Comments on: Fireside Chat http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: sceptre http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-593 sceptre Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:39:29 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-593 "Hip Hopera" is hardly a new term anyway - there was a 2001 "re-working" of Carmen movie made by MTV called "Carmen: A Hip-Hopera". No marks for originality there then either. “Hip Hopera” is hardly a new term anyway - there was a 2001 “re-working” of Carmen movie made by MTV called “Carmen: A Hip-Hopera”. No marks for originality there then either.

]]> By: fústar http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-330 fústar Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:23:57 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-330 Just trying to get over the image of a "UHT-lactating gravy train" being driven by Mr. Kelly...or one of his sycophants... I'm sure the only reason he calls his curious musical fusion "Hip Hopera" is because he (one day) noticed that 'Opera' begins with the 'Op' that 'Hip Hop' ends in (if you see what I mean). What a discovery! No doubt he thought himself fierce clever at (apparently) being the first person in history to spot this opportunity for lame word games... Just trying to get over the image of a “UHT-lactating gravy train” being driven by Mr. Kelly…or one of his sycophants…

I’m sure the only reason he calls his curious musical fusion “Hip Hopera” is because he (one day) noticed that ‘Opera’ begins with the ‘Op’ that ‘Hip Hop’ ends in (if you see what I mean). What a discovery!

No doubt he thought himself fierce clever at (apparently) being the first person in history to spot this opportunity for lame word games…

]]> By: foolhardy http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-329 foolhardy Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:15:20 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-329 Londoner, this is a 12 episode cack fest in the guise of an artistic endeavour. R Kelly is the pop world's George W Bush - a man of grossly limited ability surrounded by sycophantic yes men whose sole intention is to milk the gravy train as long as it stays on track (only in this case it's lactating UHT). Mr Kelly presents to us his vision of the future of entertainment which he, somewhat hilariously (but no doubt seriously), calls "Hip Hopera"! Think "Cop-rock", then, swiftly, think again. Londoner,
this is a 12 episode cack fest in the guise of an artistic endeavour. R Kelly is the pop world’s George W Bush - a man of grossly limited ability surrounded by sycophantic yes men whose sole intention is to milk the gravy train as long as it stays on track (only in this case it’s lactating UHT).
Mr Kelly presents to us his vision of the future of entertainment which he, somewhat hilariously (but no doubt seriously), calls “Hip Hopera”!
Think “Cop-rock”, then, swiftly, think again.

]]> By: Londoner http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-328 Londoner Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:58:59 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-328 Hmmm, Trapped in the Closet By R Kelly - sounds more like a harrowing court transcript than an artistic endeavourer -there's no way i'm googling that. Hmmm, Trapped in the Closet By R Kelly - sounds more like a harrowing court transcript than an artistic endeavourer -there’s no way i’m googling that.

]]> By: foolhardy http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-327 foolhardy Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:25:20 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-327 This is an aside I know but have any of you seen "Trapped in the Closet" By R Kelly? If so, your comments would be most welcome. If no, then do your utmost to see the most bewildering thing to be filmed since Breakdance II - Electric Boogaloo or, indeed, Howard the Duck. Top tip: watching it with subtitles enhances the experience. This is an aside I know but have any of you seen “Trapped in the Closet” By R Kelly? If so, your comments would be most welcome. If no, then do your utmost to see the most bewildering thing to be filmed since Breakdance II - Electric Boogaloo or, indeed, Howard the Duck.
Top tip: watching it with subtitles enhances the experience.

]]> By: copernicus http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-326 copernicus Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:30:50 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-326 Mr. Blake could take a leaf out of McGonagall's book and really connect with romantic engineering disasters to rocktastic effect. Mr. Blake could take a leaf out of McGonagall’s book and really connect with romantic engineering disasters to rocktastic effect.

]]> By: fústar http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-325 fústar Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:45:08 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-325 I hope you're not suggesting we compare the stupefyingly strained verse of W. T. McGonagall with the elegant lyrics of (the BPLO's) David Blake esq? Speaking of which, I wonder has anyone put McG's ballads to music..? I hope you’re not suggesting we compare the stupefyingly strained verse of W. T. McGonagall with the elegant lyrics of (the BPLO’s) David Blake esq?

Speaking of which, I wonder has anyone put McG’s ballads to music..?

]]> By: copernicus http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-324 copernicus Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:25:38 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-324 Incredibly, today's guardian also includes a lenghty and scholarly disputation on <a href="http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/index.shtml">McGonagall</a>, laureate of the silvery Tay; a balladeer whose oeuvre this <a href="http://www.fustar.org/2005/10/10/37/">blog has failed to ignore</a>, and with good reason. Incredibly, today’s guardian also includes a lenghty and scholarly disputation on McGonagall, laureate of the silvery Tay; a balladeer whose oeuvre this blog has failed to ignore, and with good reason.

]]> By: copernicus http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-322 copernicus Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:12:27 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-322 Joe Sacco strip online at guardian books today. It's a pdf document. Joe Sacco strip online at guardian books today. It’s a pdf document.

]]> By: fústar http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-321 fústar Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:26:18 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-321 Well, doesn't that pretty much put the 'dink' in 'co-ink-ee-dink'. I was just listening to "El Corte Ingles" myself as I sip a glass of wine and prepare for bed (puting on my man-sized babygrow and saying my prayers). Mighty stuff altogether. Well, doesn’t that pretty much put the ‘dink’ in ‘co-ink-ee-dink’.

I was just listening to “El Corte Ingles” myself as I sip a glass of wine and prepare for bed (puting on my man-sized babygrow and saying my prayers).

Mighty stuff altogether.

]]> By: copernicus http://www.fustar.info/2006/01/21/fireside-chat/#comment-320 copernicus Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:20:38 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2006/01/20/80/#comment-320 Gig last night was most impressive. If Dave is logging on, I've relistened to El Corte Ingles and on mature consideration feel it hits the right level of abstraction as it is. I still can't afford to shop there, however. Gig last night was most impressive.

If Dave is logging on, I’ve relistened to El Corte Ingles and on mature consideration feel it hits the right level of abstraction as it is.

I still can’t afford to shop there, however.

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