Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #414: Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Useless quote for 29 Jan:
"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."
~ Michael Palin, in "Letter from London", 18 September 2003
@der_mit_ph @Richard_Littler
Ha! No, she couldn't write good books like #MichaelPalin does. What he writes is Something Completely Different.
#OnThisDay in 2018, British New Year's honours list include Knights for author Philip Pullman and comedian #MichaelPalin, a Dame for #Twiggy and a Order of the Companions of Honour for #MargaretAtwood.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012pjv
Utterly derivative, shamelessly rip-offie, totes superfluous, yet still gave me several giggles amongst my otherwise smirks.
Terry Jones - Starship Titanic
A tale of interstellar skulduggery, romance and unhinged robots based in Douglas Adams's universe.
Michael Palin stars in Terry Jones's comic novel.
Far off in the centre of one of the less well-chartered quadrants of the universe, a vast civilisation is preparing to launch the most technologically advanced starship ever - Starship Titanic.
While the galaxy's media looks on, it unfortunately undergoes SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and disappears.
Leovinus, the designer of the ship, uncovers shoddy workmanship, poor cybernetics and a series of increasingly eccentric robots. The owners, Scraliontis and Brobostigan, were intent on destroying the ship and claiming the insurance.
Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, four humans are inspecting a property they intend buying, only to see it crushed under the re-materialising Starship. This disaster is swiftly followed by an invitation from an over-attentive robot to come aboard, and Lucy, Dan and Nettie are catapulted into a series of increasingly bizarre encounters.
Stylistically emulating the work of the great Douglas Adams in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the late Terry Jones weaves a fabulously mad and comic tale
Adapted by Ian Billings.
With a special guest appearance by Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Encyclopedia Galatica ……. Michael Palin
Scraliontis ……. Simon Jones
Leovinus ……. Nicholas Boulton
Brobostigan ……. Nicholas Boulton
Dan ……. Rupert Degas
Hackett ……. Rupert Degas
The Parrot ……. Rupert Degas
The Journalist ……. Philip Pop3
The Gondolier ……. Philip Pop3
Nettie ……. Alana Ramsey
The Computer ……. Alana Ramsey
The LiftBot ……. Ian Billings
The Engine Room Door ……. Ian Billings
Loss Adjuster One ……. Ian Billings
Lucy ……. Rebecca Yeo
Loss Adjuster Two ……. Rebecca Yeo
Nigel ……. Tom Alexander
The Gondolier ……. Tom Alexander
The Bomb ……. Tom Alexander
Titania ……. Laura Lithgow
Terry Gilliam – „Brazil“ (1985)
Wenige Filme haben sich so tief in mein Gedächtnis gegraben, wie dieses Meisterwerk von Terry Gilliam. Für mich, damals auf Augenhöhe mit Ridley Scotts „Bladerunner (1982)“, hat er, als filmische Dystopie, mein Verständnis von Totalitarismus nachhaltiger geschärft, als fast alles, was nach ihm kommen sollte. Und lieben konnte ich ihn auch. Deshalb gehört das Wort hier dem Meister selbst… (ZDF)
Monty Python: 50 Years in America 
Did you know North Texas was the first region in American to broadcast Monty Python on television? That's thanks to KERA - the area's PBS station! Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam recall fond memories of their first introduction to Texas and the legacy that the station helped them build across the pond.
Oct 22 : Character Stutters
#Bales2024FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 
#AFishCalledWanda (1988)
London-based gangster George Thomason plans a jewel heist with his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter #MichaelPalin
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Oct 22 : Character Stutters
#Bales2024FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon
#AFishCalledWanda (1988)
London-based gangster George Thomason plans a jewel heist with his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter #MichaelPalin
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Oct 22 : Character Stutters
#Bales2024FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon
#AFishCalledWanda (1988)
London-based gangster George Thomason plans a jewel heist with his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter #MichaelPalin
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Just finished #reading #GreatUncleHarry by #MichaelPalin. Inspiring stuff but also heartbreaking. Made me angry! (even made me laugh at one point when an entry in his #diary summed up the madness of #WorldWarOne #TheGreatWar by reporting in one sentence the happy news he had recieved some peppermint creams, then in the next sentence reporting the death of a comrade)
“Hey Siri. Play Finland by Monty Python.”
#Nite #HomePod #Music #MichaelPalin
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/finland/723400518?i=723400672
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1DoHs2vkoWqR83IeNVhqcg
Volume 4 of the Michael Palin diaries arrived. It joins its three older siblings.
Out for delivery: There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009 by Michael Palin.
Volume 4 of his diaries. I loved volumes 1 and 2. Volume 3 not so much, but that might be due to my headspace at the time. I should reread it.
Looking forward to volume 4.
Half way through #GreatUncleHarry by #MichaelPalin - Harry’s on his way to the war as an #ANZAC - loved this poem as written in the ship’s satirical magazine… #vaccination scepticism existed even then LOL 
#Books #Reading
This has bumped its way up to the top of my to read pile - this’ll be the next bedtime book after #MichaelPalin’s #GreatUncleHarry
#ThomasDolby PrevailingWind #Books #Sailing
#OnThisDay in 1979, "#MontyPython's Life of Brian" directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, #MichaelPalin, and #JohnCleese, and funded by #GeorgeHarrison's HandMade Films, premieres in US theaters.
‘A magical being’: Shelley Duvall remembered by Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Palin https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/12/woody-allen-shelley-duvall-daryl-hannah-michael-palin #ShelleyDuvall #MichaelPalin #DarylHannah #WoodyAllen #Culture #Film
