Freedom of speech should be limited...

[venta]

...to those who have something to say.

(According to The League Against Tedium)

Hmm. I've observed that for various reasons (mostly involving lack of time, and not currently having my laptop back from Evesham (bastards)), I've stopped reviewing gigs and things on here. So those of you who enjoy vicarious concert-going have missed out recently on Edwyn Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, the Pixies, PJ Harvey, and other goodness. I would be apologetic, but to be honest you should get off your backsides and go to gigs yourself.

I can now report that, in my opinion, Shrek 2 is worth seeing. It seems to be trying harder than Shrek, and is the worse for it, but still comes out as an entertaining couple of hours. And does anyone else who's seen it think that some sections of it make more than a passing reference to The Princess Bride ?

[This paragraph added in later, because I forgot first time round.]
The one thing that really disappointed me was the soundtrack. Why did they have to use poor covers instead of good originals ? I'm quite happy with the songs that were, in context, sung by the characters and so on. But Changes and Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With) were just really, really bad. I'm prejudiced, because they're both songs I'm very fond of. But (particularly in the Buzzcocks' case) I couldn't help thinking that the original would have worked so much better as part of the soundtrack.

However, more importantly, I can also report that I saw wimble beaten by a piece of gingerbread. Frances has just come back from the Lake District, so our house has Grasmere gingerbread. If you've never encountered the stuff before: it's lovely, but it's hardcore. Three parts ginger, one part citrus peel, three parts gravel.

It defeated Wimble in fair combat, and he left the house a vanquished man.

Comments

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

I still prefer the Lloyd Cole version.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Cretin that I am, I only know the Nick Cave version :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Less of a cretin than I am - I don't think I'd heard Mr Cave's version (and I can confirm he's credited in the film rather than just on imdb) until the film. Mr Cole's version on Music in a Foreign Language is very nice though.
Oh, Amazon lists Changes as being Butterfly Boucher featuring DB.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Where 'featuring' = 'sampling his voice and putting it over a background that came out of a Casio keyboard'