Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 287222 times)

nicknack · « **Reply #1650 on:** 26 July, 2020, 06:02:47 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 18 June, 2020, 02:51:23 pm

With a bonus point if anyone can name Hector's feline friend I got it wrong, I thought she was Kiki, but that's the frog ! I'm a silly old Hector.....

Zsa Zsa?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1651 on:** 27 July, 2020, 11:55:58 am »

One of the things that Jan and I have to do with this house is declutter it. I thought I'd make a start on a box of bits & pieces, and it turned out to be some ancient college stuff that Jan had kept. In it there was a programme for a concert we attended on Valentine's Day 1974, at the Free Trade Hall, featuring the Hallé orchestra and young musicians from Chethams and the RNCM.

I was totally unaware that at 12-year-old Stephen Hough was one of the soloists we saw. I recall being less impressed with him than Francis Rayner (whom I have since met and nattered to as he's a very good chess player as well as a virtuoso pianist).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4

Quite an honour to be the soloist at the First Night.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/13/first-night-proms-royal-albert-hall-review

This decluttering is going to be a slow process if every time I find something it prompts watching a video for 30 minutes...

Steph · « **Reply #1652 on:** 27 July, 2020, 12:13:22 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 26 July, 2020, 06:02:47 pm

Quote from: andrewc on 18 June, 2020, 02:51:23 pm
With a bonus point if anyone can name Hector's feline friend I got it wrong, I thought she was Kiki, but that's the frog ! I'm a silly old Hector.....
Zsa Zsa?

Zsazsa indeed.

Citoyen, I still only got seven on the second set. As for Spotty Dog, I would say that Watch with Mother wouldn't do for that. It would be like allowing 'Gerry Anderson' as an answer to puppet questions.

citoyen · « **Reply #1653 on:** 27 July, 2020, 12:18:35 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 27 July, 2020, 12:13:22 pm

As for Spotty Dog, I would say that Watch with Mother wouldn't do for that. It would be like allowing 'Gerry Anderson' as an answer to puppet questions.

That was pretty much my dad's argument too.

andrewc · « **Reply #1654 on:** 28 July, 2020, 10:29:00 pm »

https://twitter.com/RembrandtsRoom/status/1288147921347764224?s=20

Damn! Outbid again....

andrewc · « **Reply #1655 on:** 31 July, 2020, 12:04:08 am »

https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/terry-thomas-ibiza-years/

Absolute shower......

Basil · « **Reply #1656 on:** 31 July, 2020, 07:00:00 pm »

Today was supposed to be the opening of the Eisteddfod. In Ceredigion for the first time in something like 30 years.

Ham · « **Reply #1657 on:** 31 July, 2020, 08:12:57 pm »

Let me share a song I have just tracked down, after 40 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHeAXxF-uY

I'll past my comment here

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I first heard this back in the 70's live, in Richard Digance & friends Capital Radio show. It had been niggling me for months since ...well I'll come back to that. I'd forgotten it was Brenda Wooton, but found her from the other song I remembered ("Heading for the river Tamar" or some such). It was her intro I remembered: "In love again, can this be me?" She explained that she had felt a bit funny about singing it as a lady of a Certain Age, until she became a grandmother, then it suddenly all made sense. I've been trying to remember and find it, ever since I became a grandparent, and realised what she meant.

Pingu · « **Reply #1658 on:** 03 August, 2020, 12:07:53 am »

I missed this

RIP Lyle Mays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBoDx_1dTc

Also, why is it so fecking difficult to find a link to As Falls Wichita

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1659 on:** 06 August, 2020, 09:55:01 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_dynqO7NG0

I include the above because the violin was constructed by the brother-in-law of my pal Penny (it's what he does). I love the whole video actually, with top quality music being produced in a domestic setting, with stray child and dog for added intimacy.

T42 · « **Reply #1660 on:** 06 August, 2020, 10:30:37 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 August, 2020, 09:55:01 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_dynqO7NG0

I include the above because the violin was constructed by the brother-in-law of my pal Penny (it's what he does). I love the whole video actually, with top quality music being produced in a domestic setting, with stray child and dog for added intimacy.

It's beautiful, the whole thing. I bet Daphne's the only one in her class who knows what a theorbo is. I'd forgotten they have knotted gut frets. I did that once on an aud, but it was more an item of furniture than a real instrument and had no volume.

Jurek · « **Reply #1661 on:** 08 August, 2020, 02:30:43 pm »

Quincy Jones wrote the music and lyrics to Self Preservation Society for The Italian Job.
Michael Caine taught Quincy rhyming slang to enable Quincy to write the lyrics.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1662 on:** 08 August, 2020, 02:57:27 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 08 August, 2020, 02:30:43 pm

Quincy Jones wrote the music and lyrics to Self Preservation Society for The Italian Job.
Michael Caine taught Quincy rhyming slang to enable Quincy to write the lyrics.

Is the proportion of the population who are cognisant with this fact particularly large? I'd imagine not.

Steph · « **Reply #1663 on:** 15 August, 2020, 11:53:19 am »

Play with sound on
https://twitter.com/mikewarburton/status/1294231424246198275

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1664 on:** 18 August, 2020, 03:53:16 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 06 August, 2020, 10:30:37 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 August, 2020, 09:55:01 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_dynqO7NG0

I include the above because the violin was constructed by the brother-in-law of my pal Penny (it's what he does). I love the whole video actually, with top quality music being produced in a domestic setting, with stray child and dog for added intimacy.

It's beautiful, the whole thing. I bet Daphne's the only one in her class who knows what a theorbo is. I'd forgotten they have knotted gut frets. I did that once on an aud, but it was more an item of furniture than a real instrument and had no volume.

I'd never heard of either Matteis or a theorbo, which I presume is the instrument that looks like the product of a mandolin and a crane, but I did enjoy it.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1665 on:** 19 August, 2020, 11:52:46 am »

"I'm going to learn how to fly!"

I always thought it was Chicago not New York – or maybe I just think now that I thought that. There's not much difference from the perspective of a small town in England anyway, right? Besides, I never saw the movie – don't even remember there being a movie – but the TV series was a staple.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/19/we-were-dancing-on-cars-in-the-epicentre-of-porn-and-filth-an-oral-history-of-fame-40-years-on
I don't recall any porn and filth in it either.

citoyen · « **Reply #1666 on:** 19 August, 2020, 12:25:56 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 August, 2020, 11:52:46 am

I don't recall any porn and filth in it either.

The film was a lot saucier than the TV series. I remember my sister being disappointed she couldn't go to the cinema to watch it because it was AA-rated (15).

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1667 on:** 19 August, 2020, 06:26:07 pm »

New York license plate on the car in the picture.

Steph · « **Reply #1668 on:** 20 August, 2020, 06:30:27 pm »

Bosch music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2U&fbclid=IwAR2OhyGNG1R39fFk6yhwmrwSpmbLYh2LQgXOLwbyIBGi2AJLf6OWHx0Monw

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1669 on:** 20 August, 2020, 07:08:21 pm »

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Played on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-Gurdy

Surely it should have been played on the sackbut.

Steph · « **Reply #1670 on:** 20 August, 2020, 08:04:47 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 20 August, 2020, 07:08:21 pm

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Played on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-Gurdy
Surely it should have been played on the sackbut.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1671 on:** 22 August, 2020, 01:12:53 pm »

Attention Tartan Noir fans!!1!

Forthcoming Stuffs according to The Mega-Global Big River Corporation Of Seattle, USAnia:

Who	What	Wossname	When
Ian Rankin	A Song For The Dark Times	Rebus $BIGNUM	01 October 2020
Stuart MacBride	The Coffinmaker’s Garden	No, an Ash Henderson*	07 January 2021
James Oswald	What Will Burn	McLean 11	18 February 2021

*: Bah. I want to know what happens if/when Reuben finally wakes up

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1672 on:** 23 August, 2020, 11:35:43 pm »

Today i had cause to search for a clip* on YouTube. I found a suitable example quite quickly, but there was something screwy with the formatting - odd looking, almost leather effect, black borders all over the place and a square kind of picture.

This was because the person making the clip had propped up their smartphone to use as the source and recorded the clip with a second phone. Held in portrait mode.

Hanging's too good for them.

* the bit in Hannibal Brooks where elephant gets translated as "ve're here".

Kim · « **Reply #1673 on:** 24 August, 2020, 12:38:17 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 23 August, 2020, 11:35:43 pm

Today i had cause to search for a clip* on YouTube. I found a suitable example quite quickly, but there was something screwy with the formatting - odd looking, almost leather effect, black borders all over the place and a square kind of picture.

This was because the person making the clip had propped up their smartphone to use as the source and recorded the clip with a second phone. Held in portrait mode.

Hanging's too good for them.

Oh dear god. I've noticed this seems to be the de-facto way of extracting evidence from CCTV systems for sharing on the twitterwebs, but policey types never really got the hang of computers. Indeed, given their usual standard of literacy, it's unsurprising that copying/editing/transcoding video files is beyond them. But I've not encountered it between two phones before.

xkcd://1683 was optimistic.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1674 on:** 01 September, 2020, 12:27:44 am »

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In the 1960s, Frederick “Toots” Hibbert didn’t just give the emerging genre of reggae its most soulful voice – he also gave it a name. A slip of the tongue while rehearsing with his group the Maytals one day and “streggae” – Jamaican patois for someone in ragged clothes – became “reggae” in Toots’s mouth. When the Maytals released “Do the Reggay” in 1968, they intended to name a passing dance craze. Instead the newly minted word stuck to the sound they and the Wailers were helping to shape: a faster, brighter evolution of the rocksteady beat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/toots-hibbert-interview-maytals-clash-a9686881.html

I was under the impression that reggae was a word before it was a musical style, and that it was a sort of verbal wolf whistle: something Jamaican teenage boys would call out at girls they found attractive.