When are the singles charts published these days? Only asking, like.There are sales charts for the markets - most sold via iPlayer
When are the singles charts published these days? Only asking, like.There are sales charts for the markets - most sold via iPlayer
I wonder if Spotify has its own charts? Any Spotify users here who can check?
BBC are re-running I Claudius.
Fantastic stuff
Vue cinemas are doing a "Cult Films: back in Vue" season. http://www.myvue.com/home/special-events/back-in-vueThe entire audience was in crotch-related hysterics by the end. Thank goodness it wasn't in 3D.
I am going to seeDavid Bowie's dancing crotch in awful leggingsLabyrinth on Monday night. ;D
For the amateur rocket engineers among us: Kerbal Space Program:
https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ (https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYNLlyi-QA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYNLlyi-QA)
;D
For the amateur rocket engineers among us: Kerbal Space Program:
https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ (https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYNLlyi-QA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYNLlyi-QA)
;D
Odd trajectory. Surely that's enough delta-v to reach orbit? Not that I know anything about the planet...
You should d/l the demo of the game, Kim. Much fun to be had building experimental rockets to try and reach orbit! :)
You should d/l the demo of the game, Kim. Much fun to be had building experimental rockets to try and reach orbit! :)
I know a dangerous time sink when I see one. I think it's best left to EldestCub.
Whatever happened to the likely lads?
I don't know and, frankly, I don't care. Just wish 4extra would stop cluttering the airwaves with the drawn-out answer. >:(
Whatever happened to the likely lads?
I don't know and, frankly, I don't care. Just wish 4extra would stop cluttering the airwaves with the drawn-out answer. >:(
Don't tell me the answer! I'm planning to watch later on the telly. ;)
Whatever happened to the likely lads?
I don't know and, frankly, I don't care. Just wish 4extra would stop cluttering the airwaves with the drawn-out answer. >:(
Don't tell me the answer! I'm planning to watch later on the telly. ;)
Are you sure? I can summarise in a sentence or two, leaving you time to do something useful, like watch paint dry or grass grow.
Some cringeworthy album covers.
http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/news/38-excruciatingly-awkward-album-covers-20130806-220936/?image=1
2 things, No way is Julie only sixteen, and who the hell requested Ken?
Some cringeworthy album covers.
http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/news/38-excruciatingly-awkward-album-covers-20130806-220936/?image=1
2 things, No way is Julie only sixteen, and who the hell requested Ken?
Whatever happened to the likely lads?
I don't know and, frankly, I don't care. Just wish 4extra would stop cluttering the airwaves with the drawn-out answer. >:(
We rarely disagree, but I must take issue with your failure to appreciate the genius of Round The Horne.
We rarely disagree, but I must take issue with your failure to appreciate the genius of Round The Horne.
On this, I wholeheartedly agree with my esteemed colleague clarion.
There's a pub not far from here that instead of having piped music in the [s[loos[/s] cottage, has Round the Horn on an endless loop.
The other day, I saw a woman with strikingly red hair in Borough. I thought she looked like Tori Amos.
This would be a pointless comment, were it not that Tori Amos is in the area putting together a musical.
Yup. I saw Tori Amos and was struck by her resemblance to herself. :facepalm:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/ziggycat/null_zps6818cc3c.jpg)
There was an excellent Marvin Gaye documentary on BBC4 earlier.
I'm just watching TOTP 1978 from earlier. Legs & Co are dancing to Instant Replay wearing very tiny very glittery bikinis. The cameramen are doing lots of close-ups.
Top-up TV are ceasing broadcasting next week so I have succumbed to the Murdoch empire*. The Sky installers have just been and I am marvelling - if marvelling can be tinged with horror - at the range of channels available to me.
A subscription to Netflix would be your friend.I don't like watching telly on computers if I can help it.
Well, Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys turned up for the interview on R6M with Stuart Maconie. And he seems to have got over any nerves he might have had about speaking on the radio. In fact, he could barely have been more relaxed. I wonder what his secret is?
I felt that it was a bit of a mistake having Godfrey Bloom on HIGNFY this evening. OK, he made an arse of himself and was guilty of some spontaneous racism, asking why Krishnan Guru-Murthy had an Irish name and a Welsh accent. Victoria Coren was seriously unimpressed with his raw prejudice.
People like Bloom are really at their best when you can neither hear nor see them.
I felt that it was a bit of a mistake having Godfrey Bloom on HIGNFY this evening. OK, he made an arse of himself and was guilty of some spontaneous racism, asking why Krishnan Guru-Murthy had an Irish name and a Welsh accent. Victoria Coren was seriously unimpressed with his raw prejudice.
People like Bloom are really at their best when you can neither hear nor see them.
Yeah, not sure he should have been given airtime myself, but I suppose 'good' telly/ratings trump that >:(
The poster for the new 'Hunger Games' movie really irritates me.
She's supposed to be a super-skilled archer. The poster shows her with her finger hooked over the arrow. FFS, didn't they employ anyone on set who knew anything about archery?
The poster for the new 'Hunger Games' movie really irritates me.
She's supposed to be a super-skilled archer. The poster shows her with her finger hooked over the arrow. FFS, didn't they employ anyone on set who knew anything about archery?
Could be worse - Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye in Avengers Assemble was roundly panned for having very poor archery form:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/avengers-hawkeye-archery/
Blimey. Competent sound in Fibbers!
Blimey. Competent sound in Fibbers!Must have had a guest sound engineer in.
Blimey. Competent sound in Fibbers!Must have had a guest sound engineer in.
pmsl that really does say it all.Blimey. Competent sound in Fibbers!Must have had a guest sound engineer in.
The band brought their own....
I'm just watching TOTP 1978 from earlier. Legs & Co are dancing to Instant Replay wearing very tiny very glittery bikinis. The cameramen are doing lots of close-ups.
I remember Pan's People....ahhh..Lovely Babs......I forget her name. (Norman Stanley Fletcher - Slade Prison).
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/christmas-comes-early-justin-bieber-announces-retirement-from-music-9012243.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/christmas-comes-early-justin-bieber-announces-retirement-from-music-9012243.html
That whineing Canadian Bitch did that some years ago, and I see now she has made a come back :( Fortunately, for the TV, I was out of the room when she was on Strictly on Sunday...
"Next year he is just taking a break to just make music and relax and take time to himself. It's the first time [he's had a break] since he was 12."
One of my faves - Sunny with three gear changes in two minutes:
http://youtu.be/ILEXei9rfhw
The gratuitous key change in music is overused. Discuss.But how else would Westlife know when it's time to stand up?
The gratuitous key change in music is overused. Discuss.
Why is it that Funk & Soul sounds best on a Saturday night?
Just listening to Craig Charles on iPlayer, it's good, just not the same.
Why is it that Funk & Soul sounds best on a Saturday night?
The poster for the new 'Hunger Games' movie really irritates me.
She's supposed to be a super-skilled archer. The poster shows her with her finger hooked over the arrow. FFS, didn't they employ anyone on set who knew anything about archery?
Could be worse - Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye in Avengers Assemble was roundly panned for having very poor archery form:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/avengers-hawkeye-archery/
This morning will be spent drinking tea, eating toast and catching up on KBK and Le Samyn :thumbsup:
Last week I caught 2/3 rd s of Issie Sutties "Love Letters " on R4. It made me laugh during an extremely busy and stressful week.
As a cynical and jaded northerner,I have become immune to a lot of R4 content.
I have now listened to the whole prog on i-player and it's a really well crafted monologue performance.
This type of comedy from a woman is rare and so much better than Sarah Millicans foul mouthed tripe. Look for "George and Louise".
She also contributed to a Great Lives prog about Jake Thackray. That's worth listening to as well.
I've just watched Legs & Co dancing to Sultans of Swing on TOTP1979.
Modern 'classical' music. Why must it be so crappe? A-rhythmic, dissonant cacophony*, beginning to end. At best, it's planned noise. Looking at the time, this premier of a piece by Gabriel Prokofiev will be over soon.Grandson of the more famous Sergei, but his father Oleg was a painter. I once visited his house in London when I was a student (the family was away, & the young woman who was looking after it was a friend of a friend). Lots of his own paintings on the walls. A few I thought OK, but most weren't to my taste.
I try, I really do, but, but it does nothing for me - other than make me think 'why am I listening to this?'
Modern 'classical' music. Why must it be so crappe? A-rhythmic, dissonant cacophony*, beginning to end. At best, it's planned noise. Looking at the time, this premier of a piece by Gabriel Prokofiev will be over soon.
I try, I really do, but, but it does nothing for me - other than make me think 'why am I listening to this?'.
* Which, as my friends and I used to joke, is produced by an instrument called the kaka-phone. :-D
Modern 'classical' music. Why must it be so crappe? A-rhythmic, dissonant cacophony*, beginning to end. At best, it's planned noise. Looking at the time, this premier of a piece by Gabriel Prokofiev will be over soon.
I try, I really do, but, but it does nothing for me - other than make me think 'why am I listening to this?'.
* Which, as my friends and I used to joke, is produced by an instrument called the kaka-phone. :-D
I am very inclined to agree, Andrij. I haven't been to a prom lately, but I attended one a few years ago in which Beethoven's 9th followed the premier of some work by Harrison Birtwistle. I wonder if the Birtwistle piece will ever gain a second hearing?
Many pieces were panned by the audience on their first performance. I think Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" is one such but it is widely acclaimed these days. I'm not at all keen on it. I do, however, like most of the stuff that I have heard by Bela Bartok. I do think that some pieced of music grow on you with more listening. Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste" was one of my A level set works so I had to listen to it quite a few times. Even though the first run-through was, as you say, cacophonous and incomprehensible, the more I listened the more I liked it.
Actually, now I come to think of it, I also had Bartok at O level - one of the volumes of his piano pieces "Mikrokosmos". I grew to like those as well.
Modern 'classical' music. Why must it be so crappe? A-rhythmic, dissonant cacophony*, beginning to end. At best, it's planned noise. Looking at the time, this premier of a piece by Gabriel Prokofiev will be over soon.
I try, I really do, but, but it does nothing for me - other than make me think 'why am I listening to this?'.
* Which, as my friends and I used to joke, is produced by an instrument called the kaka-phone. :-D
I am very inclined to agree, Andrij. I haven't been to a prom lately, but I attended one a few years ago in which Beethoven's 9th followed the premier of some work by Harrison Birtwistle. I wonder if the Birtwistle piece will ever gain a second hearing?
Many pieces were panned by the audience on their first performance. I think Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" is one such but it is widely acclaimed these days. I'm not at all keen on it. I do, however, like most of the stuff that I have heard by Bela Bartok. I do think that some pieced of music grow on you with more listening. Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste" was one of my A level set works so I had to listen to it quite a few times. Even though the first run-through was, as you say, cacophonous and incomprehensible, the more I listened the more I liked it.
Actually, now I come to think of it, I also had Bartok at O level - one of the volumes of his piano pieces "Mikrokosmos". I grew to like those as well.
I would like to bet there was just as much rubbish around in the past as there is now. As with many things the good stuff rises to the top and we lose the bad stuff as noone wants to keep playing it.
You're doing what to my alliums? :o
I bought a banjo and now my fingers hurt!
I bought a banjo and now my fingers hurt!
You need to be more careful with the hammer.
Киевская инди-рок группа «Brunettes Shoot Blondes» сняла оригинальный клип на песню «Knock Knock», действие которого разворачивается на 14 яблочных гаджетах - телефонах, планшетах и ноутбуках. Продуманность очаровывает с первых кадров.I love how they've translated Apple and turned it into an adjective. 14 яблочных гаджетах Especially in context with the more obviously translatable 'indie rock' being not translated by simply transliterated.
Total time played: 61 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes, 45 seconds
Bedale has a gig venue - and this lot are playing there:
http://www.hopeandsocial.co.uk/live/
You like them, don't you, t?
Which reminds me: I did Bros' first gig as well.
Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Ike or Tina?
Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Ike or Tina?
I'd guessed Nik...
Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Ike or Tina?
I'd guessed Nik...
Maybe Brian
Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.Isn't the Turner exhibition at the Tate Britain, not Modern?
Isn't the Turner exhibition at the Tate Britain, not Modern?
Sadly yes. We have had a long walk but we are here now.Mrs. Wow and I are on a train heading for London. We are going to spend the day at the Turner exhibition at the Tate Modern.Isn't the Turner exhibition at the Tate Britain, not Modern?
I've seen Sharknado.
Remember the good old days of trolling the video rental horror section and just starring agape at the wondrous collection of VHS horror cover art?
Masterchef: The Professionals on BBC at the moment (another one tonight). 4 weeks in. 10 contestants per weeks. With tonight's program that will make 40 chefs trying to get through so far.
3 of which have been women (I don't think there are any women on tonight's program, from the footage they showed last night)
Surely the ratio of women to men in the cheffing business must be higher than 3/40.
RIP PD James. Not everyone's cup of tea but I found her novels quite readable.
You are all to tune your wirelesses to BBC Radio 3 at 18:45 next Sunday, December 14th, for "The Supernatural North" in which Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough visits Norway in search of the supernatural icy world that haunts the imagination of writers like Philip Pullman and A.S. Byatt. Never mind them, though, it also features Dr Larrington.
Maybe Kevin Bacon implanted it in your brain through your mobile phone.
Never mind, you can make a hat once you've taken the turkey out of the tinfoil, just in case he tries to put Flatliners in there too.
Why must my i-Pod always play Amon Amarth when I put it on Shuffle?
Vue reception area horrible; constant noise of ventilation and muzak, poor light, difficult to find information we needed.You forgot to mention the squelchy worn carpet and stench of stale popcorn.
Putting my feet up at the weekend to survey the sundry offerings on Amazon Instant and I saw some serial killer nonsense (The Following) with Kevin Bacon...
Acoustic dynamics of stringed instruments nailed (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/15/violin_acoustics_f_holes_mit/)Interesting. Though it's hardly news that violin makers did not know what features produced 'better' sound, seeing as those features have been argued about for centuries. It's all in the varnish, they used to say.
The Casual Vacancy1. It's a Rubbishes. Famous != Good.
1: I think no-one could be arsed to turn the Anbaric Distascope off for an hour.
Basically, Kevin wanders around with a look on his face that makes it look like he needs the bathroom, a good, long book, and some privacy because he'd been saving up for this one.
Basically, Kevin wanders around with a look on his face that makes it look like he needs the bathroom, a good, long book, and some privacy because he'd been saving up for this one.
That's the EE ads, isn't it?
Is it just me? Or is 'Miranda' just not funny? At all . . .
Is it just me? Or is 'Miranda' just not funny? At all . . .
I liked her in Call the Midwife and she seems funny when she's being herself on things, but the sitcom was dire. Not as dire as Mrs Brown's Boys, but nearly.
Years ago I had this idea that when I had five minutes, I'd invent a clever remote control that would have extra functions. You'd be able to point it at a character on the screen, right click (or whatever) and ask who the actor was and confirm that they weren't, ooh, thingy, the one who drove the gettaway car in that police thing the other day but had been in that film you watched three years ago. It was a really neat idea and would make me a fortune.
Wasn't "Veep" (very) loosely based on "The Thick Of It"? Somehow I can't imagine the median USAnian audience going for a programme using language like "six-toed pony-fuckers", "marzipan dildo" or ""I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party, and rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody".
There seems to be an argument that if you don't like it's because she's 'not conventionally attractive'. Trust me, it isn't.
There seems to be an argument that if you don't like it's because she's 'not conventionally attractive'. Trust me, it isn't.
You misunderstand - the argument is not that you don't like it for that reason but that this is the reason why it comes in for such vitriolic scorn when in fact it is no better or worse than countless other mediocre mainstream sitcoms that don't get the same treatment (eg Not Going Out). It's an #everydaysexism thing.
Mr L - Veep is written by exactly the same team as TTOI - Armando Ianucci, Chris Addison et al. It's genius. Very funny.
What little I've seen of Miranda (i.e. next to nowt) it perpetuates the 'jokes' that were prevalent in programmes like the Charlie Cairolli (sp) Show when I was eight. And I thought that was shit, too . . .
Miranda laughs at herself, and that's why I like it. She's taking the mickey out of herself, all the time, for being a bit clumsy, and a bit fat, and a bit gauche, and because she does daft things all the time that make her look like a div. It's a celebration of Miranda in all her weirdness and lack of elegance. That's why I like it.
I don't "get" Miranda (although I do find her funny when she's not in character), I don't "get" MBB. I mean I understand where the jokes are, and I understand why they are jokes, but they just seem empty, without any irony or pathos. No doubt some adults found Rent-a-Ghost funny.
Anyway, I regularly find myself laughing at Count Arthur Strong, so I'm no judge of what is and isn't good comedy.
I don't "get" Miranda (although I do find her funny when she's not in character), I don't "get" MBB. I mean I understand where the jokes are, and I understand why they are jokes, but they just seem empty, without any irony or pathos. No doubt some adults found Rent-a-Ghost funny.
Marco Polo
Youngest's description "Its a bit like game of thrones but with more nudity"
Marco Polo
Youngest's description "Its a bit like game of thrones but with more nudity"
I'm betting the nudity has the same cock-parity issues as GoT, too...
Marco Polo
Youngest's description "Its a bit like game of thrones but with more nudity"
I'm betting the nudity has the same cock-parity issues as GoT, too...
So far, yeah.
It doesn't have brazillian trims on all the women, but they do have shaved armpits.
8/10 in The Graun's literary quotations quiz. Here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/quiz/2015/mar/03/quotation-literary-titles-quiz9 out of 10. I conflated the Bard with the Dean.
I just filled in a survey asking which departure of a band member upset me the most, with a list of options including Robbie/Take That, Geri/Spice Girls, Zayn/Wand Erection, various Sugababes etc. So I clicked "other" and put "when Ronnie Wood left the Faces."
I wouldn't be able to pick one out of these:
Shutty leaving Terrorvision
Kurt leaving Nirvana
Fish leaving MArillion (as mentioned above)
Johnny Marr leaving, well just about every single band he has played in.
Oh yah, that's like totes gradely
Discussing Mike Leigh with my son this evening has made me want to watch Naked again. Reading some of the lines quoted on imdb, it seems to be a lot funnier than I remember it.
I went to see it in the cinema three times within the first two weeks of its release. That probably says more about the place I was at, mentally speaking, at the time than it says about the film itself.
Suffice to say, though, it made quite an impression on me. David Thewlis is totally mesmerising.
The older I get, the funnier Ed Reardon (R4) gets.... Ping, his Sloaney non-assistant, on a 30-years on commemoration gig for the miners' strike:QuoteOh yah, that's like totes gradely
Tony Hancock?The older I get, the funnier Ed Reardon (R4) gets.... Ping, his Sloaney non-assistant, on a 30-years on commemoration gig for the miners' strike:QuoteOh yah, that's like totes gradely
Definitely. There's a huge parallel between Ed Reardon and Tony Hancock for me. They just moan all the time and nearly everything they say is spot-on! I didn't hear that Ping bit bit will look out for the repeat. This is from someone who did a benefit gig for that very strike!
Watched the two BBC4 Handmade films last night. The glass jar one being the easier to follow, IMHO, as we seemed to see the whole process. The knife one covered 15 hours in 30 minutes, so was a bit more disjointed to my eye.
Shame they didn't at least name the glass designer's assistant in the credits and I would've liked to have seen more of the knife blade once finished, but an interesting concept with not a word of commentary to get in the way of the processes being filmed.
Where might we find this gem of broadcasting history on our wireless receiving sets?
The good day/bad day thing? Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day? :)
The good day/bad day thing? Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day? :)
No, both songs are corkers, so don't really have a preference. I might just, on purpose say I have had a bad day as all the recent ones have been good days.
The good day/bad day thing? Have you decided in advance whether you're going to have a good day? :)
No, both songs are corkers, so don't really have a preference. I might just, on purpose say I have had a bad day as all the recent ones have been good days.
It is on today, at 16.50 or so.
Still undecided as to whether I am having a bad day or a good day.
I was betting on the Terrorvision come what may!
Is it just me who finds it disconcerting when $AUTHOR, having written a book narrated in the first person, does the sequel in the third person?
Finally watched the last episode of Smiley's People.
All of that just for a bloke to walk across a bridge ???
I decided, at the last minute that I was having a bad day :) Nothing to do with the song choice, oh no....
Has anyone else been watching the beeb's new spy drama, The Game?
It's no Smiley but I've found it reasonably entertaining
One Hit Wonders @ The Beeb on now on BBC4
I treated myself to some Proper Surround Sound kit over the long weekend, rather than relying on the tinny little speakers hidden inside the flatscreen TV. Relatively budget kit - £150 Yamaha receiver, and some £150 speaker/sub bundle - but...
The Man from Del Monte, he say Yes. :thumbsup:
The difference is a revelation. I knew it'd sound a lot better but I didn't realise how much, or else I wouldn't have waited so long to do it. I think all my Blu-rays will be getting a re-watching!
Modern TVs are a bit like Sci-Fi now though aren't they?
Shameless plug time:Dunno but iPlayer Radio works fine for me here in Germanyland without using my VPN.
The good news: Dr Larrington's latest book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brothers-Sisters-Medieval-European- Literature/dp/190315362X/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432233914&sr=1-5&keywords=carolyne+larrington) was published today.
The bad news: a copy of Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature will set you back fifty-seven of your BRITONS' pounds. You can, for less money, pre-order "The Land Of The Green Man" and "Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones", but be prepared to wait a year for the latter.
The other good news: her R4 series of 5x15 minute programmes is to be broadcast from September 7-11.
The other bad news: I'll be in Abroad, where the FOREIGNS come from, when it is aired chiz. Does get_iPlayer work in FOREIGN parts?
Just booked tickets to see Hugo Weaving in Godot at the Barbican. Yay!
Just booked tickets to see Hugo Weaving in Godot at the Barbican. Yay!
...which is tonight. Yay!
Superb! A really vibrant interpretation that did a great job of bringing out the humour. Hugo Weaving and Richad Roxburgh were both brilliant as Vladimir and Estragon but slightly upstaged by Philip Quast and Luke Mills as Pozzo and Lucky. Helped that it was a good audience in tonight - Lucky got a massive round of applause at the end of his thinking speech. Although some clearly weren't impressed - there were gaps in the audience in the second half where there hadn't been gaps in the first half.
Isn't that the fate of any Godot? I suspect a lot of people go just because they've heard of it.
Maybe they got fed up with waiting.
Did you know, there are apparently 7 or more Enya albums? I could have sworn there was only one.
I confess to not having seen the resurrection, but here's a handy guide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3PJWWFfMqT9xpSJMNJJTHSF/what-to-do-if-you-meet-a-clanger
You have dropped a clanger, then?
I know Humax PVRs bin your recording schedule when you do a retune, but I haven't done one recently. So what, Mr Memory-Box, has caused you to forget the whole kit and kaboodle, eh? EH??
I'm missing a couple of episodes of The Clangers now, you terrible ["Uncle Monty" - Ed.].
But did Peter ever headline there? (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/12970917.New_book_recalls_Stockton_s_Fiesta_nightclub_which_drew_the_biggest_names_in_show_business/?ref=mr&)
But did Peter ever headline there? (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/12970917.New_book_recalls_Stockton_s_Fiesta_nightclub_which_drew_the_biggest_names_in_show_business/?ref=mr&)
Do you mean OUR Peter...?
No Scottish dates (sorry, Mrs P), but GS!YBE are doing a proper tour:
http://www.songkick.com/artists/182957-godspeed-you-black-emperor/calendar
Including Gateshead! :thumbsup:
No Scottish dates (sorry, Mrs P), but GS!YBE are doing a proper tour:
http://www.songkick.com/artists/182957-godspeed-you-black-emperor/calendar
Including Gateshead! :thumbsup:
No Scottish dates (sorry, Mrs P), but GS!YBE are doing a proper tour:
http://www.songkick.com/artists/182957-godspeed-you-black-emperor/calendar
Including Gateshead! :thumbsup:
But not Londonton :(
Or that they've alreday played in Londonton twice this year.
Amazon has released a new trailer for their upcoming series The Man In The High Castle, and it shows off some chilling new footage along what we’ve already seen from its fantastic pilot (http://io9.com/man-in-the-high-castle-is-wildly-different-from-the-boo-1679953073).
Have you noticed that every time film/TV detectives explore a building with torches it's full of smoke?
How's your piano technique? (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/science/playing-mozart-piano-pieces-as-mozart-did.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur)
It's a funny thing, but studio recordings of punk bands are usually pretty musical, whereas live you just get the whole full-on noise/anarchic madness experience.
Producers seem to go the other way with more poppy stuff, so live you get a more pared=down sound, and studio recordings you get a slicker, lusher sound.
This post may contain inaccurate sweeping statements.
They have just played "Jesus Built My Hotrod" on 6Music!
Talk about a great start to the day, it can only go downhill from here :)
Just bought the first Xmas pressie.
Why in this thread? Well TLD wanted a piece of art, we wanted to buy her a piece as an investment and Kerry Darlington's works have shown to appreciate quite nicely*
So we bought her this:
http://www.enidhuttgallery.com/wendy-kerry-darlington-unique-limited-edition-resin.ir?src=froogle&gclid=CjwKEAjwzJexBRCa_pGo8IK0ilASJABfGldbFn_zhe61_wwmR2uGxthA8mjCPG1cKSJ6WNXkQp8GpBoCgkTw_wcB
*We already have one piece, in the lounge, that was bought for ~£800 ~5 years ago and now sells for ~£1300, not a bad return!
Further upcatching with that three-parter on the history of "Indie" wot BBC4 done recently. "Music For Misfits" or summat. I am not now and never have been an Indie Kid - skinny or otherwise - but it was still quite a nostalgia-fest, helped make sense of quite a lot of Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics1, confirmed my opinions about Morrissey and didn't have big pseud Paul Morley in it. Needed Peter Hook, though.
1: And even featured a brief clip of HMHB playing "The Trumpton Riots" :thumbsup:
1: And even featured a brief clip of HMHB playing "The Trumpton Riots" :thumbsup:
Here's a brilliant Friday afternoon vid of Stan & Laurel dancing to AC/DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqSOLRQWsU
My mum didn't like Skyfall because
- Daniel Craig's suits were too tight
- no way would James Bond let his Aston Martin get destroyed
- he should have shut the door when he set the house on fire so the fire didn't follow him through the escape route
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...:o :'( >:(
...until June 2016 :o
My mum didn't like Skyfall because
- Daniel Craig's suits were too tight
- no way would James Bond let his Aston Martin get destroyed
- he should have shut the door when he set the house on fire so the fire didn't follow him through the escape route
Congratulations!! Your Mum has correctly spotted all 3 unrealistic and far-fetched Bond moments and won 1st prize, a Lotus Esprit Submarine Car (And lifetime supply of WD40).
My mum didn't like Skyfall because
- Daniel Craig's suits were too tight
- no way would James Bond let his Aston Martin get destroyed
- he should have shut the door when he set the house on fire so the fire didn't follow him through the escape route
Congratulations!! Your Mum has correctly spotted all 3 unrealistic and far-fetched Bond moments and won 1st prize, a Lotus Esprit Submarine Car (And lifetime supply of WD40).
That'll be a Corgi Lotus Esprit, minus the missiles*, then? ;)
* Which had pingfukkited themselvesinto the depths of the ornamental flower border in the back gardenunder grandma's sideboard within five minutes of playing with the toy car outside for the first time...
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
My mum didn't like Skyfall because
- Daniel Craig's suits were too tight
- no way would James Bond let his Aston Martin get destroyed
- he should have shut the door when he set the house on fire so the fire didn't follow him through the escape route
Congratulations!! Your Mum has correctly spotted all 3 unrealistic and far-fetched Bond moments and won 1st prize, a Lotus Esprit Submarine Car (And lifetime supply of WD40).
That'll be a Corgi Lotus Esprit, minus the missiles*, then? ;)
* Which had pingfukkited themselvesinto the depths of the ornamental flower border in the back gardenunder grandma's sideboard within five minutes of playing with the toy caroutsidefor the first time...
FTFY
On the The R6M front, I have just submitted a menu for a Spanish Sunday lunch comprising Ojos de Brujo, Patax, Manu Chao. Wonder if it will get played.
On the The R6M front, I have just submitted a menu for a Spanish Sunday lunch comprising Ojos de Brujo, Patax, Manu Chao. Wonder if it will get played.
Ooooo, which Sunday is that on, then?
In Dad's Army tonight, fleeting mentions of French flags, bombs and praying to Mecca. No intent, just a bizarre and poignant coincidence.
Explosions In The Sky are playing a handful of UK gigs in April 2016: http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/ (http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/) :thumbsup:
Explosions In The Sky are playing a handful of UK gigs in April 2016: http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/ (http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/) :thumbsup:
Aw, boo, Glasgow :(
He is pretty, he is clever, and he is talented.
And he is, or so we are informed by his dad (incorrectly), a 'tit-man'.
I love Professional Masterchef - it's the only version of Masterchef I watch, not being interested in celebs making tits of themselves or amateur foodies showing off how au courant they are with the latest food fads.
For this reason I'm quite looking forward to the "professional bake-off" which is apparently in the pipeline.
For this reason I'm quite looking forward to the "professional bake-off" which is apparently in the pipeline.
Ooh! Interesting.
Tom Kerridge is presenting it
Dear wife, if you insist on working from home, you need to understand that late Friday afternoon is my Sing Along With Taylor Swift time.
Yeah, Larrers, don't be a hater. Cue up Haunted or Shake it Out and just let it all out. Even better, Amazon Music now comes with the all the lyrics, Karaoke style.
This is why I own a detached house.
It's also why I can't go to certain bars in Boca Raton ever again.
BBC, ninety seconds does not constitute an episode of "QI", still less an episode of "QI XL". And for what? Fucking snooker.It was an old one (k) anyway.
Never mind, it'll be on iPlayer, won't it? No. No, it is not. May a Mighty Rushing Wind blow down your houses and destroy your insurance paperwork >:(
These perfume ads get more ridiculous and obscure every year. I mean, who wears Chanel when they go surfing? And is he shagging someone else or what? Bastard. If he is, that is, because who can tell. I mean, he's got a kid, which makes him utter scum, but only if he is a home-breaking adulterer, because perfume ads.
Dear middle-aged women,
Dear middle-aged women,
'Middle-aged women' are no more susceptible to marketing than any other arbitrary age/gender group.
Try changing the word 'women' in your post to 'men', and 'Laboratoire Garnier' to 'Pinarello'...
Can't help feel you missed the obvious R*pha parallel.
Dear middle-aged women,
'Middle-aged women' are no more susceptible to marketing than any other arbitrary age/gender group.
Congratulations to UCL Rutherford who, on last night's Christmas University Challenge, identified the narrator of a recording of "Peter And The Wolf" as Toxteth O'Grady.
Pity it was wrong.
Congratulations to UCL Rutherford who, on last night's Christmas University Challenge, identified the narrator of a recording of "Peter And The Wolf" as Toxteth O'Grady.
Pity it was wrong.
Finally caught up with that today. Amusing. The real pity is that he didn't give the answer as 'Toxteth O'Grady, USA' but well done him anyway.
Wasn't "Veep" (very) loosely based on "The Thick Of It"? Somehow I can't imagine the median USAnian audience going for a programme using language like "six-toed pony-fuckers", "marzipan dildo" or ""I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party, and rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody".
Wasn't "Veep" (very) loosely based on "The Thick Of It"? Somehow I can't imagine the median USAnian audience going for a programme using language like "six-toed pony-fuckers", "marzipan dildo" or ""I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party, and rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody".
Somebody lent us Veep. I thought I was going to hate it but actually it's a fairly close match for TTOI considering a)it's Usanian and b) there's no Malcolm Tucker.
And another one goneFTFYhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11860014
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699)
I wonder if an "IPlayer Original" is the equivalent of a film being released straight to DVD?
Just seen that. Arsebollocks.And another one goneFTFYhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11860014
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699)
Currently making my way through every episode of South Park in order.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDJvC2CGaU
The show is funny as hell, suitably puerile, with an irreverent streak of social commentary (increasingly so from series 5 or thereabouts) that puts Family Guy and Simpsons and all those other jaded and less mirthsome American wannabees in the shade.
Anybody who disagrees with me is either a hippy or a pussy. And should respect my authority.
Hillbilly is correct, but man, that's a lot of episodes.
Have we had OK Go's new zero-gravity (yes, for realsies) music video yet?
http://okgo.net/2016/02/11/upside-down-inside-out/
To clarify - no green screens, no wires, and shot in one take aboard a parabolic plane flight. All they've done is cut the double-gravity bits out between dives.
Have we had OK Go's new zero-gravity (yes, for realsies) music video yet?
http://okgo.net/2016/02/11/upside-down-inside-out/
To clarify - no green screens, no wires, and shot in one take aboard a parabolic plane flight. All they've done is cut the double-gravity bits out between dives.
On a side note, I thought I would have a look at the cost of tickets to see Jools Holland, again in November. F*** me! £40 EACH!!!!
I have booked a superfluity of Springsteen tickets, both for Wembley and Coventry. One or the other will have to be sold.
With all the hoopla over David Bowie the death of Mott The Hoople drummer Dale "Buffin" Griffin seems to have slipped under the radar, in much the same way as Lee Brilleaux dying at the same time as Kurt Cobain.Somewhere, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, Farrah Fawcett and Mother Teresa are nodding in agreement.
I have booked a superfluity of Springsteen tickets, both for Wembley and Coventry. One or the other will have to be sold.
Ooh, PSB & 65daysofstatic :thumbsup:
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Been put back yet again!
Have we had OK Go's new zero-gravity (yes, for realsies) music video yet?Brilliant, thank-you! I have yet to see a dull OK-Go video :)
http://okgo.net/2016/02/11/upside-down-inside-out/
To clarify - no green screens, no wires, and shot in one take aboard a parabolic plane flight. All they've done is cut the double-gravity bits out between dives.
Battle Mountain: Graeme Obree's Story (https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse/film/battle-mountain-graeme-obrees-story-plus-qanda?image=1&_m_utk=6b3798a75136445e01257db575146282) is showing at The Ritzy, Brixton, at hours 18:30 tomorrow. Q&A with Graeme and director Dave Street afterwards. I may well find myself on the Victoria Line tomorrow pm.
I got all excited when I saw Explosions in the Sky were going to play Durham (in addition to Glasgow, Manchester and the usual places) :D
Then I realised it was Durham, North Carolina. Arse.
Can anyone explain to me the reasoning behind the BBC News channel.FTFY. Who needs 24 hour "rolling" news anyway? Rehashing the same bloody non-stories for hour after tedious hour.
Can anyone explain to me the reasoning behind the BBC News channel's just having broadcast a fifteen minute infomercial about Dubai airport ???
No, Dan Snow, Up Helly Aa is a 19th century invention for fleecing tourists and has as much to do with Vikings as those plastic horned helmets sported by Danish foopball fans >:(
No, Dan Snow, Up Helly Aa is a 19th century invention for fleecing tourists and has as much to do with Vikings as those plastic horned helmets sported by Danish foopball fans >:(
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Been put back yet again!
But on,y to 14th July this time.
If anyone is watching The Tunnel, apparently this week's episode featured the Adelaide cafe near Deal, which is the usual coffee stop for our* Sunday morning club rides.Is that the one on the Sandwich to Deal road not far from the Betteshanger junction?
If anyone is watching The Tunnel, apparently this week's episode featured the Adelaide cafe near Deal, which is the usual coffee stop for our* Sunday morning club rides.Is that the one on the Sandwich to Deal road not far from the Betteshanger junction?
This summer, Dweezil Zappa and his backing band will once again perform the music of his father Frank Zappa on a nationwide tour, but unlike the past decade, the guitarist will be playing under a different moniker. Instead of Zappa Plays Zappa, the touring unit will now be dubbed Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa, stemming in part from a bitter feud between Frank Zappa's children over their father's copyright, the New York Times reports.
TL:DR - So one Zappa can't play as Zappa Plays Zappa any more because another Zappa who's not playing Zappa will not let Zappa honour Zappa by playing Zappa as Zappa Plays Zappa. All clear?Brilliant
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Been put back yet again!
But on,y to 14th July this time.
25th August now!
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Been put back yet again!
But on,y to 14th July this time.
25th August now!
Guess what?(click to show/hide)
I'm going to be on a gameshow
I hope it's Shooting Stars.I'm going to be on a gameshow
Which one?
And it will have Carrie Anne Moss in it. Yay!
And lo! It was about two blokes riding to every place mentioned in song by HMHB.
And lo! It was about two blokes riding to every place mentioned in song by HMHB.
"Where is Chatteris?"
... onan album ...??? Enlighten us, please. ;D
WTF is Pete Shelley playing at? Watching some rubbish on the TV, in the advert break an ad is soundtracked by "What Do I Get?" Who is the advert for? Macfuckingdonalds, that's who.Might well be out of copyright and therefore nothing to do with him. And well, even punk gets middle aged – and then it can't really be punk anymore (if it ever was), can it?
Miss von Brandenburg has just given me the appalling news that the publication of the sixth book of Ben Aaronovitch's very splendid and worthwhile "Rivers Of London" series has been postponed...
...until June 2016 :o
Did I not mention that a several of weeks ago? I defo told *somebody* I got an email from Amazon about it.
Been put back yet again!
But on,y to 14th July this time.
25th August now!
Guess what?(click to show/hide)
What the merry fuck is he playing at >:(
Ruthie, I have watched the first 2 eps of Dicte and have considered it good enough to watch the rest :)
Ruthie, I have watched the first 2 eps of Dicte and have considered it good enough to watch the rest :)
Do you love her too?
And how nice are Wagner AND Bo?
Ruthie, I have watched the first 2 eps of Dicte and have considered it good enough to watch the rest :)
Do you love her too?
And how nice are Wagner AND Bo?
Pingu says he wouldn't want to live near her as she keeps tripping over dead bodies.
When very young babies have to cry in films, how do they start it? A quick jolt of 240v up the wazoo or does "Mummy" slide a crafty needle through the swaddling clothes?
You were always going to be on rocky ground, TV's Professor B Cox, sitting on a sun-dappled Oxfordshire hillside and proclaiming it to be "July 10th".
When very young babies have to cry in films, how do they start it?
You were always going to be on rocky ground, TV's Professor B Cox, sitting on a sun-dappled Oxfordshire hillside and proclaiming it to be "July 10th".
Bl00dy Americanizm. >:(
When very young babies have to cry in films, how do they start it? A quick jolt of 240v up the wazoo or does "Mummy" slide a crafty needle through the swaddling clothes?
I thought they weren't allowed to show babies crying in films. Or maybe it's just British TV drama or something. Anyway, it's certainly not uncommon to dub crying over an image of a not-crying baby. Careful direction and editing go a long way to making this not too obvious.
You were always going to be on rocky ground, TV's Professor B Cox, sitting on a sun-dappled Oxfordshire hillside and proclaiming it to be "July 10th".
Bl00dy Americanizm. >:(
That might have been me O:-)
I've just discovered Being Human.
Start of season 2.I've just discovered Being Human.
Where are you up to? I think it peaks with series three, then goes downhill rapidly after that.
Run out of time to watch anything recently. And I have a new Robin Hobb book to read.
You know she is in the middle writing of the fourth trilogy of those books? I'm on the second book of the fourth trilogy. Yes, those are my favourites by far.
Run out of time to watch anything recently. And I have a new Robin Hobb book to read.
I love the Farseer/Fitz/Fool books, but I didn't get on well with the other ones.
I'm going to see new Ghostbusters tonight. I'm quite excited.Hope you enjoy it. I thought it was surprisingly excellent.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/whoyougonnacall_zps9dgu6qli.png)
Four trilogies? I've read the Farseer trilogy, the Tawny Man trilogy and the first two of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy.You know she is in the middle writing of the fourth trilogy of those books? I'm on the second book of the fourth trilogy. Yes, those are my favourites by far.
Run out of time to watch anything recently. And I have a new Robin Hobb book to read.
I love the Farseer/Fitz/Fool books, but I didn't get on well with the other ones.
Loved it!
Hope you enjoy it. I thought it was surprisingly excellent.
Well it depends if you include the Liveship traders in that series. Since they include the Fool . . .Four trilogies? I've read the Farseer trilogy, the Tawny Man trilogy and the first two of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy.You know she is in the middle writing of the fourth trilogy of those books? I'm on the second book of the fourth trilogy. Yes, those are my favourites by far.
Run out of time to watch anything recently. And I have a new Robin Hobb book to read.
I love the Farseer/Fitz/Fool books, but I didn't get on well with the other ones.
It's like Billy Bunter with banjos. The unmistakeable sound of Appalachia in Stow on the Wold: Bluegrass enthusiasts pack up their banjos and fiddles for a week of fast and furious music which has become a fixture on the international Bluegrass calendar.
I've just heard House of the Rising Sun. So what? By Joan Baez. That was unexpected!Oodles of versions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun)
Is that tape as distinct from cassette? If so, >> 8)
Today's miniature musical post-velation is the White Stripes (a band I've totally ignored until now) version of Jolene. It makes me think I'd like to hear a Patti Smith cover of that song.
I'm quite enjoying Stranger Things, it's worth it for the synth-tastic soundtrack and mash-up of eighties TV style through the big, big glasses, fat trimphones, to the haircuts-oh-glorious-haircuts. You can almost smell the hairspray. And one of the kids looks like Kevin Bacon. Oh, and Winona Ryder. You can't build a better time machine.
From Saturday nightHe was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.
Oh no, not Gunvald :(
I'm quite enjoying Stranger Things, it's worth it for the synth-tastic soundtrack and mash-up of eighties TV style through the big, big glasses, fat trimphones, to the haircuts-oh-glorious-haircuts. You can almost smell the hairspray. And one of the kids looks like Kevin Bacon. Oh, and Winona Ryder. You can't build a better time machine.
El looks very much like Lance Armstrong. I can't get over it whenever I see her. Do you think it was the performance enhancing drugs that gave her her powers?
From Saturday nightHe was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.
Oh no, not Gunvald :(
So . . . what about Steinar?From Saturday nightHe was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.
Oh no, not Gunvald :(
;D
So . . . what about Steinar?From Saturday nightHe was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.
Oh no, not Gunvald :(
;D
Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)
Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references
On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.
Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)
Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references
On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.
Didn't think much of it. "Homages" there might have been but most of it was derivative and a lot of it just tired. The monster was plain daft - and why should there have been just one? Maybe if they do a second series the buggers'll come popping out of the wall like bed-bugs.
One funny bit: why did the kids' bike headlamps have thick orange filters? Did they maybe use LEDS in triplets - you could see 3 separate glowing points in there - and put the filter on to make them look more 1980s?
Someone on R4 has just been introduced as an "astrobiologist".Was that Dr Lewis Dartnell? (an old school friend of mine)
Nice work - if you can get it. :D
Someone on R4 has just been introduced as an "astrobiologist".Was that Dr Lewis Dartnell? (an old school friend of mine)
Nice work - if you can get it. :D
Blimey. Hilda Ogden's died :-\
Funny, that. We were given the boxed set, but after the first episode - a bunch of people we couldn't identify with and larded with vile language - we dumped it. We'd probably give it more of a chance now, but back then itWot, The Wire or Still Game?
Funny, that. We were given the boxed set, but after the first episode - a bunch of people we couldn't identify with and larded with vile language - we dumped it. We'd probably give it more of a chance now, but back then it
Worked just now, in spite of the "fantastic breasts".So it does. They've retained Mr redmayne's desire not to screw up fantastic breasts.
Ooh goody War Games is on again.
Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)
Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references
On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.
Didn't think much of it. "Homages" there might have been but most of it was derivative and a lot of it just tired. The monster was plain daft - and why should there have been just one? Maybe if they do a second series the buggers'll come popping out of the wall like bed-bugs.
One funny bit: why did the kids' bike headlamps have thick orange filters? Did they maybe use LEDS in triplets - you could see 3 separate glowing points in there - and put the filter on to make them look more 1980s?
I just watched the first episode of this. I'm hooked!
I wonder why this link didn't work?FANTASTIC BREASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Web page not available
The web page at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/06/eddie-redmayne-i-loved-harry-potter-so-dont-want-to-screw-up-fantastic-breasts?CMP=fb_gu could not be loaded because:
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Noooo... they're remaking An American werewolf in London. Even if it is by son of director, can it be bettered?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/08/an-american-werewolf-in-london-remake-max-landis
Arsebiscuits! I just thought I'd been really clever by guessing the theme of today's RadMac Teatime Themetime. First tune was Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade...Strawberry Switchblade! Yurk! I actually bought that back in the days when buying music on 7" vinyl was what you did. I'd forgotten all about them and a brief gooooooogle reminds me why. It's like the worst of the 80s and today all mashed up into one.(click to show/hide)
Strawberry Switchblade! Yurk! I actually bought that back in the days when buying music on 7" vinyl was what you did. I'd forgotten all about them and a brief gooooooogle reminds me why. It's like the worst of the 80s and today all mashed up into one.
Alexander Armstrong. he of the unusually large ears and "Pointless" has released* an album of songs.
*OK, it wasn't released, it escaped
... MTV, you are shit at musical history.
Tiermat, I have to play the wowbagger card for this: with the exception of the skeleton Olympic champion, I don't think I'd heard of any of them. I managed 5 minutes before switching off.
Channel 5's Tour De Celeb*, what an utter pile of shite.
Take 2 has been sportspeople (ok, they are competitive, so adds a little to the program), scatter the rest of the cast with has-beens and Z-listers. Add the obligatory camp dancer (who is, to be fair, funny), get them to "train" to do "The World's Hardest Bike Race"** and you have a recipe for, pardon the pun, car crash TV. The 'sleb reality TV show woman really, really gets on my thrupenny bits (oh it's soooo scary, it's really difficult, I could have been crushed by a car), FFS, take one big cup of HTFU and get over yourself.
*I am sure I saw a thread about it, yesterday, but can't find it!
**Etape Du Tour, yes really!
I sort of see your point, JBB, but for one thing. If it was mentioned once, maybe twice in the wholeprogramseries, that would be fine, but she seemed to be banging on, every 5 seconds about how scary, how difficult it is. She really does need to take a big cup of HTFU but, to be honest, I don't think I'll watch any more as it will just give Mrs T more of a "safety" stick to beat me with when I go out cycling.
Chum of mine did it a few years back. At the end he wasn't going to hang around for the tombola but his mates wanted to so he stayed and won a 9000 € made-to-measure bike.
Y a des croques et des croques.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/jungle-book-rogue-one-advance-visual-effects-oscar-race-951577And you can't tell us which 5 or you'd have to kill us?
Blowing my own trumpet.
Long list for the VFX oscar...and I worked on 5 of those!
This is rather good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJO7bcRVPvI
Now we just need part 2 where he tries to escape from hell :)
In a similar vein, although I think everyone's seen this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk), I think this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KHdS3EiBGk) just takes things to a new level.This is rather good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJO7bcRVPvI
Now we just need part 2 where he tries to escape from hell :)
This is most definitely one of the best things on the interwebs! :thumbsup:
In a similar vein, although I think everyone's seen this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk), I think this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KHdS3EiBGk) just takes things to a new level.This is rather good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJO7bcRVPvI
Now we just need part 2 where he tries to escape from hell :)
This is most definitely one of the best things on the interwebs! :thumbsup:
Netflix breathlessly informs me that they have just added: "Spectral: When an otherworldly force wreaks havoc on a war-torn European city, an engineer teams up with an elite Special Ops unit to stop it."
Jesus wept.
Netflix breathlessly informs me that they have just added: "Spectral: When an otherworldly force wreaks havoc on a war-torn European city, an engineer teams up with an elite Special Ops unit to stop it."
Jesus wept.
That sounds brilliant! So going to watch it
Unfortunately I fell asleep about five minutes in. Well, it was post-beer. I'll have to try again. To be honest, any movie that features in the post-beer slot is likely doomed to snoozedom.
How do you know this?Because I was watching the winner (no spoilers) perform it as I typed that?
With all 26 pairs of solutions beginning with the same letter, except M, one solution will fit a theme not further defined in the clue.
Has there ever been a trippier film than Labyrinth?
Has there ever been a trippier film than Labyrinth?dark crystal?
Has there ever been a trippier film than Labyrinth?Cremaster Cycle.
On spotting that Patti Smith was trending on Twitter, my immediate thought was "Oh Bugger".
But it's ok. She's 70 today.
Happy birthday.
If anyone was watching tonight's episode of Channel 4's 'No Offence', the BMX for the final scene was supplied by John's Bikes. :smug: :smug: :smug:I hope you got mentioned in the credits. :thumbsup:
Miriam margoyles on wimmins hour, very good. :thumbsup:
Miriam margoyles on wimmins hour, very good. :thumbsup:
Susan Calman makes some fairly fruity revelations about Miriam Margolyes in the latest Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (or RHLSTP, as all the cool kids down at the skateboard park are calling it).
Is anyone watching that new American political show on the television? I stumbled across it the other day. It's a bit like the Office, you cringe and laugh at the same time. There's this orange-skinned character with doofus hair playing the new President. All he does is sit in the Oval Office and tweet random stuff, occasionally sticking his put to yell at people, and complain about not being in New York. He basically has no self-awareness at all. All the staffers are trying to avoid him because he's apparently a 'pussy grabber' but will pretty much grab anything that has legs. He's brilliantly played. Dunno who the actor is, I'm sure he's been in something else. He has this mad campaign manager who just comes up with brilliant phrases like 'alternative facts' and likes punching people. She makes Julia-Louis Dreyfus look like an amateur. Best though is the press secretary, he basically gets told every episode to stand there and repeat obvious lies over and over, trying to gloss over them by shouting 'next question' and pointing to someone else every time the questions get heated.
I sincerely recommend it. OK, you have to suspend belief a little, but I tell you, whoever scripted it has put Armando Iannucci out of work. Car-crash TV at its best. Hopefully it won't get cancelled mid-season, that would be such a huge disappointment.
Just noticed that The One You Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6WohvHfNM) by Glenn Frey (playing on R2 at the moment) and Tell It To My Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKVa4O2MuS0) by Taylor Dayne are the same song. The latter is a truly tragic song.
Did anyone watch the BBC4 programme about Blencathra? If so, did the colours look funny to you? As if it was shot on film twenty years ago or put through an Instagram filter. Apart from that it was great.
underrated hillock
Caught this on 6music tonight - absolutely fantastic vintage radio documentary (from 1985!) about the Stones' early career, focusing on their live performances for the BBC, interspersed with some lovely interviews:I learned the other day that they did a jingle for a Rice Krispies ad in the early 60s. ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kky3g
They really were a great blues band back in those days.
That should have come with a spoiler warning.
Ear worm.#
BASTARD!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
Wish they wouldn't stick black tape over manufacturer's names on SLRs in films. Obvious why they do it, but it looks phoney and spoils the illusion.
On Radio Three this morning, "London Transport Suite" by Sidney Torch (great name!) full of themes evoking/mimicking steam locomotives. Made me wonder; how the blazes would you represent a diesel, or electric, loco in a musical piece without recourse to recordings of the real thing?
In 1977 I was listening to rather less *ahem* sophisticated musicians. Interesting, but without the video there's nothing about the track that says, to me, locomotive. Electric, diesel or otherwise.On Radio Three this morning, "London Transport Suite" by Sidney Torch (great name!) full of themes evoking/mimicking steam locomotives. Made me wonder; how the blazes would you represent a diesel, or electric, loco in a musical piece without recourse to recordings of the real thing?
Like this:
https://youtu.be/DWSceMtAjPw
Surprised you haven't heard this.
I was watching an old episode of Spooks last night and one of the MI5 officers was instructed to assassinate a bad guy by injecting him with a bucketload of insulin. His boss was talking him through the steps, and included swabbing the injection site first. Because of course you don't want to risk infection on a man you're killing!
I was blown away by this. It's hard enough to play on a piano...
Labyrinth is on ch5+1 just now!
The world is a big place so there is clearly room for a teen muslim girl thrash metal band (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/09/the-schoolgirl-thrash-metal-band-smashing-stereotypes-java-indonesia-voice-baceprot)
Question on Pointless today:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4196/34919842370_5b882aa662_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/VcKjxL)
No prizes for guessing which was the best answer...(click to show/hide)
W.C. Handy, (won't you look down over me)I always think, "ooh, that's convenient that there's a WC handy!" :thumbsup:
Our undying admiration ? ;D
Whenever I hear the song Walking In Memphis by Marc Cohn (currently playing on R2), and hear the lineQuoteW.C. Handy, (won't you look down over me)I always think, "ooh, that's convenient that there's a WC handy!" :thumbsup:
Sewage miles count double.I'll be doing it in a wetsuit. Or a helicopter.
If I ever have to break out of prison, I'll be doing it in metric.
She put Onyeka Onwenu's 'One Love' on the stereoI expected a Nigerian cover of Bob Marley but I was disappointed. So I'm enjoying Fela Kuti instead.
You could do the same by adding a letter, e.g. Star Warts.
I've just discovered that American Gods (Neil Gaiman) has been made into a TV series. It looks very heavily adapted, though.
O co Ci chodzi? Anyway, wouldn't it be the effect on dancing styles? But wasn't Saturday Night Fever set in San Francisco (a city I always think of as Sin Fun-disco)?
O co Ci chodzi? Anyway, wouldn't it be the effect on dancing styles? But wasn't Saturday Night Fever set in San Francisco (a city I always think of as Sin Fun-disco)?
Did anyone watch First Night of the Proms last night? If so, please put me out of my misery and tell me what it was they played over the closing credits. I know I know it but my memory isn't giving it up. I think it's from a ballet.
Thank you.Did anyone watch First Night of the Proms last night? If so, please put me out of my misery and tell me what it was they played over the closing credits. I know I know it but my memory isn't giving it up. I think it's from a ballet.
In The Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No.1 by Edvard Grieg
Inspector Gadget? ;)Did anyone watch First Night of the Proms last night? If so, please put me out of my misery and tell me what it was they played over the closing credits. I know I know it but my memory isn't giving it up. I think it's from a ballet.
In The Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No.1 by Edvard Grieg
HOW CAN THERE BE A NEW SERIES OF DICTE CRIME REPORTER AND I DIDN'T KNOW IT >:(
HOW CAN THERE BE A NEW SERIES OF DICTE CRIME REPORTER AND I DIDN'T KNOW IT >:(
Even later to the party than you, I just find out before the last episode is broadcast. Which means I have to watch 5 eps on All 4 with no winding through the shitverts >:(
Twenty minutes of silence eradicated and 40MB of disk space saved. Take THAT, John Fahey!
Twenty minutes of silence eradicated and 40MB of disk space saved. Take THAT, John Fahey!
I thought it was John Cage, who is most well known for silence? :D
Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAbXwr3qkg) is the BBC's recording, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Ringworld? Bloody hell. CGI city, I assume, but how will they get around rishathra?
I'm watching a Canadian science-fiction series called Killjoys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killjoys_(TV_series)), which is basically bounty hunters in space. After one episode it looks promising, so far.
Heh. They'll to have to pronounce Halrloprillalar. Paging Mr. Niven...Funnily enough, and with no jokes about what I can get my tongue round, I find no difficulty in pronouncing that in a way that seems to make sense. I even typed it out from memory. Oddly, when I went to G**gle it, half the results I got were in Czech, or other vowel-deficient EE languages!
Terry and Gerry are playing one of my local venues in about a month. Onna Thursday, which any fule knows is gig night.
Except it's half term and I'll probably have Cubs.
Perhaps I should bake them a cake if I can't go?
I have been getting the urge to get my guitar out the loft, change the strings and try to remember how to play.
Idly searching for strings on eBay, I thought, I wonder if anyone is selling one?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EKO-EL-Gaucho-Gypsy-Guitar-/131848470391?hash=item1eb2c7ff77
:o :o :o
Bought for - what - £150? in 70's
Curiously, I was talking to My Mate Terry Who Art in Sibton a couple of days ago. In the 1970s, around the time that we were in college together, he bought a guitar. A telecaster. It cost him £72. In the mean time it has been living under his bed. He had it valued recently. Several £k.
According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.It wasn't their worst!
WTF? It was shite!
According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.
WTF? It was shite!
According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.It wasn't their worst!
WTF? It was shite!
A Day at the Races was their best, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
Dad's telescope which he bought in the 1950s is up for auction at Bonham's on Halloween
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24096/lot/25/?category=list&length=10&page=3 (http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24096/lot/25/?category=list&length=10&page=3)
I thought the first one was daft but hey, with all this rain & wind I've got time on my hands.
The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness. If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.
That's a beauty. Hope it goes well beyond the forecast price bracket.
The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness. If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.
I found it compelling enough for that reason, but I'm not sure how it comes across to other generations.
This, by the by, is perfect if you want some awesome on your giant ultra HD TV. Some breathtaking footage. Now that is rain.
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/incredible-time-lapse-video-monsoon-iv
Never mind your minions, the 80s and late 70s and 90s are currently cool among teenagers. But surely it's normal that each generation creates a cool fantasy version of a decade it never lived through?The whole thing's an exercise in 80s nostalgia - including the underlying daftness. If you don't get that, then I don't think there's all that much left to appreciate.
I found it compelling enough for that reason, but I'm not sure how it comes across to other generations.
Rather weirdly for those of us who lived it, the 80s seems to be the generation. Even people who were born after still seem to fixate on the 80s. The other week, minions number 89345 and 14854 from the subdeck were caught dressed up for a 80s fancy dress partly. Assuming they're not knocking back the elixir of youth at these parties, neither of them experienced the decade.
It's almost like The Birdy Song never happened.
I don't. But then can anything compete with Rock Me Amadeus and 99 Red Balloons?
I just realised - it's ten years since Shibboleth was in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
I just realised - it's ten years since Shibboleth was in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
Crumbs. That makes me feel old.
I was working in the office block next door at the time and I used to regularly go in there during my lunch break. I remember the day it opened, I went in there not knowing anything about the work, just that the new Turbine Hall installation was opening that day, and at first I thought I'd made a mistake - it looked totally empty. Then I noticed people looking at the floor...
I know what you mean about it being profoundly affecting.
Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds and Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project were both similarly moving in their own ways. They've had some good stuff in the Turbine Hall over the years.
I don't. But then can anything compete with Rock Me Amadeus and 99 Red Balloons?Call Me by Spagna and Japanese Boy by Aneka?
That would be one of the top reasons to live in or near London.
Barrowman fondled co-star Janette Krankie's breasts, and also invited audience members to chant "Alice loves Dick".
Music designed to cope with the noise of motoring in the VW Type 2 and Type 25 Transporter.
Recordings of highway driving were made inside the cab of a 1981 VW T25 Kombi travelling at 80kmh and used to test, compose and mix music that could be heard above or in harmony with the noise of the road and the air-cooled engine.
The frequencies used have been carefully selected and rigorously road tested and when played in a moving van, will blend with the ambient sound of the vehicle and create a unique and harmonious driving experience. As each van will differ slightly, so then each user’s experience will differ accordingly, making this a truly unique pleasure for each driver or passenger.
Anyone else watching new Ch4 comedy Derry Girls? It's making me laugh.
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has banned the showing of Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, referencing the film's "extremism" and it's denigrating and insulting portrayal of Glorious Heroes of Russian Worker's Paradise who, in addition to completing Five Year Plan ahead of schedule, defeated Fascists (with whom we never, ever, signed a treaty - and if you say otherwise you're a NAZI) without any help from Decadent West.
Ref: Ministry announcement (https://www.mkrf.ru/press/news/minkultury_otozvalo_prokatnoe_udostoverenie_u_filma_smert_stalina/) (рос); Grauniad article (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/23/russia-urged-to-delay-death-of-stalin-release-until-summer) (eng)
I'm not sure I've seen reference to Brian Bilston the poet here or in POBI.
Having found Refugees (https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/), I've been clicking and reading around his website, including The Clarkson Verses (https://brianbilston.com/category/the-clarkson-verses/)
I like him.
Britney Spears is gigging at Scarborough later this year apparently.
I just explained Craig David to barakta. She probably wishes I hadn't.
I just explained Craig David to barakta. She probably wishes I hadn't.
Could you explain him to me because I still don't understand.
I just explained Craig David to barakta. She probably wishes I hadn't.
Could you explain him to me because I still don't understand.
He was a ukc.misc in-joke that rose to fame on the back of Artful Dodger's masterpiece Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta), which you really haven't experienced until you've heard it sung[1] by 12 year olds on the slow train from CHX to CBW. Wikipedia informs me this composition was nearly destroyed by a random act of WindowsME (or whatever shitty operating system the cool kids of the UK garage scene were using at the time) but they were able to re-construct it from a TDK D90 cassette[2], on which they'd made a copy to listen to in the car[3].
After a tediously successful musical career, he finally got his own Channel 4 comedy series in 2002, and would have faded into obscurity with that, concentrating on his Basingstoke-based vending machine business, if the aptly named Insanity Records hadn't resurrected him in 2017.
*This post may contain lies, or traces of lies.
[1] This was the golden age between the invention of the Walkman and the rise of sodcasting, when portable music playing equipment could be relied upon to require headphones.
[2] Teenagers: Ask your parents.
[3] Just think, if they'd left it long enough, it would have turned into Queen's Greatest Hits and the world would be a very different place.
the slow train from CHX to CBW
Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
the slow train from CHX to CBW
Is there any other kind of train from CHX to CBW?
Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Ah, happy days extracting a C120 from the Perpetually Hungry Amstrad and respooling it with a bic pen.
the slow train from CHX to CBW
Is there any other kind of train from CHX to CBW?
The even slower freeze-your-arse-off-changing-at-Ashford train.
the slow train from CHX to CBW
Is there any other kind of train from CHX to CBW?
The even slower freeze-your-arse-off-changing-at-Ashford train.
Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Didn't Craig David kill music?Over there ^^^^ is an unopened 5-pack of TDK C-90s. I am awaiting an offer from the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
The death of music has merely been postponed.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Home_taping_is_killing_music.png)
Never heard of him, so probably not.
Ta. Yes, I did read some of that when you posted it but I've been out of the UK for so long that it had little meaning. As rough guide, I have heard of Simon Cowell but never experienced the direct feed; and from what I've heard I don't want to.
You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?SOTS reminds you about all the crap around the pearls, thobut...
You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?
You've never listened to 'Sounds of the 60s', have you...?
I've never heard of it, either.
On FB Jeff Lynne has announced that 'Dawes' are joining him on tour this Summer.Seriously, get some Dawes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vin0U-ej1L8) into your lugholes...
Apparently it's the name of a 'popular beat combo'.
Soooooo disappointed . . .
I heard that nice Dr. Larrington getting a repeat airing on Radio 4 Extra yesterday.
Well, I got an airing on R3 today, for the second time in a week. Picking a tune to be put on their play list, yay!You are Citoyen AICMFP. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1356.msg2285706#msg2285706)
Well, I got an airing on R3 today, for the second time in a week. Picking a tune to be put on their play list, yay!You are Citoyen AICMFP. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1356.msg2285706#msg2285706)
Frankly, Probe Plus, showing the new Half Man Half Biscuit album as "NO STOCK" on the day it's released is Not Good Enough. If you haven't changed your mind by the time I've had me tea, then the Mega-Global Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia will be getting my money.
Bah!
A local theatre is putting on a new version of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. They appear to have changed the name of the third child to Tatty.
Digger, I believe.
Digger, I believe.
Disappointing.
Not sure if serious...
Yes, it might be historically correct, but unless you want to raise (historically accurate) issues about British and Empire racism*, you probably just want to change the name.
I'm mixed. I can see why for the dog and it's probably not worth the argument, as for Titty, whatever. It's historical and Swallows and Amazons is of its time and place and it's probably better to understand that than try to go back and airbrush history. I mean look at all the health and safety rules those kids break. They'd need to wear life jackets, be supervised by the correct ratio of adults who have passed exhaustive background checks, have a signed waiver from their parents and guardians, and clad head to toe in high-viz at all times.
And people of all ages should be allowed the pleasure of unintentional innuendo.
I still want to tickle trout.
"Box set". It grates. I feel it should be "Boxed set", which makes more sense grammatically I think.
I wish that when the lights on a large segment of a city viewed from afar all go out at once in a film, it wouldn't be to an echoing "shtonk" sound. At street-level it would break windows and ear-drums.
I wish that when the lights on a large segment of a city viewed from afar all go out at once in a film, it wouldn't be to an echoing "shtonk" sound. At street-level it would break windows and ear-drums.
Some sound effects seem to be compulsory.
The shtonk sound when any bright light is switched on.
Random others that spring to mind:
Cat appears. "Yowl"
Bicycle appears. "Dring-dring". (Close examination of the bicycle usually fails to reveal any visible bell)
Sword waved, no matter how weakly. "Swoosh" After having been drawn with a tremendous "shriiing".
Sword waved, no matter how weakly. "Swoosh" After having been drawn with a tremendous "shriiing".
It took a couple of experimental reboots and a few hours of noting the times before I happened to spot the owner getting something from the car, with the indicator flashes perfectly synchronised with the mystery error beeping.
It took a couple of experimental reboots and a few hours of noting the times before I happened to spot the owner getting something from the car, with the indicator flashes perfectly synchronised with the mystery error beeping.
Noticed yesterday that when Mrs T's iPhone rings, something in or around my PC emits a low-level monotone buzz in sync. Her phone's about 4 metres away with a metal cupboard in between. Her ring "tone" is a species of electronic quacking so it's not audio resonance.
Found this interesting site
https://iwl.me/b/31398c21
Simply put, you copy and paste some text and it gives you a pro writer you resemble most in style. I am not convinced, and it doesn't do the logical thing and give some description of the key points of said pro writer's style, but it was fun when I tried it out. Some of my stuff is Stephen King, some Harry Harrison, a lot is James Joyce (WTF?), some is Conan Dpyle, most is someone I have never read: Cory Doctorow.
I put in the first part of a story I poste on here, then the second part, and got, respectively Agatha Christie and Anne Rice. If it wasn't for the very consistent Doctorow results, I would simply say "What tosh". What I am curious about is how the system works. Word choice? Sentence length? Subject matter? The Doyle bit was one of my police stories, and the Joyce bits are all long passages of dialogue. Verb-adjective count?
Any ideas?
I'm going to have to look for the early novels of Ronald Frobisher. They were so full of promise, sadly unfulfilled.
That's a bit like the current episode.
Be careful, Steph, you don’t want to suffer the same fate as Ronald Frobisher...
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3216
Found this interesting site
https://iwl.me/b/31398c21
Simply put, you copy and paste some text and it gives you a pro writer you resemble most in style. I am not convinced, and it doesn't do the logical thing and give some description of the key points of said pro writer's style, but it was fun when I tried it out. Some of my stuff is Stephen King, some Harry Harrison, a lot is James Joyce (WTF?), some is Conan Dpyle, most is someone I have never read: Cory Doctorow.
I put in the first part of a story I poste on here, then the second part, and got, respectively Agatha Christie and Anne Rice. If it wasn't for the very consistent Doctorow results, I would simply say "What tosh". What I am curious about is how the system works. Word choice? Sentence length? Subject matter? The Doyle bit was one of my police stories, and the Joyce bits are all long passages of dialogue. Verb-adjective count?
Any ideas?
Sounds like it's just a random writer's-name generator.
And tambourines.
http://southendnewsnetwork.net/news/sci-fi-fans-mourn-death-of-arnold-rimmer/
http://southendnewsnetwork.net/news/sci-fi-fans-mourn-death-of-arnold-rimmer/
Scaryduck did that one, with the same picture, years ago only with H out of Steps as the stiff.
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.Yebbut Darwin Davis is winning the facial hair contest.
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.Yebbut Darwin Davis is winning the facial hair contest.
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.
Should my friend have heard of these people? She's anxious to avoid channelling the wrong zeitgeist ;D
Radio 4 is currently broadcasting a programme about narwhals.
Darwin Golfinos may well be this year’s Emmanuel Guttenplan.
Should my friend have heard of these people? She's anxious to avoid channelling the wrong zeitgeist ;D
Multiple choice question...
Are these people:
a) Colombian pro cyclists
b) Game of Thrones characters
c) contestants on University Challenge
I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else? :P
I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else? :P
Bet he doesn't turn up.
I have just booked two tickets for a WAM* gig in Vienna.
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of course! Who else? :P
Bet he doesn't turn up.
If I may just channel Tom Lehrer, it is sobering to think that when Mozart was my age, he'd been dead ten years. ;)
Where Eagles Dare was also filmed in Salzburg, where I saw my one and only wallcreeper one winter.Many years ago, on a Venture Scout holiday in Italy, we took a cable car up Monte Baldo. The passengers on the cable car were divided into two: On the one hand bemused looking foreigners and on the other oikish Venture Scouts humming the theme tune to Where Eagles Dare.
I dare you to recreate the cable car scene..
Vienna was almost totally dominated by Mozart. I assume that this is because he is considered to be the most profit-worthy, given that J. Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms all lived and worked there.Mozart was the only one with balls...
Sadly, Steph, I have to profess my total ignorance of a cablecar scene, and my knowledge of “Where eagles dare” is utterly non-existent.
Sadly, Steph, I have to profess my total ignorance of a cablecar scene, and my knowledge of “Where eagles dare” is utterly non-existent.Even thinking about the cablecar scene brings on a Proustian rush...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/dec/06/geoff-dyer-where-eagles-dare
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)
You can re-create this feeling by reading Elon Musk's Twitter account.
(Sorry - but when I watched Thunderbirds I used to marvel that the weedy guy with the glasses had built all that kit by himself)
You can re-create this feeling by reading Elon Musk's Twitter account.
I must have missed the episode where Brains toked a fat reefer, called Gordon Tracy a paedobear and found himself under investigation for securities fraud... :demon:
Phew! Rock n roll, eh.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802)
Phew! Rock n roll, eh.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802)
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough enters the forests of our imagination, looking for stories. Alternative realities, holy quests and fairytales among the glories of the Autumn forest.
I've discovered that All4 have got 118 episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway? on at the moment. I watched the first 2-and-a-bit last night. Real throwback stuff. Josie Lawrence is great!
After re-watching ITV's "Brideshead Revisited" I'm now viewing the BBC's version of "Decline & Fall", having recently read the book. They toned down the racism in the Chokey / sports day sequence, but everything so far seems well done & faithful to the book. I loved the interiors of Margot's house, they seemed to get the 20's vibe correct, probably not enough visible tobacco smoke to be true to period.
I'd never heard of Eltham Palace, tanks for bringing it to my attention. It looks worth a visit when I'm next down in London. :thumbsup:
Suggs' cover of "Cecilia" deserves a mention in anyone's book of criminal records.
...
Other peeps have form for similar; when U2 reworked Lalo Schiffrin's 'Mission Impossible' they changed it from 5/4 to 4/4 (I read at the time this was to make it 'danceable'. Is that even a word?). The clue was in the title. 5/4 makes it impossible to dance to!
'danceable'. Is that even a word?
I reckon B.Haley got there almost two decades earlier.'danceable'. Is that even a word?
According to B.Ferry, The Strand - which he exhorted us to Do way back in 1973 - is a danceable solution to teenage revolution.
I reckon B.Haley got there almost two decades earlier.
I just meant he was encouraging teenagers to dance and arguably inventing the whole concept of teenagerhood, rather than the specific song.I reckon B.Haley got there almost two decades earlier.
You’d need better knowledge of B.Haley’s oeuvre than I possess to know that.
I did actually google it to see if I could find any examples that predate B.Ferry but didn’t manage to find any - though I’m sure they exist. There are several more recent examples.
I just meant he was encouraging teenagers to dance and arguably inventing the whole concept of teenagerhood, rather than the specific song.
They look more like hares.
Except, add "tune" to the word mix and you get zero% up to 1940."Danceable music" found in 1874 but doesn't really take off till the mid 1920s. Shame it can't show you the actual examples.
The BBC have remade Watership Down in a PlayStation 2 cut scene style with CGI rabbits that don't look like rabbits. I assume the intent[1] is to tone down the explicit gore of the original and use uncanny valley tactics to maintain the general level of unease...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQ117IKkM
https://youtu.be/w3gQ117IKkM
[1] Either that or the squandered the budget on voice actors.
<snipped>
At least it's not Peter Sodding Rabbit...
BBC Woman's Hour just played a short section o Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallsi and then said it was Brahms' Requiem.
Twitter is, quite justifiably, giving them what for.
Steve Wright: Why?
Ah yes, how one thing leads to another. That got me thinking of robert Fripp and Andy Summers - back in the early 80's they brought out I Advance Masked (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiuh2Upa8s) (and I can tell you HERE AND NOW there is no way I saw that video back then, which is a shame). Now that got me thinking about Andy Summers and Kevin Coyne (who was one of my faves at the time). Kevin Coyne was an odd 'un, but he did record an odd track - ok loads of odd tracks but this one slightly relevant -, Cycling (https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/745776)
(and I would recommend court of the crimson King as a good entry point for the crim)
:thumbsup:
In other music news, Mercury Rev have covered Bobbie Gentry’s Delta Sweete album and it’s rather lovely...
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ve-7D8bZ7SI
I had another Wow moment and had to google King Crimson.
People must have had access to a lot more – not to mention better – drugs back then.
[Yesterday I listened to it side by side with the original
Dave, the pianist in the bar of the Sunnyvale Hilton when I was there in the 80s, was in the choir when the Queen was crowned in 1953, so he presumably had the same experience.
Dave, the pianist in the bar of the Sunnyvale Hilton when I was there in the 80s, was in the choir when the Queen was crowned in 1953, so he presumably had the same experience.
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1109882891897589760 Charles Stross "Laundry Files" optioned for TV.
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1109882891897589760 (https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1109882891897589760) Charles Stross "Laundry Files" optioned for TV.
Kewl. I hadn't realised that there had been a kludged adaptation set in Leftpondia (which probably killed half of the civil service bureaucracy gags for a start).
Just watching the final of Only Connect and was v pleased to see ROT13 featuring as an answer. It's like being back in Ye Shedde.
Just watching the final of Only Connect and was v pleased to see ROT13 featuring as an answer. It's like being back in Ye Shedde.
Mvaq lbh qba'g pngpu lbhefrys ba gung anvy...
‘Stoney Banksy’ – the sculptor who remained a secret for 15 years (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-48202295/stoney-banksy-the-sculptor-who-remained-a-secret-for-15-years) :)Better than Banksy IMO.
I will also need to practise wiggling my eyebrows in a dastardly way. :demon:
I will also need to practise wiggling my eyebrows in a dastardly way. :demon:
We'll need a video of that. ;)
This has pleased me no end.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/28/restored-1930s-cinema-walthamstow-to-be-reinvented-as-a-london-comedy-club
....I spent many a happy hour at this cinema in my youth ....
This has pleased me no end.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/28/restored-1930s-cinema-walthamstow-to-be-reinvented-as-a-london-comedy-club
....I spent many a happy hour at this cinema in my youth ....
Not this one (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.590176,-0.0173177,3a,75y,184.04h,94.11t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNPRVx6sz-IgDpaIChy6QlQ!2e0!5s20120801T000000!7i13312!8i6656) up the road, then? :demon: :demon:
(It was a cinema, for a period in the 70's it became a strip club, now a block of flats)
This has pleased me no end.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/28/restored-1930s-cinema-walthamstow-to-be-reinvented-as-a-london-comedy-club
I spent many a happy hour at this cinema in my youth and are so glad its finally being put to good use. Its a shame that I now live 140 miles away but visiting again is on the top of my wishlist.
If you have never been, do go when it's re=opened. You are in for a treat!
I'm currently binge watching Babylon 5, which I've not seen in it's entirety since C4 repeated the entire series way back when. The special effects are a bit ropey by todays standards, but they were never the most important part of the show, that was the plot & characters. I'm up to Season 3 and have just watched "Messages From Earth". This time the bit that's getting me is the increase in paranoia & the encouragement so spy on friends & colleagues as the Earth government stokes up xenophobia as a prelude to declaring martial law & rounding up its enemies. The horror of people realising what's happening & bring powerless to stop it.
For those fond of the Laundry, who will understand my smile of recognition.
In the Ch5 Hannibal series, the blurb for episode 8 reads:
"A killer turning bodies into musical instruments strikes a nervous chord with Lecter"
One for any French speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf00HQM7iU8 - an ode to the Mediterranean and its beaches.
(it is entirely in French, sorry)
Exhibit A: Pointless remake/sequel of Top Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqVVswa420
https://youtu.be/qSqVVswa420
#TopGunMaverick is a stupid premise. Mav (Cruise) is now 57. He’d be retired and bitching about “the libs” and “when we had a navy” on a Dan Bongino podcast. Charlie (McGuinness) divorced his ass 10 years ago and got custody of the cats.https://twitter.com/mrdavidboberesq/status/1152037882326081541
Exhibit B: Disturbing star-studded Uncanny Valley CGI Cats movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq50F-IDXDc
https://youtu.be/gq50F-IDXDc
Suddenly, watching Top Gun Part Deux seems like a pretty reasonable idea...
You are a Hollywood studio exec. Name a project you would have greenlighted before 'Cats' GOhttps://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1151996080327806977
For a giggle, check out the replies to this tweet:QuoteYou are a Hollywood studio exec. Name a project you would have greenlighted before 'Cats' GOhttps://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1151996080327806977
I really ought to revisit it. I watched the first season and was mostly left disappointed that it wasn't the modern reboot of Babylon 5 that it superficially resembles.
I can't seem to find a thread for "The Expanse" anywhere. We must have a few fans. Season 4 on Amazon in December. Based on "Cibola Burn". Trailers below.
https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU (https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU)
https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA (https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA)
To fit the exigencies of production, they do seem to spend a lot of time accelerating at 1g, which means they'd be zipping about (and using a lot of reaction mass).The plot makes a lot of their accelerating - the need to fasten things down is a major plot device (and what happens when that isn't done).
Constant 1g acceleration would get you to Jupiter in a week (if you weren't bothered with slowing down). A year at 1g gets you to 99.9% the speed of light.
Ben Weaver - Music For Free (https://vimeo.com/353346019). Cyclist and musician Ben Weaver rides the Tour Divide route. Get in quick coz it's only available on Vimeo for another few hours, otherwise you'll have to go to a screening in a bike shop in Montana.It's still on Vimeo now. I thought it verged on emotional slush at moments, but nevertheless I enjoyed it. And what an idea!
I am sitting in Mrs Wow’s sister’s lounge. The television is on. It must be many years since I have been in attendance when a television drama has been broadcast. I really can’t remember it has been so long - maybe as much as 20 years. The one thing I have noticed is how sweary they have become.
I am sitting in Mrs Wow’s sister’s lounge. The television is on. It must be many years since I have been in attendance when a television drama has been broadcast. I really can’t remember it has been so long - maybe as much as 20 years. The one thing I have noticed is how sweary they have become.
You can easily tell if it's 20 years or more by whether you're wondering what's happened to the cameraperson's tripod.
I am sitting in Mrs Wow’s sister’s lounge. The television is on. It must be many years since I have been in attendance when a television drama has been broadcast. I really can’t remember it has been so long - maybe as much as 20 years. The one thing I have noticed is how sweary they have become.
You can easily tell if it's 20 years or more by whether you're wondering what's happened to the cameraperson's tripod.
???
I was so surprised I almost dropped my syringe
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored, was Pride and Prejudice. My older daughter would have been in her early teens when that was on, I think. She is now 38.
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored
Jennifer Ehle was hard to ignore. (See also: The Camomile Lawn)
if they're doing their job properly you either want to be them or shag them...
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored
Jennifer Ehle was hard to ignore. (See also: The Camomile Lawn)
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored
Jennifer Ehle was hard to ignore. (See also: The Camomile Lawn)
I have no recollection whatever of the Camomile Lawn.
I am sitting in Mrs Wow’s sister’s lounge. The television is on. It must be many years since I have been in attendance when a television drama has been broadcast. I really can’t remember it has been so long - maybe as much as 20 years. The one thing I have noticed is how sweary they have become.
You can easily tell if it's 20 years or more by whether you're wondering what's happened to the cameraperson's tripod.
???
At some point in the late 90s, molishers of British television drama became obsessed with using handheld cameras for 'intimate' wobbly footage, in a manner akin to USAnian series Jaded refers to (I don't think I ever saw it). This Life came out in 1996, and the effect was striking. Within a couple of years they were all doing it.
The trend has since died down, with tripods returning to more 'serious' drama, though it's frequently used for dramatic effect, and remains popular on lower budget productions.
Thinking back, the only television drama I ever actually watched, as opposed to sat in the same room as and mostly ignored
Jennifer Ehle was hard to ignore. (See also: The Camomile Lawn)
I have no recollection whatever of the Camomile Lawn.
You didn’t see the bush in the mirror?
I am sitting in Mrs Wow’s sister’s lounge. The television is on. It must be many years since I have been in attendance when a television drama has been broadcast. I really can’t remember it has been so long - maybe as much as 20 years. The one thing I have noticed is how sweary they have become.
You can easily tell if it's 20 years or more by whether you're wondering what's happened to the cameraperson's tripod.
???
At some point in the late 90s, molishers of British television drama became obsessed with using handheld cameras for 'intimate' wobbly footage, in a manner akin to USAnian series Jaded refers to (I don't think I ever saw it). This Life came out in 1996, and the effect was striking. Within a couple of years they were all doing it.
The trend has since died down, with tripods returning to more 'serious' drama, though it's frequently used for dramatic effect, and remains popular on lower budget productions.
HSB was ‘81 to ‘87.
Let’s be careful out there.
I have no recollection whatever of the Camomile Lawn.
HSB was ‘81 to ‘87.
Let’s be careful out there.
Just discovered NPR Music Tiny Desk concert series ...
Just discovered NPR Music Tiny Desk concert series ...
DKUATB!
Probably my favourite of those is the King Creosote & John Hopkins one -
https://youtu.be/ej8vMh28SJY
But that's hardly surprising since Diamond Mine is one of my top 5 favourite albums of the last 10 years.
Blake's 7 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIv-DVrjhZJqb7hvTVgL_w) episodes are available on yewtoob.
Marama Corlett will play the mysterious Corporal Angua who is tasked with Carrot’s training and keeping the rookie alive.
Sam Adewunmi will play the wounded, wronged Carcer Dun, out to hijack destiny itself, take control of the city and exact a terrible revenge on an unjust reality.
My comment on the twitterwebs was that I expected them to cast Scarlett Johansson as Nobby.
A nonbinary Cheery *might* work as a new interpretation of Dwarf Feminism, but Lara Rossi as Lady Sibyl is just plain baffling: She's supposed to be the same age as Vimes, and is canonically large. I can only assume a misguided attempt to avoid a racial sterotype or something.
Carrot will always be Paul Gross in my mind.
My comment on the twitterwebs was that I expected them to cast Scarlett Johansson as Nobby.
Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra says that “very famous people whose names I won’t use” want to redo Norman Lear’s ‘The Princess Bride’https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1173954759071547392
As ani fule kno, the classic blunder one should never fall for is neither starting a land war in Asia nor going up against The Sicilian when death is on the line - it is thinking that a cult classic film needs to be remade. :demon:QuoteSony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra says that “very famous people whose names I won’t use” want to redo Norman Lear’s ‘The Princess Bride’https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1173954759071547392
Judging by the replies, I'm not sure what's creating more bile - the news that there are people who think that The Princess Bride needs to be remade, or Variety's attribution of said film to Norman Lear...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/style/debbie-harry-memoir.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/style/debbie-harry-memoir.html)
Debbie Harry is 74 :jurek:
Behave yourself.
(and for those who may not have been aware, she is profoundly deaf. While profoundly=/=totally it's almost there)
Ghosteen is rather good, if not quite what we have been used to from Mr Cave. Sort of, "Nick Cave visits ECM"Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlU_wsT20Q
I can't seem to find a thread for "The Expanse" anywhere. We must have a few fans. Season 4 on Amazon in December. Based on "Cibola Burn". Trailers below.
https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU (https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU)
https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA (https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA)
A much longer segment, with the Roci travelling back asswards for deceleration :thumbsup: She then lands on Ilus ? Don't recall that from the book, but it's been a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn)
(sheepish edit, paste the damn link in)
Just learnt that the last UK #1 recorded in mono was Uptown Top Ranking. 1978. Not sure whether that seems late or early!
The last lot MrsT wanted to watch it was St. David's voice that got my goat.
Lovely programmes but I can't watch them any more, every scene with some majestic slice of nature ends with a fateful and now we've nearly killed them all. It's just depressing.
Lovely programmes but I can't watch them any more, every scene with some majestic slice of nature ends with a fateful and now we've nearly killed them all. It's just depressing.
The BBC has announced the leading cast members for a forthcoming adaptation of PTerry's Night Watch books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2019/the-watch-cast-richard-dormer
Varying mileage has ensued: https://twitter.com/BBCAMERICA/status/1171786597504888833
...
'Hokey'?
'Hokey'?
USAnian slang: mawkishly sentimental, noticeably contrived.
Oh FFS!The BBC has announced the leading cast members for a forthcoming adaptation of PTerry's Night Watch books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2019/the-watch-cast-richard-dormer
Varying mileage has ensued: https://twitter.com/BBCAMERICA/status/1171786597504888833
...
More cast members for BBC America's The Watch have been revealed. Expect more varying mileage....
https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/bbc-announces-watch-tv-cast/
The still pic for this programme.
https://www.my5.tv/digging-up-britain-s-past/season-1/robin-hood-king-john
I was under the impression that an arrow needs the bowstring pulled back with it...
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I can't seem to find a thread for "The Expanse" anywhere. We must have a few fans. Season 4 on Amazon in December. Based on "Cibola Burn". Trailers below.
https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU (https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU)
https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA (https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA)
A much longer segment, with the Roci travelling back asswards for deceleration :thumbsup: She then lands on Ilus ? Don't recall that from the book, but it's been a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn)
(sheepish edit, paste the damn link in)
And another trailer https://youtu.be/0-QBzYfK_R8 (https://youtu.be/0-QBzYfK_R8)
ElyDave knows of the Communards, a popular beat combo from his yoof, but is not aware of the specific make up of said band.
Others were paid more attention
would also add that I was partlicularly disgruntled to see that supposed Christians have contacted him to say his husband will be in hell, so much for a religion founded on peace and love
Bigots come in all flavours sadly.ElyDave knows of the Communards, a popular beat combo from his yoof, but is not aware of the specific make up of said band.
Others were paid more attention
would also add that I was partlicularly disgruntled to see that supposed Christians have contacted him to say his husband will be in hell, so much for a religion founded on peace and love
Particularly enlightening was the "courageously unsigned" (his words) letter that started "I'm writing to say how glad I am you're partner has died..." :hand: Christians, eh? ::-)
Meanwhile, on tonight's Universally Challenged Christmas Special, there was a question asking which form of transport did Fiona Kolbinger use to win the Trans Continental?This caused much hilarity on the TCR facebook group (enough to be posted at least 3 times). :)
Radio 4's vicar in residence, and mentioned just up there in sadder circumstances, the Rev. Richard Coles took a wild stab with "skateboard".
Anyone else noticed the rise in kitchen-countertop copulations in films over the last few years? It's got to the point where, when the amorous wights burst through their front door, clawing at each other's clothes, MrsT and I are liable to chortle "to the kitchen!"
Very strange.
It's not the kitchen counters, it's the kitchen encounters.Anyone else noticed the rise in kitchen-countertop copulations in films over the last few years? It's got to the point where, when the amorous wights burst through their front door, clawing at each other's clothes, MrsT and I are liable to chortle "to the kitchen!"
Very strange.
Not really noticed an increase, but it always struck me as one of those YKINMK things. Maybe I've been unfortunate in always having distinctly unsexy kitchen counters?
I can't seem to find a thread for "The Expanse" anywhere. We must have a few fans. Season 4 on Amazon in December. Based on "Cibola Burn". Trailers below.
https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU (https://youtu.be/kNIim3xqsEU)
https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA (https://youtu.be/uEENk6_XFoA)
A much longer segment, with the Roci travelling back asswards for deceleration :thumbsup: She then lands on Ilus ? Don't recall that from the book, but it's been a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrZiNOvp_c&frags=pl%2Cwn)
(sheepish edit, paste the damn link in)
And another trailer https://youtu.be/0-QBzYfK_R8 (https://youtu.be/0-QBzYfK_R8)
I binged Season 4 over the weekend, very well done & they've woven a few extra plot strands in from later books to give Bobbie something to do. Won't make much sense if you haven't watched the first 3 series though.
Anyone else noticed the rise in kitchen-countertop copulations in films over the last few years? It's got to the point where, when the amorous wights burst through their front door, clawing at each other's clothes, MrsT and I are liable to chortle "to the kitchen!"
Very strange.
Not really noticed an increase, but it always struck me as one of those YKINMK things. Maybe I've been unfortunate in always having distinctly unsexy kitchen counters?
Derek Acorah has died. I'm not sure whether this is beneficial or detrimental to the career of a medium.
And now, you "have no recollection of ever watching that programme, none whatsoever"
You can buy a candle that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's clunge.
Or you could, but they've sold out.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop (https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop)
£58, too.
Oh fuck. First brexit then Covid19.
Now a Genesis reunion.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion)
Oh fuck. First brexit then Covid19.
Now a Genesis reunion.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion)
Oh fuck. First brexit then Covid19.
Now a Genesis reunion.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/04/prog-rock-stars-genesis-to-announce-reunion)
Prog - ha, ha, ha :facepalm:
Finally, there is an official "The Far Side" website! :D
https://www.thefarside.com/
Beethoven on bikes!
https://youtu.be/99TXqXvfUH8
80's Aerobics meets Rob Zombie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_zd0G8HGSo
Go on, you know you want to ;)
Very good. And led me to this:
https://youtu.be/JR3uz8rq4ng
80's Aerobics meets Rob Zombie.
Yesterday we took part as a family in my son-in-law's online quiz. There was a round on song lyrics and we scored (wait for it)... 9/10! We had to identify the popular beat combo responsible, the songs having an English theme because of it being St. George's day this week. I was amazed that I got at least 3 that the others in my team didn't know, those 3 being a Beatles song (Mean Mr. Mustard I think - certainly from Abbey Road), God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) and Football's Coming Home by Skinner and Baddiel. Jan and I also got Mad Dogs & Englishmen, but that was the only "oldie". The one none of us knew was something involving John Barnes. I can't even remember the name of the group.
This is dreadful! I have a reputation to keep up!
A friend posted on facebook yesterday that it was 25 years to the day since the first episode of Father Ted was broadcast. 25 years! Way to make me feel old.
I remember at the time that the idea of a sitcom about Irish priests didn't much appeal to me, and I only watched it because I'd heard it was made by the same people who made the brilliant and hugely underrated Paris, a sitcom about a struggling artist in 1920s Paris, starring Alexei Sayle, which got canned after one series.
Got to admit that Father Ted has aged better.
I've never actually seen Father Ted.You haven't lived
Srsly?I've never actually seen Father Ted.You haven't lived
RIP Hamilton Bohannon. I only knew him from a friend of a friend :( Who needs to think when your feet just go!Ah! I first knew of him from that Tom Tom Club track. Disco legend.
Srsly?I've never actually seen Father Ted.You haven't lived
RIP Hamilton Bohannon. I only knew him from a friend of a friend :( Who needs to think when your feet just go!
that has to be the best Horizon I've seen in years, just for the Hubble images, absolutely amazing to see back to the dawn of time
MrsC has turned into a potter, with some success. Producing stuff with worth selling:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CharlyHamlynCeramics (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CharlyHamlynCeramics)
Etsy shop has been up for about 5 days. Three sales, one commission so far.
Very nice. She may not be looking to do something different, but if she is, yarn bowls are a thing, with a big potential customer base...
Wot no Droopy (https://youtu.be/3AA7Ub1c2cI)?
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/02/25/simply-17-of-the-worst-book-covers-on-amazon/?fbclid=IwAR0RTvSbNDvB3eOp3QaQyIPGJO1O1JWaG0snfpX0L78L38mwJFrD3QhbPu8Voluspa: A Magical World... Where Strange Genetic Experiments With Cats Are Acceptable
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/02/25/simply-17-of-the-worst-book-covers-on-amazon/?fbclid=IwAR0RTvSbNDvB3eOp3QaQyIPGJO1O1JWaG0snfpX0L78L38mwJFrD3QhbPu8Voluspa: A Magical World... Where Strange Genetic Experiments With Cats Are Acceptable
5/10. I'm obviously channelling the wrong zeitgeist again.
I would have liked to have seen Custard's friend.
With a bonus point if anyone can name Hector's feline friend :D I got it wrong, I thought she was Kiki, but that's the frog ! I'm a silly old Hector..... :facepalm:Zsa Zsa?
Zsazsa indeed.With a bonus point if anyone can name Hector's feline friend :D I got it wrong, I thought she was Kiki, but that's the frog ! I'm a silly old Hector..... :facepalm:Zsa Zsa?
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.
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.
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.
Quincy Jones wrote the music and lyrics to Self Preservation Society for The Italian Job.Is the proportion of the population who are cognisant with this fact particularly large? I'd imagine not.
Michael Caine taught Quincy rhyming slang to enable Quincy to write the lyrics.
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.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 don't recall any porn and filth in it either.
Played on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-GurdySurely it should have been played on the sackbut.
QuotePlayed on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-GurdySurely it should have been played on the sackbut.
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 |
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.
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
Listening to the BBC6 Music Listen Again service, tends to mess with my branes when the previous day's news is broadcast.
1. Spotty Dog / The Woodentops
There's 22 episodes on Iplayer now.
If they're on TV everyday, it's just repeats.
Robert Fisk has died.
BBC Radio 1 is to play an edited version of the Pogues "Fairytale of New York"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54999375
I can see one of the changes - the obvious change to "faggot". Can't see which complete line has been redacted - maybe "old slut and junky"
BBC Radio 1 is to play an edited version of the Pogues "Fairytale of New York"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54999375
I can see one of the changes - the obvious change to "faggot". Can't see which complete line has been redacted - maybe "old slut and junky"
https://twitter.com/poguesofficial/status/1329394157354446850
You can replace any leading role in a Hollywood film with Bungle - what's he going into?https://twitter.com/CuriousUkTelly/status/1329044475533025281
It's one of those songs you hear so often, you don't even hear it. At least I'd never listened to it sufficiently closely to notice the excised words. In fact, though I don't really either like or object to either, I'd probably marginally rather hear Slade.
I can see that. I simply wasn't aware the song contained those lines. I must have heard the original version but the song as a whole has never appealed to me so I've never paid much attention.It's one of those songs you hear so often, you don't even hear it. At least I'd never listened to it sufficiently closely to notice the excised words. In fact, though I don't really either like or object to either, I'd probably marginally rather hear Slade.
I have no particular issue with the song, but the 'cheap lousy faggot' line appeals to drunken homophobes in much the same way that the final verse of Autumn Days appeals to sportsball fans. I reckon the world would be a marginally more pleasant place if we didn't encourage them, and the once-popular beat combo in question would appear to agree.
The BBC appear to be engaging in their usual both-sides-ism, by censoring it on Radio 1 for the benefit of the snowflake youngsters, while playing the uncut version for the gammons on Radio 2. 6 music is also letting the side down, by refusing to declare a Christmas music free zone. :facepalm:Good point. Trying to please everyone and annoying everyone in doing so. Though at least in this case it is for distinct audiences. Which leads me to wonder what version they'd play on Radio 3. And yes, I can easily imagine it, or a version of it, being played on R3, not necessarily at Christmas.
I am reminded in a way of the tasteful and refined track "Bring On The Nubiles", by the popular beat combo The Stranglers.
There were three versions, being in descending order of vulgarity the album, the BBC Sessions one and the single. The tagline was:
single: "Lemme lemme love ya love ya!"
session: "Lemme lemme lay ya lay ya!"
I am sure you can work out the album one.
Kinks "Lola" (and no boubt numerous radio edits of rap etc songs)- although the latter was more about advertising I think, with "cherry cola" replacing "coca cola"
IIRC The Stones were also required to express the wish to spend some time together, rather than the night, when appearing on USAnian TV. Because a nation of 300 million people appeared by parthogenesis, or something.
I am reminded in a way of the tasteful and refined track "Bring On The Nubiles", by the popular beat combo The Stranglers.A good example that we need to distinguish between adaptation for audience, censorship, and changing your mind. Though the categories overlap of course.
There were three versions, being in descending order of vulgarity the album, the BBC Sessions one and the single. The tagline was:
single: "Lemme lemme love ya love ya!"
session: "Lemme lemme lay ya lay ya!"
I am sure you can work out the album one.
A good example that we need to distinguish between adaptation for audience, censorship, and changing your mind. Though the categories overlap of course.
What is it about ensemble charidee records (the most recent example of the genre being the Ch*ldren *n N**d cover of Oasis' Stop Crying Your Heart Out) that is so detestable? Perhaps it's that every performer is trying to stand out, so you get them showing off with their ludicruous vocal gymnastic warblings? I blame Cyndi Lauper for her part in We Are The World (2:55 here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wNuru4U0I)), starting this shit off...
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Exhibit A for the prosecution. “Mother Of Mine” by Neil Reid. (https://youtu.be/ziPuQF8Xojo) We intend to press for the DETH penalty.
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Exhibit A for the prosecution. “Mother Of Mine” by Neil Reid. (https://youtu.be/ziPuQF8Xojo) We intend to press for the DETH penalty.
Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh0P-JjiIV0 :sick:
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Exhibit A for the prosecution. “Mother Of Mine” by Neil Reid. (https://youtu.be/ziPuQF8Xojo) We intend to press for the DETH penalty.
Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh0P-JjiIV0 :sick:
Exhibit C: This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74C2hClAsA) is a great song, until 3:22... :sick:
Of course, to every rule, there is an exception (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGod0sGo6s). In this case, premium 70s cheese!
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Exhibit A for the prosecution. “Mother Of Mine” by Neil Reid. (https://youtu.be/ziPuQF8Xojo) We intend to press for the DETH penalty.
Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh0P-JjiIV0 :sick:
Exhibit C: This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74C2hClAsA) is a great song, until 3:22... :sick:
Of course, to every rule, there is an exception (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGod0sGo6s). In this case, premium 70s cheese!
OH MY EARS!!!11!eleven!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4e521HMr0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4e521HMr0)
Oh, children singing on records, DON'T GET ME STARTED! :demon:
Exhibit A for the prosecution. “Mother Of Mine” by Neil Reid. (https://youtu.be/ziPuQF8Xojo) We intend to press for the DETH penalty.
Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh0P-JjiIV0 :sick:
Exhibit C: This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74C2hClAsA) is a great song, until 3:22... :sick:
Of course, to every rule, there is an exception (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGod0sGo6s). In this case, premium 70s cheese!
OH MY EARS!!!11!eleven!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4e521HMr0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI4e521HMr0)
The only acceptable case I can think of is Spieluhr by Rammstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTVRx_TySs0).
Interview with Roland Gift of Fine Young Cannibals. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/03/fine-young-cannibal-roland-gift-i-went-back-to-where-being-pretty-didnt-matter
Interview with Roland Gift of Fine Young Cannibals. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/03/fine-young-cannibal-roland-gift-i-went-back-to-where-being-pretty-didnt-matter
Two damn fine albums. I don't think they ever played live in the UK. I'd love to have seen them. Roland didn't only have a great voice, he also had great phrasing.
Corona cello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW_quaESoY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW_quaESoY)
This one was rather good too: https://youtu.be/hE1enPDh3nMCorona cello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW_quaESoY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW_quaESoY)
He hits a few bum notes, though.
This made me smile, a lot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SBue1DuCyc
WHAT sort of piano is THIS?
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t45.1600-4/cp0/q75/spS444/c0.11.526.274a/p526x296/131876312_23846414970870092_548832315547415125_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=67cdda&_nc_ohc=eH4diAOgmDEAX9hISKq&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-2.fna&oh=0833bb0e85cde2423867db8a0e036617&oe=600DC9CD)
It's a Norfolk piano.
WHAT sort of piano is THIS?
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t45.1600-4/cp0/q75/spS444/c0.11.526.274a/p526x296/131876312_23846414970870092_548832315547415125_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=67cdda&_nc_ohc=eH4diAOgmDEAX9hISKq&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-2.fna&oh=0833bb0e85cde2423867db8a0e036617&oe=600DC9CD)
It's a Norfolk piano.
WHAT sort of piano is THIS?
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t45.1600-4/cp0/q75/spS444/c0.11.526.274a/p526x296/131876312_23846414970870092_548832315547415125_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=67cdda&_nc_ohc=eH4diAOgmDEAX9hISKq&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-2.fna&oh=0833bb0e85cde2423867db8a0e036617&oe=600DC9CD)
It's a Norfolk piano.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year
I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.
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12, but I probably only knew 9. :D
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year12, but I probably only knew 9. :D
I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.
WHAT sort of piano is THIS?
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t45.1600-4/cp0/q75/spS444/c0.11.526.274a/p526x296/131876312_23846414970870092_548832315547415125_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=67cdda&_nc_ohc=eH4diAOgmDEAX9hISKq&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-2.fna&oh=0833bb0e85cde2423867db8a0e036617&oe=600DC9CD)
It's a Norfolk piano.
Or, with a nod to that racehorse, a Norfolk King Piano.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year12, but I probably only knew 9. :D
I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.
I got 12 too.
Or simply that the Carry On films were of their time, and their time is quite a long while ago.
Gave up on that after the page reloaded for the third time. Note to local news webshites: if your pages include so many shitverts that they don’t load properly on a fondleslab you're doing something WRONG.The Bristol Post website is shit, even on the rare occasion they write something worth reading.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/27/2020-quiz-of-the-year
I scored 10/23. I don't think that any of my wild guesses hit the mark - I genuinely knew that many answers.
WTAF?
The next Ru Paul’s Drag Race has a contestant from Darlington!!! I am so recording that.
Sara Pascoe.
I've decided I quite like her doing stand up and Mock The Week.
Didn't mind her "Out of Her Mind" series in small doses.
We're currently watching 'Last Woman on Earth' where she goes and does dying jobs and feel like I'm seeing too much of the real thing, she's quite annoying....
The next Ru Paul’s Drag Race has a contestant from Darlington!!! I am so recording that.
Deano?
Morten Harket’s from Trimdon.
Morten Harket’s from Trimdon.
Is that English for Trondheim? ;D
So, is it actually Morten Harket or just someone doing a very good impression of him?
It’s entertaining enough for the first few episodes but the novelty does wear thin pretty quickly. The only reason to keep watching is because by that stage you’re invested in finding out who the celebs are.So, is it actually Morten Harket or just someone doing a very good impression of him?
I follow a-ha on Faceache and this has just popped up in my feed, so out of curiosity I watched a little bit.
Can they really make an entire series out of that? ???
Something of a service to humanity:
http://radio.garden
Allows you to listen to any radio station in the world. I've currently got this going: http://radio.garden/listen/sr2/MYkzevzf SR2 used to be my favourite station when I was driving to clients in the Hunsrück. Can't get it here.
Something of a service to humanity:
http://radio.garden
Allows you to listen to any radio station in the world. I've currently got this going: http://radio.garden/listen/sr2/MYkzevzf SR2 used to be my favourite station when I was driving to clients in the Hunsrück. Can't get it here.
Bloody brilliant! Thanks!
o hai biffy clyro!
Putting 20 minutes of fuck-all in the middle of a track is neither big nor clever. Don't do it again.
kthxbai
PS: Audacity to the rescue. Again.
He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.
He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.
Or some of the more gruesome passages in Banks's "The Player Of Games" & "Use Of Weapons"
Aye. 'Cruel Sister' on Pentangle's album of the same name from a very long time ago.He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.
Or some of the more gruesome passages in Banks's "The Player Of Games" & "Use Of Weapons"
Or the Northumbrian folk song 'The Two Sisters' [various other titles]
They have motors, bearings and (sometimes) drivebelts, so they can certainly make mechanical noises.
I usually play music from a media streamer using high bitrate MP3s but CDs sound immeasurably better and less muddy.
I'm not bothered about new music because I have zero tolerance for autotune (now universal). I suppose the kids have grown up with it and don't notice it, but it sounds unmistakably reedy to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/15/he-was-the-steve-jobs-of-audio-how-rupert-neve-changed-the-sound-of-music-recording
The new ITV spy thriller stars Joe Cole, Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander and is adapted by BAFTA winning Trainspotting writer John Hodge.My bold. Rilly? I wonder which part he'll play? Less excitingly, I'd suspect the word "as" could be usefully inserted into that sentence.
A bit of YouTube surfing led me to this rather magnificent Steely Dan live performance of Reelin’ In The Years. Too good not to share...
https://youtu.be/57MP5YcCABA
The most enthusiastic performance with a tambourine in the entire history of music!A bit of YouTube surfing led me to this rather magnificent Steely Dan live performance of Reelin’ In The Years. Too good not to share...
https://youtu.be/57MP5YcCABA
That's fabulous.
Mmm, you're right (other than Ecstacy), how odd. I'm partial to an occasional outbreak of 80s-era shoegazing. Fortunately, I have Loveless ripped from CD. It's the same for the utterly splendid Curve.
I have no idea who or what King Crimson is, but it sounds ominously prog.
The most enthusiastic performance with a tambourine in the entire history of music!
Mmm, you're right (other than Ecstacy), how odd. I'm partial to an occasional outbreak of 80s-era shoegazing. Fortunately, I have Loveless ripped from CD. It's the same for the utterly splendid Curve.
I love Curve. I especially love Toni Halliday. Met her in real life a few times. She’s soooo tiny.QuoteI have no idea who or what King Crimson is, but it sounds ominously prog.
I mentioned to my wife that I was listening to King Crimson. Her reply: “Oh god...”
I totally love Steely Dan, but that performance is just a bit rushed to my ears...The most enthusiastic performance with a tambourine in the entire history of music!
M’colleague described it as “encapsulated essence of 70s”, citing the enthusiastic head-nodding and tambourine-playing.
QuoteI have no idea who or what King Crimson is, but it sounds ominously prog.
I mentioned to my wife that I was listening to King Crimson. Her reply: “Oh good!”
QuoteQuoteI have no idea who or what King Crimson is, but it sounds ominously prog.
I mentioned to my wife that I was listening to King Crimson. Her reply: “Oh good!”
You misheard.
QuoteQuoteI have no idea who or what King Crimson is, but it sounds ominously prog.
I mentioned to my wife that I was listening to King Crimson. Her reply: “Oh good!”
You misheard.
Does Mrs Pingu share this enthusiasm for Things Progdacious :demon:
A remake of "The Ipcress File" ? And it sounds like they are developing the lead character from the film rather than the original novel.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/philharmonic-pub-transformed-city-centre-19853634 (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/philharmonic-pub-transformed-city-centre-19853634)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/itv-turns-ipcress-file-tv-160039658.html (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/itv-turns-ipcress-file-tv-160039658.html)
You actually know your boot tread?
Look, I know I'm a bit strange, I quite like banjo. At least, good banjo playing. Chances are, if you do too, you may well know of Mean Mary. On the chance that you don't here's here latest vid which is a good intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk_cWxy47ps
She writes and plays her own stuff and reminds me of nothing as much as those absurdly talented musicians you'd come across occasionally in folk clubs. Iron Horse (22:45) if you want to jump to a stonking banjo bit, but you'll miss a lot.
Lauren Laverne played this on the radio today. Got to be one of the strangest songs in the history of popular music - the bizarre juxtaposition of wholesome image and lyrical filth is quite something.The 1970s was a decade of filth. Mostly cos the dustmen were on strike.
Also... that scene in Anchorman.
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
That (song not the dustmen strike) takes me straight back to Roger Scott's show on Capital Radio. Back to a time when commercial radio wasn't crap.Lauren Laverne played this on the radio today. Got to be one of the strangest songs in the history of popular music - the bizarre juxtaposition of wholesome image and lyrical filth is quite something.The 1970s was a decade of filth. Mostly cos the dustmen were on strike.
Also... that scene in Anchorman.
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
Think my wife and I are heading for divorce.
Tonight, when I was flicking through the TV channels and asking what she would like to watch I (jokingly) said "What about Mrs Brown's Boys?" To which she replied "Ooh yes. Good idea".
I just don't think there is any going back after something like that.
That (song not the dustmen strike) takes me straight back to Roger Scott's show on Capital Radio. Back to a time when commercial radio wasn't crap.Lauren Laverne played this on the radio today. Got to be one of the strangest songs in the history of popular music - the bizarre juxtaposition of wholesome image and lyrical filth is quite something.The 1970s was a decade of filth. Mostly cos the dustmen were on strike.
Also... that scene in Anchorman.
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
Indeed it was. And P Y the pork pie on a Saturday morning. Nicky Horne is still broadcasting. Roger Scott died somd years ago.That (song not the dustmen strike) takes me straight back to Roger Scott's show on Capital Radio. Back to a time when commercial radio wasn't crap.Lauren Laverne played this on the radio today. Got to be one of the strangest songs in the history of popular music - the bizarre juxtaposition of wholesome image and lyrical filth is quite something.The 1970s was a decade of filth. Mostly cos the dustmen were on strike.
Also... that scene in Anchorman.
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
That must have been the era of Nicky Horne’s late night show I guess.
Lauren Laverne played this on the radio today. Got to be one of the strangest songs in the history of popular music - the bizarre juxtaposition of wholesome image and lyrical filth is quite something.
https://youtu.be/wu1UXCdyNo0
possibly the only bilingual poem I've ever heard
New musicians claiming that it is unfair that other musicians are preferred to them. Free market demanded, but not THAT sort of 'free market'.
Hint: if you are being outsold by 'classic groups', perhaps that might be because you are shite? I remember a comment from that vile individual Jonathan King saying that he had always suspected the then-new trend for shouty groups of men ('hip hop') was unreflective of musical tastes, but then realising that the sales figures proved him wrong, and admitting he was out of touch*. Now, using the same logic...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55717156
*Given his predilections, perhaps not the best idiom.
New musicians claiming that it is unfair that other musicians are preferred to them. Free market demanded, but not THAT sort of 'free market'.
Hint: if you are being outsold by 'classic groups', perhaps that might be because you are shite? I remember a comment from that vile individual Jonathan King saying that he had always suspected the then-new trend for shouty groups of men ('hip hop') was unreflective of musical tastes, but then realising that the sales figures proved him wrong, and admitting he was out of touch*. Now, using the same logic...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55717156
*Given his predilections, perhaps not the best idiom.
I think the article actually says the methodology of apportioning royalties from streaming revenue favours established artists with deep back catalogues, which makes sense and does disfavour new artists, and it ought to be usage-centric. Basically, if you listen to a new artist, she's not getting all the revenue, it's being diluted by the huge back catalogues of established artists.
New musicians claiming that it is unfair that other musicians are preferred to them. Free market demanded, but not THAT sort of 'free market'.
Hint: if you are being outsold by 'classic groups', perhaps that might be because you are shite? I remember a comment from that vile individual Jonathan King saying that he had always suspected the then-new trend for shouty groups of men ('hip hop') was unreflective of musical tastes, but then realising that the sales figures proved him wrong, and admitting he was out of touch*. Now, using the same logic...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55717156
*Given his predilections, perhaps not the best idiom.
I think the article actually says the methodology of apportioning royalties from streaming revenue favours established artists with deep back catalogues, which makes sense and does disfavour new artists, and it ought to be usage-centric. Basically, if you listen to a new artist, she's not getting all the revenue, it's being diluted by the huge back catalogues of established artists.
From the article, referring to one album each:
"According to Music Week, however, Shah's most recent album, Kitchen Sink, has only been streamed 675,000 times, equating to 675 "sales". By comparison, the UK's current number one album, Barry Gibb's Greenfields, was streamed 2.7m times last week alone."
That is my point here. Neither of them are artists I like, but with a ratio like that, back-catalogue issues aren't involved.
Absolutely. Harsh but fair, harsh but fair.
I hate the Rolling Stones so much, I'd build a time machine and go back and euthanize them myself. It's what they wanted.
I hate the Rolling Stones so much, I'd build a time machine and go back and euthanize them myself. It's what they wanted.
Thing is, that came out in 1972 and I wasn't born until the end of that year. So by your rules, you'd let me listen to their shit stuff but not allow me to listen to their good stuff.
No, not having that.
No, you couldn't listen to any band that was in existance before your birthdate.
I think you are allowed to listen to music older than you, as long as the creator died at a younger age than you are now.I've just checked and that makes both Joplins, Scott as well as Janis, okay.
I think you are allowed to listen to music older than you, as long as the creator died at a younger age than you are now.I've just checked and that makes both Joplins, Scott as well as Janis, okay.
It also means Wowbagger's allowed to listen to J.S. Bach but I'm not.
What about artistes who retire from the biz but then don't die for agesandagesandages? Because I'm not waiting another couple of decades before listening to Captain Beefheart O:-)
I will be 63 in a fortnight, and one of the regular things about those musicians is early death (see Joplin, J; Hendrix, J; Morrison, J (an initial theme there...); Pappalardi, F)None of the aforementioned early exprirers was noted as an exponent of the banjo or ukulele, so we think you can carry on playing for the time being. As long as you don't change your name to Jane, Julie, Judith... ;)
Where does the panel think I stand?
I am a musician, not a banjoist or ukeleleleleloid, IYVMI will be 63 in a fortnight, and one of the regular things about those musicians is early death (see Joplin, J; Hendrix, J; Morrison, J (an initial theme there...); Pappalardi, F)None of the aforementioned early exprirers was noted as an exponent of the banjo or ukulele, so we think you can carry on playing for the time being. As long as you don't change your name to Jane, Julie, Judith... ;)
Where does the panel think I stand?
I don't know if you know this about Dyson, the hoover man, he's a bollocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles) & https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/reviews?ref_=tt_urv (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/reviews?ref_=tt_urv)
I've just watched the first two episodes of this , not bad. But 1974 BBC production values. Meinn Gott! The Whiskers! And that's just the women ! And Captain Peacock as Prince Albert....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles) & https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/reviews?ref_=tt_urv (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/reviews?ref_=tt_urv)
I've just watched the first two episodes of this , not bad. But 1974 BBC production values. Meinn Gott! The Whiskers! And that's just the women ! And Captain Peacock as Prince Albert....
This is very good. A primer on late 19th & early 20th century political history. I know know a bit about the Mayerling Incident & the split between the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks.
Jean-Luc Picard is impressive as Lenin. Michael Kitchen as Trotsky looks like one of Harry Enfield's Scousers.
I’ve just rediscovered Peter Gabriel: Melt. I’m in a nostalgic fog.
I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wearProperly sinister. What a great album! - the first I bought on vinyl.
I think I’ve still got the vinyl in the loft somewhere.I’ve just rediscovered Peter Gabriel: Melt. I’m in a nostalgic fog.QuoteI like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wearProperly sinister. What a great album! - the first I bought on vinyl.
I think I’ve still got the vinyl in the loft somewhere.I’ve just rediscovered Peter Gabriel: Melt. I’m in a nostalgic fog.QuoteI like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wearProperly sinister. What a great album! - the first I bought on vinyl.
Tonight, when I was flicking through the TV channels and asking what she would like to watch I (jokingly) said "What about Mrs Brown's Boys?" To which she replied "Ooh yes. Good idea".OMG Flatus, that's terrible.
Well that's a different take on "Dune"..... https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1419065511736922112?s=20 :jurek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk new trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk new trailer.
Well that's a different take on "Dune"..... https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1419065511736922112?s=20 :jurek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk new trailer.
Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars and The Matrix. Which may or may not be a good thing. I’m intrigued.
Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars and The Matrix. Which may or may not be a good thing. I’m intrigued.
I agree with Pingu though - the trailer is cut in a way that seems deliberately designed to induce nausea.
I still love the Lynch version.
Just booked tickets for Mr R and I see to see James Blunt at Wembley next February...I saw him in Manchester last February, just before Covid struck, and he was utterly brilliant. Enjoy! :thumbsup:
I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0) You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.
But not related to Feargal Sharkey:I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0) You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.
Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.
I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0) You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.
Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.
The Bach family for today. Which means only Wowbagger has yet heard of the next generation.I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0) You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.
Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.
And the mother of Mabel (ask your kids).
Some of you will get this...YAProfessorYaffleAICMFBP
I was making dinner last night and my son noticed the ingredients I had out on the counter included breadcrumbs and butter beans.
"We're having chocolate biscuits!" he exclaimed.
Some of you will get this...YAProfessorYaffleAICMFBP
I was making dinner last night and my son noticed the ingredients I had out on the counter included breadcrumbs and butter beans.
"We're having chocolate biscuits!" he exclaimed.
... it was just about to start, and the rain was only getting heavier.
The Matrix was one of the few movies where I went in blind (not literally, pendants), with little idea what it was about, and it was made all the more awesome by that.
The Matrix would have been better if they'd had a different rationale for The Machines doing all that to start with - the thermodynamics were cockeyed.
I assumed Fight Club was some sort of tacky post-Rocky American violence bullshit. I didn't bother going or reading about it. Then was told by somebody whose opinion I respect that I should. Was blown away. Ditto American Beauty.
The Matrix would have been better if they'd had a different rationale for The Machines doing all that to start with - the thermodynamics were cockeyed.
I don't think it pays to think about the science of it too closely. It's allegorical, innit. The machines are, like, symbols of "The Machine", man.
Best just to enjoy it for the fightin' and shootin'.
Nah, fucked-up science tarnishes a film for me. Either leave out explanations completely or push the plot so far into the future that anything appears plausible. Otherwise it's just insulting.
I've still never seen Fight Club and had also assumed it was shit, but was also told by someone that it was good. It was too late to watch the film (as in too many years past release and pre-streaming) but he did lend me the book, which I read and which was good.
Hey guys, you know the rules.
Queensbury Rules, I believe.These ones? (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=120938.0)
Nah, fucked-up science tarnishes a film for me. Either leave out explanations completely or push the plot so far into the future that anything appears plausible. Otherwise it's just insulting.
That's a bit like saying the talking pigs spoil Animal Farm.
Things I didn’t know until very recently #28948: the Wachowski brothers are now the Wachowski sisters.The Matrix is thinly veiled transgender allegory, a theory anyone who knew any trans people in the late 90s will no doubt have encountered. Since confirmed by the Wachowskis, I believe.
Agreed, it's entirely possible to completely handwave the science of, say, faster than light travel in a way that isn't jarringly ridiculous.
With The Matrix I kind of hoped the human battery thing would be revealed to be a deliberate ruse, it was so clearly nonsense. Shame they never made any sequels...
I think that if I had to name the my top three movies that I can remember right now, it's The Matrix, Fight Club, and Aliens. I'm never to going to win any prizes for my elevated aesthetic sensibilities. I watched a movie with subtitles once and didn't immediately die.This is why those FOREIGNS, who live in ABROAD, are so intellectual. Even when they're watching a Hollywood blockbuster, it's with subtitles.
With The Matrix I kind of hoped the human battery thing would be revealed to be a deliberate ruse, it was so clearly nonsense.
Shame they never made any sequels...
I think the adage is that took the material for half a movie and stretched it to two.
That said, if you've had the misfortune of seeing the dreadful Jupiter Ascending, you'll know they could have been even worse.
During a game of Wikinaccurate Golf I found myself on the page for Tim Buckley's “Song To The Siren” and realised that I had never knowingly heard the original. Yoicks! What a dirge. I had to revisit Half Man Half Biscuit's cover, recorded for a 2002 Peel Session and described as “shambolic" by some Grauniad hack, after that. It's done at about four times the speed, and segues into “Vatican Broadside”.
Strictly Come Dancing, proof that you can have too much of a good thing.
<deity> but it goes on…
Final series of "The Expanse" coming in December. https://youtu.be/4PJpkGPtAHE
Partly to block out bickering between my colleagues, I decided to listen to something - Teams meetings have normalised wearing headphones in the office. I chose the "No Nukes" album by Springsteen and the E Street band. Superb.
I haven't done this for a looooooooooong time.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51721528328_2fabddafce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mNsmqq)
IMG_9275_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mNsmqq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
ETA: I used a protractor to align the cartridge (it was miles out) and watched a video about setting up the tonearm. It sounds much better than I remember 🎵
I haven't done this for a looooooooooong time.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51721528328_2fabddafce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mNsmqq)
IMG_9275_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mNsmqq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
ETA: I used a protractor to align the cartridge (it was miles out) and watched a video about setting up the tonearm. It sounds much better than I remember 🎵
Ooh nice. I want a Planar 3 to add to my turntable collection.
Gosh! A vinyl! How achingly hip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcOjKXIR8Iw&ab_channel=ChopinInstitute
This might warrant a thread of its own, but ICBA.
International Chopin Piano Competition. The guy in the video is outstanding.
We just turned on the tv, and got a glimpse - no more than 10 seconds - of a film. I said “I wonder what that is”. My wife replied “The Remains of the Day”. It was. She has apparently never seen it (I can believe that) but she’d “read the book”.
This won’t make me any friends here but…
They’ve been repeating HHGTTG from the beginning on Radio 4 Extra. If I’m being kind, I would say it has not aged well.
If I’m being not so kind, I might say it’s terrible and I find it hard to believe anyone ever found it funny. Some nice ideas, and occasional good one-liners, but often verging on painful.
Best thing about it is the music. The main theme is great but the incidental music is also excellent - I don’t recall noticing it before, but I especially liked the use of Terry Riley in the first series.
Did I ever mention that Lord of the Rings is shite too?I think it's OK if you're a geeky 14YO and you skip the utterly, utterly tedious Tom Bombadil section, but if you haven't read it by the time you're ooh 15 1/2, forget it.
Absolutely and unequivocally your loss! (and no, you don't need to love Hitchhikers to be my friends x )This won’t make me any friends here but…
They’ve been repeating HHGTTG from the beginning on Radio 4 Extra. If I’m being kind, I would say it has not aged well.
...
I've been banging this drum for a while. I never liked it. Yes, Douglas Adams was smart and funny, but I have always found HHGTTG to be fairly cringy and wearing, like an extended student comedy revue.
We just turned on the tv, and got a glimpse - no more than 10 seconds - of a film. I said “I wonder what that is”. My wife replied “The Remains of the Day”. It was. She has apparently never seen it (I can believe that) but she’d “read the book”.
HHG? I enjoyed the radio series enormously, but it helped that I was a geeky 14YO, that the pictures in your head are sooo much better than anything on TV or in films and it had Peter Jones as The Book. The books were a poor substitute and the trailers for the TV series left me so cold I didn't watch it.
Tom Bombadil and the Eagles are atrocious dei ex machina.Quote from: citoyenDid I ever mention that Lord of the Rings is shite too?I think it's OK if you're a geeky 14YO and you skip the utterly, utterly tedious Tom Bombadil section, but if you haven't read it by the time you're ooh 15 1/2, forget it.
HHG? I enjoyed the radio series enormously, but it helped that I was a geeky 14YO, that the pictures in your head are sooo much better than anything on TV or in films and it had Peter Jones as The Book. The books were a poor substitute and the trailers for the TV series left me so cold I didn't watch it.
The fact that citoyen mentions it in the same post as LOTR suggests a lack of ... thinking?!? They're totally unrelated - there is only some overlap in the fans because both were niche interests that the same group of people knew about.
…
But of course its subjective. Go watch Red Dwarf or Mrs Browns Boys if you prefer :-*
I understand Mrs Brown's Boys is very popular. I've never watched it so can't comment.
Do you ever get the feeling that someone posted with the explicit intention of then saying " ... touched a nerve"?
Do you ever get the feeling you’ve touched a nerve?
(I only replied to your post to say why I think H2G2 is so great - no doubt you had an even better/cleverer motivation x )
(Unless it's a list of things that should never have been made, in which case the USAnian version is allowed.)
(Unless it's a list of things that should never have been made, in which case the USAnian version is allowed.)
I hope you're not saying the Americans have remade Mrs Brown's Boys??
(Unless it's a list of things that should never have been made, in which case the USAnian version is allowed.)
I hope you're not saying the Americans have remade Mrs Brown's Boys??
I seriously hope not... :hand:
(Unless it's a list of things that should never have been made, in which case the USAnian version is allowed.)
I hope you're not saying the Americans have remade Mrs Brown's Boys??
I seriously hope not... :hand:
why would we care?
We don't watch the British version, why would we watch usa shit?
T,V can produce as much shit as it likes, it doesn't affect me.
I suspected there would be, so I looked and yes there is, and yes it's even by Stephen Fry: an audiobook of HHGTTG. Isn't an audiobook of a radio series rather missing the point, or are the books different enough from the original for it to be meaningful?
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-Audiobook/B0093Q1NFS
Probably both true!I suspected there would be, so I looked and yes there is, and yes it's even by Stephen Fry: an audiobook of HHGTTG. Isn't an audiobook of a radio series rather missing the point, or are the books different enough from the original for it to be meaningful?
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-Audiobook/B0093Q1NFS
Probably easier to fall asleep to, on account of the lack of exploding computer banks and so on.
And no doubt the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry sell a few audiobooks irrespective of content.
But do they remain sensible, when changed back to audio again?Is the question...
From:Audible.co.uk <donotreply@audible.co.uk>
To:Lt. Col. Larrington(retd.) <redacted@his_isp.com>
Subject:The new Charles Dickens audiobook is now available
96-year-old pianist, and last surviving pupil of Rachmaninov, signs landmark record deal
Something didn’t like the link to the image; let’s see iffen this works:
(https://i.imgur.com/BGHlxev.png)
Not on iPlayer?
I've got Series 2 - Series 6 on my Tiny Computer. I can see if that will break my Dropbox iffen you want.Not on iPlayer?
Only the most recent series. Series 2 dates from 2014.
I've got Series 2 - Series 6 on my Tiny Computer. I can see if that will break my Dropbox iffen you want.Not on iPlayer?
Only the most recent series. Series 2 dates from 2014.
Arthur should have been more careful in picking his birth-date.
Adele's upset.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60078151
Bet she gets a whole album out of the misery.
Yep they are extortionate now and in fancy colours too. Mine looks identical to that except for the green cartridge. Played Big Science on it late the other night
I have just discovered Hiromi Uehara, if you like jazz I suggest you do, too.
Got to love James Blunt, tedious music but a an all round good egg. Plus he managed to avoid kicking off armed conflict with the Russians all by himself so that makes up for his records.
(Peers owlishly at the small corner of the BBC that is forever Monkey)They didn't appear to know when it would be broadcast last night either.
“No upcoming broadcasts”
Sort it out u muppets!
Seems the parents, being University folk are quite happy for the kids to use Naughty Language...
I are just discovered that the smashing chaps at Montréal's Constellation Records recently released Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-missing first album all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling. Recorded in 1993, originally released on cassette in 1994, only 33 copies made. Available from Constellation's Bandcamp page for six of yourEarthCanadian dollars ($7.20 after taxes/Brexit Dividend/whatever). Ent listened to it yet, mind.
I are just discovered that the smashing chaps at Montréal's Constellation Records recently released Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-missing first album all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling. Recorded in 1993, originally released on cassette in 1994, only 33 copies made. Available from Constellation's Bandcamp page for six of yourEarthCanadian dollars ($7.20 after taxes/Brexit Dividend/whatever). Ent listened to it yet, mind.
Edit: Just listened to the first part (there are four segments of 17-18 minutes each). For completists only, I reckon :-\
The current adaptation of "The Midwich Cuckoos" takes a panning. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/02/the-midwich-cuckoos-review-womens-rights-are-under-attack-and-this-is-what-they-make
Excellent comment :-D
"If they really wanted to bring up to date a story involving the residents of a sleepy English village mysteriously falling unconscious and awaking to find that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant and will shortly give birth to a creepy-looking blond child, then they probably should have set it in Uxbridge.."
Download Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.
THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK
Signs for traffic to Download have started sprouting nearby, so I went onto their website to find out exactly when it is:QuoteDownload Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.
THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK
(My bold)
Methinks they can't count very well.
Phew - thanks for explaining, all makes perfect sense now.Signs for traffic to Download have started sprouting nearby, so I went onto their website to find out exactly when it is:QuoteDownload Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.
THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK
(My bold)
Methinks they can't count very well.
Campsite opens day before, closes day after. So yes, up to five days if you're camping.
I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?". Coming to a cutting room floor near you.
Ooh, ta v much M. Le Maire.I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?". Coming to a cutting room floor near you.
New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th :thumbsup:
Hurrah!. They kept my pearl of wisdom in. First answer to the question. That's me that is.I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?". Coming to a cutting room floor near you.
New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th :thumbsup:
Hurrah!. They kept my pearl of wisdom in. First answer to the question. That's me that is.I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?". Coming to a cutting room floor near you.
New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th :thumbsup:
Not available yet ??? Arse! Or is it? Where's the bloody "Download" button gone?
tim@Dalamar2:~$ get_iplayer "monkey cage" --get --type=radio
Segovia covered it as well :P
<== mostly aware of it from Leo Kottke's version
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-66-kate-bush
I got 11/15. I expect Rogerzilla to get 15.
A pitiful 5- but one of those was the Kate Q so I'm claiming victory.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-66-kate-bush
I got 11/15. I expect Rogerzilla to get 15.
11/15 here as well. But only one of the questions actually requires any knowledge of Kate Bush, so it's a bit of a swizz.
Boogie on down with heads of state!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/world-leaders-dancefloor-videos-sanna-marin
Boris shows them how to cut it. No, not that one.
Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.
Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.
I'm confused; was she ever not?
Velma from Scooby-Doo is now a lesbian.
I'm confused; was she ever not?
Not in 1969 I don’t think.
Awesome timing. :thumbsup:
I hope forummers are aware of the excellent Brian Bilston, 21st century bard. This morning's efforts were some haikus, and one I thought was superb. It's entitled "The Constraints of Haiku".
Tied up all night with
A haiku dominatrix
And her three-line whip.
Victor Lewis-Smith, writer and broadcaster, dies at 65 (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/12/victor-lewis-smith-writer-and-broadcaster-dies-at-65). Bah.
They could have improved the trailer if, when the doll is launched into the air, one of he other Little Girls shoots it down with a crossbow.
I've just been reading What the *** is normal anyway? by Francesca Martinez, in which she describes falling for her first 'boyfriend' at the age of 3 or 4 because he had... a He Man castle with Skeletor!They could have improved the trailer if, when the doll is launched into the air, one of he other Little Girls shoots it down with a crossbow.
Isn't that traditionally Action Man's job?
It's going to be hard to beat that trailer, certainly.
Free Tom Lehrer.
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1604148566804819970 (https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1604148566804819970)
"Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://tomlehrersongs.com (https://tomlehrersongs.com) "
https://tomlehrersongs.com/send-the-marines/
I started watching The Professionals on Prime here but unfortunately it was dubbed into German with no subtitles so that makes it almost impossible for me (I partially lip read when watching tv but that doesn’t help when it’s dubbed).I imagine the German dubbing turns it into a homoerotic romp, like it does with Top Gun.
I thought Top Gun was always a homoerotic romp?
I started watching The Professionals on Prime here but unfortunately it was dubbed into German with no subtitles so that makes it almost impossible for me (I partially lip read when watching tv but that doesn’t help when it’s dubbed).
The actor and writer will team up with daughter Camilla Cleese, with the pair both set to write and star. The new series will “explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world”, according to early information, with the plot focusing on his relationship with his daughter as they manage a boutique hotel together.
Oh dear indeed.I've similar experience of re-watching them.
It was good at the time and for its time. I watched a couple of the recent re-runs and thought them dire.
A re-boot won't work.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/07/fawlty-towers-john-cleese-rebootQuoteThe actor and writer will team up with daughter Camilla Cleese, with the pair both set to write and star. The new series will “explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world”, according to early information, with the plot focusing on his relationship with his daughter as they manage a boutique hotel together.
Oh dear.
There's a reason that Daisy, Daisy is still the best known song about a bicycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4
Oh dear indeed.
It was good at the time and for its time. I watched a couple of the recent re-runs and thought them dire.
A re-boot won't work.
“explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world”
The early 80's had been typified by Goth, a dreadful punk sub genre infused with hippiedom that involved dressing up in black, taking yourself very seriously and singing songs about bats. (Compare and contrast with Haircut 100 - an early 80's band that evidently didn't take themselves seriously, dressed in white by wearing cricket clothing, which is a game played using bats). I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk&ab_channel=WienerCelloEnsemble5%2B1
Ravel's Bolero for 1 cello, and 4 people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk&ab_channel=WienerCelloEnsemble5%2B1
Ravel's Bolero for 1 cello, and 4 people.
BBC 6 Music are dicking around with their evening schedule. This means that from June (I think) Gideon Coe's show is mostly axed and he's going to do a time share with Mark Riley.
Arse.
BBC 6 Music are dicking around with their evening schedule. This means that from June (I think) Gideon Coe's show is mostly axed and he's going to do a time share with Mark Riley.
Arse.
It's a Tory plot to make everything non viable so they've an excuse to kill it off....
"C*nts" is actually the term you are after.It's a Tory plot to make everything non viable so they've an excuse to kill it off....
"Managed decline" is the term you're after.
You could argue that the link below is more properly something for ctrl-alt-del, but I reckon those of us who spend our days nose-deep in the IT slurry will already be well aware of the issues regarding ownership of digital products and, as the article makes clear, it's not just what we usually think of as software (operating systems, applications) that's affected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/arts/dahl-christie-stine-kindle-edited.html
[…] on the Colin Murray show on BBCRadio5live, debating the superiority of Norse gods over the Greek gods. The apotheosis of #mediatartery says my dear husband ...
Fox founded the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000 which has raised more than $1.75bn (£1.39bn) for research
Ed Sheeran wins his case.
(https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/04/ed-sheeran-verdict-not-liable-copyright-lawsuit-marvin-gaye?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
Not a huge fan but pleased he won.
I suspect this one of those how old am I moments, but WTF £45 for an album :o
He (Gid) was very magnanimous about the proposed changes. Words to the effect that his current show is his dream job in music and dream jobs don't last for ever. What this new time share format with Marc Riley will be like he doen't know but he'll do his damndest to make it work.
Side note: Last night's show, with a tribute to his Dad (Jazz saxophonist Tony Coe) was fabby.
Roger Taylor on drums for Sam Ryder's Eurovision piece... ;D
It is a significant international music competition, m'lud.Yeah, but *I* don’t care about it, therefore it is unworthy of coverage.
I had news alerts this morning about “Eurovision”. Why is this considered to be news?A competition to promote peace throughout Europe which dates back to 1956 ... so probably a couple years before you retired.
I had news alerts this morning about “Eurovision”. Why is this considered to be news?
It is a significant international music competition, m'lud.Yeah, but *I* don’t care about it, therefore it is unworthy of coverage.
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Bizarre gardening accident
If Bob Hoskins were still alive he could stab Charlie UTTERLY TO DETH in the neck with a broken whisky bottle like wot he did in that top documentary "The Long Good Friday".
Bizarre gardening accident
As we say to Hanananananah the Astronononononomer when she announces plans to partake in some risky endeavour: "Too obvious"
Bizarre gardening accident
As we say to Hanananananah the Astronononononomer when she announces plans to partake in some risky endeavour: "Too obvious"
In that case, in an inversion of Spinal Tap, let's go for bizarre drumming accident instead.
Bizarre gardening accident
As we say to Hanananananah the Astronononononomer when she announces plans to partake in some risky endeavour: "Too obvious"
Bizarre gardening accident
As we say to Hanananananah the Astronononononomer when she announces plans to partake in some risky endeavour: "Too obvious"
“Too obvious” has been the guiding principle of the casualty scriptwriters for >30 years.
Bizarre gardening accident
As we say to Hanananananah the Astronononononomer when she announces plans to partake in some risky endeavour: "Too obvious"
“Too obvious” has been the guiding principle of the casualty scriptwriters for >30 years.
Retires, has a leaving do in a local pub, receives a bunch of quite disappointing gifts, leaves quietly andgoes home to enjoy a long and enjoyable retirement.gets run over by an ambulance as he leaves the pub.
Unspool them and use them as streamers or ribbons for the next significant birthday, weeding, art installation, granchild, etc. Or just give them straight to the grandchildren (in small doses) as a toy. A toddler could have great fun with an opened-up tape!
Talking of weeding, the onions and parsnips need some attention. I know some people hang CDs up to try to scare birds away. Would old cassette tapes be equally ineffective? Might they work with cats?I suppose it might do, on the random movement principle. More on birds than cats I'd imagine. Only one way to find out for sure.
No, I suspect most of this stuff is for landfill. I have several photo albums of Phyllis's. She mostly took photos of her foreign holidays with her sister Glenys. Both dead - no-one from that generation left alive. I think they will ultimately be for the tip.
https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/two-russian-sailors-walk-into-a-bar A nice little article about the filming of 1985's "Letter to Brezhnev" .
An interview with PJ Harvey. I saw her at the Manchester Academy in 1995, the ticket was probably a tenner. She's now at the Manchester Albert Hall and tickets start at £121 :jurek: https://www.manchestertheatres.com/event/pj-harvey
What is is it about cascades of sparks that all film directors think that they add something to a disaster scene or a fight scene or just a basic crash scene. They never look like anything other than a stage pyrotechnic. It’s daft.
Know any way to block those wretched "cards" that cover up the ends of YT videos nowadays?
AI-generated trailer for a Heidi movie...:D :D :D
https://youtu.be/0A2-Af5JEWU
Also good: Bandcamp has just informed me of End, a new album by Austin's purveyors of post-rock æxcellence Explosions In The Sky. Touches down on September 15th.
What is is it about cascades of sparks that all film directors think that they add something to a disaster scene or a fight scene or just a basic crash scene. They never look like anything other than a stage pyrotechnic. It’s daft.
Computers going biddly beep beep.
Yebbut some real life people do have their phones set up to beep on every button press, even now in 2023.
...During his duel with Woundwort Bigwig tells him to “silflay hraka”, which would translate as “eat shit”...
Kehaar, very sweary. I think the phrase Graculus is thinking of was “piiiisss off!”Thank you. I can't remember when, or if, my two children ever saw it. I don't think I would want my grandchildren to see it unaccompanied before about ten years old.
“Watership Down” re-classified as “PG”. Modern kids are wimps…*
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/21/watership-down-now-rated-pg-film-originally-classified-u (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/21/watership-down-now-rated-pg-film-originally-classified-u)
* on checking I’d have been 13 or 14 when I first saw it at the cinema and had already read the book so was looking forward to the good bits.
“Watership Down” re-classified as “PG”. Modern kids are wimps…*
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/21/watership-down-now-rated-pg-film-originally-classified-u (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/21/watership-down-now-rated-pg-film-originally-classified-u)
* on checking I’d have been 13 or 14 when I first saw it at the cinema and had already read the book so was looking forward to the good bits.
PG is meaningless anyway.PG = Pretty Good.
Please download any purchases you've made (check out the Batchcamp extension for Chrome if you have a lot)
However, Spotiface followed it up as is its wont, with a track that it thought to be similar, "Dumb Ways To Die" by Tangerine Kitty. This is surely worth a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
Mended your link (the final bracket had got dropped)
I've just been watching some vintage BBC dystopia from 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pik_15yXw-s Much concern with "Ilegals", but these are trying to flee the country & it's oppressive left wing, trade union dominated regime...
The clothing is definitely 1977 – as is the acting! There must be one word to express 'nostalgia for past visions of the future'...
David is playing music by Muzio Clementi on the piano.
'I know that toon.' thinks I.
A Groovy Kind of Love wot were Sung by Phil Collins, methinks.
I see Clementi is credited when I do some searching...
DUNE - Part 2 is out in March 2024... and it's 2 hours 46 minutes in length.
Is there some sort of weird film length arms race going on?
Listening to KT Tunstall's Psycho Killer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8Yn-avQ7Q) made me think, whatever happened to songs with French bits in them? They used to be quite a thing, from Beatles through Blondie and quite a few others, I always thought to help their French sales, but it has completely dropped away and I can't recall one in recent years. Is that my ignorance or a real thing?Thanks for that. God she's great (and that's even before her brilliant Ivor Cutler docco).
Well done to the BBC last night. Flipped over to watch the fireworks, and as soon as it was over got Rickrolled.;D
I have found When The Boat Comes In on some catch up service or other.
This is a good idea thing. Bonny Lad.
I have found When The Boat Comes In on some catch up service or other.
This is a good idea thing. Bonny Lad.
To be followed by the Beiderbecke trilogy perchance, on ITVx.
I have found When The Boat Comes In on some catch up service or other.
This is a good idea thing. Bonny Lad.
To be followed by the Beiderbecke trilogy perchance, on ITVx.
If you're doing the Bolam timeline properly, you need to do Only When I Laugh before moving on to Beiderbecke.
I have to confess I was thinking more of Barbara Flynn....
I've just learned that a colleague is on the new series of Traitors, which starts tonight. I really can't imagine why anyone would want to subject themselves to that but good luck to her. I can see her being good on it. I wasn't planning to watch it but now I think I might.
Richard Osman's House of Games
The show is played on a weekly basis, with four celebrities playing on five consecutive days to win daily prizes...
I saw about five minutes of it. That was enough for me.
Back in 1992 it was part of the Saturday evening ritual in my student house before we went out. The world and I have both changed a lot since then.
I saw about five minutes of it. That was enough for me.
Back in 1992 it was part of the Saturday evening ritual in my student house before we went out. The world and I have both changed a lot since then.
The trouble is, if TV is so bereft of ideas it thought exhuming Gladiators was a good idea, what odds do we give on someone, somewhere (probably deep in a coke or ether binge), suggesting bringing The Word back?
I saw about five minutes of it. That was enough for me.
Back in 1992 it was part of the Saturday evening ritual in my student house before we went out. The world and I have both changed a lot since then.
The trouble is, if TV is so bereft of ideas it thought exhuming Gladiators was a good idea, what odds do we give on someone, somewhere (probably deep in a coke or ether binge), suggesting bringing The Word back?
Or Jim'll Fix It.
Garnet Mimms, singer of the all-time classic Cry Baby, is still alive :)8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet_Mimms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMs-NcuTJSg
Garnet Mimms, singer of the all-time classic Cry Baby, is still alive :)
Garnet Mimms, singer of the all-time classic Cry Baby, is still alive :)
Isn’t Garnet Mimms a service station on the M1?
Garnet Mimms, singer of the all-time classic Cry Baby, is still alive :)
Isn’t Garnet Mimms a service station on the M1?
Soul Singer or Service Station would be a great round in a pub quiz ;D
Soul Singer or Service Station would be a great round in a pub quiz ;D
That late, great maestro, Charnock Richard.
I don’t want to know about Norton Canes…
I have uncovered a trove of my old albums, wot I prolly need to sell now.
Hurrah: joke comedy pirate metal bozos Alestorm are playing the Forum in Kentish Town a week today :thumbsup:
Bah: Forty-two quid >:( I know they’re into stealing treasure but srsly?
I mostly prefer to see up and coming bands in small independent venues and generally avoid the really big names and arena gigs.Most people saying that would sound really pretentious!
Most people saying that would sound really pretentious!
Nuther sign of getting old: you've never heard of the Brit awards.
Nuther sign of getting old: you've never heard of the Brit awards.
The awards themselves are inconsequential but the event has had its share of highlights over the years, eg:
- The Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood live TV hosting car crash in 1988
- KLF and Extreme Noise Terror machine-gunning the audience in 1992
- Jarvis Cocker waving his arse around on stage during Michael Jackson's performance in 1996
And Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon pouring a jug of water over Gordon Brown :D
Edit: And no, I don’t know why the forum SCIENCE keeps adding a spurious end of list tag.[/list]
And Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon pouring a jug of water over Gordon Brown :D
John Prescott. Which is in fact even funnier.
I thought that was the NME awards but I checked and you’re right, it was the Brits.QuoteEdit: And no, I don’t know why the forum SCIENCE keeps adding a spurious end of list tag.[/list]
Glad it’s not just me, at least.
(https://i.ibb.co/pn6gBf2/20240215-112550.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6Nc27HY)
Filming series 2 of Wolf Hall
They wanted Jason Statham
:roflmao
we didn't finish because Elysa had to return home to eat chicken Kievs.
Just booked tickets for the ROH Live Cinema performance of Carmen on 1 May.
Just booked tickets for the ROH Live Cinema performance of Carmen on 1 May.
I parsed that as Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, though to be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a murky 1940s B&W photo somewhere in the Long Walk To Radiology of them putting on a performance of Carmen, complete with crutches and wheelchairs.
https://www.youtube.com/@playforforever/videos I found this earlier. Loads of old "Play For Today" & similar stuff.
I've just finished watching "Blade On The Feather", which I remember from its first broadcast in 1980. Written by Dennis Potter. Donald Pleasance, Denholm Elliot, Tom Conti, Phoebe Nicholls & Kika Markham in "Cambridge spy ring" territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_on_the_Feather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyXQGX0RCE
https://www.youtube.com/@playforforever/videos I found this earlier. Loads of old "Play For Today" & similar stuff.
I've just finished watching "Blade On The Feather", which I remember from its first broadcast in 1980. Written by Dennis Potter. Donald Pleasance, Denholm Elliot, Tom Conti, Phoebe Nicholls & Kika Markham in "Cambridge spy ring" territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_on_the_Feather
A reality TV "star" won Celebrity Big Brother. It's a kind of recursive Z-listing.
I saw it with friends last year in Liverpool & am talking my Mum to see it in April:thumbsup:
I saw it with friends last year in Liverpool & am talking my Mum to see it in April (http://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji1303.png):thumbsup:
Is it good?
Something for people of a certain age. An archive of "Countdown / TV Action" magazine from the early 1970's. Dr Who, Thunderbirds, UFO, Fireball XL5, Stingray etc. All editions & free to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Polystyle_Publications)
https://archive.org/details/countdown-and-tv-action/Countdown%20001_%5B1971-02-20%5D/mode/2up
Thunderbirds was required watching when I was in digs at university. Cue 5 blokes sitting in front of a 19" telly going dum-da-da-daaah, diddle-um diddle-um-pum-paaaaaaaah (da capo) and stamping their feet in time. Just as well we were on the ground floor.
Wow. Has anyone sent it to her?
Something for people of a certain age. An archive of "Countdown / TV Action" magazine from the early 1970's. Dr Who, Thunderbirds, UFO, Fireball XL5, Stingray etc. All editions & free to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Polystyle_Publications)
https://archive.org/details/countdown-and-tv-action/Countdown%20001_%5B1971-02-20%5D/mode/2up
Thunderbirds was required watching when I was in digs at university. Cue 5 blokes sitting in front of a 19" telly going dum-da-da-daaah, diddle-um diddle-um-pum-paaaaaaaah (da capo) and stamping their feet in time. Just as well we were on the ground floor.
They'll probably cut out all the physics. <sigh>