This article comes equipped with its own optional soundtrack for those who want to follow along
with my listening habits as well as my walk.
We begin at the
Holy Jesus Hospital, whose site
served as an almshouse for the poor for seven hundred years.
The current 17th-century building now serves as office space for the National Trust.
No noseys allowed (shame!)
Anyone need some tiles?
I’m pretty sure this is either “Hallelujah” or “Jerusalem”, but i have absolutely no idea which.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlAEiCb8m0
Only a scant few BT-branded trucks occupy the parking lot of this
hulking concrete husk, surely far too big for its intended purpose.
Ahhh — reminds me of home, back in Hoorn.The tragedy of Brexit.Is it, Greggs? Is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo
There’s a lot of commie graffiti scattered along this road, though all of it seems to be by the
same person — you can tell because they can’t draw a hammer and sickle.
Bloody showoffs. (That reminds me — i have a massive unpublished gallery post of a walk down the
full length of the Ouseburn, but never did get around to finishing it… maybe soon?)
The most important meal of the day.1
I’ve decided to join the Sea Org and give my life’s savings to the military-industrial complex.
(In all seriousness, it was a bloody brilliant film — everything a blockbuster should be!)
I tried to watch the original to prepare myself, but i’ll confess i turned it off
halfway through — once i got past the homoerotic volleyball there wasn’t much except
low-stakes training plane fights and boring characters. Felt very much like a Dad Movie™
that you’d catch on TV at three in the afternoon.
The new one is brilliant, but if you like the first one mostly ironically, it
<em>might</em> not be worth it? I still recommend it, though — brilliant
setpieces, actual stakes, characters you actually care about, and Mr Cruise actually…
acts,
I just automatically assumed it would not be worth watching. Is it even possible to beat
the sheer homoeroticism and naivety of the original? You tell me. I'd love to be
corrected on this one.
I tried to watch the original to prepare myself, but i’ll confess i turned it off halfway through — once i got past the homoerotic volleyball there wasn’t much except low-stakes training plane fights and boring characters. Felt very much like a Dad Movie™ that you’d catch on TV at three in the afternoon.
The new one is brilliant, but if you like the first one mostly ironically, it <em>might</em> not be worth it? I still recommend it, though — brilliant setpieces, actual stakes, characters you actually care about, and Mr Cruise actually… acts,
I just automatically assumed it would not be worth watching. Is it even possible to beat the sheer homoeroticism and naivety of the original? You tell me. I'd love to be corrected on this one.
Your three song choices are by three of my all-time favourite groups so bravo!