cobra_gordo

Binface for PM

Coming over here, eating our decaying leaves.

I know this shouldn't be my main takeaway from a post about scummy landlords finally stopping your fucking roof leaking but I used to breed various species of tropical woodlouse years ago as part of reptile keeping and they were always fascinating and were always about and about, doing whatever isopods do. Also come on, look at that face.

The once or twice I tried to watch Seinfeld I hated it but mysteriously I like Jerry from, of all things, Bee Movie, having been made to watch it multiple times with my kids when they were younger. The record being four times on the bounce as they were showing it on a loop in A&E when one of them was unwell one Boxing Day. Renee Zellweger gets romanced by a bee, lest we forget. Anyway, Unfrosted. Really enjoyed it. Can't tell you how much I needed a daft film like that yesterday. It got a few big belly laughs from me. Whilst watching it we were saying it had an air of the new Wonka film, to the point that if Melissa McCarthy had burst out in to song I wouldn't have been surprised. Or disappointed.

Just seen a post by someone on one of the local community Facebook groups asking if anybody was giving away an old wire hamster cage as her son has reared some chicks and wanted to take them to school to show his classmates. Pretty cool if you ask me. Somebody has replied angrily quoting PETA and the RSPCA and how hatching programmes in schools are cruel, even though that's not what this is, and how it's weird her son wants to take the chicks in. Really gone in all guns blazing and missing the point. The OP has responded fairly rationally but pointing out how they're being responsible with it and it's all in the name of education. What I wasn't expecting is that it's triggered a childhood memory of mine of the time a lad in my class at comp once brought a rat to school in a binoculars case and I've been sat at home on my own laughing for a solid 5 minutes to the point my chest hurts.

Just clicking through the pictures on a Facebook post about Jeep Swenson and his roles in Batman and Robin and The Mask and this great one of him, Davey and Owen was tucked in there. Happy Glasses Davey always manages to cheers me up and then make me miserable that he's no longer here.

The yellow and red one is definitely leaning in to looking like a Reading and Leeds poster. The other one has serious pub act vibes.

1) Focus on funding for grassroot music venues and their infrastructure. 2) Gig tickets to be capped at no more than £20 for club shows, £50 for arenas, three day festivals £150. 3) Ticket touts, resellers who charge more than face value or any sort of dynamic pricing to be made illegal. 4) Venues to be banned from charging bands a percentage of merch sales unless they give the band a percentage of bar takings. 5) Scooter to redo the national anthem. Yes I know they're German. No, I don't care.

Thoroughly enjoyed Monkey Man. Dev Patel is great and I had no idea that he'd written, directed and produced it. Some proper wince-inducing violence and me and my wife both popped for the run in towards the end. My only gripe was some of the cinematography was weirdly disorientating. Not sure if that was a deliberate style choice but most of the shots feel really zoomed in which was making me dizzy at times.

It Follows. Another one I've been meaning to watch for ages. Watched this directly after The Babadook and had a much better time. This looks great for something so simple and low budget, it's creepy, it's got a great concept and had me pointing at the screen and shouting "FOR FUCKS SAKE DON'T GO IN THERE" out loud a couple of times. Imaginary. Absolute dross.

I know where I recognise some of them from. The first woman, who says "This country is no longer equal to all" seems like the sort that if the follow up question was "So you're all for trans equality then?" would say "Ah, well, errrm, not that sort of equality". They always crumble when asked "Can you give an example" too. There's two blokes at my work who, at the time of the last general election, were very similar, just regurgitating catchphrases and slogans with no real justification for what they were saying Fuckwit 1: "I'm voting for Boris" Me: "Why?" Fuckwit 1: "Well he's getting Brexit done" Me: "What does that mean?" Fuckwit 1: "Errrrmmmmmm" Fuckwit 2: "I'm not voting for that Corbin, he's a Marxist" Me: "What is a Marxist exactly?" Fuckwit 2: "Well.....errm........you know, Marxism and that. You don't need me to tell you"

This is my favourite by a fair stretch.

The Babadook. Been meaning to watch this for ages and finally got round to it. Enjoyed it overall. Some bits made me feel genuinely uneasy, there's a real creepiness and the mum slowly losing it is unsettling but then at times it's a bit daft. I can forgive the cheapness of some of effects because what they achieved on what looks to be a low budget is impressive, it's just the fact that they used a noise from the awesome Resident Evil 1 intro multiple times (3:30 on this video. Then stay for the voiceover lad saying BARRY BURTON) took me out of the moment.

These may be the loveliest few posts I've ever seen on here. We love a robin too. My wife's brother died in 2017 and her mum in 2021, both suddenly. The sight of a robin sitting on our fence or just bobbing around the garden always puts a smile on her face and brings her great comfort.

I also saw Abigail over the weekend. Took it's time to get going but when it did I had great fun. Some laugh out loud parts, tense in places and didn't rely too heavily on jump scares. There were genuinely a couple of moments towards the end where I had to stop myself from clapping because the payoffs were so good. Kevin Durand as the big lummox who screams like a girl was a highlight, to the point where I was missing his character when he wasn't on screen. I made the same comparison to Ready or Not when we left the cinema, mainly the bits with the big gore explosions.