@whisht @cathannabel @thane16 @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark @winston (and anyone lese interested)

I have vague disclaimered for the first time in ages: Contact light?

Hi @thane16 – Syzy (sorry but I will just use that if yous don’t mind)

That is a fantastic video of someone learning the Theremin from an expert (who even developed her own technique that others now use!).
I really enjoyed it as he is obviously a decent musician, but is confounded by the precision that Karolina(?) shows you need.

Which is why…[Read more]

@thane16 – ah cheers. I think you did remember my birthday (end of Feb) but thanks again!
oh – and (even) I remember Callan. More the film they did later which itself was probably a rerun on TV that I saw and then re-runs. Recently (last year) a channel hidden in the depths of the somethinghundreds had all the seasons from B&W to colour.
Hit and…[Read more]

@thane16 – Syzy! That Louise Gold piece was amazing!
Never heard that before (nor do I think I’ve heard of Louise Gold).
Wonderful!

For tonight’s music I think I’ll try these two (both similar and very very different).

From Neil Armstrong’s tape that he brought.
I would be surprised if Aldrin and Collins didn’t think about throttling him with it…[Read more]

ha ha @thane16 – only Bowie could mime la-la’s.

@pedant will be wanting me to post Starman.

So I’ll post this

oh wow – thanks @mudlark @winston @thane16 @pedant @blenkinsop and @ everyone I’ve forgotten or who is yet to jump in with a memory. I’m gonna ask my brothers and sister what they remember (I’ll let you know!).

Unfortunately I just wasn’t quite yet alive when this happened so my main ‘space’ memories are either Challenger or Star Wars when I was…[Read more]

@Whisht  @blenkinsopthebrave  @winston  @pedant @thane16

Sadly I didn’t see the first moon landing live, although I was well aware it was happening. At the time I was working as a supervisor on a large excavation in southern England. The hours were long, the work demanding – not to mention the after-work social life – and I simply didn’t have th…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – wow both those posts of yours were wonderful (though that’s no surprise).

Like many perhaps I’d not seen the Superman ‘poster’ nor its history as something on the front of notebooks, many American kids may have had.

Although I remember the slightly corny Superman “don’t smoke” adverts, the fact is they did it and doing a…[Read more]

@thane16

Syzygy the elder (and @whisht) this provides some background to the wonderful Superman poster:

https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored

Hi @thane16 still trying to figure out how to give sense to the cleaner thang.

But, wanting to say something positive to the universe (after my Music thread postngs tonight) I just wanted to say….

James Burke is still alive.

Anyone with any particular memories of him?
I remember watching one of his Connections docs and it mainly going over…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave    That is absolutely surreal. Cab is what, a ghost walrus??? I love it. Interestingly, in the very cool opening, the band is actually playing St. James Infirmary, another one I love.

@thane16     Wonderful Ellington, he was amazing. He was never behind the times, was he? Young Syzygy, I should be astonished at what you say…[Read more]

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Syzgy, I searched (in vain) for an old Bugs Bunny cartoon set in the medieval period that featured the Duke of Ellington and the Count of Basie.

But I found something even better: Cab Calloway and Betty Boop doing Minnie the Moocher.

*hey @thane16 – is that a Stranger Things inspired blast from the 80’s?
(I’ll sadly admit to not having binged on ST yet – but I will!!)

Its not something I heard at the time – but I like it!

And “svelte” is a great description @Arbutus !
that’s another lovely piece of mellow sound from Gilberto

@thane16     I don’t think I *do* know this, although it sounds very retro, like something 20-year-old me would have liked to if I’d heard it. (20-year-old me, now there’s something to try and wrap my head around!)

@pedant My husband and I watched Chernobyl a few weeks ago and were absolutely blown away by it. As @miapatrick noted, they never descended into preachiness. And their portrayals of the effects of radiation on the human body were excruciating to watch … but important to see so that we understand the gravity of the situation. There was so much I…[Read more]

@thane16    Oh it’s you! 🙂 I read the notification and wondered who the heck is this Syzygy person?

I’ve been thinking of this lovely eclectic bunch of humans recently and been meaning to jump back into the pool, but I’m so easily distracted these days. I even made the Duolingo Owl cry. (I’ll be getting back at that Spanish shortly, I p…[Read more]

hey Sygers (!) @thane16
glad you like the Japanese band’s song – though it was the first I listened to it did seem the best after clicking on a few others!

And LOVED the Britten – when do they breathe??

Below is an oblique song as I can’t think of a better one for Paul Darrow’s character in Blake’s 7.
His character was similar to ‘the bad guy…[Read more]

@thane16

Oh you are just showing off now

And the list wasn’t even complete 🙂

Sorry to hear about the fainting episode, and commiserations. It’s a horrible feeling just before you black out and, as you say, very embarrassing when it happens in public. At one time I had quite a history of that kind of thing (low blood pressure) but not so much…[Read more]

@thane16

Sublimi vertice are in the ablative singular masculine

You are, of course, correct; very sloppy of me. I think that initially it did register subliminally that sublimi couldn’t relate to sidera,  but I must have been thinking more about the sense and not paying full attention to the grammar. Anyway, I told you my Latin was very…[Read more]

@thane16  Syzygy

The above post is addressed to you, but I’m not risking an edit to rectify my having messed up the @