Kojak overreacts. In the main she talks sense. However she is prone to hypocrisy when criticising people. Having given her the pleasure of my company on occasions, I can confirm she is a very dour indivudual who needs to get a down her neck more often.
I'm waiting for the next pm instruction from her. If anybody wants 'a chat' with Kojak stick it on here. She still looks on.
Darlings, luvvies... Keira Knightley - who has never exploited her looks in her life of course - now says she won't agree to appearing nude in a movie if the scene is being directed by a man. She says it's the "male gaze" that troubles her... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55795237 Fair enough I suppose. Nobody should do anything they are uncomfortable with. I believe however that Ms Knightley has already appeared nude or semi-nude in at least one of her back-catalogue movies, as well as in a glossy magazine photo-shoot. I'd be willing to bet the movies and the 'tasteful' topless magazine shoot were directed by men. Presumably the money Keira was paid to get her kit off helped to ease her discomfort at any male gazes she might have noticed.
For years now I've been enjoying the re-runs of Top of the Pops on BBC4... But now they're going through 1990, and every episode is crammed with utter sh1te Lucky if we see one decent tune every three or four episodes. 1990 has to be one of the worst ever years for chart music.
I was a teenager during the '80s. Bought hundreds of singles & albums between about '82 and '86, then a fair number of CD's too. But as the '80s came to an end I tuned out. First Stock, Aitken & Waterman then poor quality techno/dance rubbish (which outnumbered good quality tracks of that kind by about 100 to 1) killed the Charts for me. There was some good stuff around at the beginning of the '90s but there was too much crap as well. Awful cover versions that never, ever get played now even on the retro-music radio stations. After a few years Britpop came along and some of that was OK, but by then the golden era of TOTP was well and truly over. Satellite music channels began to fragment the audience. As I've got older I have appreciated some great stuff from the '60s & '70s that was originally before my time. But the 1990's onwards saw the beginning of the long term erosion of good music in my view. What passes for pop music today is homogenized, processed semolina. Nothing but a procession of 'smooth and tampered whores' (a lyric I remember from an old Crass single, though I cannot recall which one).
There was a lot of crap in the sixties too, but you also had the likes of Hendrix, the Beatles, Stones, Kinks. Hollies, Pink Floyd, So the crap gets forgotten.
