Poor Things, out December 8! The review I read is here.
I Know This Is Old News
But goddammit, it’s a great song. I’ve not been as big a fan of Viagra Boys recent stuff.
Have You Seen Gary?
Definite Baxter Dury vibe. See what you reckon!
This Young Athens Band Has Potential
1983!
Shit
William Friedkin, dead at 87. Hopefully not sucking cocks in hell.
Shit
Sinead O’Connor, dead at 56.
Anybody Remember This?
A classic segment from one of Steve’s TV specials.
My Latest Obsession
Watching comics legend Todd McFarlane speed draw his favorite characters.
Sultan? Sultan?!
Just brilliant.
Possibly one of our favourite letter exchanges ever, and at London’s Freemasons’ Hall back in 2016 Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi joined us to give an incredible, hilarious reading.
In 1675, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire instructed his army to attack a fortress belonging to the Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were quickly and heavily defeated. Rather than surrender, the Sultan then wrote to the Cossacks and demanded that they submit to him. This fiery exchange was the result.
The Wilhelm Scream
It’s positively ubiquitous! According to Gizmodo …
The sound effect that’s been heard in countless movies and TV shows over the decades technically has two birthdays. As a sound itself, it originally debuted in the 1951 film Distant Drums from singer-songwriter Sheb Wooley. But it was officially given its name with the minor character of Private Wilhelm in The Charge at Feather River, a western that came out July 11, 1953. In that movie, Wilhelm (played by actor Ralph Brooks) screams after being shot in the thigh with an arrow, which would come to define its use: in all of its appearances in future media, it would be used when someone got shot, blasted back by an explosion, or fell from a high distance.
Recently, CBS News did a story on the Wilhelm Scream, and the outlet revealed that it managed to find a tape with the first recording session Wooley did for the scream. CalArts researcher Craig Smith explained to CBS that he found the tape among many from the archives of the University of Southern California’s film school that were close to being trashed.