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My favourite King anecdote:

Stephen King has already made so many lasting contributions to popular culture, but he casually tossed off another all-timer in Rolling Stone this year when the interviewer asked him if there was any truth to the rumour he loved Lou Bega's Mambo No.5.

King's response?

"Oh, yeah. Big time. My wife threatened to divorce me. I played that a lot. I had the dance mix. I loved those extended play things, and I played both sides of it. And one of them was just total instrumental. And I played that thing until my wife just said, 'One more time, and I'm going to fucking leave you.'"

Late night with the Devil is more of a psychological horror than anything else so no jump scares and even manages to get a few laughs in. Hope that will help you sell it.

Godzilla Minus One is one of the best movies I've seen in ages and far far far superior to the American movies with the same character. Must check out Shin Godzilla so.

To those who have seen Monster - I would love to hear your thoughts on the end but I can't seem to do spoilers anymore.

Also saw an excellent French movie called The Origin of Evil, would recommend that too and the South American When Evil Lurks.

I really just don't know any more, it must the German one.

Thanks Eamonn

Also George has been involved in another tv show called Dark Winds that is excellent and well worth checking out.

I was one of those fans and I hated that storyline because there wasn't enough foreshadowing to justify her character arc turning like that. She spent 8 seasons up to that point trying to be good leader / ruler and her just snapping like that didn't make sense for her character or her character arc.

But there was loads of stuff that was just awful; Jamie and Brienne, Jamie going back to Cersei, everyone teleporting all over Westeros to be wherever they were required at that time, Tyrion's mental decline going from one of the smartest characters to the most stupid who can only make cock jokes, the decision to put the armies of the living IN FRONT of the walls of Winterfell in the last battle, the Dothraki getting wiped out but managing to respawn for the battle at Kings Landing, Jon being reduced to a one line character ("I dunt wan it") for the last season, omg the plot armour - we see so many characters get swarmed by the dead at the last battle and then in the next scene they're fine.

I could go on ..

Dany wasn't my favourite character and I could have handled her burning the city to the ground if it had been done in such a way that made sense narratively.

And the pie thing : https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/titus/summary/

It's also mentioned in the books as a fable from Westerosi times past.
 

My GoT cod-psychology theory is that you could've ended that season almost any way at all, and the audience reaction would've been similar. Folk were just upset that it was ending. (I wasn't as invested once GRRM wasn't the author.)

There were Dani worshippers that couldn't handle the "my favorite is a baddy now" aspect, for sure.

Baking close relatives into pies and serving them to your enemy seemed a little convoluted, as assassinations go. I think that was a strong sign that George wasn't in the writers' room anymore. He, having gained access to all the pies he could ever want, doesn't see the need, or has lost the ability, to finish his opus. We're left with this odd, mixed-media saga.

I've seen quite a few good movies lately

1. Late night with the Devil
2. Immaculate
3. That Omen prequel (pretty good for what it is).
4. Godzilla Minus One
5, Rye Lane
6. Fallen Leaves
7. Monster (Korea, 2023)
8. Civil War

Also from Korea (ish) Past Lives and Minari.

No guys, it's not any of those. I guess I've jumped dimensions again and that tv show doesn't exist in this one 

BOOOOOOOOOOO!

You're still welcome though 

And (maybe controversially) a list of 10 artists I don't particularly enjoy

Clint Langley
Nick Percival

It was live action Eamonn and I'm pretty sure it was American.

Definitely not a comedy show more a drama ..

The sound editing was amazing but overall such a deeply engrossing journey on a well trodden path.

Hello chaps!

It's been a while I know but my last year of college and that.

Sorry to hear that things have not been going well for some of you.

Life is just an absolute shit show sometimes.

I can second Marcus Aurelias, you can find it here: https://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

Worth dipping in and out of.

Hope everyones week picks up xx

While we're at it .. I remember watching a tv show when I was younger (late 80s / early 90s) which I'm pretty sure was called Frankenstein's Castle and Frankenstein lived in this castle with Dracula and others and the castle was in the middle of a lake ... Anyone remember what this tv show was really called?

Here's a dance interpretation of Meco's 1977 disco mix of John Williams' Star Wars music, as performed on French TV in 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTL86oEmwOI

This is absolutely great. Love it. I mean it's terrible but it's also great and I love it.

You need to consult the Oreo at Delphi.

Brilliant!       

Of course! For the glory of Rome is eternal!