Culture Vulture

Okay, it's been a while since I blogged, and nothing makes me happier than ranting about pop culture. So, here's an entry to make me very happy.

• First, after my heartless trashing of that godawful Cardiff episode a couple of weeks ago, I'm genuinely pleased to report that Dr Who did claw back a lot of good will with an excellent two part conclusion to the series. Even the Big Brother/Weakest Link satire stuff worked well, and I did expect that part to be utter piss.
• I saw Batman Begins on Sunday, and it was also really good. That's how Batman should be done on screen, everyone else take notes. The crazy driven guy who luckily is on the good side. Whoever thought to cast the serial killer from American Psycho as Batman definitely deserves a medal. The use of shiny new obscure villains such as Ra's Al Ghul also gets points from my inner nerd, and Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman were awesome at the Bat-backup. Sequel please.
• The Coldplay album is cool. As long as you ignore all that stuff they said about "reinventing their sound" or whatever and just go in expecting another well executed Coldplay album, you're unlikely to be disappointed. Admittedly, the Speed Of Sound single does sound too much like Clocks, but it's hardly a capital offence.
• The Tears' album is better, mostly because it actually managed not to sound like Suede, due to a focus on ballads, or at least mellower songs, rather than shouting. It does niggle at me that they continue to select the few catchy louder songs as singles and let the good stuff fester, but I'll cope, at least I've heard it all. Even the five minute song is quite nice.
• There's a new series of Scrubs on Channel 4, which makes me a very happy boy, as I'd forgotten how good this show is. Few things manage to mix comedy, drama and flat-out pathos so brilliantly, except of course my beloved West Wing. Miss it, miss out.

I have been trying to think of something I don't like to slot in here, just because there seems to be far too much positivity contained in this entry. I haven't yet seen the second episode of House, although I do have it taped, so I can't report yet on how that developed from a very promising start.

Oh, and just to fit in with everyone else, yes, results are tomorrow and I am very scared.

: 21 Jun 2005 11:37 |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem