LWLies in the Observer Conversation

Things We Like

• Boot Sale

  LWLies writer and T4 presenter Rick Edwards has written this entry for Virgin Media Shorts annual filmmaking competition. Check it out.

• Code Red

  Our mates at Archer’s Mark have been hanging around the Man United training ground for Nike Football. They returned with this awesome short.

• Scott Pilgrim vs The World soundtrack

  This album, due for release in August, will feature unreleased jams from Beck, Metric, and Broken Social Scene, credited to the fictional band Crash and the Boys. Plus the track “Scott Pilgrim” by Plumtree, which inspired comic creator Bryan Lee O’Malley to name his creation in the first place.

• Empire Strikes Back Voicemail

  These recently re-discovered promotional phone messages from 1980 offer yet more proof that Lucas’ Star Wars universe had its share of very, very bad ideas well before The Phantom Message.

• Larkin 25

  To commemorate the life and work of the poet, novelist, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin, 25 years after his death, this 25-week celebration has kicked off in the city of Hull and will feature the likes of Andrew Motion and Roger McGough in events that run until December 2010.

• David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ trailer

  The Social Network – aka The Facebook Movie – has a teaser trailer ahead of its October release. Striking a distinctly adult tone, David Fincher’s latest looks set to be absolutely killer.

• The Seventeen Magazine Project

  American teen Jamie Keiles lives her life according to the strict rules of Seventeen magazine. And she still manages to use words like ‘heteronormative’.