Daily Archives: August 31, 2025

Men, women, art, architecture, aesthetics

 

We only look at the small, limited topics here. Not.

As with many of you, I’ve always needed back stories so as to know how to view someone’s being and utterances, to put them in perspective. Thank goodness this girl does just that with an interview with her mom … a most interesting mother indeed.


There are all sorts of things which stood out there … mother wrong side of the tracks, lucky break in some ways, not in others, her daughter not wanting for much, materially, so she tries to strike out for herself, hence the channel, plus a clothing line which, frankly … well … er … well, let’s cut her some slack. Plus her head is a mix of Catholicism, Plato, other bits and pieces … very intense. Mother says daughter was always far deeper than she was … a thinker.

Mom was glamorous, daughter is an awkward kid now grown up. A most interesting interview … see Toodles’s url reply to Redacted. There’s a bit of teacher/parent in my attitude to daughter … very much daughter type, not partner … mother was far more my past attachments. My sympathies are with the daughter … trying to make her way, get her project off the ground.

However, in her endeavour to be fair to us men, she might have gone too far … our Julia at Ambush P plus OoL also has a very positive attitude to men who are men, not to “wozzes”, just as I adore sane females with moral compasses, crazy in good ways, not loony ways. Mother above here a bit too glamorous for mine … sounds strange?

Now to daughter’s main premise … throughout history, men have designed and built, women have been men’s muses … men write, draw, build to God and then to the girls. At this point, I have to interrupt … quite a few men have … it’s a normal curve, with the Michelangelos up at one end … the Pol Pots, Blairs and Lenins at the other.

My take on men designing, painting, cooking, building is that yes … we do frameworks and then the lady fills the space with her elegance, things, she gives the interior and maybe garden their character.

Looking quite specifically at shape and design versus colour tone here was my early morning sunroom-storeroom window:


Those parallel horizontals and verticals are quite deliberate, as is the raggedy black tape at the left end of the sill, holding the mat, plus I’ve still not removed the two decades old tape from the window frames. I wanted flawed perfection or in Julia JD’s case … a very real person with a back story, flaws in many ways, but the whole package … a most valuable human. She’s forever on about beauty … in a harsh brogue which calls beauty “beyudee”. But it’s her imperfections I like far more than the perfect aspects.

In the case of my abode here, it’s an attempt to rusticise the plasticism, if that makes any sense. The walls are tabula rasa, in that modernist idiom, but nature paints images on the wall, ever changing as the day goes on:


None of what you see there are objects themselves, the objects reflected are just out of shot to our right. What you see are all shadows … all of them, the wall is like a cinematic screen. Yet there are signs of imposed order too around the room, especially parallel and perpendicular lines, horizontal and vertical.


And so to JJD’s thesis itself:

Could man produce the high art without God, nature, woman? I’d say no way. And yes, there are the Bronte sisters, Josephine Tey … some of the best has been done by women … especially in colour and layout … but for sheer maverick design …

… over and over Julia JD says, I say, that it is the symbiosis which counts … esp. in that music earlier … no way could that band have risen to those heights without the joined man and woman. We can argue that all day, all year. And remember … JJD is looking only at art in that youtube.

Brazen and in yer face

 

Cunning plan is this, chaps and chapesses … just as I generally try to keep DAD drops and Steve drops separated by at least one other item, so today I am trying to keep Toodles separated from Julia James Davis … yet there’s still a fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

The only way I can see of moving fwd today is to put the jazz in now … and as I have all the tracks ready, let’s go.

There’s a fundamental point of division between those who feel only one form of music is valid, is “high art” … and those such as me who half agree but also point out that some genres certainly do have their own classics and those classic songs MUST be played and sung in a certain way, otherwise they lose authenticity … and oomph.

The song Louie Louie is street music … it MUST be played in a public setting, as with the two Tuba Skinnies further down.

Artur Schnabel wrote, in the C19th: “Too easy for children and too difficult for artists,” of Mozart’s sonatas … it’s all in the tonal qualities. There follow now two renditions of Louie Louie and I prefer the street version of the Naked Gun clip, perfectly played though the studio version is … the song needs, imho, to be brash, brassy, loud … that’s why it’s a marching band staple in America, esp. for youth bands.

To maintain the mood, it needs an in-yer-face band and who else but barefooted Tuba Skinny? I do have a slow, raunchy blues number by them which I’ll hold over for next time … let’s go back to this one, which almost demands that girl’s body blocking the band … the song and her are both required for the effect.

The third song is again a re-run, with elements of the manic … dancers feeding off the band … band feeding off the dancers … watch the trombonist’s expression.

“Horse’s for courses” is a recurring theme today, esp. in the Julia JD post coming up after the jazz.

Toodles and decor

 

This really does tie in with the next post on aesthetics, and a reference to men and women in that. First of two youtubes:

Also don’t forget to check out Toodles’s url in her reply to Redacted (sidebar) … as it applies to most items posted today and yesterday, esp. the Naked Gun film.

Sunday [6 to 8]

(0541) Morning all. Right, it’s apparent, at 0724, that there’s a dearth of new poltics … North America is in bed, Downunder is quiet, early morning Brits are only just stirring now. Meaning not many post items for some hours. Meanwhile, the feature posts build up, accumulate, ones I’m itching to get going with.

I’m thinking we have to roll with the material we have, rather than trying to press it to regular columns, to search far and wide for something, anything, to fill the space. (0734)

 

8. An American item


7. Some Brit items


6. Toodles corner

Had to check the football score first for the new season opener … under the new head coach:

Haven’t looked at the report yet but did, last night, ask a question as to why Nick Saban had retired, moved on, as head coach and found this:

As part of the College Gameday program, Saban touched on some of the reasons for his decision to call time on his coaching career, stating: “I was really disappointed in the way that the players acted after the game. You gotta win with class. You gotta lose with class. We had our opportunities to win the game and we didn’t do it, and then showing your ass and being frustrated and throwing helmets and doing that stuff … that’s not who we are and what we’ve promoted in our program.”

He added that the players’ motivations for playing the game were another contributing factor, claiming: “I thought we could have a hell of a team next year, and then maybe 70 or 80 percent of the players you talk to, all they want to know is two things: What assurances do I have that I’m going to play because they’re thinking about transferring, and how much are you going to pay me?” Saban told ESPN.

Right … the second thing, pre contacting Toods, is that it was good that I checked the spam and trash lists first as her comment was in there … easy to see why … she mentioned Redacted whom the system here is quite cautious about now for different reasons.

The third thing is that I’m running a Toods-brought youtube after this post because it’s excellent.

The fourth thing is that we might have a difference of opinion, Toods and I … and yet not … on The Naked Gun from yesterday. She was not enamoured of the early ones, actually the one with the Queen and baseball, which is the one I posted. My feeling too, as was hers, as was the feeling of a few reviewers at IMDb … that the baseball sequence at the end was too long and drawn out … in fact, the Dodgers themselves weren’t happy with the team pile-on part … all of this is fascinating to me … all the sensitivities. Plus Toods said Priscilla Presley has gone downhill. I’ll have to ask her if the presence of Juice in the cast was also offputting.

Now, I also must warn our jazz aficionados that one of the tunes is going to be a marching band’s version of Louie Louie, which was the song used at the end of the film, played by the marching band. Weeeellll, it’s sort of jazz.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0425) I actually got up, after a reasonable sleep, to put up a new NOWP post but DAD was already posting an hour earlier than usual, as he did yesterday. Which does show how sleep pattern or lack of pattern in both our cases does affect early morn output and the obvious question is … so what?

Still dark out there, and with no street lamps, but I can hear the swish of wet road and thought I heard rain earlier. First light appearing now, black cloud. (0532)

 

5. History Girl corner

I did say to Bobbie that the tone seemed similar, the use of adjectives … she acknowledged the comment and said nowt more.


4. Steve at 1145

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Yanks Almost $700 Million in Funding for Twelve Offshore Wind Projects
  • $312 Billion in Chinese Money Laundering Networks Is Driving the Drug Crisis and Human Trafficking in the US
  • Newsom Slips — Admits Illegal Immigrants are Voting in US Elections
  • Netflix Co-Founder Donates $2 Million to Support Newsom’s Redistricting Effort
  • Meloni Endorses Adding [The] Ukraine To NATO’s Defense Umbrella
  • Ukrainian Nazi Leader Andriy Parubiy Eliminated
  • FDA ends emergency vaccine mandates: Independent doctors celebrate “return to sanity”
  • Cracker Barrel’s 93-year-old Founder Blasts Abandoned Rebrand As “Crazy” And “Pitiful”
  • Much more.

3. It’s clear where Pippa’s bias is here


For a start, Witchend retweeted her, and he is Advance rather than Faragist, so the rest would follow and though I find Lady Pippa a sweetie … well hold on a moment, let me go find her profile … “Proud British Patriot!, Animal Welfare Officer, CPFC, opinions are my own, London” … so, so young is “our” Pippa … student? Do you see my bias even forming? And quaint … handle is “pippaisright”. Like it. Yep, she’s on the list.


2. Changed format just for today with DAD’s drop at 1145

It is only when one reads a number of headlines at the same time that a pattern becomes evident.

  1. Woman attached in Angouleme. Her alleged attacker, a Tunisian working in a bakery.
  2. Bordeaux: A 16-year-old girl was at the Iris tram stop in Lormont around 9 p.m. when she was accosted by a 24-year-old Algerian.
  3. Mina, 71, was found dead at her home in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis). The main suspect, Azdine, 48, a homeless Moroccan
  4. The suspect deliberately fell and ripped off the necklace of a 78-year-old grandmother, who fortunately was not injured. This young man, who claims to have been born in 2010, is an unaccompanied Algerian minor…

1. Covid and vaxx “studies”

The very spelling of vaxx and the placing of studies in quotation marks is a political statement by me … let alone that it is at The Daily Sceptic … HERE.

Why do I not post the url as an unformatted url? That’s because, in my composing window, it comes out as a large frame with border, blank inside the frame. In three attempts … someone or something is messing with it … usually it will appear as a url embedded box or else with a message that this cannot be embedded … convert to link?

Also, part of the text says, claims, exposes, asserts, whatever, that his request for a big ph*rm*c**t*c*l study’s results was refused. There is the doc’s bona fides to look at too:

Dr Raphael Lataster is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialised in misinformation, and a former pharmacist. This article was first published in his Substack newsletter, Okay Then News. Read more on his research and legal actions, including his recent win against the healthcare vaccine mandate in New South Wales.

Is he a doctor or “just” a lecturer? How can a normie tell? Even if an investigative normie such as me who only goes so far because DAD’s already posted and I need to get that signposted … you in turn have your own morning agenda.

So what do we do? Make the coffee or tea and retreat to our “camp’s” position on vaxxes as a result of 2020 to 2020 experiences and observations? Yes we do. My own admin posish? To at least provide sufficient links to get you to the post, which is quite link “rich” in itself … or link “ridden”, depending on your bias.

Where the heck am I after all that? Well it rather depends on which camp I’m in, not too difficult to discern.

Debunked: Another American Covid Vaccine Study Torn to Shreds