@Whisht @purofilion @ScoutTheAiredale  The funny thing is, my sister and I grew up with a single mom and a certain amount of non-critical financial hardship, but the only thing I can really remember feeling embarrassed about was the very old car that my mother drove for awhile (a 20-year old Chevvy sedan, a classic now but a beater then) that our…[Read more]

@Arbutus – Oh the Hair Dryer of Rassilon! Sounds impressive!

@Whisht – lol! Ah, I prefer the term ‘monochrome’.

Been watching some Doctor Who, old series of course. Though not monochromatic today, no these episodes were technicolour. My quest continues to watch all Doctor Who serials… even if they’re not in order a lot of the time.

@Bluesqueakpip, @Whisht, @ScoutTheAiredale

Congrats on the UK’s curling performance! We quite enjoy the curling in our family. It’s popular here in Canada, although it doesn’t get the media love that hockey does (except it suddenly becomes very important during the Olympics, when it can add to our medal count!). I like the strategy of it, seeing…[Read more]

@purofilion   Oh yes, Gould; such an iconoclast, and so brilliant and quirky (rather “doctorish”, in fact!). As a young piano student in the seventies, I was steeped in the knowledge that he was Canada’s claim to classical music fame.

For @Whisht (and @FaeGrl, Chopin groupie), here is my current hero of the piano, Marc-André Hamelin, who plays wi…[Read more]

@Whisht   Yes, very clever!  🙂  I think “hippyster” is going to be my label of choice from now on. I wouldn’t feel badly, my husband and I were just discussing last night how the result of years of music study was to still have “stoopidly closed minds” to a remarkable number of things that we have only in the last couple of years learned to app…[Read more]

@Whisht – Ha! Well, I wouldn’t mind that at all, that’s what the username means, after all.  I know that you were kidding, I just have an obsessive need to apologize anyway. It’s one of my flaws! I drive my friends and family crazy with it. 😉

@MonochromeDimension – um, the current Doctor is Peter Capaldi, Peter Capaldi is Scottish, curling is a Scottish sport – no, not off-topic.
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‘Twasn’t me who turned it into a discussion on hurling, which is mainly an Irish sport. @ScoutTheAiredale and @Whisht, I’m looking at you…

@FaeGrl – Oh if you are going to watch the Seventh Doctor’s serials, do tell me what you think of them! Just be warned; some folks are not keen on his first season at all, because it is rather silly most of the time; even if you find them odd, keep going, because his second and third seasons really get into the swing of things… some brilliant…[Read more]

@Whisht – Oh crap! I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to goof on your name. I usually recheck my posts, because I am a typo queen in general. I don’t know why I didn’t recheck the last time. Oh well.

Hooray, I was on the mark then! I love a lot of Phillip Glass’s works, especially the theme from Candyman, so when you mentioned Glass I instantly heard that…[Read more]

@Whisht  Excuse me; are you calling me a hipster?  😎  As a middle-aged medievalist who still wears hippie skirts, I find that pretty funny!

Yes, Ross has the ability to write about complex subjects in a readable way. I have had that “what was that again?” response to some books on physics, the kind by literate writers designed for lay re…[Read more]

@Whisht  Ha, well done you. I actually found it instructive, listening to that piece when posting it, as I hadn’t heard it in years. The Alex Ross book made a big impact on me when I read it, and encouraged me to revisit a lot of music that I had more or less ignored in my music school days. I have a much more open mind now and enjoy a quite a…[Read more]

@Whisht – LOL! Yes, that’s was my first reaction to the song as well, when I first found it last year, that’s why I love it so much. Hey, do the foxes in your garden say, “A-hee-ahee-ha-hee!”? If they did, that’s one hilarious garden you have there! 😀

Actually, after I had enjoyed the song, I did a little research into what a fox actually says.…[Read more]

@Whisht   I agree, Ella’s singing is so deceptively simple. She has that lovely clear voice, and always lets the melody take centre stage. And my condolences on the broadband!

@ScoutTheAiredale   I’ve heard Lena’s version as well, and like it, too. The beauty of “Stormy Weather” is that the glorious, twisty-turny melody lends it self to so man…[Read more]

@Whisht – Yes, I have a very limited amount of songs in my mind about sunshine, that theme was hard for to come up with upbeat songs about it. I love the rain, so I have many songs on that subject in mind. The song from Rezonate (“Lonely”) doesn’t really fit in the theme, because it starts off with a rainy track, however it’s so pretty that I…[Read more]

@Whisht – Thanks! I’m always worried about butting in to other’s conversations, in general, although I’m relieved that it doesn’t apply here. That’s good, because I’m a “big mouth” overall. 😉
And yes, I think I love this music thread most of all, because I love so many different types of music (my bookmarks and iTunes are brimming with…[Read more]

Okay, @Whisht, I was singing around the kitchen to that one, and now you’ve got me started. “Stormy Weather” isn’t uplifting in a thematic sense, but it does fill me with well-being. I love everything about it; the winding melody and harmonic progressions are beautiful. I used to love to play this at the piano, so much fun.

There are so many…[Read more]

@Whisht   I’m so sorry about your trip, what a disappointment. Loved your Valentine, though.  🙂

Here is my contribution to the rainy day thread, a rain song with a bit of a romantic theme, so it’s a 2-for-1, from a film to which I am infinitely attached! I give you the unforgettable Gene Kelly.

@ScaryB

One thing I didn’t get was the hole in the door

It appears all by itself. Sladden states quite firmly that it was nowhere near the place he’d been drilling.

@Whisht

I could have sworn I saw a trick shot where they threw the photos at the newshound. Surely the camera couldn’t swing that fast and true?!?

It was a really good int…[Read more]

@Whisht – Yes! I agree, the song is SO Ten. I believe the Whovian who created the video is very spot on and that’s why I love it so much. And Ten had that “me, me, me” ego to him, very much. I loved him for it, anyway. 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip   I also loved the drill operator’s remark about insurance! Good point about the paleontology / anthropology confusion. We could assume that the anthropologic knowledge was a hobby or a sideline. Lots of scientists have a certain amount of knowledge of other disciplines. The final view of the aliens, brilliant!

@Whisht   Yes, we’…[Read more]