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Wizards Vs Aliens: Series 1 (DVD)
Scott Haran, Michael Higgs, Annette Badland, Brian Blessed, Percelle Ascott, …
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Children's fantasy drama series in which a boy with secret powers
finds himself forced to confront an alien invasion of Earth. To the
outside world Tom Clarke (Scott Haran) appears to be an ordinary
boy. He loves football and lives with his father (Michael Higgs)
and grandmother (Annette Badland). However, Tom and his family are
actually wizards and are gravely threatened by the arrival on Earth
of the alien race Nekross, who, under the command of the Nekross
King (voice of Brian Blessed), seek to acquire the planet's magic
for themselves. Can Tom and his friends fight them off and protect
their magical abilities?
Hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang
to mark their distance from consensus culture, yet it is music that
has always been the privileged means of cultural disaffiliation,
the royal road to hip. Hipness in postwar America became an
indelible part of the nation's intellectual and cultural landscape,
and during the past half century, hip sensibility has structured
self-understanding and self-representation, thought and art, in
various recognizable ways. Although hipness is a famously elusive
and changeable quality, what remains recognizable throughout its
history in American intellectual life is a particular conception of
the individual's alienation from society-alienation due not to any
specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of
perception and consciousness. The dominant culture thus constitutes
a system bent on foreclosing the creativity, self-awareness, and
self-expression by which people might find satisfaction in their
lives. The hipster's project is to imagine this system and define
himself against it; his task is to resist being stamped in its
uniform, squarish mold. Culture then becomes the primary medium of
hip resistance rather than political action as such, and this
resistance is manifested in aesthetic creation, be that artworks or
the very self. Music has stood consistently at the center of the
evolving and alienated hipster's self-structuring: every hip
subculture at least tags along with some kind of music (as the
musically ungifted Beats did with jazz), and for many subcultures
music is their raison d'etre. In Dig, author Phil Ford argues that
hipness is in fact wedded to music at an altogether deeper level.
In hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that
is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Ford's discussion
of songs and albums in context of the social and political world
illustrates how hip intellectuals conceived of sound as a way of
challenging meaning - that which is cognitive and abstract,
timeless and placeless - with experience - that which is embodied,
concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie Parker's
"Ornithology," Ken Nordine's "Sound Museum," Bob Dylan's "Ballad of
a Thin Man," and a string of other lucid and illuminating examples,
Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and
the counterculture. Shedding new light on an elusive and enigmatic
culture, Dig is essential reading for students and scholars of
popular music and culture, as well as anyone fascinated by the
counterculture movement of the mid-twentieth-century.
"Water is patient... water just waits. Water always wins!" November
21st 2059, and Bowie Base One - the first human colony on Mars - is
destined for destruction in a nuclear explosion. This tragedy is a
fixed point in history. The Laws of Time dictate that it cannot -
must never - be changed. The Doctor arrives just as a viral
life-form escapes from the Martian ice into the base's water
supply. A single drop can transform a human into a terrifying
monster with the power to infect others. History records that the
threat is destroyed along with the base and every human in it. But
as his darkest hour comes calling, the Doctor resolves to break the
rules as he never has before...
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