Welcome @Thujone – so much to agree with you about!

The pentacles…. well, I did a bit of googling (as you do) and couldn’t find anything cabbalistic (as you rightly say), so I wonder if the designer was more influenced by the design of the craft itself, with its circles, circular doors etc.

The 5 overlapping circles create a 5-pointed design…[Read more]

@arbutus – wow. Oh Radiant Dawn. That’s absolutely gorgeous!

Wow. What with Hurry Sundown and this we could travers a day in music (now there’s an idea…!)

Am I dreamin’? No I’m not – its California Dreamin’ and Puro embedded a

video!!

Yay – go Team Filion!

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Tenuous links to DW? Tenuous?? Wooten-to-Lake Effect-to-Lake Silencio is worthy of Mornington Crescent! [btw this is rather a rather funny episode but far funnier if you’ve heard the game before…]

Now, I’ll admit sometimes I’m a bit…[Read more]

Hi @FaeGrl – welcome and y’know, ‘flaming’ doesn’t really work here (on this forum) at all.

We’re too polite.

So erm, go on, say the Fourth Doctor was a ham, or the Tenth a bit too glib or the Eleventh a bit too zany… as long as you say why then people here will engage.

When people just say “I don’t like x and therefore don’t like you” well,…[Read more]

oh, and I feel that Breen is softening slightly. He’s a career soldier, he cannot allow himself (or others) to seem ‘weak’ and cannot allow for scientists to be right (if that means military is ‘wrong’). So although what could be a pretty obvious cardboard character ‘opposite’ of Quatermass, I feel that he’s mellowing toward the scientists week by…[Read more]

ye-gods – I loved this episode!

Although probably a ‘between’ episode in terms of storyline (I haven’t seen this before but guess there’s a discover-reveal-denouement to it all with this being a protracted ‘reveal’) I really liked almost everything about this one.

Bluesqueakpip – I could have sworn I saw a trick shot where they threw the photos…[Read more]

hmm, less gallivanting and more seriousness. With a cheeky companion in tow.

Is that what I want…? I guess… maybe….. but…

I’m a child of the Fourth (rather than the Third), and so I love my cheeky/ childish/ thrill-seeking and serious-when-it-matters, but most of all I’m happy to see change

its the only constant!

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@monochromedimension – I’m not sure how this Quatermass compares to the movie you saw, but I’d love to hear your views on it.

Why? Well, you love the b&w Who, and (yet?) you grew up with sparkly technicolour TV with lots of money/ sets/ costumes/ rehearsals/ pre-recording etc (even more so than a slightly older me!).

So it’d be interesting to…[Read more]

@Arbutus – The Cat Empire – not come across them before. Quite a reggae/ dub/ska feel (which I like!). Nice early-party feel – thanks for this!

@purofilion – I really liked that Scala version of Coldplay (my god, I had nice words to say about Coldplay!).
I couldn’t figure out their accent, so Googled them (they’re Belgian).
And totally agree…[Read more]

ah, @Arbutus – I would listen to that, but I need to sleep now and that’s a tad stimulating. And I’m trying to calm down after Puro’s last post!

methinks something more…… like this.

(which reminds me of how a radio station here called Resonance FM would play ‘live’ sounds from the Aus bush when they went off air around 2am. Many a night I…[Read more]

@Arbutus – completely agree about the scene where he walks into the haunted house. Was it in one seamless transition from the outside shot (usually I wouldn’t think that, but @bluepipsqueak ‘s making me think that due to the ‘live’ aspect). The silence as he kicks a bottle as he walks draws the ear (and the rest of my attention even further)…[Read more]

Hi @purofilion – thanks for that! But I do have to make sure my prejudices don’t hold me back!

if its early you should try the Little Richard – better than coffee!

🙂

ah @arbutus – thanks. I kinda prefer Reich too, but it was the emotional power of his work that hit me when hearing it live. I just hadn’t heard it like that before.
I should hear things on their own merit and I’d kinda compartmentalised them both (as I do with so much music) and that’s why I was an eejit!

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Hi @Purofilion – yes Steve Reich. He played several pieces with the Colin Currie group. To be honest I hadn’t realised what a treat this was going to be – my mate bought the tickets about a year in advance!

My naive take on Reich and Glass was that Glass did the ’emotional’ stuff (with certain tricks to tug at the heart) and Reich the more…[Read more]

The scene I want to see?

The Doctor and Clara on their first adventure meeting some humans. The humans introduce themselves:

“Hello, I am Paul and you are..?”

“I’m the Doctor”

“and this is your…. grand daughter?”

“No!” [shocked]

“A-apologies, your.. daughter??”

“No! erm this is my…. my companion Clara”

“Companion? oh, of…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox – you naughty man you.

I wasn’t into Northern Soul (knowingly) either, but picked up a CD years ago simply because it:

a) was by Little Richard (someone I always think I should hear more of)
b) was £3
c) had a sticker saying it had numerous “Northern Soul classics”

That album was “The Explosive Little Richard” and that link isn’t…[Read more]

evenin’ all.

so much going on! I’m now slightly wired though I wanted an early night (my next post will explain). I’m all jiggy (as the kidz say – I think).

@Arbutus – yes Officium. Actually I was lucky enough to see them do this in London (mainly as a friend of mine is good at alerting me to live stuff – we saw Reich at end of last year and it…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox – thanks for that! One of the least sweaty disco videos I’ve ever seen!

I’ll admit I was put off by your description of it not having any crotch grabbing or butt thrusting, but I still gave it a go.

I’m a soldier me.

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@marionziemke and @Arbutus

doh! “Metric” of course!

No idea where I got “Mimic” from (a quick google for ‘Mimic’ as a band name is for something so competently pub-rock that I can’t even bother linking!).

Thank goodness that if it was a Freudian slip, then nothing more indiscreet came through!

8¬o

@Wolfweed @fatmaninabox

aaaiiieeeeee!!

Meeping Angels!

Brilliant!