I don’t care what anyone says, out of the top 5 live shows I’ve ever seen, Oasis were probably three of those. At the top of the Brit-Pop craze of the late 90’s, those bastards were un-touchable. Best Rock Band in the World? Too right, mate…

So anyway, defensiveness aside, I was pleased to see this afternoon that the elder Gallagher is still an irritable twat - having recently taken to taking the piss out of the former Thai Prime Minister (and current owner of the Manchester City football club) Thaksin Shinawatra over the planned sacking of player Sven-Goran Eriksson.

To wit:

“Eriksson has given the City fans a lot of pride. He’s a graceful dignified man.
“I’d be amazed and equally appalled if I met a City fan who thought getting rid of Eriksson was a good thing. We all love him up there.
“Shinawatra’s living in cloud cuckoo land.
“(If I saw Sven today) I’d give him a big kiss and I’d say ‘you know what, you take him to the cleaners’.”

Not as much cursing as I’m used to seeing from the Gallaghers, but I’ll use any excuse to devote a post to them when the opportunity arises.

UPDATE: Ooh! The Spoiler has audio of Mr. Gallagher mouthing off. Bonus!

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Showtime’s Masters of Horror series has a great concept: each hour-long episode is directed by a famous (or semi-famous) horror director. The roster of directors is international and impressive. John Carpenter, Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, and Stuart Gordon all take a hand in creating the first thirteen episodes, and Takashi Miike’s Imprint is the final episode of the first season.

Miike is a director who can’t be labeled; he’s done everything from children’s films (The Great Yokai War) to touching comedies (The Happiness of the Katakuris) to gory psychological action movies (Ichi the Killer) to the just plain weird (Visitor Q). His horror films are few and far between, but Imprint is quite possibly the best entry in the first season of Masters of Horror, and proves that Miike can create terror with the best of them. But Miike is still Miike. Imprint was never aired on Showtime, due to its extremely graphic content, and is only available on DVD.

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