Meeja Hoors

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Meeja Hoors on Meeja Hoors - real and assumed voices

”The actor’s voice is not real. These actors, they have actors’ voices. It is a mediated one; he’s playing a part but, over time, the actor would have assumed this voice, the one that gets him the work, for himself…”
Click to read more… ¶ 3:34 PM

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Trying for change? Fuck off and leave me to be entertained

"L’entente cordiale has never meant much this side of La Manche, because France is for the majority of Britons the nearest point where things like ‘language’, ‘culture’ (haute or otherwise) and ‘socialism’ come into consideration. Even our recent advances into areas such as ‘cuisine’ still embarrass by comparison. The inadequacy this exposes in our explorers only fuels further resentment". Read on about endemic Francophobia... ¶ 6:12 PM

Saturday, April 01, 2006

A light reading with Richard Briers

"Gone were the days of supply doubt and dodgy demand – Hardwaite now dealt with people who like him were interested in squaring the circle of every transaction, adhering to the insatiable logic of cutting a deal. And like them, he was a ‘can do’ team player, far more ready to say yes than no. Alan never wasted an opportunity to avail people of his employers’ identity: “Solutions for Exclusive Leisure (SEL)...."click to read the full short story... ¶ 12:30 PM