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20 August 2019 at 09:32 #67982
Thou That Has Spoken
The Siggers
P: I shoulda gorn with (now that’s not Old North Shore neither) something punk. But I just couldn’t do it.
18 August 2019 at 14:55 #67976Ian Matthews is quite interesting. I didn’t have much of an idea how long he performed…..but he’s ticket holder for Scunthorpe FC. That gave me giggles & tickles. It’s intriguing just how many bands stood for acclaim but bringing along others, who’d either been kicked out of a band(s); volunteered a hasty retreat followed by induction to yet another group and eventually they’re tying themselves to the chopping block wanting to work alone.
The sheer scale of music in the 60s/70s is incredibly hard to imagine now. Mainly music (other than the 70s/80s which saw some great names and bands), struggles for what’s unique in all of us but the current music lacks a touch of the brazen and boy bands are everywhere ….with supermarket background noise and far too much healthy living
18 August 2019 at 14:13 #67974Yes I realise my mistake with King Bob!
I also understand the various differences & attitudes about the rest of the universe but it doesn’t mean we leave out, as you say, the many privileges people here have. Except they’ve lost some of them anyway. Which is no excuse. I try, I guess, to see the world as one “global village” which, back in 1998 was the Big Juicy Lie that hadn’t happened yet. And then along came researchers, journalists & authors in philosophy who debunked Globalism -or recognised it was misused.
Certainly Big Oil etc is taxed elsewhere, whilst we rub up against the U.S. I’m absolutely ignorant of the detail you’ve given. I’m going to see a man about a book.
18 August 2019 at 12:24 #67971I had to check that too. They had no clue where Woodstock was but had played with Joni Mitchell -as their own opener which they were thrilled to do. Apparently they said “we were scared shitless” but a mate of mine who did Roadie work in the 70s concluded this was an urban/musical myth, organised in part to give off a “folksy, shucks” group persona considering, at the time, Graham Nash was being “quite difficult” – -that part I’m told by Jim-Jim is truth. He mellowed…eventually.
Siggers.
18 August 2019 at 12:09 #67970I don’t think Jack Bruce should be covered here, exactly, but link Theme of an Imaginary Western by Mountain & have you an exclusive vocal tone in Bruce -my opinion, only. And I did pick up your niiice mention of 4 in the Morning… He was an interesting character deemed quite conservative but over the years he had a massive discography with Keeping Up with the Joneses; I miss You Already, Congratulations and I Hate Myself.
You beat me to it with CSN&Y.
And the Hendrix sends shivers doesn’t it @cathannabel. A truly enigmatic but gifted performer. Some play great but don’t at concerts. Some are the opposite but Hendrix had it all. Focused like a laser although he made it effortless.
Also, I’m marching past Woodstock’s bed time with Sha Na Na’s Wipeout which is much faster & tighter than The Safaris
18 August 2019 at 11:31 #67969@janetteb sorry about the coding. I simply type it write in w/o any cutting or pasting and I avoid ‘&’ if I can as well as dollar and pound signs, question and exclamation marks. It’s a tad frustrating. I don’t want to have 9 lines of code to wade thru. 🙂 From the word improving go down to “But it was Labour.”
18 August 2019 at 11:24 #67968I think many people KNEW we were the lucky country & secured political mates rates via ‘good’ capitalism and entrepreneurship. My parents left communism but I valued a socialist society (not Communist ideals). As Iris in The Heights says – ABC ivew -Thane bloomin adores it & Iris is his favourite character to the extent he’s cried when watching. Sooo, in response to a statement “It’s just an idea,” Iris snaps, “So was Communism.”
I loved Hawke and the 1984 Accord. It was a bloody miracle . People taking to the streets in awe. Then we had Keating and a recession that saw mates lose $40 000 overnight with deregulation and collapsing shares; skipping uni to earn it back. HECS followed swiftly.
I totally understand your frustration.** I have electricians and plumbers charging $279 to walk in the door . Thereafter it’s $115 every 15 minutes. This is suburb investiture. Where less “affluent” areas pay the same people $150. There has to be something illegal about this. We know this but our avenues of complaint are tedious and fraught with difficulty so we shag & shrug, watching Netflix with wine, sharing a jammy dodger.
Thane knows, without a doubt, that if he’s had a brother, it would be ‘worse’ (you know he doesn’t mean he’d hate him) . Already he prioritises what furniture in our home he’d keep, what jewellery he’d sell (!) & how much he’d rent the third bedroom out for -not because he wants profitability but because he figures someone may benefit. Also he thinks a car in inner Brisbane isn’t really necessary. There’s $50K right there gone -or saved -with public transport improving.
<span style=”display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,’Times New Roman’,’Bitstream Charter’,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;”>But it was Labour who brought in HECS and it was mates rates and corporate lunches (which my father thought perfectly acceptable) that hit the lower middle classes. I used to read, at 18, John Pilger, who was viciously hated by other journos. I never knew if he was exaggerating because uni had narrowed; I had music on my mind and from every Station to Station I had Fashion in my head.</span>
**So I understand your boys must struggle. I never had Aus-Study but many mates did. I had no idea it’s the same amount now and I’m very sorry for that: yet the entrepreneurial elites ignore the facts & throw lame arrows at “millennials who don’t know what they’ve got.”
And that’s a tiny bit true. Half the world lives in shitty conditions and because it’s Columbia or Krakow, or the Indian subcontinent, they don’t ‘really’ matter as much.
Example: Thane had a guidance officer who did the usual palaver about uni. When I found out who she actually was, I hinted to Thane, “look, she’s been married 4 times with 3 kids to different dads and has had the job for 6 months.” Thane’s response was entirely correct: “So, what? You discount her because of this? That she’s trying to help people? Maybe these issues weren’t hers alone & she’s making the best of a new job.” Thane: 18, turning 35.
I guess our kids are……(don’t hit me) our future: they’re the best of us and I try to have confidence they’ll literally ‘best’ the conservative elites. Providing they think entirely avoiding Love Island and Piers Morgan. 🙂
Syzygy the Elder.
17 August 2019 at 11:53 #67962@whisht Aaaand this was interesting…
17 August 2019 at 11:42 #67961Also she meets the tuning fork test. Her coda and end solo match up with her 1st note.
@whisht absolutely – -the terrific riff on Santana is really great to hear. They slowed it down a bit for the crowd and it’s tuned very nicely indeed. Considering the dust and wind.
Syzygy.
17 August 2019 at 11:33 #67960That IS energetic. The influence was Phil Ochs and Faron Young of all people. The ragtime and the shanty-town balance is fucking beautiful.
And then falls tears. God I hope that country finds itself again. I was gonna post Cocker’s I don’t Need A Doctor. Because well, we do here!
instead we have Joplin doing Big Mama. It’s not a hugely good recording. The Monterey one’s better.
Syzygy
17 August 2019 at 10:55 #67958This is so fantastic. Thankyou so much.
During a moment of break from studies I read some articles in the NY Times ($1 for 3-4 articles) and then watched a show called The Family which sounds nuts and actually IS nuts. What’s worrying is on the paper’s comments there are people actively saying “yeah, no worries, he’s a man, that’s what men do” but it wasn’t a grief-stricken outrage but a nasty and callous affectation -in my opinion.
So, I was looking to things for myself.
Despite some really good As and Bs, my global average at November will be quite poor. I don’t want to necessarily go to uni but I don’t want my options pulled out either! Still, TAFES or old advanced education areas offer similar things without the heady costs. Mum and I reckon @janetteb would’ve had free uni -or she did for 2 degrees – after that she had to pay per year but the cost was about $1500 for a year and nothing like the current costs. No wonder no-one can afford a house anymore.
Most of my mates who are 19 or 20 have never moved out. Mum will be charging me, though, for food, car insurance, the internet and a portion of everything which is miles cheaper than moving in with people who have to work two jobs just to pay the rent. Never mind saving up for a home of their own.
This was the Lucky Country. But then there was a time in America when they looked to the stars. Now they look down in misery.
Thankyou again.
Syzygy the Younger.
Thankyou again. You are a beautiful writer.
16 August 2019 at 10:47 #67955And didn’t we hear them complain that The Grateful Dead had put everyone to sleep
16 August 2019 at 10:16 #67954Hi there @bluesqueakpip. @mudlark @serahni and all you great men and women! @whisht @blenkinsopthebrave @arbutus @nerys. This idea sounds like it’s about theology only, but I think it’s about changing perceptions -or not changing them?
Due to the ‘serious’ nature of the post below I thought I’d should share this from a Reuters article which commented on the show, The Family (Netflix). But you have to excuse me at the pub, as I’m not 18 🙂 Others might like to comment and this isn’t homework (I wish it was because it would be more interesting) – just my musings. I was reading about how David was seducing Bathsheba which led commenters & the author to say such things as “good on ‘im, he had a tough time of it. It was a ruthless period.” But they don’t mind at all that David organised the murder of his captain, so David could have Bathsheba.
Those areas in the bible are murky. Sometimes hypocritical. But I tend to say it’s “interpretation and language differences?” I think most of you know I have a Christian faith and despite soccer games on Sunday I still try to make church twice a month. But I understand better what is right and what choices are made for the ‘greater good’ from both Buffy and Doctor Who: where in the first: “you have a choice, it’s not a good choice, but it’s a choice and you’re choosing wrong.” @pedant I’m not sure if that’s the exact quote, but close?
And from the Doctor: I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone…not because its easy…. I do what I do because it’s right; because it’s decent….maybe there’s no point in any of this at all.”
This is what I wrote on the newspaper’s page:
I find the hints regarding King David as a great guy, charismatic and doing what was necessary because it was fun is a startlingly venal base for a conversation about a king who memorialised himself by defeating Goliath. Most readers don’t pay much attention after the defeat of Goliath. If readers believe David had a rough time in a ruthless era and did “what it took” to survive then they’re using relativism to excuse a man who premeditated the murder of his finest captain only when Bathsheba fell pregnant after David seduced her. Another post said that people become upset at the oddest things and that “odd thing” is cold-blooded murder. I don’t think cynically laughing about this as if it’s cute irony rather than a sober discussion about theology and relative meaning is helpful.
Thank you for reading. Syzygy the youngest. PS: @whisht mum likes the music contributions!
6 August 2019 at 08:24 #67940To be fair, I was taking “mork” out for a walk. 🙂 I don’t really know what a mork is, but it suits Clooney. He has this habit of moving his head around and up and down and smiling with no teeth, looking all bashful and then smiling with teeth. It’s this: “i’m trying to be irresistible and totally interested in you, the other character (love interest) and you, the audience.” I don’t know how many times I’ve heard interview panels where they have said to a new actor, in a debut role, “how amazing is it to be working with George?”
They usually say “oh, yes, yes, my mom wants a selfie and many photos and a skype and…and…” I don’t know quite why any of that pisses me off? It shouldn’t! I liked ER a lot and think George did a great job; acting all “George.”
Perhaps it’s the August heat. How are you doing with it? Is it striking you in the same way as the UK? Record highs of 38 or 42 Celsius aint pleasant. Staying completely still definitely helps except we’re not all
mannequinsGeorges.🙂 Also, you have a lovely pet to walk. I find pets suffer from the heat terribly here. So many people leave them out during the summer whilst at work with barely a shrub for cover and no water . A bit of a disgrace, really. Aaaand I’m moaning. Also, I’m not on topic here (casting about for TV show topics/tropes) and clearly it’s all about George!
Siggers the Silly.
5 August 2019 at 12:06 #67935Oh, that’s some connection. I was thinking of, & watching bits of Up in The Air & my mind was drifting to play-boys & then you mention A New Leaf! I remember a well equipped lady in a bikini sidling up to Henry Graham. “I am alive! I want to give….”
Henry scurries off in this pitiful, almost fearful voice “oh No! Nooo! Don’t let them out!”
Neal Hefti who wrote the Odd Couple, did this score too. Wow of a film. Talk to people about it & they don’t know it. It’s a real treat people. Mr Blenkinsop is right. So many one liners -it’s worth it for the valet alone, played by George Rose- all of which fits into a film like a sweet, short* poem.
Syzygy
*And it wasn’t going to be short. Thank god for editors. We love you. The waste basket is your friend!
5 August 2019 at 11:37 #67934that joke died didn’t it? It was the code that did it, huh (scratches ears). You said: “it’s filmed in BC so you can see a bit of beautiful Canada.”
And I said “but BC stands for British Columbia?” As in BC IS Beautiful Canada.
@whisht !!!!!!!!!!! Hey @whisht!!!!!!!!! You said I was funny! But no-one got the funny (whines).
I LOVE Mandy Patininikin. I loved the theme song of Chicago Hope. I loved the whole show. 24 years later I buy the entire series and I’m so excited. We all sit down and love it.
Then we put the 2nd series in and you hardly see him again and it all fell flat. 🙁
So I swapped to ER. Which had George Clooney. What a mork.
@pedant!!!!!!!!! Was it you who said watch Up in The Air? Anna Kendrick’s in it, I think? I’m 14 minutes in & Clooney gets his typical ‘look.’ We women know the look. Some of us love it. Some of us hate it. He has 3 things to do, pretty much. Like Roger Moore who admitted he had 3 quirks including straightening his tie. Clooney’s less interesting. Also, I like flying. But not really. The smell, the food, the loos, the stewards. The whole shebang is difficile. But if it’s Anna….& it’s worth it…then so shall it be-ith.
Syzygy the other.
4 August 2019 at 10:57 #67929oops! I didn’t break it! I quoted 15 words from @winston.
@aklapa -some of that was yours but don’t want to edit for fear of the loss of detail.
And I am aware of the whole ‘pasting & cutting’ thing @pedant. And thank you for those ideas. Interesting that when the quote was used by me, the font that appeared was very different. I used Ctrl C and V rather than click and drag
4 August 2019 at 10:50 #67928<span style=”font-size: 14.4px;”><span style=”text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: ‘Arimo’,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;”>Also it was filmed in BC so you can see a bit of beautiful Canada.</span></span>
But BC stands for British Columbia, yes? 🙂
@akalpa Welcome to the site, btw. I might have a toddle to that thread @pedant linked to & check it out myself (like doing a little quiz). Considering that series aired some time ago, there’s a lot of space/time stuff that’s fallen into a Black Hole, or behind the couch and also SO many other brilliant shows that I don’t think I would’ve watched if people here hadn’t gently nudged.
@winston Dead Like Me sounds very familiar. I’m thinking I’ve seen some of it -but not sure exactly how. If it was out in late ’17 or early ’18 on Pay per View -series & film, that could make some sense. If so, why I can’t I remember it? Possibly the same reason as above -the black hole of memory. 😉
Shows I found complex & devastating, I watched all over again. Not just Leftovers or 13 Reasons Why -the latter had a certain scene now…sort of…….ah (you’ll know if you know) but The OA & Rectify both had me sobbing a little (sobbing, lots).
@pedant Death by Space Toilet seat from Mir: No, no. I was really very stoned… Or distracted by the possibility of Pedant Dalek -now that would perturb one. Death by space toilet seat would be a practical way of going.
I remember you discussing the problems with I, Robot. I had read Asimov as a teenager. And was promptly told by a certain someone to READ MORE (dalek voice). YOU WILL READ. Or be exterminated. The Buffy security question/answer was interesting. Not your favourite ‘thing’ as there was ‘only one flaw’ which wasn’t. So you’ll pass. But by the skin of a dalek’s toilet plunger.
Also that conversation led to other books & films (short stories & quartets of books) which delved into SciFi. Then @jimthefish spoke about some of his favourite novels; not necessarily sci-fi. So @pedant (as I’m elder Syzygy with her humour*), I was above average so don’t be mean. Arf. Arf.
*young Syz played 100 minutes yesterday with a massive fever & now has bronchitis. Karma’s a be-atch
3 August 2019 at 12:47 #67919@pedant once back at the house & into September I’ll enquire into Amazon Prime Aus.
Also First Man which was mentioned IS a film? Is it produced by Wyck Godfrey of Twilight Fame and I Robot?
3 August 2019 at 12:46 #67918@jimthefish Years & Years sounds great. @cathannabel: thank you for that too. We also saw Russian Doll: brill! Jim, Good luck with the thesis. May the calm of the Jedi knights be with you!
I think Dr Who was confronting Missy? With Capaldi’s Doc? All the monsters could be a hard lesson in life, the monsters a back-drop, a good portion of the time. Chernobyl is on our order list having been nudged by not 1, not 2 but 3 close mates. I don’t know very much about Lizzie Borden, Missy: that’s pretty scary though. Are there a few movies out about that part of history, then? (also, Missy, not sure if I remembered your birthday! Apologies if I have -although it’s good to hear it again. I’m posting, so if I look at the Activity feed I’ll lose post. Don’t want that)
@pedant Hang on! -Establish identity- (dalek voice).
Where. Is. Pedant. You are not Pedant. Your short posts would indicate a pedant.
Security question: what did you like about Season 5 of Buffy?
I’m pretty sure I can GET Veronica Mars, actually (the early series) but it’s pointless being too optimistic until tomorrow, Sunday. 😉 Indeed, Rectify and L’overs the slow burn; but the latter is possibly the best show I’d seen in 5 years, at least. Who and Buffy are in their own space. Forever shalleth it be-ith….
made me yelp with joy…
It’s worth it if only to find out where the ‘yelping’ happened.
31 July 2019 at 09:47 #67914That sounds like a great idea. I’ll look at those and also some sites on the web for assistance.
Mum said they did Hamlet and read out parts and ended up memorising them too which was good practise.
Hope he gets better soon.
31 July 2019 at 08:47 #67912@pedant hey there.
oops sorry about the VD. I had to google it. Lots of things are “VD” but I worked out which one you meant on account of your exceeding old age. 🙂
This is my humour. I’m testing it out. As dad’s gen would say “it’s a Sunday drive so I’m wearing a hat and driving slowly.” I always type my responses straight onto the “reply here” area. Mum does too. I might have added links sometimes but the two of us generally press submit and hope for the best. Usually it’s not a problem. If there’s gobs of coding text I just edit it & press submit & its fine. So, now I’ve researched which characters are safer to use which helps.
We’re reading Macbeth at the moment. It’s a bit hairy. I don’t understand much of it but we’re all watching Judi Dench in Macbeth in the school hall next week. Mum keeps saying “is this a dagger I see before me?” in Lawrence Oliver’s voice which was in Dead Poet’s Society.#
It’s not Oliver, is it? But the internet here is bad so now you see how unknowledgeable I really am.
#Mum has real problems with that film, actually. I don’t.
31 July 2019 at 08:16 #67911It was Great -is what I meant. 🙂
31 July 2019 at 08:15 #67910What on EARTH was I doing?
Sorry about the bloomin lecture. Gawd. Throw some tomatoes at me (rotten ones) -after all, the composer Debussy had lots of………you would know. You have a brain, curiosity etc so again, wack me about the head when I start blathering…
Thank you for birthday wishes. It was an interesting day. It involved lots of movin’ about & lots of sleep which was great.
Sigger the Silly.
28 July 2019 at 06:46 #67906“It rings bells....” That reminds me of what @whisht said regarding @blenkinsopthebrave & The Persuaders theme.
A literary fugue -that sounds compelling! Text & music is very interesting isn’t it? Lyrics and choons or secular (initially French: between 600-1300) ) and sacred musics and texts are powerful combinations across the Universe (the Universe, well, I had to say it) and amongst different cultures exhibiting divergent elaborations.
The Russian-style ‘feel’ of the music @whisht impels you to that conclusion, if I’ve interpreted what you were saying? And absolutely rightly: the bells, for example, the xylophone & the pentatonic scale are inherited from amongst other areas, regions to the south of Russia with Assyrian music and its folkish charm sweeping into Russia as whole where, say, The Russian Five (like Mussorgsky) used folk music in their (evocative) works. Iranian musical styles which weren’t sacred but secular have been passed down the generations but so much has been lost to cultural dissonance & sacred ‘demands.’
John Barry, of The Persuaders, was influenced by composers like Glinka who liked to incorporate pentatonic scales, a variety of modes (Dorian to Mixolydian) and folk into his tonality. He used, as you suggested, the Moog synth and other cymbalon-type instruments – basically a group of plucked or wacked string instruments. Those style instruments and melodies came from Romany gypsies and spread north. It was the ruskies who actually created the theremin (Leon Theremin) btw -which takes us back to the original conversation a fortnight ago ((*-_-*)) .
If you reply & I don’t -it’s because I’m off for a week, maybe two -a small flood in the house means our floors have to be re-sanded & polished with coats of polyurethane which takes about 9 days. So, fun times. Insurer is terrific. They’re popping us into an apartment for the duration. There’s wif-fi but you never…. know. It’s all good.
The Siggers.
27 July 2019 at 11:31 #67903The Cath is Back! Agreed @whisht it’s a beautiful film. I didn’t really want to see it. @pedant suggested it. It blew our minds. The language, the prediction of the language is astounding: if a musical piece is extant but at the same time composed with the fullness and completeness of the composition unwinding in front of you, all of it at once, and yet bars growing like branches from the whole. Everything is beginning, middle and end.
That reminded me of this…
26 July 2019 at 09:53 #67897Now, now The Whister. If you have to be grumpy -then absolutely. In fact, you’ve never been grumpy (look at me, a total juvenile complaining about cleaners: unbelievably silly of me) here. Never ever. So, occasionally, vent whenever you like -as long as our emperor agrees & doesn’t lop off your head. After all, I’ve narrowly avoided the guillotine several times. Seriously, here, other than various ‘bots,’ you are amongst friends -of course there are those “young ladieez” (spammers) on the Forum in recent times who would like to have you (emphasis on the “have” or “had) in a slightly different …..manner.
As a child, the books we’d read, used sentences such as: “I want to have you” or “Yezzz, have me, I want to be had.” 🙁
My parents couldn’t understand my frustration ! 😈
Be well. x
25 July 2019 at 02:12 #67893@whisht Yes, I feel for you. I know that his improv of that speech was incredible but when you look all over the rest of the ‘net’ it’s pretty much “the iconic speech” when there are so many. Still, I am moved when I read it, too. The web has a tendency to take over, get tangled, or repeat -well, like a web, really 🙁
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Syzygy
24 July 2019 at 02:28 #67889@arbutus He was a monumental performer wasn’t he? Indelibly attracted to his audience & effortlessly so.
@whisht sorry for posting thrice but I love Ringo’s beautiful tambourine. The master that’s often forgotten has a spectacular bit of solo tambourine following a 2nd middle 8 on repeat.
@pedant yonks ago I was writing about music notation and styles & time sigs like common time and 3/4?
The waltzy sound here (“so I will ask you once again” ) is achieved not by changing the time-sigs but using thready suspensions to get that “here it comes, here it comes” moment & it was Harrison who composed that.
On the music -vid he’s madly counting & they had a cut-away. Someone from the Sorbonne made an elitist crack about their lack of musicality which reminds me of Jagger’s “Wot, and look like you?” (that’s a reference to a hair cut recited “adroitly” by Bowie ).
So like the moon landing (which success no-one was certain of ….) McCartney came into his own with this track scrabbling up the hill to John – & John beginning to slide down (OK, a bit like space travel, innit?).
It took 13 hours (just 12 minutes under that actually) to work it out. I imagine they’re were all in need of booze, tea and sleep at the end.
24 July 2019 at 02:00 #6788824 July 2019 at 01:52 #67887@whisht Ooh interesting! When I was younger I wasn’t in on the day ‘tripper’ joke. but I don’t think anyone understood that for awhile- a year or two anyways 🙂
Popularity went to We can Work it Out – -which kinda fits the Trip Home too. It was the longest song, thus far, they’d worked on…..so …that’s a link (*\*)
22 July 2019 at 14:55 #67877sorry 12 1/2 mins to soft touch down -that’s incredible.
22 July 2019 at 14:52 #67876mare fecundititus
& I’m still on 6000km p/h in under 20 mins to slow down for first contact
wow.
22 July 2019 at 08:55 #67874Well, that was bracing! I had a rotten headache, overdid the codeine & in holding the laptop, every few seconds it would slip as I’d fallen asleep. Until I heard those two……artistic & unique pieces. Not exquisite exactly but adding something to the firmament nonetheless. I hadn’t heard them before….I feel my learning hasn’t been quite up to scratch or fully complete.
But it’s closer now 😈
– – The elder Syzygy.
22 July 2019 at 01:45 #67870Believe 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.
21 July 2019 at 01:26 #67865OK, 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?
21 July 2019 at 01:24 #67864@pedant !!
<span style=”display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,’Times New Roman’,’Bitstream Charter’,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;”>Treat yourself to a copy of Skeptics Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella et al. The first 50 pages are spent explaining how thoroughly our brains lie to us (for example, how little of your field of vision as actually in focus). It is a terrific read and I think the paperback is out soon.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u>
WOW. MY philosophy teacher -who we did talk with about the moon landing mentioned this book. I remember this because I thought he was gonna mention The Skeptics Guide to ….something else. But there’s a podcast about that around (we’ve been listening to podcasts coz Mum & I have to make one by Thursday & we’re half way thru it. Part 1 only had one take (I was awesome!).
Also why are quotes indented? My teachers all say no-one does this anymore?
@whisht thanks for that. The Equaliser was great -we have that on DVDs somewhere. The Hassleblad museum was good wasn’t it? Mum was saying “oh, yeah, how come there’s no viewfinder” which I thought was fairly obvious. It turns out i’m more sciency that mum or dad, in the end.
@blenkinsopthebrave Those articles are beast! Thanks. I often admit I don’t really need to be AT school coz the Forum teaches me all sorts of things that I never ever hear, there.
Young Siggers.
21 July 2019 at 01:11 #67863This 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 imbeciles (them’s that teach).
Syzygy
20 July 2019 at 14:35 #67857@whisht you mentioned theremin….
A few people might not know it’s an instrument you play by not touching it.
20 July 2019 at 14:29 #67856Glad 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 this evening before ALL the lights go out (which is obviously better to view the stars with -particularly if you’re reaching for them while throttling into gear…)
19 July 2019 at 09:37 #67845Spoilers 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 question.. Typically this caused an uproar in the family with young Syzygy begging to answer. And he was right. Unlike his mum. To quote a cultural icon, “d’oh.”
I think when she mentioned the photos, there was catch in her throat. It really meant something. Thank you for that. I’ll have some tea for the moon dust in my eye. Fancy having a little box of your own moon dust.
end spoiler@whisht didn’t we miss your birthday in….March? Golly! Also @missy it’s your birthday soon? I think. I’m terrible with these things. I hope your Spring is better than winter, at least. If it’s cold here, it must be very cold in Perth.
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19 July 2019 at 09:13 #67844That’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…
Before I read it all, I did the same drawing & made similar errors. The most basic things! So, OK, often we say “I have no clue about electricity” but the main comment is (according The Knowledge Illusion) “I can’t understand how a toilet works” when it appears more people can list toilet ‘parts’ than bicycle parts.
Can I draw the inside of an upright piano? I don’t think so 🙁
Wonderful to hear about your daughter. But I am sorry to hear about your OH and a hernia. I can’t imagine the pain of that. I really hope winter has brought some home cooking sustenance in the form of soup? Beef soup? @mudlark would have some ideas there.
And your hip, too? mum suffered with a hip replacement after falling out of bed in a Home several months ago. I really hope they gave you the good stuff for the pain? On the other thread the Brian Eno is wonderful for meditation.
19 July 2019 at 02:11 #67840@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 and Evans ‘In the Year 2525’ -which my parents played a lot of in the late 70s.
Not that I’m saying I’m a fan of Zager & Evans. Nice harmonies & super lyrics, a lot of the time. But they performed a lot of songs in the 60s which were upside down/miss a bar 50’s ice cream melodies using the same chords:
Chords 1; vi, iv, v.
Anywaaay, back to ya’lls memories. @whisht
Also the little moment (maybe it was a hindsight comment) about how in terms of each astronaut, Collins you want for company, Aldrin for knowledge but Armstrong to get you home… it somehow caught something in my throat.
That’s lovely!
You mentioned Star Wars, & this period launched (thank you. Bows for pun) Star Trek and also for @blenkinsopthebrave and @pedant – -Callan.
One other thing. Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Newport Jazz festival featured some rock for the first time.
A lot of firsts in the months of July-August.
19 July 2019 at 00:42 #67839@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.
18 July 2019 at 23:51 #67836Oh 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.
18 July 2019 at 14:53 #67831I 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 13 we visited the States (& Canada because we never leave @blenkinsopthebrave & @winston out). For Dad NASA was the most exciting part of that trip. America has to be proud of this. Unfortunately, I have very little knowledge about what was real & what was fa……….wait for it…..
Nope, not that conspiracy stuff – instead that I loved the Apollo 13 film but know little about what is truly accurate & what’s false or necessary cinematic license. On a partially cracked CD-ROM we can still see those stunning images of the moon landing with & its mysterious landscape: so quiet, foreign & unique. An astronaut, in majestic isolation, a beat away from death.
@whisht I think you’ll like Newsroom -a few eps in the first season might not be to your taste but Seasons 2 & 3 are very good (but no spoilers!)
@pedant Agreed. The Dish is a terrific film: I often read things about it being a “lovely little film.” Never sure exactly what that means. But it’s one we rummage around for on Sunday viewing. @janetteb , you might have seen Brian Cox on the ABC with the repeat of the moon and universe docos? Watching them again is an absolute treat.
So, on that earlier note, the ……moon
G’night folks…
17 July 2019 at 04:07 #67825Your 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 they’d love to see. It might -or might not – restore some faith in the America that once was…..This reminds me of a lovely little series & its opening scene which we saw at one point even if we didn’t watch the entire thing. The Newsroom.
17 July 2019 at 03:43 #67824I 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.
17 July 2019 at 02:53 #67821@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 anyway).
Well, that’s the 2nd time I’ve thought of Zimmer in 4 days.
Superman. I never saw this poster. Not ever. Where was I?
Coming from a Czech family with a brother who learned to read via comics which my parent tried to burn I wasn’t allowed any of this ‘stuff’ until our father watched Superman at the cinemas & was totally taken. Turned right around.
@pedant facepalm. I never thought of it. But I was listening to an …..erm interview, that has 1 and half minutes not many people have heard. In fact, it’s extremely hard to hear properly. Being wet ‘n’ all. 😉
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