I was not a very worldly teenager. I hadn’t travelled, wasn’t too hot on pop culture or current events, tended to watch whatever my parents watched on TV. You could almost say a bit sheltered. So when I saw Adam Buxton dressed as a Klingon singing a terrible song about Star Trek: The Next Generation, … More Adam and Joe – Live at the BFI
The BFI is brilliant. As part of their Love season, they showed Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight one after the other and I think I ended up paying about £5 for each film. Ace! The Trilogy are three of my favourite films, but I haven’t ever seen them all in one go. I … More Baby, you are going to miss that plane
Husband and I were on our own for BUG 49 as Tim had a hipster party to attend. Dr Buckles was on sparkling form however, and showed a great selection of videos. My favourites: I haven’t heard of Stealing Sheep before, but this song led to us staying up late to listen to their album. … More Wow Balloons – BUG 49
Another photo of Dr Buckles on his bike signals another Bug review. I’ll need to think of more creative ways to photograph his lovely cycling pre-credits sequence. As with the last Bug, I didn’t love all of the songs, but I have become obsessed with one of them at least: Robin Schulz’s Sugar is insanely … More They’d Better Be Building a Kitchen – Bug 48
This blog will be peppered with photos of Dr Buckles on his bike if I keep going to see Bug. And I plan to keep going as watching music videos for a couple of hours is a very pleasurable way to spend an evening. I didn’t enjoy as much of the music in this show, but … More Stop Looking at the Monkey – Bug 47
As Tim pointed out to me, I haven’t actually been to a ‘proper’ Bug. My very first last year was hosted by Doc Brown so apparently doesn’t count but hurrah, I have now lost my Adam Buxton Bug virginity with a visit to Bug 46 on Friday night. We were mesmerised by Dr Buckle’s pre-show video of … More Space Comma – Bug 46
My birthday this year was very South Bank centric. Husband took me shopping first of all to buy part one of my present (to follow in a separate post) from a shop at the Oxo Tower, which is my new favourite place. We had coffee at the Cafe Nero there which was almost empty, despite … More It was a unicorn, and the horn broke off, so now it’s a zebra
I read Jezebel. I know, shocking right? So I have been well aware of the buzz around Obvious Child. It was definitely on my “to see” list but I expected to wait a really long time to see it. However after my visit to the BFI a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that they … More Just out, doing some light stalking
Last night, I attended a screening of Beyond Clueless at the BFI, a Kickstarted film made by the blogger Ultra Culture, also known as Charlie Lyne. It’s a “a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics.” A bit of a … More You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet
I have been trying to get tickets for Adam Buxton’s BUG for such a long time. I’ve either been out of the country, away for work, or the tickets have sold out before I got to them, and for a while it felt like I was destined to never see BUG live. So when my … More BUG 41
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