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Vive Le Wank! · 1W ago

The ‘Doobedy-DOO-DAH’ – A Modern Pop Melody You’ve Already Heard Far Too Much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWLpTKBFcU&ob=av2n I doubt this phenomenon began here, but for the purposes of this article, let’s use it as the locus classicus. I’m referring to the particular five-note motif that happens to be part of the driving melody of The Scientist, by Coldplay. As a testamen
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Vive Le Wank! · 1W ago

The ‘Doobedy-DOO-DAH’ – A Modern Pop Melody You’ve Already Heard Far Too Much

I doubt this phenomenon began here but for the purposes of this article, let’s use it as the locus classicus. I’m referring to the particular five-note motif that happens to be part of the driving melody of The Scientist, by Coldplay. As a testament to the very lack of imagination I’m trying to high
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Vive Le Wank! · 1M ago

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) – A Beano comic come to life.

Based on the series of all-ages novels by Gideon Defoe (who also has a writing credit on the movie), The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists tells the story of The Pirate Captain and his band of similarly literally-monikered cohorts. Their favourite pastimes include plundering, ham night, and a
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Vive Le Wank! · 1M ago

The Informant! – Comedy without the jokes.

Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a rising executive in one of America’s largest agricultural conglomerates. Following an encounter with the FBI, he confesses an international price-fixing conspiracy and volunteers himself for their services. As the investigation gains scale and momentum, a nagging ques
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Vive Le Wank! · 1M ago

The Informant! (2009) – Comedy Without The Jokes

Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a rising executive in one of America’s largest agricultural conglomerates. Following an encounter with the FBI, he confesses an international price-fixing conspiracy and volunteers himself for their services. As the investigation gains scale and momentum, a nagging ques
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Vive Le Wank! · 8M ago

10 Ways To Pick Up A Dutch Girl

There’s a certain argument regarding the feminist opposition to legal hookery that effectively warns of playing into the hands of chauvinists. The rise of the industry itself is a by-product of patriarchy and does much to reinforce less-than-enlightened expectations of women as a whole (no pun inten
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Vive Le Wank! · 8M ago

“10 Ways To Pick Up A Dutch Girl”

There’s a certain branch of feminist opposition to legal prostitution that warns of playing into the hands of male chauvinists.  The argument is that the rise of the industry itself is a by-product of our endemic patriarchy and does much to reinforce less-than-enlightened expectations of women as a
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Vive Le Wank! · 8M ago

Super (2010)

Frank D’Arbo (Rainn Wilson) leads a terrible life. He has a dead-end job, little in the way of friends, no family and his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler) has recently left him for sleazy strip club owner/drug dealer Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Spiralling into severe depression, he suffers a religious vision that
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Vive Le Wank! · 9M ago

Shoppinghour Issue 7

In an age of cuts and rioting somehow distinguishable from other ages of rioting and cuts, it’s always good to find bohemianism is still alive and well, and paying £4.30 for a bottle of beer. Is Dalston a particularly trendy hotspot? Not really for me to say, being the Surrey-bound interloper that I
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Vive Le Wank! · 9M ago

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

Brothers Andy (Phillip Seymor Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) Hanson have money trouble. The company where Andy works faces an upcoming audit, threatening to reveal the systematic embezzlement of funds that fuel his drug habit. Hank is behind on payments for his child support, as well as his daughte
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