Incredible performance!
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He got faster in every round.
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Yup, can’t wrap my head around how they orientate themselves at that speed in the air
Or make the landings after rotating through multiple rotations before doing it again seconds later. Amazing stuff
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Always enjoy your videos @pacific.coliseum 
IIRC there was a thread about this on djh. Pretty sure they were mostly bootlegs he had nothing to do with (as opposed to Maelstrom… 
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The Muppet Show on Disney
Joyful
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Small Prophets was an absolute delight. Beautifully realised from start to finish, with writing from Mackenzie Crook that feels tender, observant, and quietly magical. It weaves nostalgia, love, and loss into something deeply heartfelt without ever losing its gentle humour. Thank goodness there’s going to be more. Thoroughly recommended
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Neither do they 
Well, believe it or not Predator: Badlands
Starts as a 2/10 somehow finishes as a solid 8/10
Nonsense, but decent nonsense to watch with the teenager.
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Ahh thanks so much! Yes, I got a DM from someone that works in a record store in Oslo, and said Terje had come in and confirmed that they’re definitely bootlegs. Wild how this sort of thing can happen.
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Primitive War
Essentially a B movie with surprisingly high production values. I mean if you’re gonna mash two genre’s together it might as well be Vietnam and Dinosaurs. All the 'Nam tropes are there; the 60’s needle drops, the perennial pissed off Sarge, the squad out of thier depth in death valley. Ignore the preposterous plot about Soviet worm holes, turn off your brain and watch a bunch of grunts unload their M16’s on a horde of raptors and their prehistoric mates
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Just warched Bunny, on Netflix, a good 90 min movie. It’s his birthday and it finds Bunny, his friends and neighbours in their New York apartment block trying to dispose of a dead body.
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Paradise season 2 is out now. 1st episode is promising.
This looks like fun, great cast, maybe a bit too close to home for David Harbour lol.
Watched Tornado finally, we loved it. Looked amazing in every aspect. And Joanne Whalley oh man its been a while 
Just watched Man on The Run (Amazon Prime)
spoilers
Ok, if you are a fellow Beatles/Wing obsessive there is little here that is ‘new’ aside from some grainy footage and the odd raw demo, so deffo one for the ‘completists’ if you know the story already. However, the feature length doc is beautifully directed, following his ‘second wind’ career, from the FAB implosion, journeying from London to Tokyo via Scotland, New York and Lagos (Fela Kuti puts in a cameo albeit sadly not on any recording session).
I had expected something a lot more hagiographical but it is refreshingly unspun, including bad records and bad decisions as well as bad haircuts + savage criticisms from the press and ex band members alongside a fair bit of self-reflection. There are funny and touching moments and occasional reminders of the post-fab magic eg “Uncle Albert” “Arrow through me” “Coming Up”.
Yes, certain things are omitted (eg BBC record bans + his relationship with Harrison '69-81) and it could perhaps have done with more on his 70s discography, and the almost unique way he effortlessly switched (with varying degrees of success) between pop, folk, ballads, disco, stadium rock, bagpipes, cod-reggae, experimental synths, goofy medleys and orchestral filmscores. I didn’t feel quite as emotional as during Get Back which felt like a necessary corrective reappraisal of PM and his artistry, whilst a lot of the story (the drugs, jail, hostile music press…) has already been well-trodden in other docs esp Wingspan 25 years ago. I think maybe people reach their 80s and become even more reflective in their memoirs, especially about the loved ones lost en route, which I think is why Lennon’s murder is always there in the background.
It often feels incongruous that PM should have creatively ‘survived’ the 1970s at a time when he was seen as passé, and condemned to cultural if not commercial irrelevance, and yet despite it all, all these incredible records with anthemic energy or mad basslines survive.
*If you haven’t yet heard Bill Brewster’s McCartney Left it is required listening.
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Just rewatched David Simon’s Generation Kill. Really stands up, and who knows how relevant to the latest developments in the vicinity… Kinda sad because James Ransome is especially good in it. Stand out thing is how good the whole series is at showing people in a non-reductive way, even when they’re being awful.
I have hoovered up so much TV off this thread this past year (young child), thanks all. Drops of God and Small Prophets are keeping us well entertained currently.
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I’d be up for watching that again, what’s it on?
Simon, you’re outing me as an internet thief here. I did own the DVDs at one point…
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