Thurs blog

We did some filming near an underpass; woo it was like the old rave days. Anyways there was a gang in the scene which lacked any menace whatsoever; the public were laughing, one chap said 'gangsters? more like wanksters'. I would've done a better casting; i'll go into the Pawlene Arms, Penge and come out with 11 guys..job done. They'd do it for a lager top and the exercise; job would've been done by 11pm na 10pm instead of 12.45am. There was no intent, anger, movement.

Saw the acclaimed Babylon which only came out on dvd last year; made in 1980 a portent to the following year's Brixton riots and the later Tottenham ones when PC Keith Blakelock had his head hacked off. The way the smiling police in the film went after Lion was like Klan in the Deep South. 'I haven't done anything' 'It's 5am, you must've nicked something'.
The outmoded racist terms made for uncomfortable viewing. Nothing is clear cut in the film; depicted negative sides of both blacks and whites.

On a different note i have a Pingu text alert :)