Romeo & Juliet at the globe

I like Shakespeare, and the Globe theatre (london) is special, Recently i saw Romeo and Juliet.  I keep going back, and i got a ringside seat right at the front while swords and the like crossed.

The rest of the monkey house enjoyed it too.  It is energetic, ‘youthfull*’, bawdy in a great way and probably cleans up all those cleaner versions of this story we know something about.

5/5 bananas.  I recommend a vist and that you see something or other there.

* as the play specs Juliet is 14, not aged 60

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

is isbn: 1841957046, and deals with the greek myths of Odysseus and Penelope. Odysseus is the one who got lost in the Mediterranean  and who’s tale of sea monsters,gods,, and the occasional unhappy chicken thrown in means we all know something of the tale.

The book deals with his wife and mixes greek myth, perspective, and some victim mentally into the tale. It improves the Odysseus tale greatly and turns it from being ‘unbelievable’ into perhaps something more ‘real’.

A 5/5 Bananas rating worth a read.

Simon Pegg rules the Star Trek ‘reboot’

Bananas in the Falklands left the zoo to watch the latest Star Trek film.

The story is monkey shite sorry (as i predicted here [update]), but the casting is good on the whole but Simon Pegg is Mr Scott.

Half of the action sequences are not required but should prove to any idiot who works in tv that a well known brand name needs money some times and if you judge things by action alone your an idiot. Mind you since hollywood and tv execs [who killed star trek] are retarded by nature and it seems only respond to bangs and stuff that should make them happy.

The film shows the space inside the ship, that scale is good.  If this reboot is followed up and maintains the standards that the director sets then i would have no objections.

See the film for Simon Pegg (related post on hot fuzz), ignore the story as thats rubbish, and watch for the battlestar galactica camera angles.

I will not rate the film on my normal scale of bananas since it is not a film but a demo of what star trek can be for retarded studio execs who went penny pinching and screwed up a world wide media brand and how cool is that!

Is it true to the star trek legends and what ‘we’ think is true – i would say yes, if you think that liberties have been taken i’d say get a life to you, after all it is fiction.

Have you been doing this long ?

Hello seo’ers and scum, I do love pingbacks on this blog yes i do and when you pingback on a three years ago blog item i wrote and ask the the question – have you been doing this long means your rather screwed.

So lay off those spammer tools or let me add your domain name and ip to the addreesses that we all know spam. Yes

I love your blog too

however this blog is not a means to googlebomb, or make your site money as a link farm.

amazon.com’s ‘easter hating gays’ moment a one off, or future feature?

Amazon.com is a big shop on the internet, which for whatever faults it now has pushed bookseller from a rather stuffy  / lazy profession hence the quote from them before amazon that

“PEOPLE DON’T READ BOOKS”

into a dynamic business worldwide where it appears people do.However with big comes responsibility, the word monopoly might come into a discussion, and the one click patent trolling that amazon still engage in to today mean this beast needs monitoring.

you cant buy jack at amazon easily.

Cave dwellers will not know that amazon decided that any book with a hint of a gay theme – including Captain Jack from Torchwood (my blog) lost its rating on the the amazon .com site, however if your book was soemthing like how to train fighting dogs your safe.  So amazon went redneck for a bit.

so what’s the problem ? i hear some of you think.

Well – if you start delisting ‘alternative’ books how long before Harry Potter goes, or Stephanie Meyers book?s.  The world does not need extra censorship, in fact censorship is bad for amazon – for this book (my blog) i could not enrich the shareholders of amazon.com.

Granted that the books i read might not be best sellers, and im not likely to read the books that amazon it appears would prefer not to sell but if the only two books allowed to be printed where the bible and how to train fighting dogs then amazon.com would not have a business.

phew amazon think asterisk the gay gaul isnt gay.

If you read the blame game now that this was a cock up by  one tolerant french amazon employee caused the issue that does not ring true to me, and why it that english titles like Jack Barrowmans book got censored rather than say asterisk  (seen right) then explain that one away.

In short it does not add up.  However if you read about the tale of the book amazon would not sell me then you will know that ‘no’ isnt the final word yet.

Exploring the world of bookselling outside of amazon means there are much nicer websites thena amazon,  be different explore.  Why you should explore is that say a book deals with vampires or witchcraft and some loon complains and amazon repeat this with vampires then both as a shareholder it will help you investing and as a consumer supply you with the things you might need.

If those examples are bad try this if ‘god fearing folk’ have issues with most things, women leaders, eating pigs, sex etc  then pick a book up suppose a charles dickens book has strong female character, or emily brontes books might cause womens liberation then the danger is that these retards can both damage a business and have the ability to censor everyone.

The e-book – there kindle is also a means of future censorship, suppose Jane Eyre is banned as a e-book on the kindle, then the drm does not allow any non amazom.com content loaded.  You have censorship.

I’m off to purchase a copy how best to train pit bull fighting dog after all im sure they can be trained to bite and kill religous people.

Touring theatre: West Side Story

Bananas in the Falklands went to an theatre outside of London theatre to see West Side Story (in revival) with the tribe and quite enjoyed the performance. It’s Bit more edgy than the film and a few mis-castings as the male gang thing was a bit actorish and not like gangs are.

If you going to see West side story in the UK i recommend it as the minus points are minor.

From a society point of view today, many in the audience fail to grok the irony of piece in regard to the subject matter, which you can either find humorous, or a double standard.

Humans are strange lot.

blogroll changes

If you had not noticed Waiter goes, and Belle de Jour does too

Going legacy shopping with Tony and George.

team america world police fuck up

‘Good heavens’ shrieked the Professor near the monkey house where the fuck did everybody go. We all waved at the professor to prove our dedication and offered him a banana which he accepted and Ceasar who is the alpha male explained that because of raging free market dogma and lax administration by Tony Blair and George W Bush that most people are not really big into zoo visiting recently. Even Human divorces are down, that’s less single parents on Sunday chimed in Sally (our monkey of the brain sciences, and human iphone addiction specialist).

With the professor chilled* he asked me why we had not been blogging much about Blair and Bush. After all even the most retarded cockroach thinks Bush was a bit of a fuckup now.

So i explained that ‘i can save the middle east‘ Tony Blair and Nclear Bush are rather tired characters, after all having read Chomsky means these guys are pretty deluded. I said

Bush – When you have to invade the same country again in ten years, and Blair – well we all know if he was pet dog he’d be poodle and lets fact prof poodles are pretty boring to blog about.

generation kill, hbo

Professor agreed with me. – I added.

What’s most amusing is that in the case of Bush people are beginning to wake up to what this idiot was about – anybody with half a brain knew that Bush was spying on the american population and the rest. BUT WHEN THE MEDIA FINALLY FIGURE IT OUT, it makes the news again

Shopping get lost

Professor nodded and said humans are bit dumb so your not going legacy shopping with those two [blair and bush] them ? I said no way. But who knows somebody in Camden market might have a t-shirt that says something amusing about the pair**.

Professor said it was nice to see us all but he better get back, we said come round any time.

Anyhow that’s the problem everybody knows that Bush and Blair have not been good for humanity, but only now are the Rupert Murdoch Journalists getting it, Humans we all sighed.

The more slightly astute readers among you will notice i mention Generation Kill which is an american tv drama written by the the pair that did the wire, the corner, and homicide life on the street (a review of the book).

We never grokked the wire, its on dvd so if we become unlazy it should be easy to get. The Corner also overs that area well and just because most of humans never bothered to watch Homicide means your playing catchup, most of you humans probably don’t what a corner is.

So onto gen kill which is bit like ‘over there’ (my blog) and if your getting the feeling its a bit of a rehash bit like most lets invade Iraq twice because we didnt have enough fun the last time around

Generation Kill follows a team of marines through Iraq on invasion version 2, Its a minimal affair but since we know a bit about Iraqs fuckups under Paul Bremer (a book) this is very much rehash territory

It has merit – but WE KNOW, remember Jarhead (my blog)

3/5 Bananas

Humans…. wake up….

* research means professor does his stuff ** i am a knob / retard / i love poodles ! / i fixed the middle east good

Zorro the musical

from the guardian

Was the boxing day show in Deecember – Zorro [website] was created i understand by Johnston McCulley in 1919, it has been ruined by Hollywood and some ego’s (that welsh bitch and films i know about but have never seen) but the musical seems to have redeemed Mr McCulleys creation*.

It features a score by The Gipsy Kings, and Spanish Dance, and acting mix seemlessy rather than a compromise and bad acting by people whom cant act which is what the Hollywood types can do so well.

The show was seen since it was fun, and none of the people in it where from a television series to the best of our knowledge which is sure fire bet to turn us off seeing any theatre.

A ookingly fun time was had by all from the monkey house – 5/5 bananas

* there is a very funny joke about american wine in this.

Infra at the royal ballet

Wayne Macgregor, Max richter (a philip glass inspired composer) worked on a piece called ‘Infra’ Macgregor is now a creative there after refusing to join the ranks of the core after being invited to join the core*.

The dance piece is modern but even got a viewing on the bbc last week so theres no excuse to say i was washing my hair/fur/feathers or whatever you have.

I liked it, the ‘art’ it did not need, but then i was not looking at that.  It is moments like this that the bbc excels at but not very often.  Hidden away it as it was for all of your asbos.

5/5 Bananas.

* rare