The music is Cajun zydeco, the dancing jitterbug, but at about 2:55 on for ten seconds or so, you can see the demonstrating instructors drop into some shimmying, which was yesterday’s topic.
Next Sunday’s jazz post (and it’s a bit of a blockbuster, songs already saved in the vault) is about the whole crossover with Gennet and Vocalion in the 1920 to 30 period, including the race divide and the move from ragtime to boogie woogie and flappers and then onto brass and woodwind. Though next Sunday is primarily piano, it is also a mix of all those genres.
In short, it’s the history of modern music encapsulated in four songs, ranging from 1923 to 1976. I became lost in it last evening. So here’s the first of the zydeco:
The things which struck me about this below were why old men have to look so grumpy much of the time and act in such a curmudgeonly manner? He’s a nice guy looking after his band as you’ll see and yet the two women at the far end seem to be shoved out of the way, while bags of space seem to surround the old man. Hope I never get old, ha ha.
The music? Very danceable, the whole intention … but that’s about it … not a lot of variation.
Back to the shimmying and there were two types … the shoulder shimmying favoured by the westerners as more discreet … and the hip shimmying favoured by the non westerners, inc. the Asians, plus Elvis … better known as belly dancing in the case of the girls.
(0616) Morning all … light coming up, overcast out there. (0711)
5. Too soon?
4. Steve at 1514 and 1515 (just to make sure)
COVID patients were murdered by stupid doctors
NIH has completely merged with the Gates Foundation
X Video: “Ms von der Leyen, there is no greater racist against Europeans than you!”
President Trump Announces Energy Ceasefire Between Russia and [The] Ukraine After Ukraine Blows Up Russian Diesel Terminal – Zelensky Responds
Scott Bessent Savages Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren While Opening Up on Letter Exchange
Democrats Campaign Against Their Own Congressional Nominee Who Happens to Be in Federal Prison
Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov Torches Nobel Committee After Controversial Peace Prize Award: “Maybe Next Year They’ll Give the Chemistry Prize to a Hamas Bomb Maker”
Trump Turns to Russian Diesel. Can Britain Keep Zelensky Afloat?
Much more at both 1514 and 1515.
3. Reasons for Restore, part two
There are other factors to consider:
Restorers are intransigent … they will simply NOT vote for Yusuf Farage and the rest of that lot in the gang at the top, who are no way of the right
Reform are not policy making, they are cherrypicking bits of Restore and leaving out the important parts
They’re the eternal “commendable second placers” and the reason is they lack integrity at the top … people see that.
2. DAD at 1515
a) France has ordered 3,000 substitute teachers into its worst-hit secondary schools, the first substantial concession on classroom conditions since a student revolt began spreading out of the Paris suburbs in late September.
French education minister Édouard Geffray said on TF1 on October 8 that the teachers would go from October 9 to 114 schools classed as red for overcrowding and staff shortages, and to another 400 rated orange. Rectors would also be allowed to recruit several hundred teachers beyond their quotas, he said.
La France Insoumise (LFI) leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a candidate in next spring’s presidential election, posted on X that the Place de la Bastille had been retaken and called for a bigger turnout on October 13.
[Nobody has said where the extra teachers will come from.]
b) France. Nantes (44): after being occupied for a few days by far-left students in support of high school rioters, a university building was found in a deplorable state—featuring vandalism, graffiti, bags of excrement, a death threat made with a knife, and more.
c) Germany. Another heavy blow has hit Germany’s traditional industrial sector. According to a report by Blackout News, the renowned porcelain manufacturer Kahla in Thuringia is shutting down its operations for good on December 31, 2026.
d) UK. Home Secretary knowingly plans to import more rapists. Mahmood’s new ‘safe routes’ for Palestinians and Afghans offer neither safety for women and children she cynically used to justify another ‘crime and terror’ corridor, nor comfort to past victims.
e) Germany is soon going to realise it made THE MOTHER OF ALL MISTAKES. And this one may prove lethal: it became France’s CREDIT CARD .
