Tonight’s Denton

Just watch­ing tonight’s Denton (having fin­ished mark­ing!!! Whee!) and it’s pos­sibly the best I’ve seen. Ever.

First the best Richard E Grant inter­view I’ve ever seen and the best inter­view of someone hass­ling Andrew Denton back, and fol­lowed by Ciaron O’Reilly, an anarch­ist Chris­tian peace act­iv­ist and direct action act­iv­ist who was arres­ted attempt­ing to dis­mantle a nuc­lear weapon on an Irish mil­it­ary base on New Year’s Day a number of years ago. Indy­media has been pro­mot­ing his cause for a while (since he was detained by ASIO when he arrived again after the most recent action). “I believe,” he says to Denton, “that part of being fully human is res­ist­ing these sys­tems of death and these prin­cip­al­it­ies and powers that put human life second to prop­erty and profit and power.” It’s amaz­ing to see him get such main­stream coverage.

Tomor­row, the tran­scripts will be up, and you can down­load the MP3s from the site too but I’d argue you *have* to see Grant’s expres­sions. I’ll have this on video for a few days if anyone wants to drop around. You also have to see Grant’s new film Wah-wah, an auto­bi­o­graph­ical fea­ture that just sounds incredible.