This won a prize for BEST TOP at the Tolbooth Tavern last week.
I don’t always give a prize for Best Top but sometimes if I have a prize spare and I spot a great top, then I do.
This chap got a scratchcard for his seal and I can’t remember rightly but I THINK he won bugger all.
Can’t quite recall.
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On the Ken Bruce Society Facebook page, everyone likes a moan when someone is standing in for Ken.
It’s just not as good.
But it’s easy to criticize.
Ken makes it sound easy. Off the top of my head, here’s some of the things he’s got to do in the fifteen minutes between 1030 and 1045:
And probably loads more.
Anyone can push buttons but fewer can present Popmaster properly.
Ken rules.
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Hooray for The Happy Gang. Winners last week at the Joker and always in the hunt for the prizes.
Nifty with the pen too when it comes to drawing contests.
Quality team.
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Quizzes Tonight:
7pm – Argyle Bar (Cellar). Jackpot £30. Cheat answer: Mariah Carey (pic round)
9pm – The Newsroom. Jackpot £50. Cheat answer: Bad Company (music round).
The cheat answers for tonight include this song by Bad Company: It’s a song called ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’ which is a song about a guy who really wants to have sex, soon.
This is from the 1970s when men tried to attract female mates via the use of wide-hemmed trousers. It didn’t work, the baby-boom crashed and the population took a hit until the 80s brought sexy back.
Anyway, as you do know: Thursday is currently MOVIE Thursday: I’m counting down the list of my ten favourite films of all time.
Here is the chart so far:
10 .Flash Gordon (1980)
9. Jesus Christ Superstar (1979)
8. The Good The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
7. Zardoz (1974)
6. Das Boot (1981)
5. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
4. Hair (1979)
3. Mary Poppins (1964)
This week:
Whoa! Aliens have invaded Planet Earth, have taken over, are running the whole thing… AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN REALISE IT
This is the concept of ‘They Live’ which stars wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper who uncovers the aliens and then faces a race to save his life.
This happens when he accidentally puts on some sunglasses which show the world for what it truly is: a shitshow run by intergalactic freaks who control your mind every day:
It turns out EVERYTHING has a hidden subliminal but then THEY know that he knows:
Then there’s a top class fight where Roddy Piper forces the other bloke to wear the shades
Look, even if you don’t watch the movie – watch the fight scene:
I don’t even like fight scenes, but this is good. It’s also epic, as in long – over 5 minutes. This post explains why the fight is so long.
Are you trying to say you don’t like dancing penguins?
In lots of ways, They Live is slightly shite – it’s essentially a B-Movie, but I watched it again a couple of years ago after a long time and it’s still compelling and great and it’s one of those films that you are constantly reminded of by the real world.
Just do as you’re told, citizens.
Next week: THE NUMBER ONE MOVIE OF ALL TIME
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See you tonight
Cheers,
Dr Paul
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Quizzes Tonight:
7pm – Argyle Bar (Cellar). Jackpot £60. Cheat answer: Chef (music round)
9pm – The Newsroom. Jackpot £50. Cheat answer: Pablo Picasso (pic round).
The cheat answers for tonight include this song by Chef out of South Park:
The song is about snacks but also kind of about his bollocks. This is why South Park became so popular in the late 90s. There wasn’t much else to do.
Anyway, as dedicated readers will know: Thursday now MOVIE Thursday: I’m in the middle of a list of my ten favourite films of all time.
The chart so far:
10 .Flash Gordon (1980)
9. Jesus Christ Superstar (1979)
8. The Good The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
7. Zardoz (1974)
6. Das Boot (1981)
5. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
This week:
Definitely the greatest film ever made. It’s got a pounding soundtrack, hippies who appear to live wild in New York City, life death, babies and LSD trips mixed up with the Hare Krishna tribe.
I think I watched this once a month during 1994 which is when my group of friends discovered this movie that by then was already a relic.
I was too young to be a 1970s hippy but I’d been vaguely fascinated with this subculture before. My favourite character out of ‘The Young Ones’ was Neil and what teenager doesn’t want to be Danny out of ‘Withnail And I’?
But this American film gave a new spin to my understanding of 70s hippies: they could also be cool, blag their way into high-society parties and execute some pretty nifty pre-rehearsed song-and-dance routines.
The film evolved from an earlier stage musical. Apparently the musical’s writers thought the film wasted the original story and was a poor adaptation but I’ve seen a stage production and it was tedious compared to this grand entertainment.
Watch it but don’t ask for it to make much sense at all until it gets near the end and suddenly there is a real and possibly fatal human drama on top of all the sexy foolery of the last hour.
If the movie didn’t thump you with big emotions at the end it would probably be worth a single watch. But the heartbreak keeps me coming back, as do the songs and the mad set pieces.
e.g:
The horse ride in the park for the song ‘Sodomy’
Claude’s trip:
The bit where Woof won’t have his hair cut for a short spell in jail and is subsequently interrogated to find out if he is gay. He sings his way out of trouble, of course:
There’s load more but you have to watch the film. It’s the greatest film ever made and I fear that I have left no room to improve for my top 3. I’m gonna have to think hard to come up with something for next week.
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See you tonight
Cheers,
Dr Paul
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It was Valentine’s Day last night (at both quizzes).
Valentine’s is always a weird night. There are couples who never go out with each other and have no idea what to do. They are awkward.
Some of the groups of single people are awkward. Awkwardness hangs in the air like Lynx Africa.
This was more true at the Newsroom, being a city centre venue. The Argyle was quieter as the romantic pairs were probably all in Salvatore’s instead. We’ll never know. It was certainly more relaxed and that’s why I went for the ROSES ARE RED contest there.
Simple instructions: write a four line poem where the first line is “Roses are red”.
Here are the results.
Roses are red
Violets are too
I’m Colourblind
And fucking hate poetry.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I have a knife
Get in the van
Roses are red
Love is dead
Maddy McCann’s skin
Covers my shed.
Roses are red,
May is absurd.
They want to leave the EU,
But you can’t polish a turd.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry is dead,
And so are U2.
Roses are red
My baws are blue.
My gooch is broken,
My sex life is too.
There you go. These works were all written in the space of a few minutes. See how easy it goes? You too can be a great artsit.
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Quizzes Tonight:
7pm – Argyle Bar (Cellar). Jackpot £30. Cheat answer: Kenya (pic round)
9pm – The Newsroom. Jackpot £50. Cheat answer: Cream (music round).
Well done to The Chameleons who won the big money at the Argyle last Thursday. Everything is back to normal now.
Remember: Valentine’s Day is a real thing. Buy him/her a rose. Take him/her to the pub quiz. She/he will love it and, by extension, you.
Here is the cheat music help for tonight. It refers to the music round at the Newsroom and it is Cream:
Excellent.
Anyway, Thursday now MOVIE Thursday where I use this blog to detail my ten favourite films of all time.
The chart so far:
10 .Flash Gordon (1980)
9. Jesus Christ Superstar (1979)
8. The Good The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
7. Zardoz (1974)
6. Das Boot (1981)
This week:
Pretty much the greatest film ever made. Did I say that last week? Of course I did. But this is better.
This is one of a handful of films that I paid money to see at a cinema twice.
When I watched this in 2004 I was amazed, knew the missus had to see it, so I took her and saw it again the very next day. I don’t think she liked it as much as I did.
Wes Anderson has probably made “better” movies. I saw ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ and I remember thinking at the time that both were better than Life Aquatic but Life Aquatic still remains in my head in a way that the others haven’t.
Mind you, it was probably the first Wes Anderson film I’d seen so I hadn’t become jaded about the style which, admittedly, gets slightly samey the more of his movies you watch.
One thing that makes the film stick is the music. You’ve got the guy doing the Bowie songs in Portuguese and that’s pretty cool but it’s the Mark Mothersbaugh electronic soundtrack stuff that proper got me and still rocks me.
Like this:
The film is basically a father-son drama (which so many of Anderson’s films are) but, under Bill Murray’s reign as king of his own boat, there is a special, believable madness which draws you in and an attractive disregard for real geography, and real oceanography.
Here is a tour of the boat:
The film is so utterly and obviously completely made-up, but equally feels just about real and possible and you end up sympathizing with nearly everyone in the film. There are no real heroes or villains, everyone is suffering one way or another.
Owen Wilson feels, for once, that he’s not just playing Owen Wilson. All the casting is perfect. It’s a film that makes you wish you were part of the team in the film, in this case the crew of the Belafonte… which is the opposite of last week’s film Das Boot where every fibre of your viewer’s body makes you glad you are NOT part of the crew.
Although it is sad, and people do die.
I would watch this film again in a moment. Maybe I’ll watch it when I get home from the quiz tonight.
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See you tonight
Cheers,
Dr Paul
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Quizzes tonight:
7pm – The Joker & The Thief. Jackpot £30. Cheat: Marc Chagall (pic round)
9pm – Brass Monkey, Drummond Street. Jackpot £30 Cheat: The Chi-Lites (music round)
It’s half-term. Kids are everywhere. There’s only one way to escape them and that’s to come to the pub, get wasted on booze and do the quiz.
Here’s tonight’s music round cheat-o which is for the Brass Monkey at 9 o clock:
This is the best of all possible hair and the sweetest of sad soul.
This is the 1970s, a time and a place which is barred to us. Time travel is not real – youtube is as close as we can get.
There are a set of break-up records from the mid-seventies where you really feel for the guy singing.
As a child, these sad-story soul songs are some of the first pop records I can remember hearing and I believed that every word was true and related personally to the singer.
I used to feel so sorry for them, until I realised pop was poetic license and only quizzes were the truth.
I’m talking about records like Sylvia’s Mother and There Goes My First Love.
Pure weep.
Anyway – you’ll be weeping tonight if you miss the quiz. Also, with one day to Valentine’s – maybe tonight is the night you will meet the human of your dreams. All you have to do is be bright and witty at the quiz. It’s like a magnet.
Love,
Dr P
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Quizzes in Edinburgh Tonight:
7pm – Brass Monkey Leith. Jackpot:£50. Cheat: Pomeranian (pic round)
9pm – Safari Lounge. Jackpot £30. Cheat news: The Pixies (pic round)
This is Monday. The start of something big. Or just bloody half-term, if you have kids.
Don’t have kids? See people looking frazzled? Wondering what the problem is? It’s half-term.
Anyway, that’ not important. What IS important is the quiz,
Here’s the cheat music for tonight’s quiz at the Safari. It’s one of my own favourite acts, The Pixies.
I couldn’t find a decent video, so it’s just music. Worth a listen though.
So it’s minimum jackpots at the quizzes tonight but come along anyway. Your knowledge, wit and good looks may be enough to snare a lover. It is, after all, Valentine‘s week – and in those few days leading up to the 14th, some single people get just a little more desperate.
But there are plenty of others who couldn’t care less, so don’t make assumptions. Just be yourself.
Yo,
Dr P
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Quizzes in Edinburgh Tonight:
7pm – Brass Monkey Leith. Jackpot:£100. Cheat: The Byrds (music round)
9pm – Safari Lounge. Jackpot £30. Cheat news: Cabaret (pic round)
Well, we have a rollover at the Brass Monkey Leith, a rare pleasure. Come and get your filthy grubby hands all over the £100 and then piss it up the wall or save it. I don’t mind which.
Well done to the Speckies who took the slightly large pot at the Safari last week which means we are back to basics in Abbeyhill tonight, as if there were any other way.
The cheat music for tonight’s quiz at the Brass Monkey Leith. It’s the Byrds who existed in the 1960s and, without looking up Wikipedia, I’ll guess that exactly half of them are now dead. I’ll look it up while you’re watching the video:
Right, there are five of them, so the prediction of half is going to be wrong.
The video is from 1965, so from that line up THREE are alive and TWO are dead. The dead ones have almost identical surnames: Clark and Clarke. I don’t think this is significant.
Anyway, they are 40% dead and 60% alive. Nice going.
Maybe some of the alive ones will come to the quiz tonight. You never know when you’re going to meet some auld guy who was a star in the sixties.
Yo,
Dr P
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