This is a most unusual way to do it … to review something before it’s even posted, mid-afternoon Sunday … but it was intriguing to me in ways mentioned below … sorry to be a bit mysterious and cryptic ahead of time.
Essentially, a Louisiana city’s famous busking band visits a city in France, they find the square where it seems buskers hang out and they play a nice number (track one) but even so, just to my ears and eyes, they’re slightly off the boil these days. Look I could be completely wrong on this and please set me straight but there’s just something with the boss girl cornetist and sidekick trombonist which is ok, no complaints … hmmmm.
Track two is a local band, similar setup, usual instruments … it’s pretty clear these two bands need to meet each other. This local band plays a nice number, almost exactly where, in the square, the Louisiana band do. One person I did not like at first was the tall beanpole girl trombonist who seemed to me to be trying to dominate. As I found out in the third track though, I was wrong … she was just a nice gal, anxious that it all went nicely and everyone got along … and she does play well.
The third track is the intriguing one … both bands meet, arrange themselves to play another nice number … there are teething issues, they get it sorted, they start. Ok, one expects it will take them some time and by the end, they’re all on song and they finish well together. If it were only that, I’d enjoy it but oh … it was so much more than that … interpersonal stories.
Look, I might be so, so wrong but it did seem to me that the Lousiana cornetist boss gal was slightly miffed and the sidekick trombonist was not too happy with his “rival”. The bands played two recorded numbers (only one of them on Sunday) and the L boss gal was not joining them in the second. Uh huh.
However, the other band members of both bands were fine … you could see the washboarders chatting, smiling, the rhythm section had it sorted, the local tuba gal was great, the clarinets and cornets were fine. Our beanpole trombonist, right in the middle of the line, could really play.
All up? A most intriguing Sunday jazz afternoon to be sure. Of course, you might see it quite differently, ha ha. Just listened to/watched that combined track again … oh that was so much fun … something going on bretween the two washboardists and that beanpole trombonist is a sweetie.
This is why I vastly prefer ensembles to orchestras, 20s to 30s directed, blended musak … gimme please solo after solo, all coming together at the end. Easy, Jimbo, time for your meds.
“Yes, it gets a bit confusing here and there, and even with a small cast, figuring out who is who, what’s going on and the timeline can be perplexing. The fabulous opening shows a young woman being kept chained to a wall, appearing as if she is about to be shot in cold blood. This gives a sense of Gothic horror to the film, but then it switches to the domestic setting of the home of Sonia Dresdel and Colin Gordon, a middle aged couple having a discussion, and interrupted by phone calls and visitors.
Then there’s an apparent violent murder in an oddly shaped country home, involving Karel Stepanek whom we see about to be bludgeoned. News of his murder gets around, and the frequent appearance of a strange old man (Michael Martin-Harvey) creates more questions than answers.
The audience gets to meet other suspects which include Dresdel’s friend (Eleanor Summerfield) and her husband Hubert Gregg, adding a bit more confusion but a lot of suspense. This is worth putting up with 75 minutes of little detail, but within that detail, there are the hidden details which are revealed in the very suspenseful last 15 minutes.
That is when everything comes together so neatly, and you realize how clever this really was in keeping you wondering what type of mystery you were watching and if it would ever go anywhere. Technically excellent, this feature is terrific black and white photography and superb editing, and a musical score that adds to the suspense.
(You) have to go in with a patient mood because otherwise, you could be frustrated quickly and move on to something else.”
Curious thing, this, but every subject, every history has some curious details but it’s only when the curious details of one are combined with the curious details of another that a third truth emerges, of curiosity value.
My dad fought in the war … as far as I can gather, with two armies, and so did I years later, but in peacetime. Those two, my parents, were of an era when gollywogs were fine to have, Noddy and Big Ears was the reading and my parents warned me to have nothing to do with credit cards, as it was giving money to the Js. I have no credit card today.
Now that’s interesting, given that my father was in active combat against the Germans and Japs. He never told me his views on the commies but I noticed that when they (parents) went to Australia, he used to watch some man called B.A. Santamaria on the box, part of a party called DLP. Third party of the right in other words. So what he made of my youthful, student Fabianism I have no idea … we did not talk much.
Another thing was he bought a series of German cars, feeling, as many people did, that German engineering was superior. I had this attitude in Russia. As for myself? Always anti-communist … just how I reconciled that with my student leftism I’m not sure. My dad went back to Austins, then onto Hondas … think he was always after workable tech.
There’s one story which must have dashed dad’s confidence in German engineering. When I was 14 and at that time in Oz, we went for a trip Melb to Gold Coast and the car broke down halfway … was it the Goliath or VW? Can’t remember. We took an overnight coach back to Melb and that’s this other tale some know of where I spent the night on the back seat with two nineteen year old lasses, discovering the joys of female proximity, which set my mind forever.
B.A. Santamaria was a curiosity, as he was very pro-Catholic and we were nominally CofE, mother going Methodist as that church was nearer, geographically. Father was a Mason for awhile.
Just been looking up Goliath. Seems likely that my father was looking at VWs and/or smaller Beemas in Britain and Oz and I’d say the dealer, who may have been German, might have persuaded him. Just guessing. Curious parents, my parents. No wonder I’m a curiosity.
Father was at one stage a carpenter, a good one, saw him in operation, old style tools, never a toolmaker though, so my boat some years back was not entirely amateur … I’ve built fences, sheds but not a house yet. I did build a large pyramid once.
(0534) Curious time, 5 to 7 a.m. as it’s rush hour on the Oz east coast, bedtime for North America, whilst Brits and Irish are just waking up and getting ready for the big commute. France is really the only news in these hours. (0649)
10. Moosh corner
9. Inside terrorist organisation Antifa?
8. Now the good stuff is starting to trickle in at 0638
I don’t mean my own below here, I mean n9 above.
7. Money laundering
6. DAD at 1155
a) For the second time in eight days, the French have voiced their discontent with their leaders with a day of strikes and demonstrations following on from the Bloquons tout! (“Let’s block everything!”) movement launched on Wednesday, September 10th.
b) September 18th demonstrations: a “clear” message to the government, unions to be received “in the coming days”. “Today, France vibrated [in] a single impulse to say ‘No to injustices’,” wrote Fabien Roussel (PCF) on X.
c) The European Commission has admitted that it channeled more than €600,000 of taxpayer money to the U.S.-founded Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), sparking outrage among critics who accuse Brussels of financing leftist, biased journalism designed to discredit Eurosceptic and conservative voices.
d) UK PM Keir Starmer, Canadian PM Mark Carney & Australian PM Anthony Albanese. The new Script just dropped for the Western WEF Owned Political Puppet Leaders.
(0418) To readers and/or contributors … there’s a certain amount of govt visitation this morning from about 0900, which means of course that I have from now till then to do various domestic chores. Going to divide the time as blogging and Xing until 0700, then a mix till nine, at which point who knows how long the hiatus will be. Just hoping nothing happens to the connection during the time. (0449)
5. Eternal victims
4. Plod again
3. Antifa
2. This is in the light of Johnson trashing Reform
… not sure if at the conference or at some special event.
In the light of all that … it’s clear that Farage has no real differences from the Uniparty … why can members not see how they are betrayed? On the other hand, with the best will in the world … Advance? Sadly, “the right” are split, being a cattery of unherdable cats … it’s in our nature. And we’re not “the right”, we’re just anti Woke, anti Globopsychos “above”.
1. Steve at 1154
Links Found Between Charlie Kirk Killer, Armed Queers SLC, Anti-ICE Shooter, BLM, and Radical Gun Club
Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Named New CEO and Board Chair of TPUSA
Mark Halperin on How Charlie Kirk Became an American Icon Without Receiving the Establishment Recognition He Deserved
Russian Strikes on Gas Storage Will Force Ukraine to Spend $1 Billion to Avoid Winter Crisis
Gerasimov Breaks Cover: Russia Pushes On All Fronts Amid Western Turmoil
Sweden Overhauls Welfare Policies To Push Immigrants To Work
CEOs Of Discord, Steam, Twitch, Reddit Summoned To Washington Over Online Radicalization
The Hamptons showdown: How billionaire Bill Ackman’s Israel ‘intervention’ pushed Charlie Kirk to the edge of a Catholic conversion
Much more.
JH: A reminder that this is not a summary of all points above … it’s just a signpost to NOWP. With DAD, each point is usually abridged, again as a signpost, not a complete post.
