"I AM THE LAW!"

Oddboy · 14 February, 2003, 03:28:30 PM

"I AM THE LAW!"

Who said this?

Buffy did, last night on telly (Sky1), so she did.

Devons Daddy · 14 February, 2003, 03:34:09 PM

pretender to the throne.
she could play cassandra in the movie though.now thats a reasonable idea.
did she sound convincing then?

Oddboy · 14 February, 2003, 03:41:36 PM

More so then Sly Stallone!

Wils · 14 February, 2003, 03:51:44 PM

But was she any more convincing than Phil Oakey?

Devons Daddy · 14 February, 2003, 03:57:06 PM

i take it you mean phil oakey from the human league
in his classic bolland print t-shirt,of the four dark judges in the video of together in electric dreams.from 1982?
would this be the obscure reference you are reffering too then.? :~>
your not the only child of the eighties you know.

paulvonscott · 14 February, 2003, 04:05:59 PM

No keep her away from Anderson, I find her very, very annoying with her simple two tone jolly/sad acting. Awful awful. No. Nein. Niet. Please God no.

Etc.

Wils · 14 February, 2003, 04:30:50 PM

Partly because of that, but also because of this...

Link: http://home.worldonline.dk/thejip/hl-lyric/iamthelw.htm" target="_blank">Phil sings Dredd?

GordonR · 14 February, 2003, 04:40:34 PM

>>would this be the obscure reference you are reffering too then.? :~>

I think he's referring specifically to the Human League song, 'I Am The Law', blatantly inspired by Dredd, on the Dare album.

Human Leaguer Jo Callis is a major sf/comics fan, and used to part-own (and work in) the Edinburgh SF Bookshop, which later transformed into FP Edinburgh. (Yes, you used to go into the old SF Bookshop and see an honest-to-goodness pop star behind the counter, reading Legion of Superheroes, or whatever).

Before he was in the Human League, Jo was in fab Scots punk bad The Rezillos, who once put out a single called '2000AD'. Can yu guess what it was inspired by?

Devons Daddy · 14 February, 2003, 05:18:08 PM

the human league CD dare in my collection is now about to receive a well earned anti static wipe and get played.
i never realised that.damn the 80s where great.

GordonR · 14 February, 2003, 05:29:23 PM

Never mind all the haircuts and make-up stuff, the Human League were sci-fi nerds through and through. Even the band name came from an old SF boardgame, and major SF geek Leageur Adrian Wright used to use Captain Scarlet etc back-projections for their stage sets, decades before that stuff became retro-cool.

There's a whole streak of sci-fi geekdom running through new romance and glam rock stuff, from Bowie & Bolan's sf borrowings to the League and Gary Numan.

Mudcrab · 14 February, 2003, 05:44:16 PM

"Jo was in fab Scots punk bad The Rezillos"

Didn't know that. Didn't know they were from Scotland either.Anyhoo, I do know that the Rezillos are touring just now (zimmer frames n 'athin!). They're playing in Aberdeen in the next couple of weeks, so I assume they're playing elsewhere too. Dunno the line up, so you never know, Mr Callis might be appearing.

Proudhuff · 14 February, 2003, 06:19:34 PM

Dunno the line up, so you never know, Mr Callis might be appearing.???

Yes, indeedly Jo is playing as are Faye and Eugene!! A new album is on the way soon to I hear.

I was a fan from the early days, ma Brother: Pinheed was at art college with em, he did the lights and his girlfreind 'Gayle Warning' was was a singer before the record contract. He's mentioned on the 'with thanks' on the first Lp.
me? ma photae is on the 'Mission Accomplished but the beat goes on...' crowd scene, fame indeed.

There's a cD out with both lp and some singles stuff on it, its fabby as they say.

Mk13 · 14 February, 2003, 07:36:33 PM

>There's a whole streak of sci-fi geekdom running through new romance and glam rock stuff, from Bowie & Bolan's sf borrowings to the League and Gary Numan.

It's not even as narrow as that - most forms of underground music have been and are still packed with sci-fi geeks - punk (Spizz), metal (Anthrax, Motorhead), goth (Sisters, Neff), grebo (Senseless things, PWEI, MC4, et-bloody-c), industrial (Front 242, Frontline), dance (Prodigy, Orbital), and so on.

I imagine this is because at school the pale, pasty unfit types forming bands are the same as the pale, pasty unfit types discussing old Dr. Who episodes, insofar as there is a strong solidarity between these groups of people against the perma-tanned sports and school balls types.

Queen Firey-Bou · 14 February, 2003, 08:26:51 PM

damn i'd posted a long blab about 80's sci fi & how i went in Alan forbes of the rezillos meserschmit bubble car with him etc, & private parties where he played etc. hey Proud huff, did you know Douglas & Guri ? she of the afghanistan rugs fame? friends of Alan, or Nick Oddy, of the trains sets etc?

Queen Firey-Bou · 14 February, 2003, 08:27:16 PM

damn i'd posted a long blab about 80's sci fi & how i went in Alan forbes of the rezillos meserschmit bubble car with him etc, & private parties where he played etc. hey Proud huff, did you know Douglas & Guri ? she of the afghanistan rugs fame? friends of Alan, or Nick Oddy, of the trains sets etc?

but it crashed... it posted not...