To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplin Will You?: Hazel O'Connor Smooth Operator: Sade Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd 100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days. Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
My mum used to do the washing up listening to Sade’s Diamond Life album. Interesting track to choose from Floyd. I used to love the early stuff but now prefer The Wall
Diamond Life is one of those rare perfect albums with no dud tracks.
I love early Floyd and highly recommend Nick Masons "Saucer Full of Secrets" band, touring at the moment. They don't play anything after Atom Heart Mother.
Summer '68 from Atom Heart Mother always makes me slightly choke, and I don't quite know why
Having a listen now... the only one I remember from that album is Fat old Sun
Sounds like a Rick Wright number
Am I a bit weird for actually liking Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast?
I never really got into that album, quite liked Obscured by Clouds, which was one of their weakest really. I was quite obsessed w Piper at the gates of Dawn as a teenager, but nowadays I really like Pigs on the Wing!
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplin Will You?: Hazel O'Connor Smooth Operator: Sade Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd 100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days. Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
Wow- I would put D..."Crime and Punishment" as my book.....but definitely Groundhog Day......
For simplicity...for 8 or so tracks... I would take Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division....or The Stone Roses (first album)....
Depending on my mood
Crime and Punishment gets going rather more quickly than the Brothers, and would be on my shortlist.
The Stone Roses is another on my list of perfect albums without a dud track.
I love the redemption in Crime and Punishment.....
Groundhog Day is...what can you say......
The really weird bit about Crime and Punishment is how progressive Czarist Russia was in its treatment of Raskolinikov. In Dickensian England he would be swinging in the breeze at Tyburn.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Classical music
1. Messiah 2. Hadyn’s Creation 3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2 4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino 5. Mozart’s Requiem 6. Puccini’s Tosca 7. Marriage of Figaro 8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
There are other experts who don't think it is as serious as this.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplin Will You?: Hazel O'Connor Smooth Operator: Sade Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd 100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days. Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
Wow- I would put D..."Crime and Punishment" as my book.....but definitely Groundhog Day......
For simplicity...for 8 or so tracks... I would take Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division....or The Stone Roses (first album)....
Depending on my mood
Crime and Punishment gets going rather more quickly than the Brothers, and would be on my shortlist.
The Stone Roses is another on my list of perfect albums without a dud track.
I love the redemption in Crime and Punishment.....
Groundhog Day is...what can you say......
The really weird bit about Crime and Punishment is how progressive Czarist Russia was in its treatment of Raskolinikov. In Dickensian England he would be swinging in the breeze at Tyburn.
You are right...
Dostoevsky was put through a false execution by the Tsar...everything was orchestrated..notably a firing squad.....I think that experience obviously profoundly changed his life and made him into some who transcended....
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
There are other experts who don't think it is as serious as this.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus has
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Classical music
1. Messiah 2. Hadyn’s Creation 3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2 4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino 5. Mozart’s Requiem 6. Puccini’s Tosca 7. Marriage of Figaro 8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Middlemarch and Anna Karenina would also be on my books list as would The Complete Short Stories of William Trevor.
Other music:
- Tom Waits - Pink Floyd - The Jam - The Smiths - Don Giovanni - La Traviata - Verdi’s Requiem - Oscar Peterson - Cesaria Evoria
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus has
A slightly deadly disease that almost everyone catches is much more serious than a very deadly disease hardly anyone gets.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus has
I think the 5% of Italians dying of this disease....and almost a half of those infected (approx 1500 or so) might not think so.....
My view from the outset is that this is the Spanish flu of our times....but...the impact will depend on how the countries respond to it....
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....
Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus has
Of course it was. But thankfully not too many got it. Huge numbers of people are likely to get coronavirus. And many, many more will die of coronavirus than of Ebola.
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre?!? I read that 3 times at school for English Lit O Level - got an E.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....
Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.
There you go again Cycle....re-traumatising and rubbing it in again.....good night...
I'm off to catch up on the 6 music festival with a glass of red....
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.
Also I’d like a book of complete English Poetry, please, the complete George Orwell, a piano so that I could really learn - preferably with accompanying piano teacher - and a spade and trowel for gardening. Then I’d be pretty happy self-isolating myself for years on end.
In fact that’s sort of what I’m close to doing up here.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Classical music
1. Messiah 2. Hadyn’s Creation 3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2 4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino 5. Mozart’s Requiem 6. Puccini’s Tosca 7. Marriage of Figaro 8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Middlemarch and Anna Karenina would also be on my books list as would The Complete Short Stories of William Trevor.
Other music:
- Tom Waits - Pink Floyd - The Jam - The Smiths - Don Giovanni - La Traviata - Verdi’s Requiem - Oscar Peterson - Cesaria Evoria
Yes, The Jam need to be in there.
My choice would be The Bitterist Pill, but plenty of good alternatives.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....
Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.
There you go again Cycle....re-traumatising and rubbing it in again.....good night...
I'm off to catch up on the 6 music festival with a glass of red....
I was trying to be helpful..... Rosi’s Carmen is also wonderful.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.
It makes me cry with laughter every time I watch it, which must be over fifty by now. The end scene, when you see how much of an overwhelming thing it is for Ted to get with Mary, actually makes me well up, and also contains a great garden path gag. (I assume you don’t think Le Comte was the slapstick!)
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.
I have seen Borat a dozen times but it always has me in stitches. It may well be the funniest film ever.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.
I listen to it every night to help me get to sleep, on so quietly I can barely hear it! So I’d have to have it on a desert island
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.
It makes me cry with laughter every time I watch it, which must be over fifty by now. The end scene, when you see how much of an overwhelming thing it is for Ted to get with Mary, actually makes me well up, and also contains a great garden path gag. (I assume you don’t think Le Comte was the slapstick!)
The scene at the beginning brings back childhood memories. Not good ones.
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre?!? I read that 3 times at school for English Lit O Level - got an E.
The first time you read it as a 14 year old girl you focus on the love story. Reread it as a woman and it strikes you as one of the first feminist stories.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.
I listen to it every night to help me get to sleep, on so quietly I can barely hear it! So I’d have to have it on a desert island
Funny how we get set in our ways isn't it. I am in hotels a lot, and now can't sleep unless I can hear crashing waves in the background. Most of the time, spotify is required!
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Indie bias incoming: Made of Stone - Stone Roses Spaniard - Boo Radleys (but Lazarus would do equally well) There She Goes - The Las Shangri La - The Kinks Certe Notti - Ligabue (a soft rock longing love song to his local bar when it was undergoing renovation) Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani (cannot hear withot a massive grin) The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers For Tomorrow - Blur
something of my own properly scored up and recorded, since I never learned to play an instrument and so they only exist on paper and in my head. A ditty called "Shimmy" I think.
The Usual Suspects Three Musketeers
Like most, the book and half the songs are set - the film is the toughee for me.
Please can we talk about something else, even if briefly.
Why Warren - despite being about the only person campaigning who knew how her sentences were going to end when she started them - ended up failing so miserably? For instance.
Was she too sharp? Misogyny? Particular policies? Am curious.
The after effects of the dreadful Hilary perhaps.
Or maybe not extreme enough to appeal to the Sanders supporters but not mainstream enough to appeal to the establishment.
I still do - The Cranberries The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel When you’re Young - The Jam Speak Like A Child - The Style Council Sunflower - Paul Weller Beautiful Boy - John Lennon Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Constant Craving is excellent - saw her do that album tour in London, many years back now.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Music (in no particular order)
1.Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 (Donohoe, Kennedy & Isserlis version) 2. Mozart’s Requiem - (Han Welser Most version) 3. Fleetwood Mac - Live Album 4. Supertramp - It was the best of times 5. Chopin - Nocturnes (Op. 9) 6. Rush - Hold your fire 7. Bach - Violin Sonatas 8. Abba - complete collection
Book: War & Peace (Large coffee table edition printed on soft paper) Book for reading: Ken Croswell - Alchemy of the Heavens
Please can we talk about something else, even if briefly.
Why Warren - despite being about the only person campaigning who knew how her sentences were going to end when she started them - ended up failing so miserably? For instance.
Was she too sharp? Misogyny? Particular policies? Am curious.
The after effects of the dreadful Hilary perhaps.
Or maybe not extreme enough to appeal to the Sanders supporters but not mainstream enough to appeal to the establishment.
I think that's spot on.
Except more than 50% of Dem voters wanted her to be president.
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Music (in no particular order)
1.Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 (Donohoe, Kennedy & Isserlis version) 2. Mozart’s Requiem - (Han Welser Most version) 3. Fleetwood Mac - Live Album 4. Supertramp - It was the best of times 5. Chopin - Nocturnes (Op. 9) 6. Rush - Hold your fire 7. Bach - Violin Sonatas 8. Abba - complete collection
Book: War & Peace (Large coffee table edition printed on soft paper) Book for reading: Ken Croswell - Alchemy of the Heavens
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy 2. This Charming Man - The Smiths 3. Europa Endlos - Kraftwerk 4. I am the Black Gold of the Sun - NuYorican Soul 5. Transmission - Joy Division 6. Nuthin But a G Thang - Dre 7. Dimanche à Bamako - Amadou & Mariam 8. Paid in Full- Eric B & Rakim
Book: Gravity's Rainbow
Film: Fearless Vampire Killers (even though it's Polanski)
To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Music
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen Angel of the Morning - PP Arnold Rainbow Sleeves - Rickie Lee Jones from Girl at Her Volcano EP Scherzo from Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony Les Chemins de l’amour (Poulenc) sung by Felicity Lott Lipstick Sunset -John Hiatt Hobart Paving - St Etienne Dignity - Deacon Blue
Book: Rocks and Minerals in Colour (1st prize for primary 6a, 1969-70 session - thanks, Mrs Rayner!)
Film: Lone Star, written and directed by John Sayles
Comments
Absolutely fascinating read. Strongly recommended.
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
Dostoevsky was put through a false execution by the Tsar...everything was orchestrated..notably a firing squad.....I think that experience obviously profoundly changed his life and made him into some who transcended....
:-)
Easy to forget he was once a Conservative MP, he is now firmly on the left
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others
Other music:
- Tom Waits
- Pink Floyd
- The Jam
- The Smiths
- Don Giovanni
- La Traviata
- Verdi’s Requiem
- Oscar Peterson
- Cesaria Evoria
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
My view from the outset is that this is the Spanish flu of our times....but...the impact will depend on how the countries respond to it....
https://twitter.com/JProskowGlobal/status/1236049771405639681
I'm off to catch up on the 6 music festival with a glass of red....
In fact that’s sort of what I’m close to doing up here.
My choice would be The Bitterist Pill, but plenty of good alternatives.
Biden couldn't be worse.
Made of Stone - Stone Roses
Spaniard - Boo Radleys (but Lazarus would do equally well)
There She Goes - The Las
Shangri La - The Kinks
Certe Notti - Ligabue (a soft rock longing love song to his local bar when it was undergoing renovation)
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani (cannot hear withot a massive grin)
The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers
For Tomorrow - Blur
something of my own properly scored up and recorded, since I never learned to play an instrument and so they only exist on paper and in my head. A ditty called "Shimmy" I think.
The Usual Suspects
Three Musketeers
Like most, the book and half the songs are set - the film is the toughee for me.
An interesting finding of fact at Family Court to be sure for the judge.....
1.Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 (Donohoe, Kennedy & Isserlis version)
2. Mozart’s Requiem - (Han Welser Most version)
3. Fleetwood Mac - Live Album
4. Supertramp - It was the best of times
5. Chopin - Nocturnes (Op. 9)
6. Rush - Hold your fire
7. Bach - Violin Sonatas
8. Abba - complete collection
Book: War & Peace (Large coffee table edition printed on soft paper)
Book for reading: Ken Croswell - Alchemy of the Heavens
Film: The Fifth Element
Even if Biden is so demented that he can't put a straw in his mouth, the US would still be better run.
Rather Go Blind - Ruby Turner (Dominion, Tottenham Court Road)
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (Wembley, Mandela Birthday Concert)
Bottle of Smoke - (The Pogues, Digbeth)
Fight for your Right to Party - (Beastie Boys with RUN DMC, Birmingham)
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear (Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston)
Ghost Town - The Specials (Rock Against Racism, Potternewton Park, Leeds)
Ant Music - Adam and the Ants (Dunelm, Durham)
Damn Right I Got the Blues - Buddy Guy
2. This Charming Man - The Smiths
3. Europa Endlos - Kraftwerk
4. I am the Black Gold of the Sun - NuYorican Soul
5. Transmission - Joy Division
6. Nuthin But a G Thang - Dre
7. Dimanche à Bamako - Amadou & Mariam
8. Paid in Full- Eric B & Rakim
Book: Gravity's Rainbow
Film: Fearless Vampire Killers (even though it's Polanski)
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Angel of the Morning - PP Arnold
Rainbow Sleeves - Rickie Lee Jones from Girl at Her Volcano EP
Scherzo from Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony
Les Chemins de l’amour (Poulenc) sung by Felicity Lott
Lipstick Sunset -John Hiatt
Hobart Paving - St Etienne
Dignity - Deacon Blue
Book: Rocks and Minerals in Colour (1st prize for primary 6a, 1969-70 session - thanks, Mrs Rayner!)
Film: Lone Star, written and directed by John Sayles