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“Great. I hadn’t heard of this comedian.”
I like it when he says he used to go to church but then he grew up.Be-Bop Deluxe with a gem from 1975. This passed me by at the time and it was only a year or so ago that I caught up with it on an OGWT repeat. I prefer this live version to the studio version, which is somewhat over-engineered.
Lead man Bill Nelson is still making music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZOMrH_qaQThe Jehovas meet their match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-3trxxFFgHear hear, Paula. Some matches have been brilliant and you can’t beat it for drama (though I do like Shakespeare too). May the team that plays the best footie win, I don’t really care where they come from. But please not on penalties.
And it gives us a chance to boo arch capitalists Mr Pres and Mr Fifa for their skulduggery. Of course in a socialist society there would be no international football but as it’s there why not enjoy it. And there’s nothing to say that it wouldn’t be replaced by some kind of inter-regional competition where the regions are more or less equivalent to countries. Unlikely maybe but we just don’t know.You don’t always get vilified and drawn into a slanging match of hatred and contempt if you bring up the subject of nationalism.
I was totally taken by surprise recently by the attitude of a neighbour who called round. She is Muslim, as are her whole family. She and her daughter wear a hijab. She started talking generally about world problems and how she has her faith to fall back on. I didn’t comment on this but as she obviously wanted to know what I thought about the state of the world, I took a deep breath and said I thought we needed to abolish national borders altogether and make ourselves free to go wherever we liked, and that we should also abolish governments and get rid of the ruling class. Was she shocked? Did she run for the door? No, she was genuinely interested and actually asked me for some sources.
That said, I wouldn’t describe her as one of the lumpenproletariat – she is an intelligent woman and obviously curious. Of couse, if she gets to see the WSM’s stance on religion she will back off and maybe never speak to me again. But as yet, none of her family have come round to beat me up.
Sport and health may not necessarily go hand in hand but there again I would say most top sportspeople try to keep as healthy as they can.
By ‘sport’ in the Roman context I assume you mean ludus or ludi (they certainly didn’t say ‘sport’, which as far as I know has a medieval French origin), and yes, I know they could get pretty bloody and the partakers probably didn’t think twice about falling ill by moving about quickly in 33 degree heat in the open sun for the glory of it all.
The only reason for this in today’s society is the money imperative.“Do you know the way to San Jose? – Dionne Warwick
Written by Burt Casino-Card-Game & Hal David”Quiz question – what was Burt Bacharach’s first credited tune?
A classic song by John Dowland from the late 16th century. When played by solo lute the tune has quite a different name – The Frog Galliard. You can look up possible reasons for this name if you’re interested.
Let’s hear it for John Dunstaple, who is credited with the invention of the three-note chord, or triad, in the early 1400s. Where would modern music be without it?
Here’s one of the first songs to make use of the new discovery, a love song by Guillaume Dufay, circa 1430:
I bought a lute a couple of years ago and I’m slowly learning to play it. Many lute tunes are underplayed classics (except in lute circles of course). Here’s a really nice one from the 16th century, except it’s played on a vihuela, which is tuned the same and very similar in sound.
Moo: ‘Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:’
I’m going to have to listen to them a bit more. I hadn’t paid much attention to them at the time, except for when the delightfully self-styled Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water over John Prescott’s head at the 1998 Britpop awards.
Whether they should be described as hard left like in the video is moot though – they looked to be against capitalism of the left, right or centre.
