch it because it isn't their story. Literally he may be right, but without giving too much away, I think the subtext is a something that is identifiable with the the majority of the populous: living in a capitalist society, dealing with power struggles and the terminal desire for one high-tier to exert authority over another, whilst those near the ground floor seek to do their jobs, nothing more, but the higher up they go, the more bureaucracy and politics deters them from achieving that sense of purpose they get when they achieve at ground floor level. Then again, I could be looking too deeply into it (g)

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Originally posted by snarkygirl:
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=multimedia&id=320148

I only have 36 so far.

Jeez, scratch that - I can't work out any of them, I thought one was the Arctic/Artic Monkeys's album, one was the recent streets album, one looks like a bunch of dolly mixtures.

garbarek wrote

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you've only bought 36 of the top 50 albums? that's some street cred

No I mean I've guessed 36 right. I'm not cool enough to own 36 of them. I only own 10 of them. And frankly I'm not cool enough to own 10 of the. <g>

I failed to read the instructions the first time, was convinced the Portishead one was Portishead, but it wasn't 2006, the realised it's 2006 plus "classic" albums. You'd be right in guessing most of those I own are the classic ones.

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Have you watched Bodies yet. or more to the point, have you seen any of season 4 of The Wire per chance?

Neither as yet.

Bottom right is Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'N' Roses.

I've got The Stone Roses self titled and RHCP Stadium Arcadium.

What have you got?

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Jeez, scratch that - I can't work out any of them, I thought one was the Arctic/Artic Monkeys's album, one was the recent streets album, one looks like a bunch of dolly mixtures.

It is the Arctic Monkeys. Is the trainer piccie 2 The Streets?

I lie. I only have like 25 odd right. I swear it was loads more.

Okay here goes:

1. ?
2. Keane – Under the Iron sea
3. Thom Yorke – The eraser
4. Pulp – Different Class
5. ?
6. ?
7. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World
8. ?
9. Portishead – Portishead
10. The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
11. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
12. The Killers – Sam's Town
13. ?
14. Red Hot Chili peppers – Stadium Arcadium
15. The Zutons – Tired of Hanging Around
16. The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home
17. Gnarls Barkley – St Elsewhere
18. Hot Chip – The Warning
19. Kasabian – Empire
20. ?
21. ?
22. ?
23. ?
24. ?
25. Lily Allen – Alright, still
26. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever...
27. ?
28. Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo to Anywhere
29. ?
30. ?
31. ?
32. The Smiths – The Smiths
33. ?
34. ?
35. ?
36. ?
37. ?
38. ?
39. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
40. ?
41. ?
42. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
43. ?
44. ?
45. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
46. The Clash – Give 'em Enough Rope
47. ?
48. ?
49. Nirvana – In Utero
50. The Fratellis – Costello Music
51. ?
52. ?
53. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
54. ?
55. Razorlight – Razorlight
56. ?
57. ?
58. ?
59. The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
60. Blondie – Parallel Lines
61. ?
62. ?
63. ?
64. ?
65. ?
66. ?

36. David Bowie - Low

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Originally posted by snarkygirl:

I lie. I only have like 25 odd right. I swear it was loads more.

Okay here goes:

1. ?
2. Keane – Under the Iron sea
3. Thom Yorke – The eraser
4. Pulp – Different Class
5. ?
6. ?
7. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World
8. ?
9. Portishead – Portishead
10. The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
11. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
12. The Killers – Sam's Town
13. ?
14. Red Hot Chili peppers – Stadium Arcadium
15. The Zutons – Tired of Hanging Around
16. The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home
17. Gnarls Barkley – St Elsewhere
18. Hot Chip – The Warning
19. Kasabian – Empire
20. ?
21. ?
22. ?
23. ?
24. ?
25. Lily Allen – Alright, still
26. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever...
27. ?
28. Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo to Anywhere
29. ?
30. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
31. ?
32. The Smiths – The Smiths
33. ?
34. ?
35. ?
36. ?
37. ?
38. ?
39. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
40. ?
41. ?
42. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
43. ?
44. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
45. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
46. The Clash – Give 'em Enough Rope
47. ?
48. ?
49. Nirvana – In Utero
50. The Fratellis – Costello Music
51. ?
52. ?
53. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
54. ?
55. Razorlight – Razorlight
56. The Streets - The Hardest way to make an easy living
57. Embrace - This new day
58. ?
59. The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
60. Blondie – Parallel Lines
61. ?
62. ?
63. ?
64. ?
65. ?
66. Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

I now have 31, and scouring the net for album cover sites to cheat.

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I now have 31, and scouring the net for album cover sites to cheat.

Whilst scouring the net I found this:

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/

Some of these covers make me shudder.

The one next to the Clash is Oasis - Stop the Clocks.

The one next to the Stone Roses is Guillemots - Through the window pane

I am officially rubbish at this.

I did, however, and perhaps unsurprisingly, get The Killers.

Paul, chest puffed out!

garbarek wrote:

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Odd seeing Rob with Polly, just didn't connect them.

Rob seems to go with what's convenient and he admits it just kind of happened.

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Two interesting plotlines proving to be the catalyst for the final outcome, but there's still that niggle of no definite closure for Rob. [QUOTE/] I felt robbed (hee hee) of a proper ending too.

Paul wrote: [QUOTE] He was always selfish and self serving in his private life, excellent qualities in any 'hero'.

That is true. Equally I wanted to throttle Donna. Manipulative cow.

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Can't help feeling, though, that we have been robbed of a decent, thought provoking season of Bodies in favour of less deserving fair.

Agreed. The CJD story was a bit much and then the blow-up in the mortality meeting. Would have been so much easier for Rob to just drop a note off to the local paper.

And Polly giving old Whitman a glimmer of hope. Poor Rob's child with Uncle Tony looming in the wings.

Anyway I hear Polly actress and Keith Allen are a couple and that she's just had their first child. (Sorry that was a bit of a Heat magazine moment there.)

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And I'm on leave now till the New Year. Lazy days!

Me too. Well technically anyway. Have some odds and ends to do over the next few days but working at home doesn't feel too much like work.

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Paul, loving The Killers new album.

The Flowers bloke loves Bono. The many and various U2 forums are calling it U2-lite. But then they called the last but one Coldplay that too. Why do I bother reading that stuff.

Daft Music Quiz

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I now have 31, and scouring the net for album cover sites to cheat.

Good thinking Batman. I was using amazon's top 100 and then taking a guess at artists that xfm would consider classic (cause it's not like I would have guessed the Floyd/Bowie ones all on my own). There must be some Blur, Stones, Dylan, Radiohead in there somewhere.

The bottom left cartoon boy one is driving me mad. And I was sure the one next to Arctic Monkeys was Eminem. And the one with the lamb. What is that?

So far we have:


1. ?
2. Keane – Under the Iron sea
3. Thom Yorke – The eraser
4. Pulp – Different Class
5. ?
6. ?
7. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World
8. ?
9. Portishead – Portishead
10. The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
11. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
12. The Killers – Sam's Town
13. ?
14. Red Hot Chili peppers – Stadium Arcadium
15. The Zutons – Tired of Hanging Around
16. The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home
17. Gnarls Barkley – St Elsewhere
18. Hot Chip – The Warning
19. Kasabian – Empire
20. ?
21. ?
22. ?
23. ?
24. ?
25. Lily Allen – Alright, still
26. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever...
27. ?
28. Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo to Anywhere
29. ?
30. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
31. ?
32. The Smiths – The Smiths
33. ?
34. ?
35. ?
36. David Bowie – Low
37. ?
38. ?
39. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
40. Guillemots - Through the window pane
41. ?
42. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
43. ?
44. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
45. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
46. The Clash – Give 'em Enough Rope
47. Oasis - Stop the Clocks
48. ?
49. Nirvana – In Utero
50. The Fratellis – Costello Music
51. ?
52. ?
53. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
54. ?
55. Razorlight – Razorlight
56. The Streets - The Hardest way to make an easy living
57. Embrace - This new day
58. ?
59. The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
60. Blondie – Parallel Lines
61. ?
62. ?
63. ?
64. ?
65. ?
66. Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Hmmm, never known this place to close over Xmas.

Anyway, in case I don't get round to it, Merry Christmas and all that.

And one of us has to say it:

Ho-Ho-Ho-Homicide!

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Ho-Ho-Ho-Homicide!

Wahay!!

And a merry Christmas from Me to you all too!

Snarky, you may even get a very late pressie. I did feel a bit of guilt when Garb asked you whether you had started watching season 4 yet, bearing in mind its still sat on my desk. Not any more, though!

Paul, who watched all of The State Within yesterday, and pretty much liked it. Isaacs was great and the gay super spy was kinda cool too, although can spies really be called Brocklehurst! Felt a bit sorry for Neil Pearson, as he got nothing to do but pout, and he deserved better. Course, the story was so far fetched it was thoroughly believable. Got a little concerned that it was initially going to be an anti american rant, but it soon became clear that there were wheels within wheels within some more wheels, wrapped in a mystery hidden in an enigma. Can see why the BBC1 crowd got a little confused and wandered off, really.

If I had a complaint its that it might have been better served by being a couple of 2 on consecutive nights, rather than taking place over 6 weeks. I might have been completely confused had I not watched it all together.

Anyways, have a good'un!

Happy Christmas to Paul, Snarky, and less frequent posters Beecher and Swiss Tony (whereever they are)

oh, and anyone that posts here to up their count (BWG)

finished for chrimbo now hope that low winter sun that I taped has worked.

Paul wrote:

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Snarky, you may even get a very late pressie.

Got it. Will hopefully be watching it next week. Cheers mate, let me know the cost etc.

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Paul, who watched all of The State Within yesterday, and pretty much liked it. Isaacs was great and the gay super spy was kinda cool too, although can spies really be called Brocklehurst!

Yeah I liked it to. Sharon Gless was great. Agree about that it did have a slightly anti-American tinge, that it should have been a mini-series (I watched the first two, had a long break, then watched the rest and was thoroughly confused) and how the audience probably ran in fear.

Saw a 24 trailer (same one from the Fox site) on Sky the other day. I can barely contain myself. January seems so far away.

New Shameless soon as well. Ugly Betty looks like a one joke show but I shall give it a try. Plus Hallmark have Jericho which I have read about at digi*** and sounds intriguing. Then again it could be this year's Lost (waste of my precious time).

Yesterday I saw the first sign that the festive season is well and truly behind us - Creme Eggs in the shops.

Also amused on Christmas morning to see Max Beesley on the Robbie Williams Knebworth thing and then again on another Robbie thing. No idea when either took place but both seemed like the last few years.

Any shred of credibility I ever had has now departed. It's not like I have lots of his albums (I have the Greatest Hits) but I like some of his stuff.

Confess your secret guilty pleasures!

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Originally posted by snarkygirl:
Yesterday I saw the first sign that the festive season is well and truly behind us - Creme Eggs in the shops.

Also amused on Christmas morning to see Max Beesley on the Robbie Williams Knebworth thing and then again on another Robbie thing. No idea when either took place but both seemed like the last few years.

Any shred of credibility I ever had has now departed. It's not like I have lots of his albums (I have the Greatest Hits) but I like some of his stuff.

Confess your secret guilty pleasures!

Aside from the stuff that is already known, dodgy poodle-rock bands like Foreigner and a bit of REO Speedwagon I suppose. I've got into Parliament recently (George Clinton not the politics one), and I suppose the lover of the underdog story has been the reason why I've loved the Rocky series, although four out of the six were worth watching - Rocky IV had horrible acting despite the nature/nurture being ok it did nothing to save it, and Rocky V could have been better in its slagging of Don King, but Tommy Morrison was hopeless in his mimmickry of Stallone and that mullet was ghastly.

I've seen the new one Rocky Balboa, and despite the fact that Mason Dixon is given virtually no time to show any character, the youngsters don't have the moral conscience that Talia Shire had as Rocky's wife, the right outcome of sorts is reached (I disagreed with the points breakdown). Stallone looked in good shape for a 60-year-old, and it was fun to see the everyman mimic his epic run up those steps - as much an icon of the series as the catchphrases and the statue.

On the flip side to all this macho nonsense, I liked Sarah McLachlan's version of Christmas time, I liked Beverley Craven's early stuff (Woman to Woman, Love Scenes), and Eddi Reader's solo stuff.

So I am quite the idiosyncratic fellow, all told.