Brideshead Revisited

The entire series of Brideshead Revisited  is up on Youtube for the time being. I've just watched the series again for the second time in 3 years and it's completely fresh. I'm looking forward to watching it again in a couple of years when I've forgotten a few details.

Many Thanks for all the Retweets

My week on twitter: 468 New Followers, 1.25K Mentions, 3.75M Mention Reach, 1.23K Replies, 15.2K Retweets. via http://t.co/Hw4ncJqzNH
— Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith) June 22, 2014

I've never run my Twitter account to be popular. 

In fact, I think about 50 people a day unfollow me. Fortunately more people are prepared to stick around than leave so I want to thank you all for the very important (for me and I hope for you) retweets. Usually the reach is around two million Twitter users a week but lately it's been getting up to 3 million and approaching 4. My tweets are not candy floss subjects so I appreciate you all for getting the word out on subjects the mainstream media can never touch, because of who owns them, and who advertises in them.

The exception to this rule is Russia Today who featured one of my Tweets on the fiasco that is NATO backing the same psychopaths they call freedom fighters in Syria and are now obliged to call terrorists in Iraq (even though they trained many in Jordan recently). It's a classic example of the Orwellian double speak world we live in that only the internet can call out this media nonsense that people are being spoon fed.

Many corporate media consumers have no idea what is going on, or are silent over it for reasons I assume are to do with keeping their heads down below the parapet, or putting money before conscience.

We are the media now. So be it.

Update: My tweet featured in Al Jazeera

@charlesfrith Congrats on your 500★ tweet! http://t.co/5HKMJePH3J

— Favstar.fm 500★'s (@Favstar500Favs) July 5, 2014

Update 27 July 2014 - We smashed the 4 million barrier - Thank you

My week on twitter: 697 New Followers, 2.56K Mentions, 4.69M Mention Reach, 1.95K Replies, 30.8K Retweets. via http://t.co/Hw4ncJqzNH
— Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith) July 27, 2014

Update: We tore through the 15 million mention reach metric, so either something is very wrong or very right ;)

My month on twitter: 1.95K New Followers, 9.3K Mentions, 15.6M Mention Reach, 7.07K Replies, 93.9K Retweets. via http://t.co/Hw4ncJ8qzz
— Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith) September 1, 2014

Four Lions - A Comedy of Suicide Bombers

Four lions is a genius dark/slapstick comedy about a group of inept suicide bombers. I'd heard about it before but my initial attempts to find it failed.

I was listening to a review of it last night and had to press stop in order not to hear too many spoilers and I was not disappointed when I located it earlier today.

There is of course a serious message in this movie and there are some sobering scenes even when the laughs are piling up thick and fast. I recommend you watch Christopher Morris's movie as soon as you can. All the actors are first timers if I'm not mistaken and if you recall Christopher Morris was the comic who made us laugh about media obsession/portrayal of paedophiles long before Savile was outed. It would be interesting to see a new and contrasting episode on media silence of VIP paedophiles in Parliament and Royal circles.

 Many a serious point is made in jest.