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I had a dream last night, I kid you not, that Peter Maxwell Davies was trying to kill me.   He was actually quite creative about it, until he gave up and just started shooting at me (at which point I finally learned his identity). I am particularly proud of my subconscious for coming up with the idea of murder via poisoned fireplace log. Oh, purlease could we have an opera or ballet based on this dream........ Tommo |
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I had a dream last night, I kid you not, that Peter Maxwell Davies was trying to kill me. He was actually quite creative about it, until he gave up and just started shooting at me (at which point I finally learned his identity). I am particularly proud of my subconscious for coming up with the idea of murder via poisoned fireplace log. Well I remember reading a theory that Napoleon was poisoned by the green ink used in the wallpaper of his accommodation on Elba. Conspiracy theories anybody? |
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I had a dream last night, I kid you not, that Peter Maxwell Davies was trying to kill me. He was actually quite creative about it, until he gave up and just started shooting at me (at which point I finally learned his identity). I am particularly proud of my subconscious for coming up with the idea of murder via poisoned fireplace log. Well I remember reading a theory that Napoleon was poisoned by the green ink used in the wallpaper of his accommodation on Elba. Conspiracy theories anybody? ink you say, Kitty? Hmm. Anyone seen Martle? Martle. cooee. Martle? MARTLE, COME HERE THIS INSTANT!!!!! |
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« Reply #78 on: 15:15:14, 31-07-2007 » |
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Oh, purlease could we have an opera or ballet based on this dream........
Tommo
I've just received a letter from Vincenzo Bellini to forward on to you, Tommo: Dear Seventeen Eight O, Whiles I am reading your web site, I'm seeing your request for new opera or ballet based on dream. Perhaps you know already of my project for opera Margarita, Donna di Ferro with libretto by Lord Archer, due for Opera Metropolitain? Now that is safely on the way, I consider your request. Ballet I think will be better; L'Omicidio nello Magazzino* perhaps. I'm not yet sure whether to have a new score writed, or to be using one that already is. Perhaps a piece by your own Robert Maxwell Davies himself might be good choice; for saving money, perhaps one of her string quartets; that way we don't need orchestra, just four players - or if we use Naxos CD, just one player. Also we need a style and choreographer: modern ballet better as neither Maxwell Davies or Tempo Subito really suiting tutus, I suspect. Very much a fantasy at moment and still limp. I contact again when firmed up... Best wishes for the minute, V. * Death in the Warehouse apparently, Tommo. Ron |
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« Reply #79 on: 15:25:31, 31-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #80 on: 15:54:32, 31-07-2007 » |
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Green ink you say, Kitty? Hmm. Anyone seen Martle? Martle. cooee. Martle? MARTLE, COME HERE THIS INSTANT!!!!!
It wasn't me, it wasn't! You gotta believe me! |
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« Reply #81 on: 16:06:17, 31-07-2007 » |
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Ah martle,
I see you decorate for Lord Irvine
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« Reply #82 on: 16:30:38, 31-07-2007 » |
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Well I remember reading a theory that Napoleon was poisoned by the green ink used in the wallpaper of his accommodation on Elba. Conspiracy theories anybody?
A pedant writes....it was his second incarceration on St Helena actually. "Schalers Green was a colouring in wallpaper widely used in those days and containing copper arsenite. Examination of the wallpaper proved it to be arsenical and capable of giving off poisonous vapours which, when combined with the mould found in the damp atmosphere of the house, may also have been responsible for the frequent illnesses of Napoleon's staff and servants who were treated for complaints with similar symptoms. Napoleon was much improved in health when he spent days outside the house working in the garden." |
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« Reply #83 on: 16:34:31, 31-07-2007 » |
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Dear Mr Blini
Thank you for your kind reply. For someone from Poland, you write with a remarkably southern accent, and are very much sharper in wit than the flatness of your name would suggest.
May I ask what you believe your role in this event will be? Perhaps co-composer with Mr "Good Evans" Johnson? That would surely be a coup, especially if you could incorporate elements of the Maxwell House advert music.
I have two requests..... Our choreographer, Mr D'Arcy Bushmills has asked that the ballerinas wear giant gumboots - a clog dance for these maxwellies would be really great.
And I feel a cameo performance would pull in the crowds. Please could you see your way to inserting a scene, to be performed by our own Adelaide Grew, called "Shostakovich's Most Marvellous Moment".
The Czech is in the post (or am I just Fibich?)
Tommo
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« Reply #85 on: 17:17:05, 31-07-2007 » |
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Caro Signior Tommo,
Polished I am, but polish I am not. I, like you are seeming, am Italian stallion: not so much a blini, more a stud muffin, if we are to insist on these half-baked comparisons.
You ask if I will co-compose. Poverino Tommo, you have the stutter, no? Nowaday, like your esteemed Lloyd-Webber, I make the impressario more than compose: as for using the Mawell House music, both the afore-mentioned and me, we do not use other's work in our compositions.
Please inform your Mr Bushmills, the man who has no arse but only double use and with whom I pweviously have cwossed swords (as he would put it) that gumboots are just another of his whisky ideas, and that as he would know (had he ever been a better dancer), ballet feet are needed to be very carefully maintained, and the only clogging they will get from gumboots is nasty bits between their toeses. As for your Adelaide Grew, did I not see her in the Woomera Amateur Touring Ballet's La Jolie Fille de Perth not since long? Has she managed yet passing of her eighth grade, or will the seventh rate for ever as the zenith of her endeavour? I am fearing that the age of gold is eluding of her grasp. She seemed like she was of great interests in mens' trousers, though, so perhaps somewhere else she might make a bright future some time.
As I have said before, Roma was not dildoed in a day, so to see this project arise to fruition you may have to put up many things before reaching satisfaction.
I wish you and your 1779 colleagues salute !
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« Reply #86 on: 16:44:03, 02-08-2007 » |
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Dear Mr Bellendi
Please accept my apologies for confusing you with that famous polish composer, Frederick Chopper. I realise now you are even more of an attraction to the ladies than the famous Osmond brother, Donny Zetty. And thankfully you are better equipped than Mr Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Rossini.
Thanks to your reaction, I have now 'sacked' Ms Grew (who left singing "Baggy Trousers" by Madness.). I have also replaced Mr Bushmills with the great Welsh-Georgian choreographer, Dai Agilev. I hope this meets your approval.
I look forward to your recommendations for lead ballerina, and of course how you feel we should disguise PMD and his murderous melodies. Do you believe we should engage the services of Poirot to ensure the plot is mysterious and dreamy enough?
My company is rapidly shrinking from its 1779 you mentioned, and with each departure I feel older and older!
Kind regards
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« Reply #87 on: 20:23:03, 02-08-2007 » |
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One of my favourite press advertisements many years ago now, a photograph of a beautiful stone inscription in roman letters:
T O E R R I S H U M O N
Yorkshireman asked for the mason to carve 'SHE IS THINE' on his (deceased) wife's gravestone. Mason delivered 'SHE IS THIN'. Yorkshireman - "You've missed off the 'E'!" Mason delivers replacement. 'E SHE IS THIN' (One of those jokes better spoken than read perhaps...Imagine Alan Bennett, Thora Hird, or even Mr Sorabji with a macaroon in one paw and a mug of Earl Grey in the other...) |
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« Reply #88 on: 23:53:02, 04-08-2007 » |
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For the first time in four years, I had another "aliens" dream last night. I don't remember the details, although I did when I first woke up, except that they wanted me to do something, and if I wasn't going to comply, they would bring in "enforcers".
Too many X-files episodes, I hope.
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« Reply #89 on: 23:55:38, 04-08-2007 » |
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I wouldn't dare tell anyone what I dreamt last night.  I astonished myself on many levels, firstly by remembering it! I only ever remember having one other erotic dream in my life and that was many years ago. |
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