Fantastic Voyage
November 23, 2007As a follow-up to the previous entry, I’m now now re-reading The Shadow of the Torturer (which I’ve not read since it first appeared in paperback) – and enjoying it a lot more than Pirate Freedom! Maybe there are layers of meaning and relevancies in PF that I missed or didn’t consider particularly deep so I may track down a review or two to see what they say but I doubt I’ll go back to the book itself. Or maybe I’ll leave it a good quarter of a century like I have SotT!
The Mighty Boosh was on last night, parodying the 60s movie Fantastic Voyage, which I’ve always liked. They did it brilliantly! And the punks, jazz and Star Wars elements were neat, too. Better than the season opener last week, with luck the series will live up to it’s predecessors! One minor nit-pick is that their bogey-men like eel-man and jazz-virus always seem a bit too similar.
And now I wish I had made the effort to see them at the Fringe sometime – they played here for years and they never seemed quite what I wanted to see…
A pleasure to meet a fellow “Mighty Boosh” fan–that show, along with “Black Books” convince me that Brit humour still rules the airwaves (and is closest to my own macabre/surreal tastes). Haven’t seen “Fantastic Voyage” for a couple of years but it brings back some fond memories–perhaps it was just Raquel Welch in a wetsuit that did it (that and Donald Pleasance’s typically lovely performance as the devious baddie).
Fun post, keep ‘em up…
Thanks for the comment; if you like quirky brit humour out there on the plains of Saskatchewan* you could do worse than listen to Ben Moor. He tends more towards cute&quirky than macabre&quirky, though.
He’s on BBC Radio 7 at the momment with a couple of different series, the latest episodes of which are available on their Listen Again service
Elastic Planet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/programmes/#e
Undone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/programmes/#u
* I quite liked Saskatoon for the day or two I was there… nicer than Regina, imho.
That’s most of what I remember about your province, I’m afraid!
Mike
Absolutely bang-on about Saskatoon. I lived in Regina for years but Saskatoon is far hipper. Next week I’ll be driving in to Saskatoon (we live in a community about 75 minutes away) to see Tool in concert. In the past 18 months Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire and Pearl Jam have played in the city…the word is spreading.
Thanks for the tips on programming–I shall check out the links you provided. Good chattin’ with ye…