If you’re looking for a good fillum, let me recommend Persuasion. 30 years old so not a lot of drivel for the immature; nicely underplayed.

“A real pleasure to watch and far superior to the later version with Sally Hawkins. (Sally Hawkins was fine but the whole later production looks like a cartoon version compared with this elaborate rendering of Jane Austen’s world.)

Amanda Root as Anne Elliot is perfect as the underestimated and unloved daughter of a spendthrift snob of a father and a stepmother right out of Grimm’s fairy tales. (Not to speak of being henpecked by her hyper nervous younger married sister.)

The filmmakers also managed to make Amanda Root look rather unattractive at the beginning and one wonders how any man could have been so much in love as the still lamented Frederick Wenthworth, whom she sent away on the heavy influence of her family, because he was a nobody with no regular income at the time.

Years have passed when he comes back into her neighbourhood, apparently haunted by her serenity and feeling her more wrong then ever before. Cairán Hinds is equally good as the former lover Wentworth, still hurt and trying hard to ignore Anne and seemingly having a good time without her. Wentworth pops up every now and then … we notice that Anne begins to look more pretty, even the presence of the man she thinks she has lost forever makes her look so much better.

The beauty of this version is not only grounded in the excellent cast but also in the magnificent eye for detail, and, although only running a mere 100 minutes, it gives the viewer the appropriate feeling of time passing by very slowly (don’t get me wrong, I don’t speak of the pace inside the story) … moreso time that painfully slows down when being with people you despise or you feel despised by.

I always cherished this book by Jane Austen very much and I’m so glad that finally I found this film that really does it justice!”

 

Following the post cheating us of our jazz today, methought … well at least we have tomorrow’s film to run now.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha … fat chance. Billed as The Unholy Four (1954), it was the least of the five filums, admittedly. It’s real name was The Stranger Came Home … here’s one review:

“A man with a rather unfortunate haircut shows up after being missing for three years. Turns out he had amnesia due to a blow on the head and has just recently recovered his memory. He confronts his wife and his friends, convinced one of them tried to kill him three years earlier. On the same night he returns, one of his friends winds up murdered and bad haircut guy is the prime suspect.

Talky, mostly dull mystery from Hammer with the added appeal of having Paulette Goddard in it. This is called a film noir by some but frankly I don’t see it. Sometimes it seems every movie involving murder or sex from the ’40s and ’50s is labeled film noir. There has to be a more specific meaning than that. For me there is and this doesn’t fit my definition. Anyway, the biggest draw to this is Paulette Goddard. She’s fine, as is the rest of the cast, but nothing to write home about.

She was in her forties at this time and still looked good but that is NOT her on the movie poster and DVD cover. She does not appear in this movie scantily clad in lingerie. Sorry! Oh, and for some reason they tried to pass this off as being written by the actor George Sanders, when it was actually written by Leigh Brackett. Not sure why the deception. Were audiences in 1954 really craving George Sanders or something?”

 

What total prats … I’ve had this ready to load for days, played fine on YT … went to load it now … every single track disabled. Well they can sod off, the lot of em.

For the record, Tuba Skinny were visiting Toulouse, presumably on a tour de France, then a local band also played in that square, then they combined for the third number.

https://youtu.be/jZYebR1hk4I?si=Hhs5saiaIMOX5KAm

https://youtu.be/Xd4dkb3-Ou8?si=oBo6CbbAay8o73U1

https://youtu.be/CUi9lmyw8-k?si=3kBrkFBTm30dNpil

The lesson for me is to never trust these people to play fair, to actually load when seen so I know well ahead of time if they’re going to pull these stunts. Right, well that was jazz today, jazzamaniacs, not worth emailing today.

Disappointing.

Brought by our Steve. One of our prime directives here is to cover the major events and as many as we can of the minor. It’s central to the blogname that we are unherdable cats, agreeing on maybe 70% to 80% of things, not on others, esp. where we see anomalies.

I say why not? And let us not be churlish today, let us do justice to what is certainly a major day for many Americans, plus millions of others around the world … just as last week, September 13th, was a major day for Britain.

🚨 NOW: A sea of patriots are PACKED shoulder to shoulder for Charlie at State Farm Stadium just after 4AM.

The event is still multiple hours away. Traffic getting in is insane. There is a TON of energy in this movement. 🇺🇸

pic.twitter.com/9ZeDk6p84P

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 21, 2025

This is the mood in America I’m seeing … it really is more than the death of one martyr:

 

(1100) Autumnal equinox, by the way, is on Mon, 22 Sept 2025, 7:19 pm BST. (1200)

 

12. What if you were not dressed for the occasion though?

11. This plod on the doorstep thing

I read elsewhere that they were sent to confiscate the kid’s phone. The two “police officers” was a blonde girlchild looking about 18 to 20, plus a Muslim woman. That was it.

(0900) Sunny day in an autumny way. (0900)

 

10. Combine this item with that at OoL today

… and I’m thinking you get the drift.

9. Bondi … an ultimately disappointing person

… falling short precisely at junctures where she should not … and in nasty, disparaging ways, e.g. Bindergate.

8. Sunday thought

7. The gorgeousness of plain walls

This is not for all … it’s for those for whom strongly defined patterns of sun and shadow change inexorably through the day (if we’re lucky enough to have sun). It also does not mean huge swathes of white wall … it means highly irregular furniture, horizontally and vertically, with drapes, plus irregular ceiling beams, plus windows facing in three directions, such that each room comes into its own at some point.

The bedroom-gym gets it first … sudden shafts of overwhelming sun cast jagged shadows and lesser shadows, while lattice windows cast form and order … it really is quite spectacular. So I migrate room to room through the day, according to nature’s cycle.

6. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-indians-are-coming.html

 

(0701) Morning all …

 

5. Charlie Kirk Funeral and Memorial Service Day

My mother had a memorial service separate to the funeral, my father had been too many years before that. It’s a nice idea, a Memorial Service and I’m going to do this in Q&A form:

Q: Aren’t there anomalies about the CK death, e.g. about the exit wound?

A: Certainly are, but this is not the day for these … the CK effect has been a boon for Christianity, plus he did speak those good things, did ask the right questions, despite Erika’s pendants … what else is there to say? Simon Peter maintained his Jewish observances, Paul of course did not.

Q: The CK effect?

A: Certainly … esp. on the young … the key to any sort of societal comeback is them, the Millennials and Zoomers … CK knew that full well. And CK has inspired many of em, just as Yuri presaged, predicted.

Q: Isn’t there too much hysteria going on?

A: Oh undoubtedly, given wings by DJT, himself an anomalous figure. But there’s purpose to it too … and not just for him … the Wokerati and globopsycho going apoplectic is a nice thing, a useful thing in itself. Good things can accidentally come out of all this, as they did from London’s festive carnival on the 13th … that was a lovely gathering of the nation’s people, the good, middling ones. Great for morale.

Q: But is this not just that bit in the Hegelian dialectic after the manufactured crises, the dark days of people crying out to be saved, the appearance of the Beloved Leader, promising to restore Laura Norder but really ushering in …..

A: Shhhhhh!

4. DAD at 1156

a) Much-loved peer DavidAlton is unable to speak at Second Reading of the assisted suicide Bill in the House of Lords after sustaining spinal injuries in a bus crash.

b) Ghost Pitùr, The Masked Avenger of Beauty. Every night, a mysterious shadow comes to save the Italian city of Brescia from tags and graffiti.

c) Beautiful Charlie Kirk tribute released by the White House. I’m happy to see our Unite The Kingdom rally featured in it.

(0551) Morning all in the damp dark. Dawn just breaking now => (0628)

 

3. Going to run these last four from yesterday together

2. Steve at 1156

• Globalists’ Shock Troops Antifa Face Global Reckoning as Hungary and the Netherlands Join Trump in Terrorist Labeling Push
• After Over 100 Years Under Construction, Famous Barcelona Basilica ‘Sagrada Familia’ Will Be Completed
• Pro-Life Warrior Lila Rose Shocks Organizers, Wins Yale Debate on Abortion
• Students from Rhode Island High School Attend School Board Meeting to Demand Teacher Who Went on Vile Rant Against Charlie Kirk Be Fired-”
• Massive Missile Strike: Dozens Of Targets In Ukraine’s Defense Industry Hit
• Kiev by Winter? What the Fall of the “Cursed Forest” and the Battles in Kupyansk and Dnipro Really Mean
• CDC vaccine panel unanimously votes to end universal COVID shot recommendation
• Physical injuries rewire our brains, affecting our response to future stresses
• Much more.

1. James Alexander writes

… at TDS (navbar above, middle column, link) about the ‘far left’ getting its ‘comeuppance’. Well that’s the Reform mentality to a tee, innit? That someone ‘up there’ ‘on our side’ will ‘get theirs’ with no input from us, beyond voting for Nige … and for others of ‘us’, that Tommy’s rallies provide the necessary mass disobedience.

At the same time, the ferreter class among us point to him being AIPAC or Mossad … I keep repeating that there’s no zero sum here, no prophet or messiah to lead us out of the mess … a subdivision of ‘us’ goes the eschatological route … that society has fallen away, therefore it’s best the Messiah gets a move on and appears above the Gates cloud.

I’m not knocking that, except that He sets the timing, not Christian humans. There’s the little matter of the 144k saints first, p,us the two voices in the streets. One thing for sure is that the sheep are directionless without the Shepherd, whichever metaphysical or political stance you take.

Meanwhile? Ah, there’s the rub … that lot, the baddies … they want slaughter, conflagration, human misery, no? Do nothing? Nope … we can’t do that … that’s too Eloi, innit?

Suddenly, this first post item of the days ends.

Oh, by the way, you’ll not be able to read James Alexander’s piece as it’s behind a paywall … they want money.