@whisht you mentioned theremin….

A few people might not know it’s an instrument you play by not touching it.

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Glad 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 t…[Read more]

Spoilers for the 2 vids provided. Don’t read ahead if you haven’t watched. But watch it.

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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…[Read more]

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No, First Man with Ryan Gosling as Armstrong and Claire Foy outstanding as his wife. It caused a hoo-ha by not showing the flag planting, which got all the people who most deserve to spend their lives in impotent rage to spend a little more time doing so.

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Treat yourself to a copy of Skeptics Guide to the Universe by…[Read more]

@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 a…[Read more]

@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.

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Oh 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.

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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]

I 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…[Read more]

@pedant  We watched First Man and it was really good. Another movie I would recommend is an oldie but a goody about the space program called The Right Stuff, in fact I think I will watch again for the anniversary.

@whisht Thank you for the kind words. The world celebrated this as a shared accomplishment, I just wish we could get together and…[Read more]

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Dad got us (me, brother, sister) up and 4 in the morning (3 GMT) to watch it (no idea if schools had broken up for summer by then. It was a Monday).

But it didn’t stop with 11. The entire school was gathered in the main hall to watch the Apollo 12 walk…

In the utterly wonderful movie The Dish, young Billy refers to the Saturn V…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  @pedant @whisht    Coincidentally we just now watched Apollo 11, a really good documentary  by CNN made entirely with remastered film and audio telling the story. It had no narration except Walter Cronkite when he was on TV at the time. I watched a lot of the lift-off and moon walk as a child on a black and white TV at home…[Read more]

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I 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.

Just following on from @whisht‘s call for items celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing (and also about who has the right to be remembered):

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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

@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…[Read more]

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Thoughts of space and hope and striving for something better

This seemed appropriate:

And, although not music, this seemed especially appropriate, both for @whisht and for all of us. It is something that was produced in 1949, and in light of recent events, it qualifies, I think, as an example of…[Read more]

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Missing a trick, surely….

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@arbutus goodness there’s some goddam bad news with Gilberto -88 (I thought 92 -clearly bad adding up or plain optimism).

Now you dudes and dudettes will know this: deep and long, long ago (but not anymore).

Siggers,

Hola, @whisht!

I saw this news as well, while I was off exploring the heartlands of Quebec. I love Desafinado, and that is such a lovely, silky performance. There’s a recording from quite a bit later, mid seventies, that includes this svelte number: