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« Reply #3105 on: 10:23:58, 01-01-2008 » |
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What makes me happy? Well certainly not listening to R4 at the moment. I just switched over briefly and they're running over the last year's events. It's the usual sad catalogue of grief, crime, political corruption and general misery. No good news there. Thank goodness for R3 and making music generally. Happiness is a child's laugh, hug and kiss, a dog's waggy tail welcome - well love all round - good health and not worrying yourself stupid over how to make ends meet. Tall order I suppose.....  |
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« Reply #3106 on: 10:48:53, 01-01-2008 » |
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Try the Vaughan Williams documentary on Channel 5. I just remembered in time - it started at 9 a.m. I'm not a mad RVW fan, but it's good, and I realise how deeply his music is in my consciousness.
I'll think about the serious question of happiness later.
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« Reply #3107 on: 11:11:43, 01-01-2008 » |
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Try the Vaughan Williams documentary on Channel 5. I just remembered in time - it started at 9 a.m. I'm not a mad RVW fan, but it's good, and I realise how deeply his music is in my consciousness.
I'll think about the serious question of happiness later.
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« Reply #3108 on: 11:29:36, 01-01-2008 » |
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No RVW for me, I'm watching the Clash on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMelBEiB7bgHe's in love with rock'n'roll woaahh He's in love with gettin' stoned woaahh He's in love with Janie Jones But he don't like his boring job, no... Who needs fine lyrics for a fine song? especially as I've never been able to understand what Joe Strummer was singing until relatively recently when I could google the words. This photo of them makes me laugh   |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #3110 on: 11:59:50, 01-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #3113 on: 12:25:29, 01-01-2008 » |
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Be warned, at the end of the RVW film there are some truly vile (and vilely true) images of what can happen to people in this world. I had to look away, so I'm not quite sure what they were - about war, I think.
Not very happy, but since it was under discussion here...
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« Reply #3114 on: 13:00:08, 01-01-2008 » |
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Thank you for the warning Madame Chambers. We always steer well clear of that sort of thing, and we shall forget about Mr. Palmer's film. We have even stopped listening in to the B.B.C. news since they introduced sound effects a few years ago.
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« Reply #3116 on: 13:08:16, 01-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #3117 on: 13:12:13, 01-01-2008 » |
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I was dubious about being awake at 09.00hrs on New Year's Day, or even wanting to watch TV during the morning, but Tony Palmer's documentary on the Life of RVW held me enthralled and deeply moved. Of course, the frequent commercial breaks - 25 mins in the 3 hour schedule - were intrusive but the pause facility on my DVD recorder will let me see the programme again without these crass interruptions. Credit, too, to C5 for commissioning this fine film.
Mary, (Happy New Year, by the way), I assume that the disturbing imagery at the end of the programme, a repeat from an earlier sequence, was really to highlight the gulf which fostered RVW's Christian agnosticism!
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« Reply #3118 on: 13:50:03, 01-01-2008 » |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #3119 on: 14:07:52, 01-01-2008 » |
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I'm the greatest Britten fan on this board, probably, and every time I watch Dud I collapse with laughter. I particularly like the spider (in the piano part) and the pause before the last "away". Uncannily accurate account of the foibles of my favourite composer (not to mention my favourite singer, but then you can't have one without the other, at least not if you're of my generation). |
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