Queer as Folk

Oh well. I'm not surprised, or even disappointed. Just sad.

I saw the Simpsons Movie yesterday and it was rubbish. Just really bad.

However, it wasn't bad in the way that I thought it was. I thought I'd hate it because of the lack of subtlety, the bastardisation of much-loved characters, and beacuse of an overabundance of the same in-your-face edginess that they used to lampoon (see Simpsons Seasons 9-18 for further examples of this).

It was bad because it just wasn't very funny. They raised the odd smile, but the cinema was pretty quiet throughout. How can the same people responsible for, let's face it, the best television programme ever, produce something so... bland?

It didn't do anything that a Simpsons movie should do: nothing extraordinary in plot, no inside jokes for the nerds, no opportunities for the other Springfield characters to do anything interesting.

Oh well, at least it wasn't as bad as Family Guy.

That was a joke.

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On the other side of the news (I don't know how many sides the news has, it could be a rhombus), it's the Sidmouth Folk Festival this week! It's a pretty huge event, and the place is crammed full of smelly hippies, bored kids and paedophiles (or Morris Dancers, as they're sometimes known). The latter make the kids slightly less bored.

Today we saw traditional Japanese drumming, performed by decidedly un-Japanese people. One of them looked like Coventry City manager Ian Dowie, I noticed.

There is a big craft fair, with people selling plastic animals and pendants and cloth bags and fudge. It's funny how a festival which is ostensibly concerned with peace and harmony and stuff contains tents that are the epitome of base, carny capitalism, selling people things they don't need for exhorbitant prices. Come on, no-one needs a gemstone thimble or a sponge frog, do they?

Well, hopefully the music will be good anyway. And I can act all superior because I live here, and complain about tourists with the withering old shrubs that sit on the seafront.

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--witty closing remark was not found--