@toinfinityandbeyond @Whisht

Yes – great to see it back. I’ve seen the first episode, and it looks interesting for the second series. I’ll mention @ScaryB (in case RL is still hectic) as she was following it as well.

The G has an article with Maslany talking about playing the various clones…[Read more]

Bugger – missed about two weeks of the most active thread on here at the moment.

Lots of good music posted, and thanks for the recommendations. I have a lot of listening to do.

@fatmaninabox

I think my own disinclination towards other versions of Hallelujah is precisely because of Cale, so thanks for mentioning his version. For me, no other…[Read more]

@Whisht @purofilion

Well, now that we’ve moved into “space jazz”, I’m not sure that I have anything to offer. Will have to give it some thought. I’m thoroughly enjoying your contributions, though!

@janetteB

Well, in fact it is bigger on the inside in a way, because the artist is opening up an object to a variety of points of view, thus taking up more space. Or maybe this is actually bigger on the outside?   🙂

I’m with @Whisht on preferring cubism to surrealism. Partly because I find the aesthetic more visually interesting, with its b…[Read more]

@Whisht

It is hard coming up with a caption when the personality is completely unknown (to me) and the picture does not have any of the laugh-out-loud appeal of @wolfweed ‘s crazy caption images.

But since I discovered she is a food writer, the best I could manage was “Eggs-terminate”

I know…feeble.

@FatManInABox   Haha. I missed your mentioned of the Orbison duet when I posted that yesterday. Great minds!

Very much in the style of @Whisht’s Dr. John version, my introduction to the world of Stagger Lee was by the Canadian blues band Downchild. These guys were a fixture here in the seventies and are purported to have been the inspiration for…[Read more]

@purofilion, I’m still awake!  🙂  Spent much of the day on my computer trying to figure out some blogging software– argh! And come back on here to find your all-too-kind words, and more kd/cohen. Now you’ve done it, @whisht! kd lang gives me goosebumps simply by opening her mouth. She is absolutely incredible. We had some Roy Orbison the other d…[Read more]

(is it just me who finds this really creepy?!?!?).

@Whisht – can’t be. There’s a moment in An Adventure in Space and Time where Mervyn Pinfield is experimenting with having Hartnell’s face loom out of the credits – and basically goes ‘arrgh! No, we can’t do that, it’s terrifying!’

@Whisht   The Ship Song was actually ScaryB’s contribution. I love those performances that are so hushed, have so much silence, that you almost hold your breath listening. What a riveting performer. Nice voice, but it’s what she does with it. (And I must say, it almost seems unfair that someone so talented is also so gorgeous!)

But yes, Nick…[Read more]

@Whisht, @TheKrynoidMan

“Once Upon a Time in the West”. Ahh, what guilty pleasure that movie (no…experience) is! The music of Ennio Morricone and the visuals of Sergio Leone…does it get any better?

I totally agree with credits at the end of this clip.

@TheKrynoidMan    That arrangement of “Yesterday” is beautiful all on its own, but used as it is in that scene is particularly evocative. It relies on the assumption that the viewer will know the song, and our minds will fill in the missing lyrics. I think that it gets us into the mind of the character much more effectively that way!…[Read more]

@Whisht  Yes, it is the same Langley. When the LSMP was done, it was a small town surrounded by agriculture, about an hour from Vancouver. Now, of course, it is part of the suburban area the fills the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. It’s still fairly rural once you get off the highway.

Isn’t it amazing? There is something about the sound of chil…[Read more]

Wow!

This thread’s fairly buzzing! Been a brilliant couple of hours catching up. So wide and varied. Thanks @everyone for populating it with such diversity 🙂

@Craig – hard to argue with Stevie Wonder (tho I may, with a bit more time!!). Lovin the Amber Grooves thang as well – best of luck with it.

@FaeGrl @Whisht “there are as many covers o…[Read more]

@Whisht Being a big Hitchcock fan I love Herrman too.

I wasn’t really that impressed with …in America (aside from the music that is), but I adore …in the West.

Just adding to the welcome back and congrats to @FarGrl on finishing the novel.  Will try to have a wee look since you’ve taken the trouble to write it! (I could occasionally get started, but middles and ends were always a problem. And plots!)

@Whisht  And welcome back to you too – hope the holidays were fun, and eventful in the right w…[Read more]

@Arbutus – Oh yes! I so agree with you, that song is WAY overused everywhere! lol. I see what you mean about it, completely. If I didn’t like the song so much, I’d be sick of it too. 😉

@purofilion – Coolies! I don’t know why I like the song so much, it is rather simple, but I do.  I wouldn’t mind it played at my wedding, if I ever get married…[Read more]

@whisht Yet another sort-of cover of Tomorrow Never Knows. The Chemical Brothers with Noel Gallagher. The working title was “Tomorrow Never Noels”.

@FaeGrl   That is certainly a transformed “Dust in the Wind”. That song takes me right back to high school. I like the cover version, it’s another great example of the way people can make a song their own, as opposed to the band in @purofilion’s example, who clearly want to be a Kansas tribute band! It can take some imagination to do this, as…[Read more]

@everyone, you’ve been coming up with so many great covers. Really fun, and fascinating to see how different performers can channel the essence of a song in very different ways, or re-imagine a song into a completely different genre. Something like Senior Coconut’s “Beat It” should just be silly, but it isn’t, because it’s so tightly performed t…[Read more]

@Whisht – The best way to avoid ads on YT is Adblocker! The ads on YT drove me crazy, so Adblocker is so appreciated. You can download it free for any browser you use. I use Chrome, so I got the add-on here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom</span>

As for the cover, yes I like a few of the old…[Read more]