Just A Couple Of Things

I'll be going back into London tomorrow morning in order to get the train back out again so I can go to Lancaster. I'll be back on Monday. Tasha is starting up a drama workshop for children up there, and I'm going for the launch of it.

I got The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash on DVD today in MVC on the way home. Now, I watched this so many times during my great Beatle obsession that I knew all the words to the Rutles songs. Haven't seen it in a long old time...

It's fucking genius. Not just the songs, which if they weren't parodies could be great pop songs in their own right and manage to be perfect parodies of the original material- Neil Innes is great like that. The whole thing is perfect, man. Just the fact that they get costumes and stuff spot on as Beatle things, from the perfect replica costumes to twisted things like Rutle Corps with the banana logo or Stig Has Been Dead For Years, Honestly and the Rat Keller and just... it's amazing, really.

The greatest moment, however? The second you realise who's playing a grey-haired, moustachioed news correspondent reporting outside Rutle Corps. What kind of audacious parody of the Beatles gets George Harrison to take the piss? What kind of audacious parody as George The Reporter interviewing Ronnie Wood the Hells Angel about Stig (the George Rutle) getting beaten up by 'Big Valerie', a 12 year old girl?

It's just genius.

Just A Couple Of Things

I'll be going back into London tomorrow morning in order to get the train back out again so I can go to Lancaster. I'll be back on Monday. Tasha is starting up a drama workshop for children up there, and I'm going for the launch of it.

I got The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash on DVD today in MVC on the way home. Now, I watched this so many times during my great Beatle obsession that I knew all the words to the Rutles songs. Haven't seen it in a long old time...

It's fucking genius. Not just the songs, which if they weren't parodies could be great pop songs in their own right and manage to be perfect parodies of the original material- Neil Innes is great like that. The whole thing is perfect, man. Just the fact that they get costumes and stuff spot on as Beatle things, from the perfect replica costumes to twisted things like Rutle Corps with the banana logo or Stig Has Been Dead For Years, Honestly and the Rat Keller and just... it's amazing, really.

The greatest moment, however? The second you realise who's playing a grey-haired, moustachioed news correspondent reporting outside Rutle Corps. What kind of audacious parody of the Beatles gets George Harrison to take the piss? What kind of audacious parody as George The Reporter interviewing Ronnie Wood the Hells Angel about Stig (the George Rutle) getting beaten up by 'Big Valerie', a 12 year old girl?

It's just genius.