Youtube treasures

This guy is playing with his organ which I think, is the biggest one in AustraliaREALLY BIG ORGAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf43M1KJ_6Y

Flip it up to full screen, turn up the volume, be very still.

One of my movie heros is the little guy in Fiddler who finally manages to get a Singer sewing machine sent over to the Ukraine from Sears or some such and presumably magnifies his income by a factor of 25 or 30. Imagine anybody you know achieving that... Nobody else in the village would have ever needed to work again.

Most fabulous version of any sort of a Russian dance there ever was was Roberto Duran's workouts when he ruled lightweights. The guy used to do cossack dances, thighs parallel to the ground with a jump-rope until the rope got to be a blur and then would start to switch the rope and he could keep that up for 20 - 30 minutes. The question people used to ask was, could Nureyev or Baryzhnikov DO that; they might not have been coordinated enough...

I've been looking for any sort of a good cut of that on the web but haven't found it yet.

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Speaking of the Fiddler on the Roof: my all times favorite: Sunrise, sunset

My dad's favorite is Do You Love Me? , which warms my heart, as I'm sure it's about my parents. It was written about them, no doubt.

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