Friday, 9 October 2015
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Twitter Twatter #19
May the Fifth be with you.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 5, 2015More Futurama opening captions...
From the network that brought you "TheSimpsons"
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 6, 2015"Accordingto Google Translate, Magma Carta means Cardboard Volcano..." #ElectionWipe
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 6, 2015The show that watches back
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 6, 2015It's #ElectionDay.
Friedrich Schiller said "Everypeople gets the government it deserves."
Don't you deserve better than this?
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 7, 2015Not Based On The Novel By James FenimoreCooper
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 7, 2015Well, the #election was a bit of a surprise and a lot of a disappointment.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 10, 2015Nominated For Three Glemmys
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 10, 2015The soundtrack for the next five years, feel free to sing along...: https://t.co/WD7yZ9ivg5
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 10, 2015This episode has been modified to fit your primitive screen
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 10, 2015Oh, so this is why I'm not the law. #Dredd pic.twitter.com/crLPYoe3er
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 14, 2015Coming soon to an illegal DVD
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 14, 2015Prince Harry wants to bring back national service. I'd quite like to bring back the Cromwellian republic, so swings and roundabouts I guess?
— Alex Gabriel (@AlexGabriel) May 17, 2015As foretold by Nostradamus
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 17, 2015Happy NasjonaldagenNorwegians
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 17, 2015A Stern Warning of Things to Come
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 23, 2015The Eurovision Song Contest was the same day as the people of Ireland voted in favour of gay marriage:
Everyone seems to be congratulating #Ireland, but #Eurovision isn't for another couple of hours...
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 23, 201560s Dr Who assistant publicity photos are just the Smiths-y-estthings ever to not actually be on Smiths covers... pic.twitter.com/tzL028FlA7
— Clayton Hickman (@claytonhickman) May 24, 2015Simulcast on Crazy People's Fillings
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 26, 2015Slackdraft#MakeAMovieLazy
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 26, 2015My track-by-track verdict on Blur's The Magic Whip:
Listening to @blurofficial's newest album, #TheMagicWhip, for the first time.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Lonesome Street is awesome, #TheMagicWhip feels like a #Blur album straight away.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015New World Towers makes a stark change. I think it'll be one that grows on me #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Go Out is an immediate hit with me, but feels more #Gorillaz than #Blur at times, #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Ice Cream Man surprised me juxtaposing its lyrics with its beat. Yep, I said juxtaposing on the Twitter #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Thought I Was A Spaceman is beautiful #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015I Broadcast feels backs on familiar ground, I love a bit of shouty#Blur #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015My Terracotta Heart is stunning and as heartbreakingas the name suggests #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015There Are Too Many Of Us is as brilliantly bombastic as it is bleak #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Ghost Ship is great fun, feels like an 80's computer game soundtrack #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Pyongyang is the nicest piece of music I have ever heard named after the North Korean capital #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Ong Ongis great fun #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015For me, Mirrorballharks back to #TheGreatEscape/#Blur era, but with a real feeling of experience #TheMagicWhip
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Larva-tested, pupa-approved
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 28, 2015Monday, 5 October 2015
Arts In Entertainment
He's asked me to take part and I'm delighted to be contributing a book about the Pulp album This Is Hardcore, the impact it had on me and my surprise at how it failed to change the world.
It's not just me and it's not just Pulp, Zachary Kaplan will be writing about Synecdoche, New York, Catie Osborn's book concerns Titus Andronicus, Nathan Rabin is writing about I'm Still Here, Matt Sainsbury tells us all about Hatsune Miku and Phil himself is writing a book about Mystery Science Theater 3000.
There are more details to come, but in the meantime you can find out more about Arts In Entertainment here.
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Twitter Twatter #18
#BieberRoast? No, thank you. I've eaten.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 1, 2015More alternating Futurama intros:
Condemned by the Space Pope
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 1, 2015If there isn't a Tiger Woods biography called The Tiger Who Came To Tee then what is the point of anything?
— [⋅.⋅ ] ( °_°) (@sleepwalkingdog) April 2, 2015with more folk considering voting UKIP, this seems relevant pic.twitter.com/vuemwkymCs
— thrillhouse(@blinkclyro) April 1, 2015Filmed On Location
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 2, 2015Very pleased to have a couple of sketches in this week's @NewsRevue2015 at the @CanalCafe.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 3, 2015TransmitidoenMartian enSAP
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 4, 2015So is today Easter Saturday or Good Saturday?
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 4, 2015Proudly Made on Earth.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 5, 2015In the kingdom of the blind, the monoid one is king. #DoctorWho's #TheArk
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015Live from Omicron Persei8
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015I drew this:
It's a third of a crocodile. I call it 'Make it snappy' pic.twitter.com/8KzHQx8c1o
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015The middle of a triptych, continuing the themes & forms of the first whilst hinting at change, plus big reptiles pic.twitter.com/hNTS0TjSmn
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015There's a self-portrait of the artist holding a #CurlyWurly hidden in Part 3. Don't feel bad if you can't see it. pic.twitter.com/3NwPhY1qsI
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015Made from meat by-products
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015It must have been a bank holiday:
Grandma has got new dentures
To eat the crust on pizza
Been taken out by her daughter
Because she thought she ought'a
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015The kids are eating #Snickers
Because they're so delicious
Then there's sticky fingers
And mother loses her knickers
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015#BankHoliday comes six times a year
Days of enjoyment to which everyone cheers
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015#BankHoliday comes with a six pack of beer
...then it's back to work A.G.A.I.N.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015Bar-b-queis cooking
Sausages and chicken
The patio is buzzing
The neighbours they are looking
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015John is down the fun pub
Drinking lots of lager
Girls and boys are on the game
All the high streets look the same
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015Back to work A.G.A.I.N. #BankHoliday
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015>>NotY3K Compliant<<
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 6, 2015can't seem to stop with this sketch theme... #TwinPeaks #SaveTwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/RHPydmnbxy
— Barbarian Lord (@BarbarianLord) April 7, 2015I'm happy to keep Trident as long as we rename it About 50000 New Nurses Or 1 Million Affordable Homes Plus New Schools And Hospitals.
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) April 9, 2015Withnail& Thigh #AddABodyPartToAFilm
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 9, 2015The Purple Toes Of Cairo #AddABodyPartToAFilm
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 9, 2015Serenitknee#AddABodyPartToAFilm
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 9, 2015The Italian Gob #AddABodyPartToAFilm (I took the moral high road with this one)
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 9, 2015Just seen @NewsRevue2015. Seriously good - can see why it earns 5 star reviews. Check it out if you can via @CanalCafe.
— Daniel Page (@coiledslinky) April 11, 2015From The Makers Of #Futurama
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 14, 2015-England for the English? Good heavens, man!
-I have a duty to my country.
-Not to the world?
Jon Pertwee's Doctor, 1971: not a UKIP voter.
— Nicholas Pegg(@NicholasPegg) April 18, 2015Based On a True Story
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) April 22, 2015Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Flooded
Disaster 1990! was a prequel, before prequels were invented, to Invasion! It saw nineties Britain flooded and featured Bill Savage's attempts to survive in the newly nautical nation.
Find out more starting here.
Sunday, 6 September 2015
Twitter Twatter #17
#OffendEveryoneIn4Words Hello Westboro Baptist Church
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 1, 2015DyddGwylDewiSantHapus. And a Happy Saint David's Day as well.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 1, 2015The sad death of Leonard Nimoy:
Clifford Remembers Leonard Nimoy: https://t.co/gefmNAqzBH
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 3, 2015Celebrity Dictators (done by my friend Johnny, who is not on Twitter). pic.twitter.com/CE4w0V8zQx
— Phil Lucas (@PhilLucas) March 4, 2015We spoke to the woman headlining Leeds and Reading once you remove all the all-male groups http://t.co/TXWxllxD3B pic.twitter.com/OXwQjzoouB
— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) March 4, 2015"Whenthe rabbits moo I shall think of you" Reading #Asylum, politically it seems even more relevant than ever @Robwilliams71 @boocook23
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 4, 2015@Robwilliams71 @boocook23 Can you get it written, drawn, lettered and published in @2000AD before the election? Otherwise it might come true
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 4, 2015Still not out...
Are there any plans to release #TheITCrowd's last episode on DVD in region 2? And if not, why not?
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 4, 2015Whenever you start to question your own artistic choices, just remember: Picasso drew a butt. pic.twitter.com/vAg02FBNsN
— Pat Rothfuss(@PatrickRothfuss) September 20, 2014"Whichone are you?" #MakeAFirstDateWeirdIn4words
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 7, 2015@2000AD @Freecomicbook Is it me?
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 7, 2015The Conservative party's filibustering of the NHS Anti-Privatisation bill got me very angry...
#NHS anti-privatisation bill was fatally filibustered by #Tories, among the subjects they consider more important were: #Asterix the Gaul
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015#NHS anti-privatisation bill was fatally filibustered by #Tories, among the subjects they consider more important were: #CremeEggs
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015#NHS anti-privatisationbillwas fatally filibustered by #Tories, among the subjects they consider more important were: #NapoleonicWarTactics
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015#NHS anti-privatisation bill was fatally filibustered by #Tories, among the subjects they consider more important was: #SunnyDelight
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015#NHS anti-privatisation bill fatally filibustered by #Tories, among subjects considered more important was: #WilliamPittYounger's drinking
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015#NHS anti-privatisation bill was fatally filibustered by #Tories, among the subjects considered more important was: #NorseGods & Tory logo.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 8, 2015Please don't #BringBackClarkson
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 11, 2015To mark the sad death of Terry Pratchett I tweeted a few of my favourite quotes:
"Givea man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 13, 2015"Actors," said Granny, witheringly. "Asif the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more." Terry Pratchett, WyrdSisters
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 13, 2015"Rincewindcould scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four." Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 13, 2015"Whenbanks fail, it's not bankers who starve" Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (written well before the credit crunched)
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 13, 2015"IAM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE." Terry Pratchett, Feet Of Clay
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 13, 2015More Tory hypocrisy:
Best Daily Mail comment ever. Feel free to upvote. pic.twitter.com/o4TgBRaUia
— Theodora Sutcliffe (@escapeartistes) March 12, 2015I continued working my way through Futurama's opening captions for some reason, alternating them with my own tweetery:
Presented in BC [Brain Control] Where Available
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 19, 2015#Buffy Anne Summers 1981*-1997, 1997-2001, 2001-? #womeninfiction * (or possibly 1980 or 1979 depending on which particular demon you ask)
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 22, 2015Featuring gratuitous alien nudity.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 22, 2015The pompomcrab carries sea anemones in its claws and waves them about when threatened… (Image Dave Harasti) pic.twitter.com/URN7U5At5n
— The QI Elves (@qikipedia) March 25, 2015@BarnabyEdwards MoretonHarwood's only down the road...
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 26, 2015Loading...
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 26, 2015Crikey, ten years since Rose and the triumphant return of #DoctorWho, where has it gone?
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 26, 2015I pretend therefore I am.
Cognito ergo sum.
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 29, 2015Presented in double vision (where drunk)
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 29, 2015#ChangeOneWordInAFilmTitleToBernardCribbins Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bernard Cribbins* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 30, 2015#ChangeOneWordInAFilmTitleToBernardCribbins Bernard CribbinsVersus Predator
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 30, 2015Mr. Bender's Wardrobe By Robotany500
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015In answer to the trending hashtag #ThingsMyDoctorSays, I decided to tweet the first line of each Doctor Who:
What are you doing here? #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Slower… slower! Concentrate on one thing… one thing. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Shoes… must find my shoes. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015I tell you, Brigadier: there’s nothing to worry about. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Ah, you’ve come to help me find the Zero Room. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015You were expecting someone else? #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015That was a nice nap… now down to business. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Who am I? #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Doctor no more. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Run! #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Hello… ooh. New teeth. That’s weird. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Legs! I’ve still got legs! #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Kidneys! I've got new kidneys. I don't like the colour. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015Kidneys! I've got new kidneys. I don't like the colour. #ThingsMyDoctorSays
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) March 31, 2015The election was on the horizon:
Elections? Grud, the citizens once elected an orangutanto be Mega-City One's mayor. Tells you everything you need to know.
— Judge Dredd (@JudgeDredd) March 31, 2015Friday, 4 September 2015
I'm Announcing An Announcement
It may seem odd, but I'm announcing that an announcement will be announced.