He was still adored though
Jbm
He didn’t try a leg. He wasn’t adored much by the time he left.
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They had Howards Way on yesterday as well, about the great Everton team of the late 80’s.
Good watch.
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That’s a great watch.
I believe in miracles which is about Forest is also a great watch.
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Same ppl who loved him before
Loved him after
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What did you make of it?
Love it. So much brilliant footage to add context to that time. And brilliant context of the prevailing sentiment, music and fashion etc. And some weird ass shit too. The taxidermist for example.
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Where can you watch this?
Is that Gerd Muller?
I’m pretty certain he didn’t play for Cork, Uwe Seeler did alright.
I saw Trevor Brooking and Terry McDermott playing for Cork City in Flower Lodge
You tube. Adam curtis shifty part one
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Must watch back the Best one. TG4 had a good Gene Kelly one on Christmas night. Watched it with the auld lad and sister after we watched back the Tipp v Kilkenny highlights and the Tipp v Cork highlights
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Ooooh. Must give this a whirl too. Haven’t seen any Curtis in a while
Ah you’re right… I may cop on and look into it before writing. I knew it was one of the German’s.
Who was the best of all of them you seen?
Patsy Freyne
I watched the first one there. Very good. Who would have thought Bucks Fizz were subversive?
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I’ve only just got round to watching the first two parts meself.
I think the confusion and the sprawling nature of it is nearly the point. It assumes a level of knowledge that not many will have. I had to explain to my co-watcher who Ian Curtis was, and I think it went completely over her head. My co-watcher had never heard of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. My co-watcher dislikes things outside her bubble and while I have got her to watch nearly all of Curtis’s documentaries, I think she feels confronted by them and scared by them because they’re taking her outside her comfort zone.
I find 1980s Britain endlessly fascinating, intoxicating almost, because it effectively raised me, probably more than 1980s Ireland did. In the 1980s we thought Britain was superior and Ireland inferior, and we were more interested in what was happening there thanhere because here seemed like a Quinnsworth yellow pack compared to their prestige brand, and yet we hated them. And loved them, but hated them.
They hated themselves and they were at war with each other.
Curtis’s documentaries teach you how to think. One of the main themes that run throughout his documentaries is why people believe the quasi-religious bullshit they do in all facets of their life. That they want to believe comforting lies and myths. That people who think they’re challenging power so frequently go off in batshit crazy directions themselves that end up becoming different forms of tyranny. And that not believing in quasi-religious bullshit itself has consequences for the mind.
Curtis is basically a frustrated psychologist. Curtis is why I have lost all interest in analysing sport and indeed life in general through a tactical or organisational framework and now look at it almost exclusively through a psychological one which considers delusions, internalised perceptions of power, and interpersonal relationships and their psychology.
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Curtis talks about that here
The new doc on Jeff Buckley is a good watch
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Did they find him?