Things that make you go oooooooo aka These are a few of my favourite things - The Bear and Badger

davyK

My first experience of Escher was a few examples of his work in a little booklet of mathematical oddities my uncle got from Readers' Digest when he bought a few series of their books. Belvedere is probably my favourite piece of his.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oddities-Pictures-Figures-Readers-Digest/dp/0276000838

This little book also introduced me to the Tangram - another great little thing that should be on my list.

Love animals too - just like looking at them and being near to them gives me pleasure and never fails to make me smile.

davyK

Kow wrote:

Some great stories in there, apart from the usual ones, long forgotten now probably.

Shako was the polar bear one - I liked that. Liked Invasion too. The first Flesh series was great - surprised someone hasn't tried a film version of that post Jurassic Park.

I also liked the first run of the Harlem Heroes and Mach 1.

Pretty much liked it all really. The only duff series they had was one called Rick Random which was a bore-fest.

Kow

The Stainless Steel Rat and Ace Trucking. Always liked Bellardinelli's mad art style.

Kow

Although the Steel Rat was probably Ezquerra now that I think of it. Loved the books too.

Jaco

Andy wrote:

The films of Mel Gibson I know that Mel the man is problematic, and I know he’s not the best actor (although I would say many are unfair in their criticism of his acting ability) but he just utterly engages me when he’s on the screen, and it’s rare for me to dislike a film he’s in.

With you here mate. Ignoring the issues with his real-life persona, he's very watchable. Some of my favourite films star him – Lethal Weapon, Maverick, Braveheart, Ransom, Payback, Mad Max etc. I think (as an actor) he's great.

Andy wrote:

Green Day I know some people will snort at this, but I don’t care. Like so many people, the first I knew of them was Basket Case, and I got hooked. They became probably my third musical obsession (Queen, then R.E.M., if you were wondering) and the group from my youth that I probably listen to most often now. While I’m never likely to get the sleeve I mentioned above, I’m very likely to get, “There’s nothing wrong with me, this is how I’m supposed to be,” tattooed on me at some point.

Also this. I love Green Day. Got in to them about the same time as you (Dookie is a cracking album, definitely their best), and love pretty much everything they've done. Kerplunk! and Nimrod are on my permanent 'best of' playlist.

davyK

yeah - the Rat was Ezquerra. I like his art in patches. Bellardinelli and Bolland were favourites of mine.

Robo Hunter was another good un. Just remembered Wolfie Smith too.

And when it merged with Starlord it picked up some crackers like Strontium Dog and Robusters (ABC Warriors was a spin off from that). Blackhawk was a good un which was picked up when a comic called Tornado folded.

Meltdown Man and Return to Armageddon were two excellent one-offs.

Kow

Ah, the good old days of going down to the newsagent to pick up my reserved issue, with my name written on it - probably a collector's nightmare.

bad_hair_day

You just made me smile.

davyK

Kow wrote:

Ah, the good old days of going down to the newsagent to pick up my reserved issue, with my name written on it - probably a collector's nightmare.

Yup. And the horror of the odd time it hadn't arrived....

cockbeard

Andy wrote:

Green Day
I know some people will snort at this, but I don’t care. Like so many people, the first I knew of them was Basket Case, and I got hooked. They became probably my third musical obsession (Queen, then R.E.M., if you were wondering) and the group from my youth that I probably listen to most often now. While I’m never likely to get the sleeve I mentioned above, I’m very likely to get, “There’s nothing wrong with me, this is how I’m supposed to be,” tattooed on me at some point.

Absolute bollocks to music snobbery, for every hundred kids who pick up a Green Day album, a few might then grab Descendents, Ramones, Fugazi, whoever? Everyone needs a starting point, as for the music being poppy or accessible what's wrong with that? I love The Jam, it's easy to forget that there first 6 or 7 singles all went straight to number one, and that was a lot harder back then. Top band, I don't listen to as much as I used to and I feel stupid for that, and releasing an album with several songs about wankng and smoking when we were teenagers was genius

Moot_Geeza

The films of Gibbo are worth a watch too. Braveheart is stupidly enjoyable, but imo Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are both genuinely excellent. Whisper it, but I'm not against the idea of him having a crack at The Wild Bunch.

EFifty

Apocalypo is class. Get the Gringo is definitely worth a watch too if you haven't seen it.

Unlikely

bad_hair_day wrote:

You just made me smile.

Me too. Nostalgiatastic.

JMW

Sort of Cocko, was the Jam’s later singles and three went straight in at no.1 (4 no.1s in total I think). Still staggering though, and all by the time Paul Weller was 24.

regmcfly

cockbeard wrote:

Andy wrote:

Green Day
I know some people will snort at this, but I don’t care. Like so many people, the first I knew of them was Basket Case, and I got hooked. They became probably my third musical obsession (Queen, then R.E.M., if you were wondering) and the group from my youth that I probably listen to most often now. While I’m never likely to get the sleeve I mentioned above, I’m very likely to get, “There’s nothing wrong with me, this is how I’m supposed to be,” tattooed on me at some point.

Absolute bollocks to music snobbery, for every hundred kids who pick up a Green Day album, a few might then grab Descendents, Ramones, Fugazi, whoever? Everyone needs a starting point, as for the music being poppy or accessible what's wrong with that? I love The Jam, it's easy to forget that there first 6 or 7 singles all went straight to number one, and that was a lot harder back then. Top band, I don't listen to as much as I used to and I feel stupid for that, and releasing an album with several songs about wankng and smoking when we were teenagers was genius

100% on with this. When my dad learned that 13 year old me was into Blink / Offspring / Green Day et Al, he let me take his clash and jam albums and as a result I then got into sham 69, the damned and misfits. That was sure formative for me.

Never got into Sex Pistols tho

poprock

JMW wrote:

Sort of Cocko, was the Jam’s later singles and three went straight in at no.1 (4 no.1s in total I think). Still staggering though, and all by the time Paul Weller was 24.

And Weller has never done anything even close to as good since.

regmcfly

INCORRECT

poprock

NO, CORRECT.

regmcfly

NON CORRECT

SpaceGazelle

THE SEX PISTOLS WERE SHITE.

SpaceGazelle

I don't why I'm shouting that.

Tempy

regmcfly

Yes the sex pistols are shite and were bandwagon jumpers and therefore the Menswear of punk.

Goodbye

poprock

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I don't why I'm shouting that.

It it because shouting is punk?

Paul the sparky

Paul Weller should never be forgiven.

SpaceGazelle

Drunk you say? I suppose they might have been.

FranticPea

The Sex Pistols are the reason alot of my favourite bands started, so I'll give them that.

Yossarian

regmcfly wrote:

Yes the sex pistols are shite and were bandwagon jumpers and therefore the Menswear of punk.

Goodbye

Weird how many bands formed after being inspired by them.

SpaceGazelle

The first one looks like a hobbit Roy Hattersley.

Yossarian

But yes, the Pistols are 100% in my favourite things.

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