@craig thanks for the interview with RTD and Maxine Peake. Hope the play makes it to DVD and across the pond to Canada (like @puroandson I am a box set type of person, rather than a Netflix type of person).

To pick up on the conversation about a female Doctor, I had earlier suggested @whisht‘s mention of Maxine Peake was rather inspired. I am…[Read more]

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Maxine Peake as the Doctor…that is rather inspired.

Apparently, she was recently in a new Comic Strip story where she plays Rebekha Brooks. Sounds brilliant. Have you seen it? I would love to see it, but unfortunately, as a resident of one of the colonies I am denied such opportunities.

@Whisht   I had seen your post, just hadn’t had time reply, in the midst of year-end music school activities and Midget house league baseball playoffs, among other things. Although I do love Arvo Part, I confess I did not listen to him twice. I have put a few PCO things onto my wishlist since that conversation, but not this one. I will have a l…[Read more]

@Whisht    Thank you! I haven’t heard Iggy Pop in an insanely long time, that was great fun. And the PCO is just wonderful. I will have to add them to Bela Fleck on my list of musicians I don’t have enough of (in the case of PCO that would be none at all, and there’s no good reason for it!).

Thanks too for your good wishes, @StitchInTime and @puro…[Read more]

@Whisht    Don’t you disrespect focus groups… without focus groups, there would be no new flavours for ice cream or vodka coolers.    🙂

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Haven’t a clue, sorry.

Cheers,

Missy

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I would have thought most of the key character traits would decided before actors try out. The name is often a reflection of those traits (either directly or ironically). My guess is that Bill will not be a “girly” girl.

@Whisht    I followed your link to Pearl’s site. Apparently she can sing. Will we be looking forward to “Musical Evenings with Bill and the Doctor”?  🙂

@pedant    Thanks for the Prince and Springsteen links. The Purple Rain performance is both fabulous and fascinating, and The Boss is, well, The Boss!

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Also, you can tell the esteem musicians are held in by the one’s who play their songs in tribute.

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hahahahahahahahaha.

Of course Earl’s A Winger was better.

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Back to Prince, this is both entertaining, informative and historical (it is marked as public so should play).

Re Petty – check out Damn The Torpedoes. Refugee is a great song.

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Apprently Olivia originally only wanted people who knew George. But Prince asked to take part because he wanted to perform with Tom Petty (because he loved Free Fallin’).

Hmmm. Tom Petty. While it would be wrong to say he is underrated (because he is held in high esteem by anyone who matters), he is probably not as generally appreciated…[Read more]

@whisht @bluesqueakpip Am beginning to think there’s some sort of slow Rapture going on with all the best people going first (Lemmy being No. 1 of course). I may make the encore if I’m lucky. Save a drink for me.

This will probably be deleted as quick as it was posted…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEHCNMuX-64

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Yeah. It’s getting to the point where I’m going ‘Does God have a gig on?’ 🙁

@Whisht       This is far less sophisticated, but having recently returned from a surfing vacation (I should stress that I wasn’t the one doing the surfing, that was Young Dude Arbutus), I can’t resist posting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

p.s. @pedant      Thanks, I had “Mr. Sandman” front and centre in my brain for a soli…[Read more]

@Whisht  @Arbutus  @Bluesqueakpip    Thanks!   Fingers crossed and touching wood, but if the op this time is as successful as when I had the other hip done ten years ago I should, by late summer, be leaping about like a mountain goat  🙂

@Craig and everyone!   Happy Easter, lovely people. As always, thanks for making this such a pleasant place to hang out!

@Mudlark   Glad to hear that your date with your new hip is now firmed up! Based on my own family members who have done this, it should change your life for the better!  @Whisht, my mother-in-law has had both hips and thre…[Read more]

@puroandson @ichabod @mudlark @janetteB @pedant @whisht @fatmaninabox @arbutus @jimthefish @phaseshift and all of you who I’ve forgotten or don’t have time to include. Happy Easter to you all too. I fully intend to be back to normal service after this little seasonal break, which has allowed me to get my breath back. Tomorrow night I’m going to…[Read more]

@Whisht     I don’t remember if you posted that track before but it’s great.  For the birthday of the Superior Whisht (which I can’t believe, btw, I’ll bet he says the same about you!), with no hints as to the kind of music he likes, here is a gorgeous tune chosen at random from my favourites. Couldn’t quite decide which version to post, so I went…[Read more]

@Whisht     If @puroandson can give you The Walking Dead (loved the song, btw, Puro), I guess I can give you this from Fiddler on the Roof (because I saw a production last week and can’t get the songs out of my head now!). So here it is, complete with lots of glasses raised and noisy dancing (suitable birthday celebration, no?). Mazel tov…[Read more]