I love the smell of misanthropy in the morning. It smells like....ah, what's the point in even finishing this sentence. We're all fucked, anyway. ;)
Hah, I warned a Hungarian friend before she came here for a three-month tenure that the British, once described by early Roman visitors as an exceptionally comely people, have morphed into a race of hominid potatoes with dimly-lit eyes, and a mien dowdy to the point of pastiche. She agreed with me, and worse, by the time she left. We do tend to foster pretty rich imaginations on these shores, though. P'raps most of us have such lively inner-worlds that we let our outer shells go to seed.
Had that Leigh movie on the backburner for awhile, but I'll get to it soon. I don't think ANYONE will top Naked, let alone Leigh himself, but we'll see.
Great interview/mini-doc of sorts between Will Self and Mike Leigh: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAo-43C2xnc
|