Getting them mixed up with Cockney Rejects perhaps?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:16 (six months ago) link
Probably
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:19 (six months ago) link
Seems like the album covers would tip you off about the style
― President Keyes, Sunday, 17 March 2024 15:25 (six months ago) link
https://wtop.com/national/2024/03/astronaut-thomas-stafford-commander-of-apollo-10-has-died-at-age-93/
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, 93
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 18 March 2024 20:11 (six months ago) link
As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge
Lol, same here.. the name sounds more menacing than the band
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:20 (six months ago) link
considering the band has no electric guitar but has a violin, and the lead singer wears a red velvet frock coat and bowler hat, I'd say pretty much anything is more menacing than Cockney Rebel.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:24 (six months ago) link
I had the opposite feeling about Blue Oyster Cult, where I saw the art and the band's name and I thought they much be the most evil sounding band in the world.. then I heard Burnin' for You and they were weren't as vile and satanic as I'd hoped
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:32 (six months ago) link
(I'm not sure I thought Cockney Rebel was gonna sound like GBH, but I assumed it'd be more like Dr. Feelgood or Eddie & The Hot Rods, some kinda hard-edged pub rock.. alas it was not to be)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:55 (six months ago) link
Ha, great comparison, AtG.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 March 2024 21:07 (six months ago) link
The great M. Emmet Walsh
https://www.etonline.com/m-emmet-walsh-blade-runner-and-knives-out-actor-dead-at-88-222071
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:48 (six months ago) link
noooo
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (six months ago) link
No! RIP to a true hero
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (six months ago) link
Oh bollocks, RIP MEW.
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:52 (six months ago) link
https://marsingemini.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/walsh_blood_simple_blue_blu-ray_2x-600w.jpg
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:52 (six months ago) link
RIP to the Stanton-Walsh Rule
Had no idea he was still alive. Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing? (I feel like Ed Harris is just one rung higher on the ladder, having had actual lead roles — Walker, Pollock.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:11 (six months ago) link
More people should see Straight Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RzaZC6DchU
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:19 (six months ago) link
RIP
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:17 (six months ago) link
I always thought Straight Time is one of Hoffman's best, if not THE best
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:21 (six months ago) link
at the baggage claim in the burlington vermont airport I found myself standing next to m. emmet walsh and said to him, “I love your movies.” he looked at me, slightly annoyed, and without missing a beat, replied “you should try reading books.” https://t.co/zCzilBZpWH— alex blagg (@alexblagg) September 23, 2023
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:57 (six months ago) link
No version of BLADE RUNNER would work without him. As written, a key character for noir stakes-setting and exposition. As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human. Acting that creates the world. RIP pic.twitter.com/f1Fp57jMQI— Candygram for Mongo (@spencer_parsons) March 20, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:04 (six months ago) link
Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing?
james hong is still with us at 95
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:13 (six months ago) link
In that vein I was gonna mention Charles Dierkop - missed the fact that he died last month at 87. RIP
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:18 (six months ago) link
As great a character actor as probably anybody from the studio system. Glad Straight Time has been noted; Blood Simple will lead his obituaries (and Blade Runner, evidently--have to admit, I don't remember him in that like I remember him in Blood Simple), but I'd put Straight Time at the top. He's positively evil in that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:59 (six months ago) link
Blade Runner was considered confusing upon release, and as mentioned in the tweet above, his character was the only one that made any attempt to let the viewer know just what the hell was going on
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:07 (six months ago) link
(xpost) I’d almost go so far as to say he steals the film.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:25 (six months ago) link
“Straight Time”, that is.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:26 (six months ago) link
Normally I'd agree for a performance that good, but I also think it's Hoffman's greatest performance--and Stanton, Russell, and Busey are great too.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:30 (six months ago) link
Emmet came to set with 2 things: a copy of his credits, which was a small-type single spaced double column list of modern classics that filled a whole page, & two-dollar bills which he passed out to the entire crew. “Don’t spend it and you’ll never be broke.” Absolute legend. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/hP8Ml1fBGi— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 20, 2024
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:31 (six months ago) link
He's the guy who hated those cans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcwz8-EfFYE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:38 (six months ago) link
Lol! RIP 🪦
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:39 (six months ago) link
As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human.
He'd have played a MAGA state senator with aplomb.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:44 (six months ago) link
I forgot about The Music of Chance (Joel Grey was also great in it):
“There was something so deeply imperturbable about the man, so fundamentally oblique and humorless, that Nashe could never decide if he was inwardly laughing at them or just plain dumb.”M. Emmet Walsh embodied this character in “The Music of Chance”/1993. What an all-timer.— Janet Maslin (@JanetMaslin) March 21, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:34 (six months ago) link
I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.
https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings/
― nickn, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:29 (six months ago) link
SF writer Vernor Vinge, 79
https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:49 (six months ago) link
xxp I was going to mention The Music of Chance, it's one of those films I saw late night on Channel 4 here in the UK as a teenager and it has stayed with me ever since, Walsh was incredibly creepy in that
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:00 (six months ago) link
I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings🕸/🕸
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:06 (six months ago) link
Cola boyy, only 34 :(
― nxd, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:41 (six months ago) link
Darren Ellis aka Splash RIP
all time classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99JZugos9w
― Fizzles, Friday, 22 March 2024 07:17 (six months ago) link
Maurizio Pollini, piano titan, 82
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:45 (six months ago) link
Still for my money the meanest rendition of this monster, especially the last handful of bars which he renders with total precision and clarity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rfle8wSwJM
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:42 (six months ago) link
Lol that was the piece I was gonna mention
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:48 (six months ago) link
Greg Lee of Hepcat, a couple of days ago. RIP
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:00 (six months ago) link
That's too bad. those first two albums (at least) go overlookedm
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 March 2024 12:24 (six months ago) link
Holy cow he was still with us:https://x.com/GuardianBooks/status/1771744033284759560?s=20
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 25 March 2024 01:51 (six months ago) link
His dad Jean died in 1937!
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 06:25 (six months ago) link
When I was very young Babar books were printed in cursive. Is that still the case?
― Josefa, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:11 (six months ago) link
Composer Peter Eotvos, 80, in January but just reported now., I guess. Link in French…https://www.diapasonmag.fr/a-la-une/disparition-de-peter-eotvos-46311.html?utm_campaign=NL_DIAPASON_26032024&utm_content=26032024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EMAIL&rwid=2B6B3FD43B5A708BE909BB9251B1FBAA18D96ED8DFC573B477B26B7CEFFFEE8D
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:34 (six months ago) link
Sorry about the tracking, mea culpa.
Ah, RIP Peter.
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:34 (six months ago) link