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3 November 2019 at 03:54 #68289
I loved the Banshees! I thought Bootsy was born in Wisconsin? I remember that a boyfriend used to always tell me silly stories about who the head of different bands were -I had zilch knowledge at 16 of The Who, ACDA, Midnight Oil, & hundreds of other headlining acts like Led Zeppelin…
For the lad.
3 November 2019 at 03:36 #68288@ at all. A big thank you to everyone. How so many of you have given ideas/outlines to young Syzygy about various topics. A wonderful lady, whose name has vanished into the vacant & shallow areas of ma brain, offered wonderful suggestions on R & Juliet back in 2017; which films to watch/ignore; the importance of personification. She’s a terrifically thoughtful forum poster & teacher who I haven’t seen here in a year. I WILL locate her name….
Thane’s school has weird records* showing that Thane has accompanied me to the hospital 132 times in the last 6 years. So, in 4 days, he’ll graduate (I always thought that happened at uni? Am I nitting, as it were! No way!) 😉
But I’m in a few chopped messes. In 2 weeks he has the Formal (or ball) for graduation to which, being Spawn, he’ll catch a bus. His date said “hire a navy suit, I’m wearing white & I need a white corsage.” Golly, women today, eh? The gall!
His last History exam is on “ISIS & our war on terror” test with a variety of sources speaking to American involvement creating the very mess these countries are in. They don’t however mention the role of the U.S. in Afghanistan prior to 9/11 & many teachers confuse the region (as some Americans also do) having no general understanding of who the people are & which countries make up this ‘Axis of Evil’: how a war in Iraq is not a war against the “Russians” in Afghanistan; and who/what had WMDs.
There’s a running list of legendary errors by those in authority such as the Taliban in Afghanistan run the capital which is Baghdad; Al-Qadea is led by Obama bin Laden from a poor family from Pakistan; in answer to a question Spawn got this: why would this be relevant? Ahktar Mansour’s a Jewish soccer player, isn’t he? Then, The Uzbeks are orthodox Jewish people from Slovakia or Slovenia; The Sunnis are a band. You need to remember the Shias; Wahhabi is a strong chilli kebab flavour in the Phillipines. This state is heavily funded by Arab Muslim groups.
*I’ll head over to the music thread to embarrass the child as his love of Aerosmith grows strong, like The Force. He can sense Aerosmith…when sitting meditatively a brief fragrance of Steven Tyler’s cologne will waft on the breeze & “om” can be heard at 254Hz
De Ol’ Puro
2 November 2019 at 23:32 #682872 November 2019 at 23:31 #68286thank you. Yes I recall this, now. Tennant was very good at this -if that’s the right word
Also @jimthefish @craig when I click on a user’s name or on the discussion thread I notice we go right back to page 1? From 2017. Do we need a new place?
Syzygy.
2 November 2019 at 22:57 #68282Amazing. I loved the “erm, the bit with the headphones? but not the bit with the noise?”
Gorgeous. Also everyone & I mean everyone was saying they wanted Phoebe to be the next female Doctor? I had no idea who she was! Her name was distinct, though, which is why I’ve remembered it.
Oh yep @pedant Tennant did 500 miles (terrifically good song. A brilliant one) . I think I said Children in Need started with Tennant. Gawp. What I meant to write was that it was the first Doctor Who involved with Children in Need unless I’m totally wrong about that?
1 November 2019 at 06:42 #682671 November 2019 at 06:30 #68266@winston @janetteb and youse all 🙂 @blenkinsopthebrave the “youse” is for youse. 😉
We had kids around from 4 pm but by 6 pm when it’s still light, they’d gone. I normally do have choccies but forgot about them. Thane asked his mates (most drive) if they could go out by they were without spirit as well & thought as they’re 18 a bunch of tall ghouls on Halloween could end with door knocking coppers. Or those dressed as some…
Hah, @pedant knows what I’m going to post next……
So, after the 4 pm kiddies, I had to close up front doors & unusually for me, turn off the outdoor lights which, considering the sexual harassment by a cabbie the other day, I was very glad of. I even had Thane’s hardly-used- in- 4- year’s cricket bat… All good. Bat wasn’t needed.
Yes agreed with 4 wheel drives. In the 80s for Halloween as well as the prank time for uni students, the rocket scientists & engineers took apart the vice-dean’s car. And put it together several stories up, on the top of the university’s main building.
They carried bits of it up. I didn’t follow this. No-one really followed anything because no-one thought to take pix. Now it would be all over twitter! And that would have been a fun thing to see.
1 November 2019 at 00:31 #68261*34
1 November 2019 at 00:23 #68260Beaut, just beaut. Boy, one thing to say (I’m never ever nit-picky!) but if she’d drop her chin on the high notes, her palate would open up & it would open up the head voice. Small thing. But I’m saying it anyway. Anywaaay.
She has a gorgeous voice, she’s a beautifully sensitive person. How do I say this? She comes across as a ‘person’ not an ‘actorr’?? I’ve seen all sorts of people interviewed – I remember Jolie interviewed & it was awful. Same with M. Ryan -but Whittaker is genuine. That’s the word. How great for Coldplay & for this to be for Children in Need.
I think Tennant did the first? or first-ish? I saw it on the DVD set with him & his 1st season. Contains a video diary. You can see how he ages. Whittaker is 34? Has a maturity of someone older but is still thrilled at everything as if she’s much younger. 3 cheers: she’s amazing. Her repetiteur was pretty good too
31 October 2019 at 01:02 #68256@mudlark @pedant and @winston this is a SPOILER so please look the other way.
Dickens was an extraordinary perfectionist, and a man of the people. On many occasions he would repeat, “I had at one point many stories I could tell, but, here & now, this is the only story I feel I can tell.”
He was repetitive at times & acknowledged a level of difficulty with his weekly installments. Mistakes were made, characters disappeared, some were forgotten & narrative arcs lost. Still, with his public readings, his specific answers to questions written to him by fans, he was perhaps the first modern ‘rock star’ of the literary world.
Whedon had it much harder -though admits Dickens is his favourite writer of the modern era, having a fondness for Greek comedians or satirists -& by his early 30s, the tragedians. Someone wrote that if “Great Expectations is a novel of growth , so is Buffy, but one of emotional realism with complex issues Dickens never faced.”
Marti Noxon went on to say “emotional realism is what we strive for every week.” Even Whedon, who acknowledged the problems of Season Four, believes it’s not the best series & yet contains the best set of individual episodes except for one in Season Five.
Pickwick Papers had characters with limited intentions; Great Expectations’ Miss Havisham was up for hanging but experienced a period of redemption. Like Spike, Havisham was “slated for an ignominious death” & whilst Season Three is one of Whedon’s favourites, Spike appears only once. But Whedon admits “he stole the episode. His speech about how love is blood was delivered in a way that blew out my expectations. I was pretty happy for him to drive away with his ‘pet’ but I saw something. But Buffy fans saw it first. They always do.”
TV series are fast becoming some of the most eclectic art available for mass consumption. Dickens wrote with a long arc in mind but left things open -he reacted, quickly, to his reader’s complaints; & his career grew when the artist for The Pickwick Papers died suddenly. Dickens had to re-create his serial issues using more figurative language, stressing metaphors & adding characters.
The serial TV artist has to move faster. Sudden changes of situation, as with Seth Green (Oz) & ASH (who had flown back & forth to the States from the UK for several years) are jarring & that’s a platform for critique despite those interior pressures. The TV artist is like Puro’s membranophones: they must stretch & flex. The long arc, as well as the individual episode, still requires serious respect for every character. Other than Hill Street Blues, in the 1980s, the mid to late ’90s is the point where serialised artistic TV drama, with Whedon as catalyst, becomes ‘serious.’ And ‘serious’ art involves a many layered approach with just as much focus on quantity of production.
Artists and TV critics find in Buffy something easy to hate: its genre [fantasy], medium, youthful characters, tough female heroes, complexity, comedy, & length. But Le Guin said, in defence of fantasy that it’s “true, of course, it isn’t factual, but it is true.” Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood also defend fantasy’s texture & “liveliness.”
The medium of TV doesn’t loosen the grip Whedon had on the development of arc & episodes. New fictional forms or media, are usually treated disrespectfully by critics. Ben Jonson popularised the comedy of humours but struggled for recognition. Thomas Carlyle laughed sarcastically patronising Dickens, saying “he’s worth a penny, so give it.”
Donna Tartt relates to this progression of “expectation” by alluding to various publications from 1960 to 1980 where African American art & novels at Ol’ Miss, her alma mater, were sternly judged. She went on to say that the form of art most suited to any generation will produce its best work but also “hit the wall, at times.” Aaron Sorkin agreeing with this point of view, added that such works of art produce the best work, the worst work, everything in between and the most work.”
Sorkin elaborates that “a lot of bad episodes and arcs are going to be written & shown just because of the statistical reality & ignoring that fact will turn viewers off.” Bradley Whitford quipped “some say we don’t want those viewers, but actually we really do, because they lead to prestige. Whether that’s good or not, I don’t know, I’ll leave that to Aaron, but just last week [speaking in 2018] I was told there were thousands of scholarly papers written about the medium of TV as approached by Sorkin, Lindelöf and Abrams [Lost], I mean look at Lindelöf & his other work….” At which point Richard Schiff stepped in with “Perrotta & Peter Berg in Leftovers. Or is The Leftovers [some laughter, & confusion -this was a comic-con anniversary of The West Wing]?”
Goodness, gotta run for bus. Again!
Laters guys,
young Syzygy
30 October 2019 at 01:04 #68252Fair point about “the problem” Buffy satirised. I think satirical is the correct word, for this. Or would it be irony?
Mum & I were talking about this yesterday. Dracula, as written, was old, corrupt, skin like paper, with bad breath. Nothing sexy about the dood. In Buffy (Winston, spoilers ahead*****) Drac was old, with skin like parchment, dark eyes, greyed face. He was able to use the thrall (or the “thrill as going out of our relationship” – as B pronounced it) to “suuuck your blut.”
Mum & dad saw a Dracula film with Keanu Reeves -after an hour they left as it was basically soft porn (or was it just porn?). I saw an hour with mates & left.
With Buffy’s Drac the references were deliberate & connected to the finale in Prophecy Girl. Part of the slayer is the history -the seemingly necessary act to insert in the slayer, something ‘scary.’ The first ‘watchers’ forced a girl, under 18, to accept the part about “who you really ARE” so, in between Drac’s mental prowess & his ability to make B “suuuuck hiz blut” was a story of how the slayer has to recognise what’s within & in that moment, referring back to B’s enthrallment by the Master years before & now, with Dracula, you have a 4 year long call back & a reference to how the first slayer, from the previous season’s conclusion in Restless, is mute or uncivilised.
Part of the slayer is the darkness, the other part, B’s alone, is The Gift. In Season 1, once she’s tasted the darkness & knows it for what it is & then dies, the prophecy is fulfilled. In this season opener, she needs to know what HE knows & tastes him, but she also wants to know what the Scoobies know. She’s growing up here (but there’s more real life soon). But we need a balanced season so this is a distraction: a surface, campy, “suuck your blut” episode designed to throw us off -not immediately but suddenly. I hope the Moffat version will reference female power.
Young Syzygy
29 October 2019 at 00:23 #6824829 October 2019 at 00:21 #68247OK, I’ve just recognised writing in French when a soon to be Scoobie is in Canada is kinda redondante.
@pedant agreed.
29 October 2019 at 00:16 #68246@pedant @mudlark. The other soon to be scoobie (OK, Winston) look away 😀
I never listened, 2 years ago, to this particular TPN guide. Only at about the 5:44 mark did I latch on to that dude from above. The echoes are brilliant. And this may make you yell with frustration but I think this is the best of the Season openers closely followed by Season Sept, une.
28 October 2019 at 23:56 #6824428 October 2019 at 23:19 #6824228 October 2019 at 08:46 #68239@pedant Now, w/o a brain *don’t read this Winston spoilers might be ahead.
So, pedant. you said something about the erm, ahem, most unsolved mystery in the world (possibly).
OK, so a) who are the brin***s or the Fir**? No, not that.
b) why does one vampire have a hint/sniff of hu*an*ty & the others not? See Ame*** in ….. I think this is it?
c) oh. Hang on, the character who is a doctor while on his erm, days off, another character appears to be…*im?
THAT! It’s that, yeah? Tell me (cheer squad) Tell Me!!
Or is it (run out of letters) a connection with the other show & its conclusion-thing. Which leaves us thinking….some pe**** are either *ea* or n**? It’s THAT. I know it IS!!
Is it though? You said “mysteries.” I’d say it’s “unsolved” but mysterious, I don’t think so because, rationally, they are facing a squadron of scary goons & the odds are pretty bad. So, what’s the THING?… I’ll bring the cheer squad…
This is gonna be fun.
28 October 2019 at 02:12 #68238David Arnold and Price have scored the series. Their use of violins & violas, used in Sherlock to great effect, can be heard in the teaser above.
Niiice
Syzygy the Elder.
28 October 2019 at 02:07 #68237@pedant @blenkinsopthebrave “they are coming.”
Whoa!! I hope we end up accessing both….sounds good
27 October 2019 at 10:56 #68230@pedant er what?
Yes, we know St Pancras & people are in a hurry. The roof is spectacular! You’d think a few more people might pause. Everyone is going too fast everywhere all the time. I think.
Syzygy (Thane16) and mum.
26 October 2019 at 01:13 #68226It’s your narrative always. Your opinion, naturally, & we all respect that, obviously, but Whedon, in response to questions about watching Buffy says, “absolutely try to watch it in order. That’s my thing. You don’t obviously have to….But I used to say “watch it in order if only to see that actually it gets better, at least that’s what I was told by people close to me.” I made some pretty silly mistakes, I had no erm, noises for Buffy & …… love scene, I was all about the sense & feeling so knowing now what I should’ve known then but on the other hand some of us view things differently, even from when we first saw it & how we see things now.”
Not exactly erudite; but it’s from an interview which is in a book….which is in…
Syzygy
25 October 2019 at 07:44 #68223erm, erm, what, what? WHAT???
I have been trying for a very long time to locate The Getting of Wisdom. The book is good but I’m mentioning the film as it seemed to make more of an impact? It’s not that great a film. The music, (an improvisation) the young &
arroganttalented but nasty little pianist plays is totally sh** but….OK. maybe not shitty to everyone but for years I simply couldn’t find it. I heard an interview with John Waters only yesterday & immediately thought “that damn movie & his damned character” which proves what a boorish woman I really am! Still, The Getting of Wisdom! 🙂It’s original title, I found out in 1988, was simply “Time”
As for ‘The Getting of Wisdom” I feel like adding “my ass” to this? Who ‘got’ the wisdom in the end? The slightly nasty over-romanticised pianist? Possibly. Mainly because she left ‘the colonial thinking behind’ & now London had her! In all the ways that “had” is meant, btw. But they removed most of that for ‘G’ reasons…. I kinda liked Pete’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, though.
Synergy in action! Or is it Syzygy? 😉
25 October 2019 at 06:38 #68221My advice is “please don’t watch seasons 1-5 after season 6.” Seriously. I think Thane said the same -& typing for me yesterday.
I disagree that it’s a “jump -in” point @bluesqueakpip. And yes, SMG is on the cover of a show in which she stars/starred. Hell, Season 7 let out covers of Leo in The West Wing years ago when they released season 7’s ‘First 12 episodes’ including pix of the Dem candidate in full face format when we knew nothing of the actual result. Most people looked away from the target 🙂
I think the issue is to do with how season 1 BtVS had consequences for season 6. Like Season 2 did for S6. And possibly S3 did for S6 etc etc.
@winston you can tell we be dedicated fans & as I know you a bit I reckon you could be chewing your finger nails, thinking, I just asked about a show I want to see & now you’re all arguing over it. Gah, you people!
But in the immortal words of Ian Gillan “I didn’t start it.” And he’s truly immortal by that point ‘n’ all.
Old Siggers.
24 October 2019 at 05:20 #68214unless you have watched seasons 1 to 5 already? And there’s 7 but it really needs 6 to go with…. (Thane16)
24 October 2019 at 05:19 #68213@winston !!!! No! Try not to watch Season 6 before seasons 1-5. Otherwise, well, it’s “dark” but yes, incredible. But knowing the characters from the first season is best, imo. I understand they could be expensive? But it
could bewill be worth it. Seriously. If you throw yourself into season 6, SO much of the brilliance of it, the new characters (or new-ish) will be a bit lost .Also, some have said it’s a depressing season. I don’t agree completely with that but I do have an urge to say that I loved Season 3 for its hope & sheer high school lunacy as the characters have matured & season 5 is SO spectacular, in story lines & craft, that it’s unbeatable. With anything. OK, maybe House, or Doctor Who, ahem, but, perhaps it beats even those. Almost…
Love to you & …..try not to watch it, yet. Aim for Season 1 which may scare you as some episodes are considered not ‘as good’ as others in Season 2. But Season One is where Whedon gets his feet wet. But like @pedant I was Buffy’s bitch from the moment it began. The humour, the love between the characters. (Also this is Thane16 typing for mum again).
24 October 2019 at 04:21 #68211@winston Hey Winston, I’m typing for mum who isn’t “making sense.” Thank you. A great friend with 2 boys, eldest is 28 & a the other 23- 25. Her husband was a teacher who published some terrific ‘doable’ grammar texts & retired to build apartments for their nest egg. She’s involved with choirs the type I’ve forgotten, but they go to town with glittery gowns & tight harmony. They compete overseas, too. I remember singing a short duet from a Gluck opera with her & she had the most beautiful coloratura soprano voice I’d heard up close.
I’ll try & find a youtube clip from this type of choir. Sorry, I can’t recall specific name at the moment. This is Thane16 now: I don’t know what the choir is either. Maybe @arbutus could shine a colourful light on this. They’re all women. So one thing I’ve been watching with mum (& I’m on the wrong thread here) but @winston The Good Place (S4) on Netflix is terrific. Also Chernobyl the series (thank you @pedant) & Patrick Melrose. Mum’s brain is down with fish: Jaws The Revenge (“it can’t be that bad [it is]” & Anaconda which is truly gross but she’s enjoying snakes/big teeth. Who am I to argue with that? 🙂
The Siggers.
24 October 2019 at 01:54 #68208So, last week I found out a really good friend of mine, a mentor & a friend has early onset Alzheimers.
I was this nervous little thing & she’d say “right, take the chorus for this rehearsal” & I’d say “oh no, me? No, seriously, not me!” & she’d say “yes, you can & you will. 5 minutes. get ready.”
I’d be red in the face & get through it & the next day would be better & the end of the musical on the final night would be terrific. Teachers who didn’t help (too busy, ahem) would even stand up & applaud. Some not so thrilled because Sue decided that the final night would have four of us drama/music ‘controllers’ doing a strip tease. Susan’s husband, Ted would be ‘seduced’ down (that would be me doing the ‘sexy’ finger pointing) so that he’d continue on the piano whilst teachers in the first 2 rows (some, I’d really grown to despise) were giving us menacing faces whilst the rest of the audience was roaring with laughter as we’d do a ‘tease’ to the final coda of the chorus.
OF COURSE this wasn’t a real strip tease. I had some silk PJs, from collar to feet & I took off the top bit under which I had another top whilst Sue had an old fashioned curly shower cap, carried a back scrubber & simply took off the cap. All of us were appropriately “high school” but it was very funny.
To Sue: she was an enormous friend. When things went awry in 94/96 I stayed with her, & eventually so the rest of our family. Not for a month, or two, a very weeks but what became a year and a half. She never let us pay for groceries or anything else. Truly good people. This disease might soon take her music. This world. Aint fair. Never had been. But she was my friend & I count myself very lucky. This is to all the old gang.
24 October 2019 at 01:33 #68207You still up mate?
🙂 That was awesome. The comments on youtube were actually incredibly funny too.
I have an “ishoo” with boogie the woogie. But it’s FUN (& & I shouldn’t dislike it…. I don’t really).
It’s erm……repetitive. And his fingers are damned flat on the board. If he’d curl them he’ll have many years of playing to go….Gah! I know, I shouldn’t be negative. He sat down, & everyone had a helluva time. Interesing that many travellers kept on going & didn’t stop at all. At first. Imagine the people in the lift….wondering “what the heck’s happening down there? Get me down quicker!”
He seems like a nice young man too -ie: youtube comments. He’s in the U.S. to do a concert tour soon. And he composes this stuff therefore he has absolutely my total respect.
Just to blab about me for a brief moment. A terrifying organist teaching us…something….would always play some blues, b’woogie or jazz but he’d start with a bar from something very familiar, & we’d all be wracking our brains because he’d turn that teeny theme into a jazzy take & eventually back to the original theme until we worked out it was a Bach prelude or a Vivaldi concerto or one of The Seasons.
21 October 2019 at 11:04 #68195@whisht that very sweet, He showed true feeling & a sensitivity. Lovely
@winston I know feeling better is not probably where you’re at -yet but reach out if you want to talk some more. @pedant a terrific song. I heard The Cure a lot later than I should’ve . My colleagues ‘intervened’ & I’m glad they persisted. It’s been a bit of a silly week so the music helped.
15 October 2019 at 09:38 #68181You are a wonderful cook. Our young lad could eat dollops of cream, pie, lemon pie, apple pie and turkey, probably in that order! Not unlike his uncle he prefers savoury food which means weeks of baking in, well, baking heat, might ease a little. But it’s significant to share a table around which many memories are built, where troubles are sorted and happiness shared.
I am so sorry about Newton. The gorgeous pets have a story behind them of doting ‘parents’ & the significance of their name. My parents had dogs named Clicker & Clackett -at least at 3, that’s what I thought I heard. Later they had a cat named Quaver & I could pronounce that. 🙂
You have held this devastating news about your mum in law for a long time. Obviously something so crushingly sad is held in our hearts until we need, or want, to share with extended family. Even though we are hidden by screens this is a positive, warm place, where genuine sadness will find a little consolation. If you are falling we can catch you. Please reach out.
Congratulations on your marriage of 40 years; a sign of dedication to each other in times where things may seem transient &, as you say, struggling thru life as it rushes past, no pause for a life that just stops, and suddenly. I am so sorry.
Your husband & extended family were overwhelmed by her death; perhaps they still are. It seems like you had an excellent relationship with your mum in law & I can imagine her thinking of you a lot -you gave her grand children & she would’ve been devoted to you: with gentle hands and heart you took care of her son for 40 years. She’d be very proud of you @winston.
All our love to you & your family. Sincerely, the Syzygy. xxx000
13 October 2019 at 05:22 #68174Thank you SO much for your gardening assistance. Mayall* I call you Yoda? Or Goda? For God of Gardening -except the ‘d’ isn’t right for ‘garden’ but Goga doesn’t scan well.
I have a question: How do the worms arrive by themselves? I am, as you see, neither Goda, nor Goga but possibly Daga (Dumb at Gardening). Also, Daga sounds like a planetary system in Star Wars….
* @whisht that one’s for you.
@mudlark I’ll get back to you on your state of the art composter 😀
Old Puro.
13 October 2019 at 05:12 #68173True. It’s “nowish.”
Also, I sounded daft: “changeable except Brexit, etc & woman doctor.” When I meant (& those who know me would’ve gotten it), I like a Woman Doctor Who. Just sayin’ in case it became “whaa?”
Thank you! You’re right it stands as an awesome solo.
I have to admit I didn’t even know Ginger’d died & I was listening to Mayall recently. Mayall made some extraordinary moves, mainly quick moves & not always backed by anything except his hind brain….But that’s my silly opinion. And it is silly.
Ah! John Bruce (JohnSAsherB -as music students we needed a cash ‘n’ carry way of remembering things by our 5th year as something else would brain-ooze). Bruce was classically trained & shimmied with the best. I knew of his collaboration with McLaughlin because of various mandatory units of minimalist modern music-making (had to alliterate that) where he didn’t always sing 🙂
So, Things We Like was….something I liked. Not the whole album but snippets. The album cover is totally gross (my lad’s analysis)**. It’s not a rainbow triangle on black; nor a white vinyl. There’s no band feeding 7 goats; & there aren’t a collection of celebs & clever clogs in colourful clothes like WC Fields, William Burroughs & others…
You would’ve all guessed those four with plenty of clues. Uhm, Who? Red crosses for incorrects? Nah, maybe pink 😉 Actually the clues are funnier!
** ‘someone’s’ stuffing their face with a dog bowl of sausages & smashed spuds. If that doesn’t “gross” you out on an album cover then nothing else will. Although Iggy Pop had some flash & skin in the game too.
7 October 2019 at 12:51 #68160I didn’t know that -re Lady Hale as President of the Supremes. I should’ve known (partly because of the song on the music thread), having remembered the tiny speck of a snippet of a discussion about Boris the Spider. Our High Court is headed by Susan Kiefel. I read part of a paper on rhetoric & gave up. 😉
Ah, yes, your brother (the one in France): the sad dance of liturgical lament. They can turn ‘dirge’ very quickly. But better than “those 2 chords, the effin’ F and G march ..played at school….”
7 October 2019 at 09:18 #68157@mudlark! Good to see you on the music thread. Great song. Lady Hale, however is lost to me? Is she married to a time lord, at all? Or an earth Lord? 🙂
I know. Not very funny. My humour’s a work in progress.
Totally agree: the singer and the feelings of certain times attached to certain music. It’s incredibly important to us. Almost as important as our sense of smell and how we capture a scent/fragrance memory. I don’t think I’ve explained that well but hopefully you get that 🙂
Oh @mudlark I hired an arborist who became very excited when I mentioned double digging. He said: “are you an archaeologist?” followed by: “a proper gardener?” I had to say “no, siree, I aint either.” About 30 minutes later he’d figured out this for himself. “Why are you chucking out your leaves? I see egg shells in your bin (cue my red face). Can you pop them in the tree (the tuccarroo/tucaroo) or the soil? Your soil is dead. It’s inert.” 🙁
I’ve since learned to “undead” it. Sort of. It involves worm wee. When a person says “wormwe” it takes a lot of “sorry, excuse me, what?” because I was unprepared for worm followed by a voiced consonant which followed a conversation on medial consonants and fricatives which went around in circles….. SO I’m totally on the wrong thread.
Mind Gardens is pretty awful and REM’s Gardening At Night isn’t balanced AT ALL. So, I’ll go with the goodie I know and love, actually.
7 October 2019 at 07:17 #68156@whisht Love that idea: the “Fog Bank.” Not to harm anyone’s choice of song or one’s own.
And
“I hereby decide that I myself will not be offended by the juvenile stupidity of this song.
Instead, I decide that I will continue to enjoy the stupidity of this song until I realise that I shouldn’t.”@pedant HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Youtubers think this song is “way ahead of its time.” I don’t think that. But I’m a changeable person. Sometimes even open to other’s opinions (except for Brexit, a Dr Woman, and Trump). It’s a neatly efficient song -it could’ve “gone on” (something I do a lot)and didn’t. It’s a precise little choon. But it’s original and damn good.
To our pedant.
19 September 2019 at 09:56 #68118I’m very sorry to hear this. My mum and my dad are also very sorry. I am passing my dad’s prayers to you as he has asked.
I have heard of this in science, unfortunately, due to a precursor illness called Barrett’s disease which is one earliest form of it? Men get it more than women. Like @cathannabel says it is necessary that you have all the support you need from doctors & also support staff. When mum had cancer she was able to use the Breast Cancer support system which involved home visits, a pink bus for travel to & from hospital for treatments. She asked her specialist about support systems & found out a lot in Sydney and then Brisbane?
So, I can’t imagine what you must be feeling & your OH too but I know there’s support people who actually make the phone calls, organise the lifts to treatment clinics so you can rest up yourself. I remember you have a daughter so whilst it is hard on her too, perhaps she can assist with the organisational aspects of Cancer Care. But we are very very sorry to hear this & I’m sure everyone here, and in your area feels the same. @cathannabel said it well.
From Thane and the family.
17 September 2019 at 07:57 #68112Brilliant Mr P. I thought his reaction was split second. No way I could drop that fast & keep a hair do. 😉
I think the problem on the web -site were people asking for some happy time? Sometimes removal men who want to take all the furniture. I do not mind it myself. I think furniture is over-rated unless it is my bed. Parents will not buy me a longer bed so my feet stick out. They say if I want a longer bed I have to buy it myself. Also there are doctors on the ‘Doctor’ WHO forum who are not really the doctors we need. At home, though we had a serious doctor issue which caused some problems even though he only speaks English. It was funny looking back on it. This doctor or general practitioner is not an Indian person (and we do not have issues with Indian doctors. They are great), but “Doctor Gupta” on our web site is not a Doctor Who-type Doctor? 🙂
oh yes the fires are bad. I thought the 12 year olds shouldn’t be charged like that. My dad said otherwise. I thought they were campers who didn’t know what they were doing? In the garden the wind blew ash and red dirt everywhere & I had to spend two hours wetting the house, the fence and then pulling out 5 plants which died overnight from wind-attack (that’s normally mum’s problem, ahem). People have lost houses. You could check mums mention on this thread about how fast it was going: 10 metres per second per second up hill at TREE TOP LEVEL. Terrifying.
@Blenksinsopthebrave
We all agree. It’s a terrible political & environmental situation. It’ also “every person for themselves” which is isolating & horrible.
@whisht message coming…..
9 September 2019 at 10:56 #68078For Christ’s sake. You’re playing about with this “pretend anger” thing & it’s not working. Alright? It aint. If people want to swear because they do, then that’s none of your business. As long as no-one has a “go” at an actual person. Also (Christ, I feel like I’m teaching grade school) he wasn’t talking to you. Not at all. So, having a “go” would be: “You [insert name] are a fucking idiot.”
That would be wrong. This did not happen. You know this. Have a ciggy & calm the flip down.
9 September 2019 at 10:48 #68077Just for people to be aware whilst we take joy in retaining The Ashes, there’s raging bushfires even at the beginning of Spring. The actual heat is ……-at the moment quite low, with minimums of 7-12.
Not far from here, but far enough, people had 10 minutes to get out. No time beyond a grab-bag. The fire was running up hill at 10 metres per second at tree-top level.
Think about that. 10 metres PER second in the dark. An orange hell blasting up, taking anything with it. And our fire-fighters are volunteers. One owner said “it’s OK to say you’re gonna stay and fight it. It’s another thing to see a universe of orange coming at you. You’re brought to your knees or you run.”
9 September 2019 at 02:11 #68075@blenkinsopthebrave the ladeez in stocking?? Didn’t do it for you?
@whisht OH YEZ! Just to be lecture-y we’d use terms like “locked” for what we’d call “the modern music” 🙂
The Sinatra is flippin’ LOCKED! And LOADED! Seriously though, that’s one clever as shit producer. Could’ve been a really unrighteous bass sloppy and loud with the horns snarkin’ thru the upper registers & it was mellow. All the way through -and tightly dictated. I must admit to checking out the stockings & the boots. Very clever production assistants.
Thane16 and Siggers.
7 September 2019 at 04:19 #68066@whisht thar therrre isz brillyarnt!
“anything your heart can stand, it all depends on you…..I’ll turn your world upside down, I’ll blow your mind to pieces….”
It’s been a huuuuge while since I did the ‘soul’ walking and exaggerated nodding ‘move,’ at that tempo, to such an “ohh, yeaaah, baby,” golden- syrupy- warm -and- steamy choon like that. He had 14 kids. Whoa!
6 September 2019 at 10:19 #68064Greetings from our Brisbane winter -alright, it’s spring, but just & yesterday was 31 & today 34! Madness.
Yet the non-experts ignore the discussion about “what are we going to do about….global warming?” [singing this to Sound of Music’s “what are we ….about Maria?”]
I wrote that all-a-muck 😉 I was thinking that toinfinityandbepond and devilishrobby might not know me as the Puro, of old, what with Thane’s suggestion of “syzygy” which is a concept he takes great delight in. But yes, other than a few kilograms and pounds here and there, we’re still recognised -which is what matters, as you say.
And here, we mostly tend to speaking up -or standing up ‘in front’ of our computer rather than hiding behind it?
I get the impression people are relatively honest (Ahem), even those who want to move my furniture (one of the spammers), or date me/us. I somehow think the lady who had several million dollars to share, might have been telling a little fib. 😉
6 September 2019 at 00:43 #68062@devilishrobby @toinfinityandbepond
Hmm, yes, unless she’s looking for a personal doctor -a person all to herself 🙂
Also, good to see both of you back!
I’m old Puro with Thane16 who decided to change our name. Again 😉
30 August 2019 at 01:09 #68048Yeah, I reckon people think the scene with George’s wife is awful -from a post-modern and whatever-it’s called perspective. I thought it was hilarious. But now I’m not so sure 🙂 ….. I haven’t seen Desk Set but they’re a great couple of actors.
REM forever 🙂 But maybe some James….
28 August 2019 at 22:35 #6804328 August 2019 at 22:34 #68042I’ve had several emails from a number of sweet young ladies with many important and urgent things to discuss.
As well as items for removal -should I wish it. Frankly, I’d be thrilled down to my bootstraps if they would remove carpet from d’house and take it to waste disposal. Heck, they can have the old wet mattresses from d’Christensan flood which happens nearly every 4 years (that would be a quadrennial?) 🙂 @miapatrick: you’ve had unsolicited pix of genitalia? I’m in awe!
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/l\_)28 August 2019 at 08:06 #68037So Puro or Siggers posted Bowie which was SO good but I’m posting this: REM. Mum did say (possibly being a little fried from watching too much telly) “holy heck this sounds like Taylor.” I dunno, but it’s the best recording of this used in anything I’ve seen though.
28 August 2019 at 07:53 #68036Aaand coz I enjoyed the show 13 Reasons… S3)
26 August 2019 at 05:00 #68026Not the best, but enthusiastic (singers) and a library. Although not many people were smiling. To me, singing is smiling! One of the soloists needed some tuition from …..Russell Crowe. Lot of people don’t like Crowe’s rendition (of anything). I did, though, even with ADR. I’m not a huge musical fan then again it was JCSuperstar which I was brought up on -and Evita, of all things. 🙂
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