btw would love to say hi and welcome to @indigomoose for introducing some rather nice bonkers.

fantastic!

I like the “ship’s log” idea for the Tardis.

I also like the idea of a head cannon, though sadly feel its only likely after Dalekisation……

@Arbutus – ha ha, not heard that Kinks song before.

And soooo Doctor Who.

I mean, it is the St John Ambulance hymn isn’t it?

so, there’s obviously a wonderful conversation over in the Cloven Hoof about grub (perhaps the offerings of pub grub aren’t up to much) and you may say I’m being obvious, but as I say to my team “you can’t be too effing* obvious”

*though obviously I actually swear.

ah @bluesqueakpip – my spoons aren’t hard enough to dissolve.

They’re too scared of my tea.

And now, to stretch the plausibility of why I’m actually linking songs…

{cough}

…here’s a (ninja)choon that links food and crows (which we weren’t discussing when we were discussing Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, though we could have been).

Its damn near seamless my DJing*.

*no, you’ll be…[Read more]

so in The Cloven Hoof there’s been much chat of non-alcoholic beverages.

I know – in a pub.

However, tea was mentioned so here’s two choons that feature tea.

There are many others, but these seemed to go together.
The first talks about how even a spoonful of tea can be enough (though maybe he’s singing about a spoonful of something else far…[Read more]

ah – the subject of “tea”.

I grew up on tea. 5-6 mugs a day (which must have all been in the evening so god knows what it did to my sleeping patterns – I now never drink it after 5pm).

When I was growing up it was mainly drank with cake (though also handfuls of biscuits).
My mum made one type of cake and it was the kind that was heavy, full of…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

damn you man, you made me watch this

(btw I love hearing fellow professionals’ insights on things, but I just have a soft spot for Jonathan Miller’s insights as they seem so far deeper)

its long(ish) but don’t worry about the time, as its writted on a piece of paper.

RIP George Cole

As one YT commenter (Dondonesque Strikes) says:

“I defy anyone to listen to this without mentally raising their lapels, settling an imaginary trilby on their head and walking away keeping their back to a wall!”

(honestly I’m not on ‘death watch’ or anything but maybe its just my (middle)age.

now….. @arbutus.

I. Love. You.

But purely in a platonic/musiphonic way
(its Doctor Who so musiphonic’s a madey-uppy word obviously).

Still – you’ve also made me love Dave Grohl even more and I’m afraid I now don’t know if I can’t stalk him until we marry.

I thought the video/music event had been instigated by him and I’d thought…[Read more]

I’ve just got to say how shocked I was to hear of Cilla Black’s passing.
She was a staple of TV when I was growing up.
This obviously meant that I didn’t think much of her at the time (because I would have been so exposed to her in light entertainment shows) and took her for granted.

Which proves I know nothing.

She had a particular voice but…[Read more]

so, that was Season 1 of Fringe.

I’m kinda too tired to do a detailed analysis (like anyone expected that of me!) but I found it interesting that the series only picked up around episode 4 or 5 when the exposition calmed down.

But then again, it started again a few episodes later, so maybe they were just conscious (or scared) that people were…[Read more]

in fact @Phaseshift I hope you’ll be amused to know that I saw the Ozrics at Glastonbury one year and remember dancing very very hard to this one!

Pretty sure no drugs were involved (though memory is hazy, and it was Glastonbury, and it was the Ozrics….).
Think you’ll enjoy this….

;¬)

@Phaseshift – he he, me and Metal can remain a fun thread!

;¬)

Enjoyed Ride On (mainly as its on the ‘hard rock’ end of the spectrum rather than cock rock perhaps…)

;¬0

And really enjoyed Black Sabbath.
Made me go all cosmic, and dig out this little gem playing the background as I type…..…[Read more]

ah yes @Phaseshift – another sad passing.

When I saw the news it was in a really obscure place and I don’t know why I felt so sad. Just something about the mania of many of his characters as well as their decency (though almost always with a hint of perhaps not being so nice).

Coincidentally I was going to post this…[Read more]

ah @purofilion – in terms of Scott Walker, like so many artists I probably like the idea of Scott Walker more than the artist themselves.

Something delightfully barmy/ unlikely/ just slightly ‘other’.

I think (I may be wrong) that I linked to this song as a ‘song for a companion’ when discussing Amy and Rory and the Doctor.
But equally could…[Read more]

ok – great posts by everyone before me so I’ll just say “yep – I agree”.

Now, there is one reason why the Doctor (especially Tom Baker’s) might return to Gallifrey, and that is to say “I told you so”.

Honestly. To blow a raspberry. To say “I was right”.

That is a key reason for someone who felt compelled to leave due to others, to…[Read more]

Only just now getting around to watching this (I know – slack!).

I kinda agree with Janette – its amazing how many of the menaces in this Matrix are based around WW1 or Boer War(?) imagery (gas-masked horses, biplanes, rifles etc).

But I guess its a change from an episode running up and down corridors (running around a quarry is harsher on the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – totally with you on the “excellent”.

In my mind, the Cybermen weren’t so camp, but there you go.
How memory deceives (and how this particular 11 year old didn’t get ‘camp’).

I also now want the still of the bit where he says “More power!” emblazoned on….

everything!

so, this is nothing to do with anything, and yet another episode in my life where I think “really, no one else thought this?”, but I was tickled when I saw a headline the other day:

“Scott Walker announces candidacy for President”

and I thought

“No! Reallly???!??”

Sadly it was not to be, but would’ve been…[Read more]