tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post8820578004782809949..comments2024-01-27T13:59:05.876+00:00Comments on hissyfit: Albums for Life: 16: Midlake: The Trials of Van OccupantherHissyfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06865300919319235353noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post-63384183669433850972013-04-24T14:39:45.077+01:002013-04-24T14:39:45.077+01:00all while dressed in a smart blazer.
I really lik...all while dressed in a smart blazer.<br /><br />I really liked this when it came out - especially head home. You are right it seems to come from an earlier time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post-59169925651276516762013-04-24T14:18:06.892+01:002013-04-24T14:18:06.892+01:00I will, of course, be receiving a co-credit for th...I will, of course, be receiving a co-credit for this...<br />Another 'Zelig': I see Whicker quite a lot at Nice airport. He's a queue jumper; just wanders to the front of any line; bus, cafe, departures. No-one say's anything except for me. "Oy Wikka" is my cry. He ignores me too. Entitled tosspot. You'd never see Palin pushing in...<br />Hissyfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06865300919319235353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post-86463025327857548462013-04-24T14:07:27.683+01:002013-04-24T14:07:27.683+01:00Well, Alan Whicker's docs from America always ...Well, Alan Whicker's docs from America always had a slight "they really do this you know" edge, especially when showing some of the more unusual practices in America. <br />I'm getting the script now. Alan Whicker is sent to report on the Burning Man festival. Unaware of its hallucinogenic properties he drinks a beverage made from the local cactus. The band playing on the main stage are Midlake. It was they who gave him the drink. <br />Soon, he is being tattooed by a strange Gypsy woman who decides what the tattoo will be based on an ancient Tarot pack. The series of tattoos are all scenes from the festival, and as the film unwinds we realise that the scenes represented by the tattoos are actually happening.....Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post-9856247961664806472013-04-24T08:49:04.491+01:002013-04-24T08:49:04.491+01:00Well spotted Seamus; I shall leave the offending t...Well spotted Seamus; I shall leave the offending typo for future generations to marvel at.<br />Actually, I think that Alan Whicker would have been a better choice to play the demented copper than Nicholas Cage. <br />"Step away from the bicycle!"<br />Turn in his grave? Edward Woodward would...Hissyfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06865300919319235353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703706690625306888.post-37136427837184078642013-04-24T08:33:55.679+01:002013-04-24T08:33:55.679+01:00I think you'll find it's either Whicker...I think you'll find it's either Whicker's World or The Wicker Man. The Whicker Man sounds like a documentary about Alan Whicker, revealing an unsuspected fondness for pagan gods and running naked around some outer Hebride!<br /> I've been skirting around Midlake - have one album and have listened a few times and liked without really playing it enough to let it sink in. Heading into the cd mountain to find it. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.com