Meades is Harvey Heitel armed with .45 cal wit and knowledge: just the sort I'd enjoy sitting with and drinking whilst making a mockery of the lunacy. I'll be in Salisbury soon....:)
@Stereolabdream Totally agree with you. This short section of the film was stunning; a superbly concise statement of a truth that's got lost. Looking around the internet, I noticed a number of other people had drawn attention to this part too.
Another of his knock-outs is in the middle of On The Brandwagon, where he decries the vapid "fun art" that we're being peddled because the establishment have declared Shakespeare, Joyce, Mozart and Beethoven "elitist" and therefore "bad".
@MatthiasAletharch Sadly, i think hes ahead of his time. Better than anybody i have come across, he reveals societys glaring conradictions. I don't think we can ever move forward in any positive way without facing up to the things he boldly and brilliantly aknowledges.We should build this kind of way of thinking and self analyzing into our school curriculems. It is a tired cliche, but without learning from the mistakes we have made we are doomed. Jonathan Meades is a great man. Amen!
Meades is Harvey Heitel armed with .45 cal wit and knowledge: just the sort I'd enjoy sitting with and drinking whilst making a mockery of the lunacy. I'll be in Salisbury soon....:)
ZOMBIEVONGHOULLIE 2 weeks ago
Television at its best.
peacepipe16 1 month ago 3
1.55-2.32
brilliant.
Meades is to Social Commentary and Arts what Hitchens was to religion and politics-
With Meades however, we must accept the misquoted maxim of P.T Barnum to want more...hmmm...Hiram Maxim's machine gun...where more is more.
Stereolabdream 1 month ago 2
@Stereolabdream Totally agree with you. This short section of the film was stunning; a superbly concise statement of a truth that's got lost. Looking around the internet, I noticed a number of other people had drawn attention to this part too.
Another of his knock-outs is in the middle of On The Brandwagon, where he decries the vapid "fun art" that we're being peddled because the establishment have declared Shakespeare, Joyce, Mozart and Beethoven "elitist" and therefore "bad".
MatthiasAletharch 1 month ago 3
@MatthiasAletharch Sadly, i think hes ahead of his time. Better than anybody i have come across, he reveals societys glaring conradictions. I don't think we can ever move forward in any positive way without facing up to the things he boldly and brilliantly aknowledges.We should build this kind of way of thinking and self analyzing into our school curriculems. It is a tired cliche, but without learning from the mistakes we have made we are doomed. Jonathan Meades is a great man. Amen!
nelsano3 3 weeks ago