McTag wrote:blatham wrote:Spendi knows Dennis Potter but most folks over here don't. He did a bunch of mini-series for Brit TV (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective, Lipstick on Your Collar to name three) and to my taste he's the most original and exciting TV writer, period. Though most folks in north america aren't familiar with him, he's been very influential here too. David Milch (Hill Street Blues, Deadwood) has acknowledged Potter's broad influence, the Coen Brothers borrowed liberally from him in The Big Lebowski, and Woody Allen did an outright theft in one of his movies.
The piece I'm linking here is essentially the finale of Lipstick On Your Collar (the entire mini-series is six hours long). At the very end, when the screen goes black, you'll see some little circles with scenes in them floating about. Click on any one and you'll get another scene. You'll notice too a very young Ewan MacGregor. He got pulled out of drama school to do this project, a decision I expect he doesn't regret.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hm2qXT5JcQA
link faulty?
Dagnabbit. Try this one...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rXZ41uq9rn0
This is the anthem of the free no matter how many shitheads you have to deal with.
This is the song that Sir Edmund Hillary said he would take if he could only take one of his choices on Desert Island Discs.
And he dicked it up Everest with a sherpa for company.
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He might have carried on going if he'd seen this. I saw it. Five times. St James's Park Newcastle was best. He was gone on something that night although it has to be admitted I was too. That long black smock made him look like a bloody blacksmith.
Bernie wrote-
I suppose, things being what they are, that if the one in the red dress married our hero she would be something like the one who banged the door once the romance faded and the routines of daily life had been set in nigh on thirty years. Spots don't change their leopards.
Chumly wrote-
Quote:The Mounties usually only dress up in red for special occasions.
Would you like to put us in the picture Bernie?
Trust chumly on everything.
Billy Holiday...this song doesn't even begin to suggest her talents, but what a powerful bit of writing by Abel Meeropol pseudonym Lewis Allan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs&feature=related
Rick Mercer! They got Rick Mercer on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seYUbVa7L7w
Holy smoke Bernie--do you really think those "treasures"? Honestly!!
I do, spendi. I'm as certain of it as of the relationship between the size an individual's spirit and the diameter of his sphincter.
But the diameters of sphincters vary a great deal and often in rapid oscillations.
howcum you only post songs named WebpAge Title??
Funny, and there was a time when I thought Dylan was cool myself, and the guy clearly rises above being a "folk singer(TM)" at times... I mean, there's no way you could call Highway 61 a "folk song"...
And I could even tolerate the fact of some of these peoples causes turning out to be bullshit; Reuben Carter for instance... Aside from it turning out the guy was pretty obviously guilty of the crimes he was charged with, it also turns out that Joey Maxim basically beat the **** out of him as would have any other middleweight who actually knew how to box, I mean God help him had he ever gotten in the ring with Ray Robinson. Dylan was clearly smooking too much reefer or something on that one.
But somehow or other the years have left me with a sort of a case of the ass wrt "folk singers". I mean, somebody's whole thing is singing anti-war songs, you'd figure they might have something to say if a psychopath American president were to try to bomb some innocent Christian nation into the stone age to take a rape allegation against himself off the front pages of American newspapers...
Mayby somebody else heard something from our folk singers while that **** was going on; I didn't.
Take Judy Collins for instance... figure she'd have had anything to say about something like that? Nobody who held their breathe waiting for it survived:
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY, JUNE 09 1999 00:14:03 UTC XXXXX
Anti-war activist Judy Collins is set this evening to sing at a gala White
House state dinner -- all the while, the US led NATO war against Yugoslavia continues unrestrained.
Collins, who made her name over the last 35 years as a social conscience, is known for her renditions of anti-war songs such as 'Masters of War', 'Song For Sarajevo', 'Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream' and 'Fortune of Soldiers'.
Calls to Collins' label ELEKTRA asking for clarification on whether her fans
can still apply her passionate, idealistic songs to the current war in the
Balkans were unreturned.
Incidentally, tonight's dinner -- honoring the President of the Republic of
Hungary, Arpad Goncz and his wife, Mrs. Zsuzsanna Goncz -- features
a menu of Copper River Salmon with Portobello Mushroom, Roasted Onions and Sweet Peppers, Fennel and Herb Salad, Toasted Caraway and Tomato Sauce, Pecan Crusted Lamb, Wilted Summer Greens, Sweet Potato Flan, Barbequed Peach Ragout, Salad of Bibb Lettuce, Asparagus and Avocado, Stilton Crisp, Tarragon Grapefruit Dressing.
And for dessert: Bing Cherry Strudel Surprise and Creme Fraeche....
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Folk song, anybody?
Maybe something like:
....Last night I had the strangest dream, I ever had before,
I dreamed Slick Clinton put ol Judy Collins on the floor,
with an oink oink here, and an oink oink there,
here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink, oink...
Judy Collins is a pig, EE AY EE AY OH...
Love it gunga. Especially when you got carried away.
It was a crap menu though. Fancy having no genuine Tibetan goatsmilk yoghurt for the weightwatchers.
fm wrote-
Quote:howcum you only post songs named WebpAge Title??
It's more stylish I felt that a wodge of indecipherable gobbledegook.
You just click on it and there's my You Tube treasure. What's your beef?
spendius wrote:fm wrote-
Quote:howcum you only post songs named WebpAge Title??
It's more stylish I felt that a wodge of indecipherable gobbledegook.
You just click on it and there's my You Tube treasure. What's your beef?
Dylan, drugs, no connection?
In another vein, here's Laurindo Almieda and the MJQ -
Collaboration
(hope I didn't post that already..)
I would go and spell 'Almeida' incorrectly..
