(1527) Cold today.
19. Moosh corner
18. Steve at 1295
War Room Battleground EP 948: Isabel Vaughan-Spruce In Court For Illegally Praying In Public And Apocalypse Director Simón Delacre
JH: For those concerned, SKB appears in the set intro, then it’s someone else interviewing.
17. Parents taking children for holidays
16. Thou shalt not grass on baddies
I’ve heard some more recent numbers by them … in fact since the Covid troubles … and they certainly took awhile to get it back together again … the jauntiness, the sense of fun was not there imho. Don’t forget the vaxx factor either.
The singer Erica made to go solo with Shay’s help, then there were the New Orleans authorities who made it clear they were not wanted on the street, which had been their milieu. They did gigs in closed spaces, they went overseas, e.g. to Toulouse in France, they seemed to need money, the playing wasn’t as “on song”, again imho, as if they’d lost their mojo.
7 years ago:
Also 7 years ago:
The third is also 7 years ago:
“This noir B thriller from 20th Century Fox shows the temptations that the police are under. William Gargan stars and plays a doggedly honest cop who has a homicide literally dropped on his doorstep at the precinct headquarters. It’s almost like someone was taunting the cops to solve this one.
The victim in Behind Green Lights was a seedy private detective who had a nice sideline in blackmail and no one really is going to mourn his passing. But the case is loaded with political implications because Carole Landis, daughter of the reform candidate for mayor was seen leaving the victim’s apartment.
The largest newspaper in town is supporting the current administration and Roy Roberts says that the easiest thing in the world for Gargan to do to advance his career is pick up Landis and book her. At least until the election is over which will be in a few days. Something about Roberts sticks in Gargan’s craw. He could easily justify holding Landis and helping his career, but he won’t do it.
There’s a nice array of suspects and by definition performances. There are two keys here, a very sleazy medical examiner played by Don Beddoe and a bag lady played by Mabel Paige. Between the two of them the real story comes out.
Behind Green Lights bears no small resemblance to Detective Story in structure. Most of the action takes place in the police station. This film is nicely paced with a few good comic touches. I can’t mention them because they are within the plot structure and not just added on. This noir film is a good one to check out.”
Elevenses … short hiatus for lunch and tasks, film later.
(1059) Time’s flying again … elevenses. (1059)
15. Bobbie posts on bobbies … yay!
14. Kass and Eva also had much to say on’t
13. MTB had good news
… the skies in the west did not:
12. That clip again
11. IYE
Agents for the Red Shields:
(1029) Back to the more regular horrors (in the main). (0959)
10. Moosh corner
9. NOWP WP dot com navbar (not our own)
8. “Enough” terrorism?
7. Every one of these monsters “teaching” in schools
… need sacking, striking off and incarcerating.
6. At Quora … chap named John Arogano
I ignored every single warning sign my body was sending me for three straight weeks before I had a massive heart attack when I was forty-seven years old. I’m talking about signs like stress, indigestion, or just getting older.
I thought that only movie stars who clutched their chest and fell over in a heap had heart attacks. I had no idea that my body was sending out warning signs. Signs like fatigue that just wouldn’t go away no matter how much I slept. Signs like jaw pain that I attributed to grinding my teeth. Signs like indigestion that antacids couldn’t touch. Signs like shortness of breath when I climbed stairs that I used to climb easily. I ignored all of these signs until I fell over in my driveway.
The truth is that your body will send out distress signals a month or so before you have a heart attack, but most people will ignore these signs or write them off as minor symptoms.
Here are the actual symptoms. Severe episodes of inexplicable fatigue, particularly in women—your heart is working hard to pump blood effectively. Difficulty breathing while performing ordinary tasks—your heart is not receiving adequate oxygen. Periodic chest pain, commonly attributed to heartburn. Pain radiating to the jaw, neck, shoulder, or arm. Cold sweats without any apparent reason. Nausea and gastrointestinal problems. Dizziness or lightheadedness. Irregular heartbeats or palpitations. Most people suffer from these symptoms for weeks before the actual attack.
Thanks to a guide that I discovered to survive when the shelves are bare, there is no electricity, and doctors are not available, I learned about various methods to identify key health alerts and employ potent natural remedies to promote heart health before the disaster occurs. This guidebook has literally saved me by learning the symptoms of cardiac trouble and reversing my heart disease by making lifestyle changes since my heart attack.
But now I no longer just push through symptoms or write them off as normal signs of aging. This means taking persistent fatigue seriously as a symptom of a heart problem. Seeking immediate care if I have chest pain or inexplicable shortness of breath. Recognizing that the symptoms of a heart attack are often not dramatic but subtle. Tracking blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Supporting heart health through healthy eating, rather than waiting until an emergency. And, of course, recognizing that your body always gives you a warning before a big event—whether you’re listening or not until it’s catastrophically too late.
(0827) Well, wasn’t Sun One fun! 🫣 (0850)
5. Steve corner
a. On Sat 19. Moosh corner ..
“Westminster Bridge wouldn’t have looked like that if we’d have lost the Battle of Britain in 1940. Look at London now though; we lost it, or rather our despicable political class gave it away. That is never the end though, as John Paul Jones once said: “We have only just begun to fight”. That is our destiny, because if we don’t we’ll lose not just London but the whole damn country. There are reasons people fight..”
b. At 1294:
4. Dearieme, prm and Isilme
You were noticed … I’m following a procedure where if it has a url link, it generally appears in a post. If a comment is a major one but no link, I’ll archive it as a rule at UHC-WP. Takes time, must use time well … if it’s in comments for now, it ain’t goin’ nowhere … as long as it’s sonewhere at least, that’s the main thing.
3. DAD at 1294:10
a) The Three P’s of Rural Racism: …..People, …..Pubs, and …..Pets. The British countryside is “too white.” At least that is, according to Defra—the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. Following a report in 2019, National Landscapes—a charity mostly funded by Defra….
b) Sir Jim makes it clear….. “I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people…….”
d) If you’ve been following recent UK political scandals, you’ve probably seen individual stories surface in the news. But what happens when you step back and look at the bigger picture? In this video, we examine a growing pattern of sexual misconduct scandals….
2. Andy corner
a. A wee bit from the unherdable and hyphenated moggy. | https://youtu.be/hDUSqzx28qs?si=pHS3o1PQLGzqiXP5
b. On Sat 17. Colonisation explained in a very cultured voice. | https://youtu.be/ho-RvsH9EFU?si=Vr7gYhcJAgIL7l2f
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Torquaymada and “generations lost in space”
That heading quote is from Don McLean’s American Pie and his commentary on post-war until 1971/2 “rock history”.
With the greatest respect to our senior member here, nearing 90, a musical dedication to him coming up later (called Sunday) and accepting that each classical or baroque piece pinpoints in itself a sub-era so to speak, what was the rage at the time … so does popular music of more recent, post-war sub-eras … or in other words, throughout the duration of our own lives.
Part of that has been reestablished contact with my first genuine Valentine’s romance after so many decades now, plus other ladies of various eras … and that has sharply focussed my mind at least on how far a person is always of his/her era, with its thinking process, but also how far he/she has explored other eras and likes or skips past various eras. Clumsy construction but you get the idea.
And into eras and sub-eras comes the modern (though also biblical) notion of labelling a generation … it’s quite possible to do immediately post war but starts to lose its validity into the 80s and has almost diversified into quite different musical camps by the mid-90s, at which point, imho, the music did, finally, genuinely grind to a halt and die, coinciding with the rise of autotuning. It quite lost its way, went dark and satanic, inc. Minaj.
So we’d been through proto-punk, punk, post-punk, techno, disco, grunge, glam … plenty of other genres … and then we get to Britpop:
“Britpop was a British music and cultural movement that emerged in the 1990s. Musically, it produced bright, catchy alternative rock that drew heavily on the traditions of 1960s guitar-based British pop, with lyrics that emphasised national identity and offered commentary on British culture and society. The movement was seen as a reaction against the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the American-led grunge and the more introspective shoegaze scene in Britain. It helped bring British alternative rock into the mainstream and became a key part of the broader Cool Britannia phenomenon, which echoed the spirit of the Swinging Sixties.”
I largely missed entire sub-eras after the mid 70s … I was vaguely aware of something called a Nirvana and some teen spirit thing people went on about but I never knowingly heard any of it until exploring it relatively recently. I also vaguely knew of some guy called Kurt and something about him dying … big deal, Jim Morrison and Hendrix had died, Joplin, Sandy Denny. As for Pink Floyd … that largely passed me by, except for Meddle, which I liked. Not forgetting that I was a Radio DJ at that point for a year or so, playing mainly Krautrock and Hawkwind.
I did know of The Clash but had never been deeply into “down by the wivver” rock, completely missed Oasis, Queen (except I want to be free) … yet as the 80s became the 90s, I knew MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Betty Boo, Twenty4Seven, boy bands such as Take That and Backstreet Boys, and of course Ska and Two-Tone … so how had I missed all the rest?
Around 1995, I was on a bus to Blackpool (don’t even ask) with a London girl deeply into Oasis … I’d heard there were two Gallaghers who didn’t like one another, we sat on the beach together, speaking of nothings … maybe she’d heard of Blondie and New Order, maybe even Slade but I’d never knowingly listened to some Guns and Roses thing … seemed to be big in the lives of various young ladies I knew.
And so we finally get to Torquaymada at 1294:5:
“The particular subject may not appeal to all (some might say ‘who cares?’) but this article should be of interest. Our host … often challenges us to ‘dig deeper’ into the multiple offerings and ‘starting points’ proffered here.
Whether you like it or not, this is a masterclass in ‘deep diving’ to my mind…”.
https://restoremag.com/chasing-the-restless-ghost-of-kurt-cobain
I found it fascinating and forgive my plug for NOWP (see navbar above) but there is so much reading and viewing there, going right back … there’s our era in real time. And yes, I’m also going to urge people to work through the anecdotes at UHC-WP. If I don’t oush HQ all that much, it’s coz I’m writing much of it.
Now, with your permission, I must revert, briefly, to Don McLean because last night I saw another reaction to him from young people … yes, I much prefer to see how the “old music” affects the young or does not, obviously the things they know nothing of but also the things they’re quite interested in. Dozens of youtube reactors (mainly Millennial or early Gen Zee) are avidly exploring the old and my vintage seems to be going to comments threads to supply primary source info.
To my mind, the whole thing is healthy and if we take that, plus what you chaps and chapesses are supplying here … well I for one am piecing together quite a postwar roadmap of what went on at our level. Sorry to confess to my first romantic love back then but part of it is placing “us” in the wild events, the eras, more accurately, more definitively, seeing just how one summer of love signed off on one era … began another. One day, I’ll write it all up. Maybe.
Oh … here’s that very emotional young people reaction to American Pie. Do give it a viewing please.
However, that’s not what this post is actually about. It’s about Torquaymada, plus Sloopy. You wot?! Yep, and the second part of it involves multiple youtubes.
In 1965, The McCoys came out with Sloopy, based on a so g from the previous year by a black band: My Girl Sloopy, which did not go into the charts due to the tyrannical music controllers of the time. But the McCoys’ version did … pre video, pre MTV.
The version most people know has a raunchy, though dressed girl, Lisa Leonard Dalton, with “more moving parts than a machine”, as someone put it. And yes … as good as the song was, the braless Lusa was the focus of all eyes.
But here’s the thing. The producers put the 1975 vision behind the 1965 band … they spliced the two, as Lisa LD wasn’t in that 1965 version … she was born in 1956 and is still around today. And thus it was the 1975 version she was in the video of, being brought in from where she’d won some go-go dancer awards.
And the first thing is that yes … viewers wanted her, wanted to know all about her … but the lead singer wanted it to be all about the band and the song … the girl was an incidental. Not in our eyes she wasn’t. And when she finally saw how people were ascribing her performance to some other woman, she was highly p***ed about it:
Or in video form:
This is the 1975 version of the song, in MTV form, not 1965 at all (YT or WP refuse to embed it):
https://youtu.be/3E0xJpi9rK8?si=37MUqTwiXQEUq1h3
And the thing went viral of course … Ohio State latched onto it and so … this:
Phew!
Unusual to close off the numbered posts with a feature but you’ll see why. Was gathering for tomorrow and this below appeared … continues under the video …
The character is AI but not Amelia. Uh huh … ok … fine, think I prefer this one and the uses “she” is put to are commendable … in fact, they’d be good for school lessons methinks.
Think of the potential of tech to get the country back in each western nation … but of course, the history must be as authentic as possible.