Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 287720 times)

T42 · « **Reply #1050 on:** 04 October, 2017, 08:12:25 am »

Our development dept used to have a secretary called Branka Vrbanić. I was somewhat disappointed to find that I could pronounce it perfectly - another mystery gone from the world.

Legs · « **Reply #1051 on:** 04 October, 2017, 10:11:55 am »

My Jim Croce CD, which I use in the car for dire emergency situations like when BBC R2 is trying to inflict aural crimes like U2 on me, seems to have developed a bit of a skip in the middle of Thursday.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #1052 on:** 04 October, 2017, 06:14:59 pm »

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?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1053 on:** 05 October, 2017, 08:47:53 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 04 October, 2017, 06:14:59 pm

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?

Ooh! (goes off to read email wot I got t'other day, from that nice Mr Colvin)

Ooh! Seems they're playing Brighton.

(Sounds like you're aware of the YACF connection)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1054 on:** 12 October, 2017, 05:19:48 pm »

I am learning Schubert's G♭ impromptu, opus 90. I think it is the most achingly beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. Or will be, when I can play it...

T42 · « **Reply #1055 on:** 13 October, 2017, 08:13:58 am »

When I play achingly beautiful others call it painful.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1056 on:** 13 October, 2017, 08:33:53 am »

https://www.facebook.com/medicitv/videos/10154639615472352/

Amazing!

Jaded · « **Reply #1057 on:** 13 October, 2017, 09:42:03 am »

Quote from: Ham on 15 September, 2017, 05:29:59 pm

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

Bought for - what - £150? in 70's

This is Money inflation calculator says that £150 in 1975 is now equivalent to £1,436

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1058 on:** 13 October, 2017, 10:37:02 am »

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.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1059 on:** 17 October, 2017, 04:30:47 pm »

Isn't cycling good for random musical connections? The other day I found myself singing Pressure Drop. Couldn't remember who it was by. Today I wandered into LBS and they were playing 54-46 by Toots and the Maytals. So I get home and youtube myself up some Toots, starting with the same track obvs and then next up is...

Ham · « **Reply #1060 on:** 21 October, 2017, 06:48:28 pm »

Although I've been conscious of her existence, Savoir Faire is the Beth Ditto song that made me look up who she was. Not who I expected (a savvy, black new yorker), I think I like her the more for that

BrianI · « **Reply #1061 on:** 21 October, 2017, 11:02:13 pm »

"Which Hollywood Composer", asks Henry Kelly "created the theme tune to a 1980s TV quiz show?"

Only Hans Zimmer who wrote the rather ear wormy tune to Going For Gold!

https://youtu.be/8-7rWePM6lM

T42 · « **Reply #1062 on:** 22 October, 2017, 11:18:04 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 October, 2017, 10:37:02 am

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.

Unlike my old B&M Malaga, which cost £27 in ~1974 and is now worth a coruscating £60. £27 scaled up according to the retail price index is £232.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1063 on:** 22 October, 2017, 11:33:01 am »

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

T42 · « **Reply #1064 on:** 22 October, 2017, 01:53:03 pm »

That's a beauty. Hope it goes well beyond the forecast price bracket.

citoyen · « **Reply #1065 on:** 26 October, 2017, 12:12:24 am »

So, I was walking the dog along Tankerton Slopes this evening while listening to a comedy-drama on R4 Extra featuring a character called... Tankerton Slopes!

#mindfucked

Torslanda · « **Reply #1066 on:** 26 October, 2017, 05:16:46 pm »

According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.

WTF? It was shite!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1067 on:** 27 October, 2017, 12:39:06 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 26 October, 2017, 05:16:46 pm

According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.

WTF? It was shite!

It wasn't their worst!

A Day at the Races was their best, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

Kim · « **Reply #1068 on:** 27 October, 2017, 02:17:20 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 26 October, 2017, 05:16:46 pm

According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.

WTF? It was shite!

Possibly skewed by the way that tapes left in the car for more than a fortnight or two metamorphose into Best of Queen albums? I mean, that can't be good for sales.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1069 on:** 28 October, 2017, 11:28:01 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 October, 2017, 12:39:06 pm

Quote from: Torslanda on 26 October, 2017, 05:16:46 pm
According to Radio 2, Queen's biggest selling album is News of the World.

WTF? It was shite!
It wasn't their worst!

A Day at the Races was their best, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

As it goes I agree with you.

Freddie and Roy Thomas Baker were a match made in heaven (you see what i did there?

)

hellymedic · « **Reply #1070 on:** 29 October, 2017, 01:34:24 am »

Quote from: Torslanda on 22 October, 2017, 11:33:01 am

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

It is very nice but we've bought too many pianos to be able to afford it. I think David prefers new-fangled telescopes...

Ruthie · « **Reply #1071 on:** 29 October, 2017, 10:01:06 am »

This new series of Stranger Things is just brilliant.

T42 · « **Reply #1072 on:** 29 October, 2017, 10:23:54 am »

I thought the first one was daft but hey, with all this rain & wind I've got time on my hands.

Ruthie · « **Reply #1073 on:** 29 October, 2017, 10:34:18 am »

Quote from: T42 on 29 October, 2017, 10:23:54 am

I thought the first one was daft but hey, with all this rain & wind I've got time on my hands.

I don't know if we can be friends any more.

T42 · « **Reply #1074 on:** 29 October, 2017, 12:48:40 pm »