Music, Books, Films & Telly 'n' Shit

Does anyone have to watch Bake Off Creme de la Creme (Mrs L is a big fan) - a show I find intensely annoying with the judges right up themselves - why does it matter if you make 30 odd cakes whether they're all the same size? to take a ruler to cakes is ridiculous - they're just fucking cakes!

Plus the judges are so humorless - and the French guy just seems to be a caricature of a Frenchman - I'm sure he's purposely over exaggerating his accent.

My wife watched that yesterday and I agree with all you say and add that if I was on set I wouldn't of managed to last the first ten minutes before punching Angus Deayton. 

I would consider myself a foodie in as much as I like to cook good food and am always open to trying something new but the sheer array of cooking programmes on TV astonishes me. I've never watched Bake Off, in fact the only TV cookery show I can ever remember seeing regularly was Ready, Steady, Cook! which at least had some value as it was; "here's £5 off random ingredients, let's see what you can do with these" - a bit like my fridge at home. I even caught the German version while on holiday; Kochduell, which sounds far more interesting than it was and let's face it there's only so much you can do with a Bratwurst.

Sara used to like Bake off and all the Master chef programs but then again she also like to watch the massive weight loss programs too. I have some cooking books but watching people cook and then eat is beyond my comprehension.

Just preordered the deluxe edition of Purple Rain which comes out in June.

I was at a music festival on Saturday and for once it wasn't full of phone-using arseholes.
There were very few people standing talking either apart from just after the final act came on - 2 ladies who were clearly long-lost friends (I had seen them chatting earlier) managed to drown out the music for a few minutes.

You gotta love those Weegies

It didn't spoil a good day though.

Enjoyed Rougue One. Watched Selma, the Martin Luther King biopic. Great acting, thought-provoking, but missing a tiny something that I can't quite put my finger on. It may be that when dealing with the heroic/noble-but-assassinated that film-makers are so wary of any implicit criticism or suggestion of imperfection that they don't dig too deeply into their protagonist.

Currently four episodes into... Into The Badlands. Not bad so far, rather far fetched, but watchable. The Baron's (played by the baddie from the Equalizer) southern accent is amusing, but not as bad as Ray Winstone doing American.

With artwork like that, perhaps you need to cover 'Dead leaves and the dirty ground' by the White Stripes?

The original photo before alteration was taken in portrai mode on my phone.

But yes, cassette only. Only the uber-hip will be able to get a copy.