TV and movies lately

[telophase]

"I'm sorry. I ate all your bees."

myrialux and I have been watching Black Books lately. I'd seen a couple of episodes a few years back and Netflix keeps recommending it to me, so I threw it on my queue. I sold myrialux on it by saying "There's this misanthropic bookstore owner--" and he cut me off, saying "You had me at 'misanthropic.'"

It's a Britcom, and there's a lot of stupid sitcom humor in it, but it tends to veer into surrealism at the slightest provocation*, and it's provided the above quote, which myrialux and I have taken to quoting to each other at unexpected moments. (It has almost, but not entirely, replaced the previous quote "...too many bees" from the You Suck at Craigslist blog. There's just something about bees.)

We also rocketed through the first season of MI-5 on Netflix streaming video.

And last night we went out with friends to see Despicable Me, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. :)



* I don't really want to explain what leads Manny, the bookstore's clerk, to end up concealed inside a piano playing the strings with spoons.

Comments

[fridgepunk]

Shows in which the plot of an episode revolves around a female character masturbating to the shipping forcast are inherently win.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I used to walk past the shop that's used as the outside shot to Black Books every single day on my way to university. Every time I watched the show I'd sit there going "I'm sure I've been past there..." until eventually I googled it.

I'm not sure if it actually is a bookshop in the real world though, it certainly had very old book editions on display in the window but the door was always shut on the way past (a rather imposing solid black house door) and no sign of any lights on. Before I knew it was Black Books (or had even seen the show) I always wanted to go in there and see what it was like. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was wondering if it was a real place, or a set cunningly disguised. XD

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Apparently it is a real book shop called Collinge & Clark (I could never see the sign properly when I went past), it specialises in "rare and secondhand books on the history of print, typography, illustration and design, and fine books from private presses." So it's just as well it always seemed to be closed on my way past, on my poor student pittance I'd have never been able to afford to go in there (old books call to me like evil paper-bound sirens!) :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nifty! XD

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

One artist's salute to "Black Books" (http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dw8126)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It is actually one of my boyfriend's real life ambitions to, at some point, somehow, existentially become Bernard Black.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is already there. XD

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

He doesn't drink enough. Bernard Black will die either from a) being beaten to death by a lynch mob of customers or, more likely, b) his own liver strangling him in a fit of misguided self-preservation.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He used to. That should count for something.

I think all of the group has slowly tapered off in drinking - it's now common for whoever's throwing a party to end up with more booze afterwards than when it started. :) (There's a couple of bottles in our liquor cabinet that we're tempted to mark on the bottom, then abandon at the next party and see how they circulate.)

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I am well aware of myrialux's history with spirits. I went to many of those parties. :)

I think we're all just getting a little less willing to hurt ourselves like that. Alcohol is, after all, a toxin, and our bodies will persistently remind us of that fact the day after, if we happen to forget.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Okay, so where's the "COVERED IN BEEEEEEEES!" quote by Eddie Izzard then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFRnhHI4mE

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We haven't watched enough Eddie Izzard yet. :) Netflix keeps recommending him to Toby, so it's probably only a matter of time. :)

[estara.livejournal.com]

When you get around to him, I'm fairly sure you'll enjoy a lot of his stuff, considering what you've liked so far.

[kungfufighting.livejournal.com]

"Half ten? I've never been awake at half ten! What happens?"

Black Books is FANTASTIC. Always good to see someone else enjoying it. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We've just finished watching the last two eps of Series 2 ... Series 3 in the mail next week. :D

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

My only regret about Black Books is that there isn't enough of it.

I enjoyed Despicable Me, especially the bit where Gru suffers through the children's book with the holes for fingers. Oh yes.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

"This is LITERATURE?!"