Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Did you come across The Museum of Childhood?
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Speaking of Lorde, great review of her New York concert from the New York Times yesterday http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/arts/music/shes-16-but-not-thinking-of-sweet.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131002
Oh, I am ever so pleased that you have finally found Arcade Fire. They were the primary reason I went to BDO last time, and why I am going again in Jan 2014. But hold back on the Abba references--I hear littlle that is Swedidsh in their music. You need to go back to their first release Funeral, to get a sense of how ground-breaking they are. -
You can't avoid Lorde; this from today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/arts/music/shes-16-but-not-thinking-of-sweet.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131002 -
I think that Bob Jones suffers from sibling envy because his brother Lloyd is a much better writer than he will ever be. Bob has only written several third-rate novels, which have long been remaindered.
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Read the Jones column and the accompanying comments, leaving my own comment along the lines of;
Interesting that this story is accompanied by an ad insert for "removing urine stains" for the story is an urine stain and some of the subsequent comments have made it worse
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Love the line in " A World Alone"..
they're studying business, I study the floor
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A great piece of television. Spotted Roger Horrocks in one scene at the Civic.
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David; fascinating stuff. I love the serendipity (a lovely word) of surprising connections. I was searching recently, to find more about the civil case taken against Graham Greene and the Night & Day magazine in 1938, in wake of his review of the Shirley Temple film Wee Willie Winkie (dir. John Ford). Then how he fled to Mexico, to avoid criminal proceedings, ostensibly to study human rights issues on behalf of the Catholic Church--but wrote The Power and the Glory
instead (possibly his finest novel). Then it came across a reference to how it was Obama's favourite book, then another story how F. Scott Fitzgerald attempted to revive Shirley's film career in her late teens ....
Some of these discoveries in libraries; some on the web.I have a feature about my Shirley research coming out in New Zealand Memories early next year, focusing on Shirley Temple 'double' competitions in NZ in 1935-36
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The bloke on Jools Holland last night was Willy Moon. Anyone know anything about him?
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As much as I like Lorde I worry a bit that she could suffer as a consequence of the planned obsolescence of contemporary music--always looking for the 'next big thing'. This seems to be the possible fate of Kimbra.
There was a NZ bloke ( a 'multi-instrumentalist' who is appatrently big in the UK) on Later With Jools Holland last night but I have already forgotten his name.