Jul 23 2007 This is England Director Has Skinhead Experience

This looks like the opening shot of one of those Saturday morning commercials, before Yahtzee/Super Soaker/Jenga/Action Man comes along and changes everyones' lives

A while back, I brought you the trailer for This is England, where Tommy from Snatch plays the head skinhead.

Anyway, the New York Times has an interview with Shane Meadows, the director, in which he talks about the movies and some of his own experiences as a skinhead.

“I never made it clear I was a skinhead before because I’d been to National Front meetings, and because of what happened at the end. But to understand your darker side, you have to dance around the fire. As a filmmaker I don’t shy away from showing the truth, and I don’t think I did as a kid. Although I was misguided at times, I respect the fact that I was searching for something.”

I guess it helps to actually know what skinheads do if you're going to make a skinhead movie. In the skinhead movie I wrote, the characters mostly ride horses and drink soda. I should've hired a consultant.

Jul 13 2007 More Skinheads!

Considering the "unique" aesthetic qualities of the purebred Anglo, you'd think they'd be desperate for outside additions to the gene pool.

In keeping with the Death Sentence-inspired skinhead theme, I bring you the This is England trailer (once again, I apologize for being too stupid to know how to embed these things properly. Seems the only things I know how to properly bed are supermodels. *sigh*, Been this way since I was a child)

Anyway, even though I'm an open-minded, colourblind gent who has bedded women of all races, religions, and states of consciousness, I must admit that I love a good skinhead movie. American History X, Romper Stomper - it's nice to know that a good headbutt or curb stomping is just around the corner. Reminds me of Thanksgiving dinners I had growing up.