@whisht

Believe me, I was one of the annoying people at 21 (and at 14-15) saying “LISTEN to these dudes” -Police.

I would not have used the word dudes, actually. (()-())

That’s a great chuune, imho.  “keep it up”

The Floyd’s amzing & yep egos were huge with Gilmour & d’rest.

I had a crush on Gilmour when I was very young & silly.

OK, that happened. It’s happening to Mum too so I won’t edit it. When we do it disappears 50% of the time.

Have I broken the world wide web?

@pedant !!

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@pedant

This is Syzygy the younger: thankfully your VD pops up in mum’s  inbox auto.

Absolutely great blog &, again, Mum had no idea at all that 30 seconds referred to fuel. And “contact light”  -loved the analogy. I’m going to listen to it again. We did spend, maybe 10 minutes discussing the moon landing in history -7 minutes, really with the i…[Read more]

@whisht you mentioned theremin….

A few people might not know it’s an instrument you play by not touching it.

@whisht

Glad you liked her. There are some issues with female singers which are entirely a problem I have only. SO many I can listen to and absolutely adore but a whole CD of? Nope. That’s why Vinyl was good -listen to 6 tracks, have a rest….

The other voice I like is Carol Kidd ….but another night. I want to listen to more of your choices t…[Read more]

Spoilers for the 2 vids provided. Don’t read ahead if you haven’t watched. But watch it.

@pedant (I raised my hand)

Following on from not knowing things….when Laylan asked about the viewfinder, I was thinking “yeah, uhn.  Why not, then, mm?”

I love his answer. It’s not a lack of English that causes him to stumble, it’s the nature of the…[Read more]

@pedant

That’s something unknown to me -the ‘odds.’ Heck a holy moly.

The book The Knowledge Illusion is similar -talks about how, in one experiment, a sampled group, when asked to draw a bicycle, left off important things. The bike didn’t need a basket or even a light but it certainly needed  -axel, bearings, brackets…

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@Blenkinsopthebrave  indeed they do. Young syzygy returned to school on the 15th. I’ll check on the QLD school’s  archive, though.

I love how barely a month after the moon landing Woodstock happened. And then August 26-31 was the Isle of Wight Festival. 150 000 people there? Not sure. But around then The Stones had ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and Zager a…[Read more]

@whisht gorgeous. I remember an unpleasant musician friend (we stopped the friendship a long time ago) who didn’t like the Project: not enough “head voice” which is a) wrong and b) who cares! It was something so very special for those people involved.

Now, not enough love for Lennon here. Also, we need a lady so I offer this.

@whisht

Oh my heart….Iggy & The Starman’s. But is he Duke at this point….in his head?  I think he was also “la-la’ing” in mime. All those mean mime jokes? Bowie loved miming.  And I think Bowie would have loved the anniversary too.

I was two during The Great Moon Walk, as Dad expressed it. He arrived here as a refugee & by the late 1960s, as a chemical & mechanical engineer, he would whisper late night stories, when I couldn’t sleep, centred on the universe & what exciting discoveries we’d  find.

He was amazed by the delicacy and inventiveness of space crafts. When I was…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Your post appeared just as mine did -with its notification. Aw, that’s wonderful! In fact, to my 13 friends on facebook – – actually real people, people I know: not exactly everyone I’ve seen face-to-face. Yet. 🙂  – I’ll post the link. A couple of very good friends wouldn’t know the origin of the poster & it’s exactly what th…[Read more]

@whisht @Blenkinsopthebrave

I saw, on Google, James Burke, saying the BBC nearly missed the moon walk &, hinting they might walk early, convinced his own boss to keep running the film past midnight.

Glory, another thing I never knew!  The photo of Trafalgar Square where people gathered to watch it on a giant TV screen is incredible.

@whisht the Radiohead’s beautiful -it all is. And I know where you’re coming from. Except clearly yesterday I didn’t/wasn’t. I was in the “white person, privileged position.” I figure the reason these things happen to me is because I’m in the wrong space. Also, there’s some lessons I need to learn & never do (or not yet…[Read more]

sorry @JanetteB above.

@Janette My cleaner would say “nuh DVD?Uh hah embarrassinggg'”  The example below confirms my assumption she’s a sociopath .

Certain Melbournians add vowels so that her clients are (including her example) : “mah clahnts have a powah showah hose with  a squeegee [what this is I don’t know] & they spray the water all over the glass but othaah p…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

thank you. That is delightful. How liquid & shimmery the sound.

I’m at a loss for better words. I had a funny situation with a cleaning woman. So funny I had to have a lie down, a red wine (clean skins Mr Blenkinsop: $2 a bottle; worth $18 per 4 or $46 each) so I’m off to the pub to share my story. See if anyone thinks this…[Read more]

Man! I edited my 6 lines (young siggers) here & then it disappeared. I’d suggest no editing of posts, for now. I know others said that was happening.

Basically I was saying 1) mum loves Eno & his Music for Elevators 2) I like Reich & mum did a discography of his work as a uni project & got the 100% mark for this. It had to have every comma, dash,…[Read more]

I know this is obvious: I love The Duke!  (Dr Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington)

To all — when America looked up to the stars & saw its potential.

May it do so again.

The Syzygyzssss’