{"id":9498,"date":"2009-06-02T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2009-06-03T06:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:57:05","slug":"fat-man-on-a-beach-other-unfortunates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/fat-man-on-a-beach-other-unfortunates\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat man on a beach &#038; other unfortunates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VwKvtcJk2fU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VwKvtcJk2fU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/total_recall_youre_human_like_the_rest_of_them\">BS Johnson night<\/a> at the NFT Tuesday fortnight (16 June):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tonight we celebrate his unique talent with a diverse selection of his best films. The programme includes Johnson&#8217;s bleak, painfully funny contemplation of the human condition, <i>You&#8217;re Human Like the Rest of Them<\/i> (1967); the notoriously misunderstood <i>Paradigm<\/i> (1969); Johnson&#8217;s splendidly unrehearsed meditation on life, the universe and the nature of film, <i>Fat Man on a Beach<\/i> (HTV 1974); his brilliantly personal portrait of a great writer, <i>BS Johnson on Dr Samuel Johnson<\/i> (LWT 1971); Johnson talking about the background to writing his own unconventional novel, <i>The Unfortunates<\/i> (BBC 1969); as well as the cinema premiere of the recently rediscovered short <i>Poem<\/i> (c1971).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Further:<\/b> David Quantick on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/the-humour-of-bs-johnson\/\">The humour of BS Johnson<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/fuck-all-this-lying\/\">&#8216;Fuck all this lying,&#8217;<\/a> <i>3:AM<\/i> reviews  the Jonathan Coe biography of Johnson \/ Interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/litarchives\/2002_nov\/interview_paul_tickell.html\">Paul Tickell<\/a>, director of <i>Christie Malry&#8217;s Own Double-Entry<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a BS Johnson night at the NFT Tuesday fortnight (16 June): Tonight we celebrate his unique talent with a diverse selection of his best films. The programme includes Johnson&#8217;s bleak, painfully funny contemplation of the human condition, You&#8217;re Human Like the Rest of Them (1967); the notoriously misunderstood Paradigm (1969); Johnson&#8217;s splendidly unrehearsed meditation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}