From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #233 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, September 6 2006 Volume 09 : Number 233 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] O.T: Spitting Image anyone? [Ari ] RE: [idealcopy] RE: O.T.: Wicker Man ["Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: Spitting Image anyone? This from www.antisoshal.com : The Ron And Nancy Show  Spitting Image For those in the UK, Spitting Image is a familiar name. For the rest of us, our only exposure is likely the Genesis video for Land Of Confusion. Spitting Image was a decade running current events satire show in the UK that used grotesque caricatures of celebrities and the famous to mock current events, politics and fame. The humor was brash, rude and almost exclusively on the denigrating side. After a few years of popularity in the UK, several abortive attempts were made to introduce the show to the US. The second was the Ron And Nancy Show, a faux sitcom about Ronald and Nancy Regan. Most of their more popular puppets make cameos here, including Frank Sinatra, Leonard Nimoy, Sylvester Stallone, Robert Redford, Senator Kennedy, Bill Cosby and others. I think the only reason this didnt catch on back then was that America probably didnt care much for having its sitting president portrayed as a completely senile and insane tottering buffoon. In retrospect, its probably more accurate than we would have suspected. One could also surmise that Family Guy grabbed a few ideas from here: Lucky, the family dog is in fact the most intelligent creature in the white house and actually runs things, and eventually saves the world. This is a classic piece of 80s satire and potentially a defining moment in the 80s when TV decided that once again it was okay to attack the establishment WHILE it was established. There are currently no plans to release any Spitting Image shows on DVD, and even then it unlikely the 3 American specials will be considered when there is 10 years of weekly shows to work with first. If anyone has GOOD tapes of the UK shows, Id LOVE to get a crack at them.(read he'd love to transfer them proffessionaly to dvd, Ari) I think its a shame to let these rot. They are an extremely important part of history and popular cultures reaction to current events. Do I sound pretentious yet? Update: Working on some more stuff, but note sure what. Definitely soon will be Track 29, an insane movie starring Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd. and this: Lonely Is An Eyesore  A 4AD compilation 4AD records was the home of all things ambient and dreamy in the 80s, and occasionally a few upbeat artists such as Throwing Muses and Colourbox crept in. This Compilation was a showcase for many of their best selling artists, and the phrase Lonely Is An Eyesore (from the Throwing Muses song Fish) became a defacto motto for 4AD and its loyal following. With the exception of one Dead Can Dance song, all these tracks were written and recorded exclusively for this compilation, and only exist here or on the corresponding Lonely Is An Eyesore CD. 4AD continues to exist today in more or less the same fashion and genre, which is rare for indie labels that made the 80s so vibrant for music. This DVD is created from the original Japanese VHS tape and turned out excellent. I will rate this as varying between 3.5 and 4.5 because some of the films used here were exceedingly grainy and that continues to be a weakness of my software encoder. In clips where the film grain was amplified on purpose the encoder tends to smooth the speckles, and the results look similar to an older tape where the color is washed a bit. This wasnt a function of the tape itself, and many of the clips where the grainy film effect wasnt used look perfect. The sound is flawless. Oddly, the Colourbox song is NOT credited on the tape box but does appear. Frontier  Dead Can Dance Crushed  Cocteau Twins Acid, Bitter and Sad  This Mortal Coil Fish  Throwing Muses Muscoviet Musquito - Clan Of The Xymox Cut The Tree  The Wolfgang Press Hot Doggie  Colourbox No Motion  Dif Juz The Protagonist  Dead Can Dance Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:25:20 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] RE: O.T.: Wicker Man Well, if you want to get off the site you need to tell people other than me. Another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: KingOfTheMurgos@aol.com [mailto:KingOfTheMurgos@aol.com] Sent: 04 September 2006 23:31 To: steeleknight@lineone.net Subject: Re: [idealcopy] RE: O.T.: Wicker Man The original Wicker Man is b*llocks?? You talk asolute crap, its one of the best films to come from this isle of ours. Horror and chill without all the gore of your Hollywood productions, its a proper psycological thriller, a real mind bender. Get me off this site im fed up with it, you all talk rubbish. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:32:31 +0100 From: "Andy Lumbard" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] O.T: Spitting Image anyone? Ari wrote "With the exception of one Dead Can Dance song, all these tracks were written and recorded exclusively for this compilation, and only exist here or on the corresponding Lonely Is An Eyesore CD." ...or on the original vinyl in my loft. Does it need to be on ebay? AndyL - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/437 - Release Date: 04/09/2006 ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #233 *******************************