millionreasons | 2010 in Twelve Days

Film: Whip It

Song:

Jens – The End of The World

OMD – History of Modern. The oldsters do it better than Hurts, La Roux etc

Caro Emerald – Back It Up. The best thing to come out of Holland since DJ Miker G. Amy meets Lily in a sexy fun time.

TV:

When Hollywood does remakes it makes a terrible hash of them. See The A Team (all people want is the catchphrases and Mr T to beat someone up) or The Karate Kid (with that creepy Smith kid). When BBC does remakes, it does a wonderful, stylish (loved the texts on screen and the sliding doors/frames) ‘reboot’ of Sherlock Holmes as “I’m not a psychopath, I’m a high-functioning sociopath” complete with beautiful noir-ish shots of London and rather dark, interesting plots. Loved seeing Rupert Graves as Lastade too. My only complaint was the dearth of interesting female characters – there are the archetypes of The Girlfriend, the lovelorn girl-geek, bolshy policewoman and motherly landlady (Una Stubbs!). More good girl characters, Moffat!

Benny Cum - as no-one seems to have dubbed him - was a fab Sherlock and Tim from the office was, as usual, great as Tim from the office.

Book: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. Preferable to other novels detailing grim realities under the Nazi regime such as The Painted Bird and The Tin Drum. It details the small and unsuccessful rebellion by an ageing couple who go to their deaths having failed to convince anyone in Berlin to join their cause, rise up and overthrow Hitler. However, the book points out it is better to try and fail than collaborate and capitulate. The novel is "dedicated to life, invincible life, life always triumphing over humiliation and tears, over misery and death"

Days Out: Lea Valley, Theydon Bois

Holiday? Yeah, right.