Thursday [VJ Day] … [10 till close of play] …

(1515) Hope you survived that rain just then. VJ day is today or tomorrow or in September, depending where you are.

 

19. On a journey here, folks

Once you start delving into long-gone things, inc. songs, all sorts of spectres reappear, skeletons. Of late, I’ve been concentrating on three years … 1963 and the death of innocence, musically but also look at world events … Bay of Pigs, JFK gone, Vietnam starts for real … now tick the clock over to January 1968 and my own finale to youth but who had come out just prior to this?

In fact one year earlier, January 1967? The Doors’ debut album with the strangest diabolical themes … and who produced it? Wikipedia says:

“Paul A. Rothchild serving as producer.”

Uh huh. Starting to see a pattern? And that iconic, dystopic eleven minute last song The End, about death and destruction. Kids lapped it up, it overcame all attempts at banning it. Some Millennial just now reacted to the whole album, did not understand Backdoor Man, certainly did not understand The End, though he disliked the lyrics, loved the funky boppiness of the music … the hook for the kids.

Fast fwd to August 2025 and where we are right now. 1968 kid would understand today easily. 1963 kid would not have. 2025 kid is only just starting to.


He may have been too young, as I’d been in 1963 … but in 1968 I was exactly the age range, the demographic … this was designed for my mates and me. Now, I’ve already told you about a Damascene moment in 1964, right at the start of the Stones and Beatles. It may have kept me from many an abyss but there were plenty of others I rushed into, headstrong and unpredictable. Yet not over the edge.

And now here we are, mid August, 2025, at the brink again.

18. Toodles and the chain of command

Just what are these people doing there?

17. Luggage trucks and wives


16. Alaska


15. YouTube suddenly recommended this

Won’t inflict the follow up song so here it is.

14. Ireland


13. Downunder


12. Digital IDs experiment on MPs first


11. The other Charlie


10. Seizing defeat from the jaws

Thursday [9]

(1334) Afternoon all. Running this as a polit-post, not as a separate feature.

Things significantly changed between 1963 and 1964

… especially in music. Question is … what exactly? We could start here:


The song itself is not my style, a bit too girlie for mine but still better than the next year and the two after that … innocence of the west gone forever.

Bear something else in mind … which Penseivat wrote on Chubby Checker:

“Sadly, his career seemed to revolve around that atrocious activity called The Twist, and it didn’t last, as did (not) those who failed to adapt to music tastes…”

My thing about dancing was always for the male and female to be physically joined for most of a dance … shirley that was the whole point of it … contact with the girl … dancefests today at least concentrate on that aspect, though the “binary” is wonky and garish today … awful.

No, what had started around 1960 and Chubby Checker was largely responsible for it was male and female separating, showing off at each other their own individual moves … that was me gone for a start. 1963 was almost the last hurrah for real men, real ladies. You call The Stones men? Jagger prancing and mincing? The Beatles with their women’s hairdos? I warr but a lad in 1963, it was way before “my time”, which was 1968.

Plus the drugs insinuated themselves back in, post-Leary … not just grass but the hard stuff especially. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Controversial statement from me now, not in 1964 of course as a kid … but the sweeping away of innocence in The British Invasion was no advance for the west. Older style “fun” music, danceable, no longer required by “the kids”?

The angry, aggressive “hope I die before I get old” (The Who) … you call that an advance? What forces were behind such savage changes? Go to Laurel Canyon to find out.

……

Fast fwd five or six years … in fact to January 68. One year later, the long (best) album version of Crimson and Clover came out. 👇🏻 The Sep before Jan 68, I’d had my first close encounter of the female kind, now it was reprised … in fact she and I were only discussing it a couple of days ago (2025).

So that song, though it did not emerge for another year, was soooo appropriate for the situation. What I might call the end of the time of romances, courtships … thereafter, everything was only about sex as it is today … can you see Paul and Paula (the song) selling today?

……

And lastly, looking at the song itself … yes, one more time but not the uninterrupted version … it’s a reaction video. Now, I’m going to be waycist here … I’ve heard all sorts … black, white, male female … it’s the blacks who get best what the band is trying to do … and the younger the reacters, the better … these two seem late millennial to me.

Just remembering myself in Jan 69, hypothetically listening as a reacter: “Er not bad, we like the song, a bit complicated, a bit overthought.”

These two though start analysing the instruments, the mixing … mixing in 1968/9? Always fascinating to me to hear what the young have to say about what we did and heard.

Thursday [5 to 8]

(0811)(0902)

 

8. Without further comment from me

7. Housekeeping

As of tomorrow, we’ve temporarily lost another vacationer, in this case DAD, who has family biz. My attitude is … go for it, chaps and chapesses … look after your own and yourselves first … refresh, recuperate, renew, strengthen.

As for me, I’m on perma-vacation here … everything works well, the views are lovely from the windows, the food good … though I should be physically training more … once we lay off, the troubles start.

6. Famliar? And yet it’s from downunder


Same thoughts from me, as with item 5.

5. Please support the new generation of “right thinking people”

… no matter how ruined they were by the evil “education” industry … and Charlie was indeed almost ruined, saved at the last moment. Maybe you can follow her @astor_charlie if you’ve not already done so … this is the new generation now making the running … they need our support. There’s also a male Charlie connected with Rupert. A society which neglects its youth has truly lost them.

Thursday [1 to 4]

(0528) Heavy, low cover of poison cloud out there. (0608)

 

4. Not totally sure what this is about

… but looks good anyway:


3. Where did this money or even Newsom’s go?


Or into pollie pockets or squandered on madcap schemes.

2. Britannia Hotel, Canary Wharf


Sadbutmadlad, at X:


That a door is open doesn’t stop someone being charged with breaking and entering. It’s still entering with intent to commit burglary. 14yr prison sentence if the property is a home/dwelling/residence. https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9

This was covered elsewhere as well:


1. DAD at 1131

a) The highly controversial La Peyratte wind power project has suffered its first setback. The measuring mast, installed in April 2025, was vandalised and destroyed….

b) France’s online anti-tax revolt rattles Macron’s Elysée … The “Nicolas picks up the tab” online campaign evokes uncomfortable memories of the Yellow Vests protests.

c) In the UK today, it’s sometimes safer to be the criminal than the victim of crime.

d) UK police forces will disclose the ethnicity and nationality of a suspect when it could reduce the risk of disorder, there are high levels of false information about an incident or there is significant public interest.

Wednesday [11 till close of play]

(1718)

 

16. At 2101, I’m almost asleep

… just as things suddenly start hitting the inbox and other places. First is a message for Torquaymada in the sidebar. Second is an episode of Grifty which I was going to run for IYE but I looked through it, watching parts … it was a female on female hit, no doubt true but not great watching.

Third is a not easily accessible blog page which may well be worth your while taking time to look through.

Fourth is from Toodles but everything in the email except the url has disappeared, is a blank. Yet I saw the one line lead in, so she certainly wrote it. Now, there are two main reasons not to go to that episode of that vlog. The first is what one viewer commented … 50 minutes it goes for and the girl just rambles on and on and on, almost never getting to the point. Personally, I can listen to a nice gal, honest, sweet, rambling for hours … not an issue for me … but I don’t expect anyone else to.

The far more important reason is that it’s messing with some very nasty occult doings. Interesting that both a line in the gospels, plus a male witch in Russia when I was there, warned me not to touch it. A pretty high grade warning I’d say. That’s where I also learnt about the Statue of Liberty being nothing of the kind … it’s a statue of a character in the occult starting Ish…

Right … so this thing turns on a woman coming into a pastor’s gambit in the States under an assumed name, totally out of her skull. Now the reason I don’t pooh-pooh this story is it has corroboration about the pastor himself but that’s still not conclusive in itself. Plus I saw similar in Russia, where they’re more at the mercy of the occult, with only Eloi like defences, poor sods. We’re getting that way too now.

Plus some of you will recall me referring to a tarot reader called Cypra whom I knew, visited, spent time with. A dark story indeed … she ended up ostensibly throwing herself off a balcony to the carpark below … it always seemed quite Nietspe or David Kelly to me or Sonny Bono. Plus the Latina girl I ran in a post item who called out the human eating monsters at a Washington party. Plus you could add Diddy and Bieber … plus all the weird things across the west … was that creep on the bus demonically possessed?

Ok, the point where I bought it was that the girl narrator was going on about rae rae. Almost every search result says bunkum … her name was quite different, there was only one daughter of this known fiend, surname LaVey. Ok … she had an instagram account … name rae rae. At this point, I jump off, jump clear, go to bed … have no truck with any of that, there’s only one defensive system and most have not availed themselves of it.

15. A song from … oh, I don’t know …

… how about 1963 for a change?

14. Hearts of Oak as if it were Steve

13. We can’t escape it anywhere


12. I have my own tale about murderers of wasps

… it’s my venus flytrap … I think … it doesn’t seem to be feeding … rather they seem to be getting in at another window, going to the sill in another room where the vft is … and just dying on the sill. One was earlier today. Now what exactly is it killing them? Something exuded, harsh sun … me?


11. Not all good

Wed Mat

 

Review:

“”Count Five and Die” is a very good wartime espionage film. However, I’ll be honest, it starts off slowly and only gets interesting later in the movie. Fortunately, it ends quite well and is worth seeing.

In this film, an American (Jeffery Hunter) and Brit (Nigel Patrick) are in charge of a spy mission in which they are to deliberately misdirect the Germans by convincing them that the upcoming invasion of the continent will be in Holland. It all takes place in London and the key is their feeding the false information to Nazi agents in the city.

As I said before, this is a very slow film at the beginning. Fortunately, the picture improves and really becomes quite taut and intelligent towards the end. Not a great film like “The Man Who Never Was” (which covers much of the same material) but well worth your time…and patience.”

Wednesday [6 to 10]

(1006) Warm out there. (1101)

 

10. Colin Wynter KC


9. Almighty clearout of teaching staff required … start over


8. It’s not just conflicting personalities

… it’s opposed agendas they’re in thrall to, monetarily, plus the blackmail.


7. Nearly got away


6. Clandestine and the Smithsonians

Obviously of interest, just as is the current Russki attack, itself clandestine. Anyway:

Penseivat and Elvis

 

Elvis was discovered, and ruined, by an (alleged) illegal immigrant from Lithuania, which was one of the reasons why Elvis never performed outside the USA, Parker realising that if he accompanied Elvis abroad, he’d never be allowed back in.

As he matured, so did his voice, and it was felt that there wasn’t a song he couldn’t sing … “If I can Dream” from his comeback special, after discharge from his military service, is just one example:

What could Elvis have achieved under proper management?

Ernest Evans is said to have used the stage name of Chubby Checker as a play on words of Fats Domino. Sadly, his career seemed to revolve around that atrocious activity called The Twist, and it didn’t last, as did not those who failed to adapt to music tastes (I’m afraid I include Ricky Nelson in this).

Many British pop stars seemed to try to be clones of the early Elvis, and few survived very long, though Harry Webb seems to have done quite well.

I could go on, but would note everybody. Music tastes, like humour, is subjective after all.

……

JH: I’d just add:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Sands

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubby_Checker

Wednesday [2 to 5]

(0601) Morning all. (0653)

 

5. Some Texas news


4. DAD at 1130

a) For the past week, around 200 migrants have been camped outside of Paris’ Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) to protest against a supposed lack of proper accommodation.

b) [The] Macrons Secretly Hired Investigator To Dig Up Dirt On Candace Owens [following her series of videos that claimed ‘Brigette’ is a male].

c) Dozens of migrants land on Algarve beach loved by Brits… and are immediately taken before judge and ordered to leave the country, in stark contrast to soft-touch UK.

d) Danish wind farm constructor Ørsted has been left facing one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history, with its stock price having plunged to an all-time low.

3. The disappointing Danielle

First consider this:


Add to that how thoroughly disappointing eastern Canada has been in Trudeau, Carney and Poinlievre, all Uniparty baddies or controlled opposition, not unlike Yusuf Farage in the UK … and Danielle’s embracing of the east, as if they are remotely interested in Canada’s welfare:


Meanwhile:


Or how about:


Does Danielle have the Rottweiler streak necessary to take on eastern Canada? Does she have the stomach for it? Is she truly interested in acting, not bleating?

2. Andy at 1130

Our broadcasting auntie reports that Thames Valley police have terminated 39 officers and staff for se**al misconduct over the last few years. Others have been given written warnings and final written warnings. This quote from the article which I cannot link to gets my goat. “Another 23 were told to undergo reflective practice.” What the heck is that when it’s at home?