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THE YES OR NO GUIDE TO THE MONTH AHEAD
TV Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy Surreal genius? Or weird for weird's sake? Wrong side of a fine line Noel.
FILM Carnage Upper West Side Story: less dancing, more backstabbing.
MUSIC The Ting Tings They started nothing, and thus continued.
BOOKS Hope: A Tragedy Or Anne Frank’s Diary 2: Frank Harder.
FILM Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Pretty manipulative and fairly dull.
MUSIC Emeli Sande Heavenly singer ditches duets for stronger solo stuff.
SHOWBIZ David Hasselhoff The Knight Rider cancels his UK tour. Did someone hassle him?
VISUAL ART Allan Sekula Photo exhibition about a haulage tanker makes waves / insert any other seafaring idiom here.
WeLike The things making our world just that little bit better
■ We were already fairly certain that Ryan Gosling had taken over the world, but now he’s got the femmes on side, he’s a certifiable phenomenon. feministryangosling. tumblr.com takes the ‘Hey girl’ meme that was floating around the web and gives it a chucklesome but academic twist, allowing you to enjoy photos of RG in various poses with text musings on Camille Paglia and co. Elsewhere online, we’ve enjoyed
theshiznit.co.uk’s feature on If 2012’s Oscar-Nominated Movie Posters Told the Truth, the music video for Pleasure Palaces by Errors (trippy but cool: bit.ly/pleasurepalaces) and an entry into Empire’s 60 Seconds competition by some very special List employees, spoofing up 2011’s ballet- gore hit Black Swan. Just as we went to press, we
found out the boys were not lucky enough to make it through to the final stage of the comp. However, you can still see their effort at bit.ly/60swan.
NEXT ISSUE Wednesday 29 February
STYLE ISSUE ‘Tis the month of March, so we’ll be getting into the springtime swing of things, kicking off the clunky boots and ditching the duffel coat for another year. Ok, probably not, but it’s nice to be prepared. We’ll let you know you where to buy the perfect threads for when the sun finally shows his big yellow face. GLASGOW COMEDY FESTIVAL The annual west coast laugh-fest has a scorcher of a line-up this year, with the likes of Doug Stanhope, Greg Proops, and Stewart Lee joining home grown talent like Daniel Sloss (pictured), Frankie Boyle, Jerry Sadowitz and Greg McHugh. Pick up our next issue for our choice of Festival highlights plus a selection of interviews.
128 THE LIST 2 Feb–1 Mar 2012