(1600) Almost evening all.
19. Moosh corner
18. Steve and war room
17. This Ed Martin thing
House and Senate are playing mindgames with Trump.
(1159) Almost afternoon all. Film at 1330. (1234)
17. Vivaldi RV93
It’s near impossible, with music, to make everyone happy. For example, I went through eight performances of this below before choosing this version … even the John Williams’ was at breakneck speed … this one, if anything, is too slow for mine … yet the music itself, the composition … many would say it’s a worthy piece of music. Played quite well.
I’ve been making statements about some rock genre performances which were musically near note perfect … for example Dire Straits, Alchemy, Sultans … or CCR, Woodstock, I Put A Spell On You … within the genre both created for themselves, they were right up there … there was mastery of the instruments, plus chemistry within the ensemble … classical musiciand in particular commented on Knopfler.
Snobbishness is one of those things which needs to be in fair measure … not too much, not too little … but then we get to simply not liking a type of music … for me, that would be 40s swing or 60s/70s metal. Queen did nothing for me, though the singer and guitarist have been complimented.
The 80s was pretty dire … New Order lost their Mojo imho, then came Hammertime, Betty Boo. Glad I never saw Slade in those clown suits or Kiss in that get-up … glad I never saw the Stones after the early b&ws, drowned out by girls screaming. To be fair, Stairway to Heaven had been, still is, a masterpiece of composition and pacing.
Perhaps the worst was prog posturing and posing as great artists in the Mozart mold of Sting, plus many of these from 1983’s pop chart:
Not one of any lasting value. Then again, some of those might say that the songs were just pop at the time, not meant to be masterpieces … they catered for a niche. I’m thinking Judy In Disguise With Glasses … just fun, like Purple People Eater.
A good example of a fine, well produced, well played, well sung pop song was Crispian St Peters’ Pied Piper … it was what it was, there were no pretensions to greatness in the song, though he lost his head to fame and started acting like a superstar, just as George Lazenby did.
This above by Vivaldi was rather nice, did you not think? And yes, it’s an understatement.
16. DAD at 1041 has
I had:
(1034)(1049)
15. Moosh corner
14. Chagos betrayal
13. As safe as Fort Knox?
12. Today’s TDS … link in Brolls
11. AKH and the country house
”Even by Dickens’ time, the lure of a cosmopolitan life had created a sharp contrast with the staid life of managing a country estate with its onerous management, upkeep costs and predictable social routines.”
https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/05/they-leave-flavour-of-their-graves.html
10. Rolf, De Niro and DJT
(0822) Sun’s still out here, I’m watching the bleah clear. (0930)
9. Collective, selective blindness
Strangely, I do see Reform voters’ point to first secure these council seats and mayoralties, then to pressure Farage and Co, whilst meanwhile we’re just dirty rotten spoilsports to point out what Farage is up to …
… I do see it … many at ground level have invested so much of themselves to get this far and after all, Nige is such a sweet chap, loves a pint, loves a woman. Such babes in the wood as new Reform people … er, um … do not know the Farage history at UKIP, then selling out TBP, now doing it over again behind the charm. Except the cloven hoof appeared with Ben, Rupert, TR … now us.
Are we nazis to be against grooming gangs and illegals ferried in en masse, fighting age men, mind? If so, so be it.
All right, Higham, what’s your solution then? As with everything else, it all requires time … how long did it take for people to finally wake up to the deathjab? Maybe Nige will see his base gradually disappear, his chance of the PMship and gong … and then strategy would demand he actually attacks this double issue head on, freeing TR for a start.
For now though, LibLabConGreen are perfectly happy how it’s all going, local elections notwithstanding.
8. Quite to the point downunder
… clearly a Queenslander, state which presumably voted against Labor:
7. Alcatraz
6. Justin has, at 1040:6
Great minds obviously think alike … the sshot was ready to roll here as well.
As for the issue … it’s so far beyond human reason, as was Steinepisland, as was Belgium back then, that I do feel a French Revolution type thingy might be on its way.
Then again, that’s just little kids being savaged by the “elites”, innit, it’s not people’s own lives personally, so the “elites” seem safe enough.
5. Over at OoL, on the vaxx blame game
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/05/nasty-2020-thugs-and-karens-now.html
… plus a few words about VE Day coming up on the 8th.
(0540) Sun’s out already, punctuating the Gates cloud. (0636)
4. In the light of all the horrors in 1 to 3 below
… the material, not the gatherers and senders of course … we (western humanity) have a clear issue which was addressed by the young scot a year ago in a vlog I’ll repost now … interesting also that so many secular pundits are also saying similar things, speaking of “cultural Christianity” needing to make a comeback to survive.
My comment is that firstly, that alone does not get you into heaven but if the principles have underpinned the ethics of western societies for a long time, supported by most westerners, then those societies develop a resilience which they’ve all but lost now in 2025, poised to be overrun in a mass of bloodshed and destitution.
The young scot had given three predictions … I in turn took some sshots a year ago and have run them from time to time.
3. Toodles sends an item I knew zero about, plus one I’d rather not
a. The person I knew nothing whatever about:
JH: From what I can gather, and you can judge for yourself here, she’s a young American, of the Instagram and vlogger set, who does accents and in this one does Ginge of the Ginge and Whinge pair.
b. The one I’d rather not know about:
It’s Big Mike possibly letting the cat out of the bag.
2. Steve at 1040
1. DAD at 1040
a) Macron to launch citizens’ convention on holiday times and school timetables. [He prefers this method as he can control the participants and get the answer that he wants.] *
b) Von der Leyen has no business telling Vučić and Fico where they can go.
c) On April 24, 2025, a European citizens’ initiative concluded its collection of signatures. Under the name ‘My Voice, My Choice’, this group of European women is asking the EU institutions to fund “abortion tourism”.
d) Who is ‘Green’ here? In Questembert, a small town of 8,000 inhabitants in Morbihan, a controversy is looming over the draft horses purchased by the municipality.