the lass is seeing PiL tonight dahn sarf
Brix Smith is supporting
why the FUCK am I up here
Watched that third Pistol episode, thing. It's a bit.. naff. I almost like it, I can't not watch it.
Lydon actor is trying. Probably the best one in it. I think a Johnny Rotten impression is very easy to get wrong. They ruined Chrissie Hynde IMO, made her a Zooey Deschanel punk girl next door. What?? Nick Kent also... that ain't Nick Kent. I like Nick Kent. He so, so so got the Stooges and even the Modern Lovers who I just don't see talked about (I wear my Modern Lovers shirt at work, someone has to). He was on smack a lot. He was a rake thin fop, not the trendy Bloke this sort of has him as. It's nice to see a Nick Kent role though. Interesting dude, possibly my fav out of the whole scene.
Boyle is... I dunno. Like there's repeated flashbacks and other clunky stuff, dialogue repeated in case you missed it playing on your Samsung smartphone. The dialogue needs a craft knife taken to it.
I'm having fun spotting people I recognise from England's Dreaming. It's, broadly, truthful, but stylised and so heavily on the mythology. MY ROMANTIC NIGHT UP ON SPEED LEARNING BASS sort of stuff. Yeah, I've met a punk bassist in the Swan who really taught himself that way. Where's the grime in this show though? The costomes and feel is pretty good, but it's missing that.... Reality, which let's be honest, is sometimes cringeworthy and on the nose. Sid was bitten by Johnny's hamster. I just want more grit
Halfway through and it's mainly setup and the rest of the story is pretty horrible so I expect it to be a bumpy ride. By miles, the best bits are the band - the actors - with instruments.
The hindsight problem. Some of this stuff was momentous. But it's written with hindsight, clearly
In the sense of like... I feel like, personally, I would have watched ANY Pistols series, for reasons of history, self-knowledge, yknow. Not to be ignorant my whole life. The Pistols were the boyband for a nascent movement, McLaren is sort of worthy of a lot more speculation than this seems to suggest so far, if you want to play the historian.
Better than Yesterday, which is trash unreality, I'm not having that in my house. Better than the half of that Mr Robot Mercury film I saw half of - I don't want the untruth.
It's all very clean isn't it?
The lass, younger than me, been in bands, loves it. Loves Lydon. So if it's touching a new generation, good.
Two years after Never Mind the Bollocks, Thatcher gets in. Punk, as in the spirit of DIY, anti-establishment, it's your actions... that never went away
I wish it was made by 1996 Danny Boyle so bad.
