sarf bank tolkien show

i was trying to watch it but i was v tired. then RickyT (DON'T MENTION TOLKIEN IN FRONT OF RICKYT unless you want to be ranted at at length :)) got all heated at the TV and took it to task, and then started arguing with me about Harry Potter, so didn't actually get to see v much of it at all. but it is taped so i guess i'll watch it again later.

I find it very difficult to watch the Sarf Bank Show because

a) Its belief that to be profiled on the SBS means that it must be great art therefore nothing but sycophantic praise for said art.

b) Originates in Sarf London.

This was a particularly bad example not knowing whether it was a highbrow trailer for the film (it was), a discussion of Tolkein the man (poorly done) a discussion of Tolkeins work (equally poorly done) or a bunch of weird beards sitting around confirming the belief that anyone who likes Tolkein is a weird beard. Oddly the person who came out best was Pratchett - until he got to read his own stuff out which was frankly embaressing (and probably not his own idea).

There is a good four part Channel Four series in the history of fantasy which would not only rehabilitate it somewhat but also condemn that which needs to be knocked down. This certainly wasn't it. But at least it did not contain Jonathon Ross's Elvish joke.

Did anyone see Leo Regan's extraordinary film abt The Jesus Army last night? Now THAT was a documentary (rather than a pr puff piece masquerading as a documentary...)

there was a Raggettalike but notaz wit-E

Some of the clones suffer from malfunctions.

taped the jesus army becos i thought it was about thee army of god off ^fist of tha north star^ - twas ccrrreeeppppyyyy

The end of the Jesus Army documentary made me very sad.

What happened Zoe?

Their leader got executed on some trumped up charge.

Oneofthemenintervieweddied(andlessthantwoweeksago)

(ugh,sorryspacebarnotworking!)