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Retired. Rejoiner. VdGG & Peter Hammill. Gigs, films, SF. Bath City FC and Somerset CCC. Reading Pepys’ diary daily.
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I dream of being in Gibraltar for the spring bird migrations!
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Italy’s the place to go. There were dozens of swifts above our Venice hotel terrace at the end of April - and the sky was full in Piacenza when I was there a few years back.
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I’ll vouch for you. Entry to Bowie will be by timed ticket I believe.
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It were all Mitchell’s and Yates & Jackson in my day.
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The Higgins Art Gallery had a small but very good exhibition of Edward Bawden prints. Lovely Shell adverts - I especially liked the depiction of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc.
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Fantastic. ‘Perplexity’!
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The Panacea Society is featured in Alan Moore’s excellent story ‘Location, Location, Location’ in his collection Illuminations.
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Rod really not reading the field there.
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The film is worth catching.
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Bang goes Rendezvous with Rama then. ☹️
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These are very good but Badgers couldn’t compensate at twice the price for just another night with the boys, oh yeah.
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That implies there are three others better…
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Yes, it’s extraordinary. A new reality - hard to see it going back to the ‘old’ days.
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I just hope Editions of You is going to be number one.
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Not for the first time!
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Almost impossible, but it has to be from Climate of Hunter, my entry point to Scott Walker -
so, Dealer.
#ALL50RTS
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I took my wife and a friend to see it, both for the first time, a few months ago, and they criticised it like it was 1975 - too slow, O’Neal miscast. Having seen it a dozen times, I just sighed. And I wept AGAIN at the funeral, Kubrick’s most brilliant piece of emotional manipulation.
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Yes, he basically squeaked ‘The name of this band is Talking Heads’. Very much a different live presence now.
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Fascinating. I saw Ramones / Talking Heads nearly two years later (May 77) in Manchester and Talking Heads seemed like a fairly new band - only one single, Byrne seemingly really nervous.
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Eek! It is quite a steep path once you’ve landed.
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I was once at a Jeffrey Lewis gig at Brixton Windmill, with Stanley Brinks supporting, and he unveiled a new song about how he preferred Herman Dune when there were two brothers in the band. It was typically brilliant, but have not heard it since.
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The voyages of Burton and Speke were recently interestingly recreated by Ben Fogle and Dwayne Fields as a documentary series, which is probably now the only way you can handle the material. But there is still much merit in In Search For the Nile if you take it as a product of its time. On DVD.
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This is a 1971 production and is probably not a drama that the BBC would choose to make today. There are inevitable elements of racism here as all the characters, as white men (and one woman), thought themselves superior and do not hold back from saying this. But that is true to the times.
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The narration can be quite pointed, telling us what to think, but the characters are roundly drawn. Burton is the central figure, inevitably, falling out with Speke and the Royal Geographical Society (easy to do) and embittered that he has failed to find the source, but that Speke might have.
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It covers all the Victorian explorers who were looking for the source of the Nile - Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and Samuel & Florence Baker, who we now know were not married. Kenneth Haigh is superb as Burton, all flashing eyes and elaborate facial hair. James Mason narrates silkily.
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Congratulations!
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Thanks for this, it is oddly beguiling. Very strange choice of scenes in places, but that’s one of the things I like about it.
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Thanks Rich. Sadly only got Scott 4 through and I should have clearly also voted for Scott 3 to help its chances.
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This is down to Sondheim rather than Buñuel. The two films are not connected character-wise and Sondheim puts the later film in the first half. It’s a very long time since I saw The Exterminating Angel but I can’t recall any real in- depth characterisation at all.
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Directed by John Landis, a major figure at the time.
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Had to be done, I feel.
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Hi Rich.
#5albums50s60s2
I Terry Riley - In C
2 The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Gorilla
3 Scott Walker - Scott 4
4 Silver Apples - Silver Apples
5 Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
I’m assuming the VU can look after themselves.