Thursday, 14 March 2013

NEW ISSUE! BLESS YOU.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright then you humps, Issue 4: The Horror Issue of D For Delinquent will be available to pick up and hold at The Causal Sex Stroh "80"/Soft School Single Launch at Nice 'N' Sleazys, Glasgow.  Playing that night are ASIAN BABES, THE AMAZING SNAKEHEADS & CASUAL SEX.   It's on the 5th of April 2013 and I'd advise you to go if you can, could be the last chance you'll get to see these three bands before everyone jumps on the band wagon and says they saw them first.
Here's a piece that wouldn't fit in/wasn't good enough by Elvis Safety:
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I’ve been asked to write a few words about Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’.  I’m not what you would call, qualified to do this, I’ve seen very few films and this is not one of them.  If asked to write about the works of Mathew Broderick there’d be a -AMAZING I’VE JUST CAUGHT A FLY BETWEEN MY THUMB AND FOREFINGER! BITE THE BIG ONE MYAGI! - few more words. 
So having never seen ‘The Birds’ or any other Alfred Hitchcock film I can only imagine what it’s about.  And boy does it sound like the kind of film I’d like.  I’ve heard it’s a horror and rightly so, birds are quite scary especially when they try to blow you while drunk, never mind when they wake up hungover and weepy with make up all over their face, your face, white bedspread and walls.  They can never remember your name –or sometimes their own- but they can always remember that you filmed the previous night’s debauchery and insist on you deleting it.  The human mind is breath taking, annoying but none-the-less breath taking.      

Anyway, to the film! The best bit’s probably near the beginning when Hitchcock is cruising around nondescript suburban Lancashire in his SAAB while drinking Highland Commissioner neat to The Village People’s ‘Sleazy’ tastefully mixed into the background when he gets flagged over by a Myra Hindley-a-like at a bus stop.  A short innuendo fuelled flirtatious chat ensues and what comes natural to an aging yellow teethed man and a woman stranded in the worst area of Great Britain naturally occurs.  A short drive, more elevated dirty-talk, an abandoned Industrial Estate and a breathy clinch.  Ahh Hitchcock, only Hitchcock could leave her at the scene of the rut and absent mindedly forget he’s kept her entire bottom half of clothing and left shoe strewn over his ample back seat.    
I like how his film would push the boundaries of your standard bored middle class sex crazed homemade cinematography.  This Hitchcock blokes appropriating and pastiche-ing his little heart out.   He’s drawn inspiration from such films as Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket and Scum.   It’s a truly eclectic mix of styles and sexual preference.  Although it has the ability to please everyone that watches it, it’s also his downfall.  It’s just too much of a democracy.  While trying to appeal to a bigger market he’s alienated his loyal and already established fan base.

I’d imagine at this point in his directing, producing and acting career Hitchcock’s at a crossroads.  Carry on in the same way he has, which has earned him his already substantial following, resulting in a personal creative dilemma.   Do what his inspirational heart and aspirational mind are telling him and do what he feels right, risking the alienation of his fan base and the possibility of the greater gain of the mainstream pound.  Like only Hitchcock would do he’s tried to keep everyone happy.  At times it works, yet there is an underlying feeling of him asking everyone to ‘Please, please. please like me’.
I imagine poor Hitchcock’s had a rough time deciding whether to go ahead with this film.  On the whole I think it was the right decision.  He has perhaps received a lot, and I mean a lot of negative feedback from his puritan fans but he’s beautifully slid into the more a lucrative world of thinking men and ironic viewers.  I believe cigars and slaps on the backs should reign down on Mr Alfred Hitchcock for this monumental cinematic effort.   I can only advise ‘The Birds’ to open minded long term fans and first timers. 

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