Videotapes of DT and the Ivanka lookalike
Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.
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Videotapes of DT and the Ivanka lookalike
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Saw Holland play a solo gig a few years ago at London's temple of chamber music and acoustic masterwork, The Wigmore Hall. Mind blowing.
I'd say tight, also, but the bastard's spoiled it by being teetotal
😂 Quite!
I zoomed in on the "enhanced" photo and it appears all 50 states have left the Union.
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Very much in the "if you don't like my principles, well, I have others".
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
OK I would *never* have got there. 👍
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social what was the bassoon album by the way?
The disappointment this man has become, or revealed himself as, is sickening.
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
According to @greavesian.bsky.social it is likely to have been wiped.
Sad news. Has taken up space in my brain for decades, that one; I'd have liked to see it again.
Not Play for Today: it was an episode of Late Night Drama from 1974.
Found it: thanks for the IMDB reminder. Not a Play for Today, it was an episode of Late Night Drama from Southern Television in 1974.
Bought that one a while ago, possibly just pre-move, and have realised I haven't played it yet 😬 Thanks for the reminder!
No idea but it has a Tintin cover vibe.
I would highly recommend Watchmen and From Hell, but avoid the films in both cases.
I'm beginning to think it was a febrile dream.
@greavesian.bsky.social does this one ring any bells with you? Science fiction feel to it, person in bed never speaks, they eventually bring his wife or girlfriend in and he begins to cry which delights everyone on the medical team. "Everything's going to be just fine" as the last line.
You now have me searching for a play I was sure was called "Just Fine" but which doesn't seem to appear in this list anywhere. Most of it shot from the POV of someone in a hospital bed. Gave me the creeps as a kid. Entirely possible I have the title wrong at this distance though.
It is, having managed to see a rareish cinema screening of it a month or so back.
Bentley Continental 😆
Suffolk, to someone retaining a geordie accent as I do, has more of a slight "-ick" sound at the end compared to the "-uck" of Southwark.
I used Hol-born in front of my girlfriend's mother who'd lived in London all her life, and got laughed at. 😕
("HO-bun")
I'm probably using the wrong one
Edge of Darkness (BBC version) Affronted Scottish landlady "You forgot your sandwiches, Mr Jedburgh!" Darius Jedburgh: "JEDBURGH!"
Also:"Holborn".
Rite of Spring seems rather unseasonal. Berio Sequenzas?
Other side reads "No clowns kept inside."
I am horrified, horrified I tell you. Not that my advice was too late to prevent your purchase, but that the "coffee" you are drinking looks near-transparent.
You don't need 'em, unless you've got a handy way of boring through a port bottle to extract the contents without exposing them to the air. Which for all I know, you may have.
Thank you, looking at the overhang (? Is that the term) of the treads in the space saving version, that makes sense. Well, sort of: it's still horribly dangerous, but I see the rationale - cheers.
I don't understand: how are these "space saving"? Wood saving I could understand, but they seem to take up the same volume of space as normal stairs would, unless there's a way of flattening them?
Dazzle camouflage stairs. The perfect combination.
I'd seen that it was originally imagined as a clear block and vaguely recall it being cast and rejected by SK, but I had no notion the cast still existed. I'll have to visit this.
I hadn't noticed in my enthusiasm to look up the Flying Lotus album.
As someone who has seen 2001 more times than is sensible and has at least two books on the subject, I had no idea that was there. 😳
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(cough) I may be following the Liverpool - Arsenal game, where a number of men propel a ball in various directions for some time, the purpose of which remains unclear.
Apologies for the football intrusion there, normal music and art-related chuntering will continue momentarily.
Ooof. Get in!
Hard to say, but possibly one of these? 63rd (Royal Naval) Division - Wikipedia share.google/gGrprSOL9ci2...
Desert island disc for me there.
Seriously underrated record.
Will do, thanks. Not familiar with that one.
#NowPlaying it may have @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social 's least favourite tune on it, but it's an absolute belter here. 🍁🍁
Not too many have curves that acute; Embankment perhaps, but it's curving the wrong way. Bank, maybe?
Send it to Mats Gustaffson, there's a cover for The Thing right there.
Yes - this one: Steve Reich / Amadinda Percussion Group – Music For 18 Musicians Live In Budapest – CD (Album), 2004 [r1960797] | Discogs share.google/RN68oqw0zkdu...
Have you heard the Amadinda Percussion Group recording, Sid? Some questionable vocals perhaps but worth a listen - quite an energetic performance.
They've all got their excellent points but the ECM is the one for me: none of the other versions have nailed section 2 in the way that one does.
I still have no idea what that first line there means...
Mr Sanders doing a sterling job at the drumstool at the Louis Moholo-Moholo benefit last week.
Remembering Diana, and the greatest newspaper correction ever
For any readers too young to remember the cover in question. I vaguely recall newsagent WH Smith's banned this issue.
I remember the day vividly - seeing the news in the morning on Ceefax (!) - but what really sticks in my mind, other than the hysteria, is the sheer overpowering smell of the rotting flowers outside Kensington Palace. I must have been 100m away when it hit me like a wave.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
One can only imagine where.
Cuyahoga Superman Time After Time Then lots more but these were the first three that popped into my head.
Cuyahoga Superman Time After Time
I'm just hoping he sees the response here.
I once put toothpaste on my razor instead of the toothbrush and fortunately stopped there, with something of a shudder. I was *very* tired.
Quite a while ago - this was recorded in 2000!
John Astin was a hard act to follow, even for Raul Julia.
Not bad, is it? (other than the octopus things which are beyond revolting)
Time for some late night subterranean growling from Mr Wobble & co.
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Thanks. For a second there...
Why is the flag at half mast?
30 years ago my friend Mark Wilson drew a comic strip for a fanzine that another friend - Kev Bowyer - and I were behind. It contained his vision of some scenes from the life of the wonderful Iain Banks. Turns out he loved them. #IainBanks #IainMBanks
Only a matter of time, and the rehearsal was enjoyable.
Catching up on the news and finding a disappointing lack of news.
Fantastic. I can have a rest from all of the (checks notes) snowmobile noise here in London.
If it said "free jazz LPs" that would be the end of me.
"if it wasn't for us, you'd be slaves." erm
A tidy afternoon's browsing.
"You have to internalise the sound. It's singing really. It's a voice. You've got to feel it inside to make that sound." Happy Birthday John Surman born 30 August 1944
Oh my word, what a thought 😖
The bitterest of break-up albums? Marvyn might be in with a shout, though.
I was playing It Is In The Brewing Luminous earlier and I suspect I had the same expression.
You had me nervously checking Radio 4 for signal. Phew.
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FELL
The constant non stories on Rayner are a clear sign the Tories fear her more than anyone else. But it’s also a class thing. Being massively corrupt as many Tories were, has hardly ever been a big story.
Mental health flossing. Glorious. #NowPlaying
If Trump looks like he's recovering, tell him Obama's won a second Nobel Prize.
Lime Bike laziness deserves berating. It can stop a pavement from being wide enough for a wheelchair or a buggy, and make a path unclear for a guide dog, etc. The only good use for them is that you can sling them either side of the wheels of immigration vans, to stop them taking migrants.
No, you're just not a ****
Tom Waits in Down By Law Reba McEntire in Tremors Yo La Tengo in The Book of Life
You'd play there? It would become the biggest open toilet in the world.
The Trump rumours are probably just that, but removing Harris' Secret Service protection feels like just the last-gasp thing that spiteful MF would do.
Bravo
It's superb and I'm only on the first track.
#NowPlaying How come you all kept quiet about this one until now? 👀
Curium's Cyprus
Lee Konitz' Limehouse Blues?