On Saturday morning I watched, as usual, Newswatch which gives viewers the
opportunity to criticise the BBC news broadcasts....this week the viewers launched
into the total waste of airtime given to the Government's Christmas parties.....and the
biassed reporting by the Beeb......needless to say there was no-one to comment live
from the news section but as usual they wrote a comment saying they feel they have
got it right....in the many years I have been watching television I have never seen it so
bad....The BBC should print their news on a piece of paper which you could nail up in
an outside toilet where it belongs.
Golf at St.Andrews wont be the same anymore as they have severed their
connection with the golfer formerly known as Prince.....so the Banned old Duke of
York will no longer be including many rounds of golf amongst his royal duties ....oh
how one's life can change in such a short time......so now he's not a golfer...he's a
naughty boy.........normal golf clubs are generally littered with pompous arrogant
toffee nosed members so I dread to think what the St.Andrews committee are like.
We have recently lost a great comedy writer...Barry Cryer....he wrote some fabulous
comedy for many comedians when comedy was actually funny...before humourless
brigade who have no imagination decided to be deeply offended by any thing that
was funny.....probably because they knew their faces would split in half if they ever
smiled
When it comes to making comedy films there are certain geniuses who need a
mention.....firstly we have Mel Brooks and his brilliant Blazing Saddles which cleverly
pokes fun at the ignorance of racist idiots with the black sheriff....then we have The
Producers which poked fun at The Nazis which a lot of people missed the point
of.....but to me the classic of all time was Monty Python's Life of Brian which was
genius.....the Americans totally missed the point calling it anti religious where in fact
it simply illustrated the sheer stupidity of the human race who always need someone
to follow....a classic film....and I enjoyed the historic interview after the film was made
with John Cleese and the arrogant upper class twit Malcolm Muggeridge who
showed what a total prat he was
The record I would like to discuss this week is the Elvis classic...Jailhouse
Rock......the record still holds up today.and considering there are only 4 musicians
backing Elvis it makes this a masterpiece......the temptation to write this song in a
country style must have been hard to resist but whoever came up with the the guitar
work and the drum breaks makes this, for me,one of the best rock and roll records
ever.and also lyrically brilliant.
