Author Archives: James Higham

Tuesday [6 to 10]

(0832) Cleared up a bit outside … morning all by the way. (0906)

 

10. Ofcom

… no censorship in the UK, lies Starmer.


9. Lisa Monaco

8. The issue is NOT Reform members as such

… most seem to me good, hardworking people, heads screwed on right. The issue is the gang of three at the top, two who betrayed TBP and one who betrayed UKIP before that.

7. White liberal and black women

… what’s wrong in their brains?

6. Starmer and Elon say there is free speech?

… one of the Women’s Safety Initiative gals:

Tuesday [1 to 5]

(0544) Rainy morning. (0716)

 

5. Does our Beloved Sausage get off on the hatred

… felt by everyone I know, for him, for his cast of clowns?


4. IYE

Juicy bits from TRG inc “Oscars” for the official nosy parkers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gcfSlCbvQY

3. Hip-hop?


2. There are one or two things in the female line

… happening just now with me … ggl or some aggregator must have picked up on it because they presented this, this morning, in Quora, before we’d even started the day:

“Paul Newman had a long lasting marriage with Joanne Woodward, 50 years. However, according to himself, all through this marriage he carried guilt. The reason was he had been married earlier, had three children, and cheated on her with Joanne.

He was 24 and Jackie Witte was 19 when they met over their shared love of acting. They married in 1949. A manager at the time said that Paul was a good looking kid but on the acting front nothing special. When Jackie became pregnant with a soon to be son, Scott, it looked like Paul would have to enter the family business for a steady career. But the call of the stage was still strong. He enrolled in a class to obtain a master’s degree in theatre where he thought he could at least teach the subject.

He still went up for the odd role and was lucky enough to be accepted. While performing in a minor part he was spotted by an agent where he was told to move to New York and ‘’look me up.’’ Dropping his degree he did just that and luck soon kicked in. By now Jackie had given up her acting ambitions to care for their growing family.

His looks, his growing acting confidence were growing and producers were taking notice. During the run of a play, Picnic, he met Joanne, the female star’s understudy. His growing success meant tensions at home. He liked to spend time with his buddies while Jackie felt trapped at home seeing little of her husband. All the while he was seeing more of Joanne, though no affair had started. In fact, a third child (with Jackie) was conceived.

With the success of his movie, Somebody Up There Likes Me, things came to a head. Realising his love for Joanne he decided to leave Jackie.

Obviously Jackie was devastated, heartbroken and refused to grant a divorce. Paul moved in with Joanne and they became the new hot couple in the media. Jackie realised it was over and granted a divorce. At the time too, Joanne was pregnant with Paul’s child. Paul didn’t like to be reminded of his behaviour.

‘I was probably too immature to make a success of my first marriage. What happened to us during that period is nobody’s business.’ He did, however, confess to one emotion. ‘Guilty as hell’ was how he described himself about his first marriage, adding: ‘And I’ll carry it with me for the rest of my life.’

While Paul and Joanne became cinema darlings Jackie slipped into obscurity. Nothing seems to be known about her following the divorce and it’s reported she died in 1994.”

1. Steve at 1120

  • Trump’s Justice Department Takes Down Dark Web Child Abuse Network
  • Vance Responds to Violent Mob Attack on White Couple in Cincinnati
  • Administration Sends Off Officials to Malaysia to Broker Peace Thailand/Cambodia
  • EU Faces Massive Internal Backlash After Leaders Capitulate to Trump
  • How the Steele Dossier Became a Politically Fueled Attack
  • Military Overview: Ukrainian Counterattacks Bring First Result
  • US to Supply Ukraine with AI-Enhanced “Smart” FPV Drones Capable of Autonomous Target Tracking
  • Much more.

Monday [16 till close of play]

(1710) Evening all.

 

19. On last evening’s girlball


18. Just laffing, quite laffable


17. Ratcheting


16. Not Groundhog Day but Eternal Boomer Day

Publications such as Quora or Wired, MSN, are pure Wokerati but in Quora’s case, there’s the permanent, Groundhog Day type recurring nostalgia they never kick. Mind you, look at me with Sunday jazz, Baroque and 40s/50s movies … and with good reason.

There was this on Quora:

Joni Mitchell was quoted as saying that everything about Bob Dylan is a deception. “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake,” she said. Do you agree with her and if so, why?

Joni is correct. Dylan, like Joni, was driven to be a star and to do so he forged a persona that was an amalgam of the other famous people he admired including folk singers and poets. He also set out to create an unconventional life for himself by choice, such as working in a carnival as opposed to an insurance office. He has been credibly accused of plagiarizing both lyrics and melodies. Much of what he does was ‘borrowed’ including his style of singing like a hillbilly (not many of them in Minnesota) but he would attribute it to “influences.” Blowing in the Wind is one song in particular that has come under scrutiny. I was in a Mexican Catholic church once where the congregants sang a hymn in Spanish that had the exact same melody as Blowing, a song that others allege was taken from one called No More Auction Block.

I am a great admirer of Joni Mitchell, a genuine original and musical genius, but Joni is also someone who cultivated a mystique and altered her persona with each new record. Joni and Dylan are not alone in this – Bowie, Donovan, Debbie Harry and many others could be expected to change both their wardrobes and appearance as well as their musical style with each new record. One of Dylan’s strangest personas came in the Seventies when he got involved in the Jesus movement and produced the record “Saved” and apparently allowed himself to be baptized in Pat Boone’s swimming pool. Oy. Our music stars are often not just musicians but they are our heroes: people who lead bigger, more interesting and exciting lives than our own. It’s part of what Dylan, Joni and many others have supplied to those of us living more conventional lives.

I’ve enjoyed some of Dylan’s work — the Desire album is one of his most musical, a collaboration with many genuinely talented musicians and it’s listenable. But at the risk of infuriating the people who idolize Dylan let’s be frank about his musicality. His guitar playing is fundamental, he’s a poor singer with an annoying voice and his harmonica playing is atrocious — in some ways this does make him a folkie, not a sophisticated musician. Many of his lyrics succeed because they are left so purposely vague that the listener can read into them what they want. He is not without his contributions but he is one of the most overrated singer/songwriters of all time.

……

Hmmmm, yes as far as it goes, plus he was “constructed” by the same agents who ran Zappa, flower power, The Who etc. … rebellious yoof. To my mind, the sad thing is those who could not move on from it all and I don’t mean into Floyd, ELP, prog … but nor do I mean into Kenny Rogers and the like … actually, I’m not sure what I mean.

I look at purple haired Boomers today welcoming Hamas and ask, “Why?”

And yet … and yet … derivative, essentially meaningless lyrics which are just phrase grabs and desolate emotion? Yes … but it still has something, je ne sais quoi … even that voice is necessary, the voice of the troubadour. Bad harmonica? Maybe. Definitive harmonica it was. Do I like him? Not that much. But he was certainly of that time and place, as the psy-ops forces people knew full well … the cabal.

Mon Mat

 

Review:

“The wonderful Jacques Tourneur directed this 1957 noir, “Nightfall,” starring Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, James Gregory, and Frank Albertson.

James Vanning (Aldo Ray) is on the run from some vicious criminals who have stolen a fortune from a bank. He and his doctor friend (Frank Albertson) had the misfortune to meet these men, who took the doctor bag instead of the $350 grand they stole! They believe that Ray, an innocent party, knows where in the Wyoming mountains the money is.

Back in the city, Vanning meets a model (Bancroft) and this is picked up by two of the crooks. He manages to get away and goes to Bancroft’s place; since the thugs know who she is, the two of them have to go on the run.

Tourneur’s themes here are similar to his other films, such as “Cat People,” “Out of the Past,” “Experiment Perilous” as three examples: Chance meetings and coincidence dominate a story where Tourneur uses flashbacks expertly. Here, two innocent people are drawn into a situation and being pursued.

Very absorbing story — in her early films, beautiful Anne Bancroft, a powerful actress, was cast in these young leading lady or ingenue roles, like Bette Davis when she first came to Warners. Bancroft brings an interesting, smoky quality to the role of a woman who has an unhappy past with men. Aldo Ray has never been a favorite of mine, but he is effective here. He looks like a character actor, though he played leads, and though he has a husky voice and appearance, there’s a gentle quality in his manner. James Gregory has always been good, and he’s good here as a detective who wants to get down to the truth.

The black and white photography is very striking and really adds to the film. Jacques Tourneur made some excellent films; though he obviously didn’t have a huge budget for this one and his star had descended somewhat, he still had what it took to make a strong film.”

Monday [11 to 15]

(1158) Not quite afternoon all. (1229)

 

15. You have your union flag on today?

14. Tess Summers

13. Sassafrass


12. Some US news


11. The official far left


Just a note on Sillet … wrote for the Morning Star, died last year … communist thug. Now … Morning Star … not just a communist rage but one name for shaitan … always was. They don’t even hide it.

Monday [6 to 10]

(0911) Bleah out there. (0935)

 

10. From TDS newsletter … headline only

All over the west now, from Canada to Oz.


9. IYE on Trump, Nietspe and that issue

Not quite clickbait but there are no photos of a line-up of wedding guests actually with Trump in them in this article. None.
I’d need to see the guest list for confirmation E was there. If DJT did actually invite Island man to his wedding then should DJT explain himself? Has he made a rod for his own back over his attitude to Bindergate?

http://web.archive.org/web/20250727182332/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14932515/Trump-lashes-CNN-new-Epstein-photos-young-kids-Ivanka-Eric-ex-wife-surface.html

8. From Stop The EU


7. Thune and Johnson deliberately doing this

… question is how to stop them.


6. There are things we see in passing

… highly significant things … but in passing … and yet we should not let them go by. Those who do think things through, particularly those of a certain age who know how it was, even ten years ago, fifteen, at the end of the 90s … well, pre-Blair at least … and we know full well how very wrong this thing is today … China + Sharia.

Difference from Russia? Well yes, if they perceive that the west plans to bring them down … what would you expect might happen? But they’re still vastly more western than either of the other two. More aligned, in many ways, with the underpinnings, not with globopsycho.

And this whole Shariah and Chinese court system must be nipped in the bud. Easier said than done.