Buffy Top Ten Kisses

Okay Buffy fans, whilst waiting for the next TPN review i have found another Buffyverse reviewer called Ling Ling and her reviews on BtVS.
Here is a comparative one she has done called Top Ten Buffy Kisses.

Love it.

Buffy Matters

The influence of BtVS can be seen manifested i many other vampire series that have tried to emulate it. None have succeeded , and it remains for me unassailable.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a revolutionary show for a lot of reasons. The series quickly developed a cult following, as did series creator Joss Whedon – who has recently achieved profound mainstream recognition with films like The Avengers. The show balanced themes of growing up with action and horror, crossing every possibly genre throughout its seven seasons. The style of the show has been oft imitated since its premiere in 1997, but it has never been duplicated. Even now, twelve years after Buffy went off the air, successful shows like Teen Wolf still admit to being wholly inspired by Whedon’s groundbreaking series.

Irish Rhapsody

Another British c.omposer this time , although originally from Ireland.

Sir Charles Stanford - Irish Rhapsody No.1

Split into two parts onYouTube - son't know why

This is by the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley.

The composer tells us that the main idea of the First Rhapsody "is founded on an episode in the battles of the Finns and the loves of Cuchullin and Emer". The heroic Irish folk tales of the Fina led by Finn and of the love of Cuchullin and his wife Emer are among the roots of W.B. Yeats' poetry, and in music have been particularly associated with Arnold Bax, who had little time for Stanford. But Bax was unjust because Stanford too responded to this vivid tradition, and Stanford was an Irishman, which Bax was not. Dedicated to the conductor Hans Richter (subsequently to be the dedicatee of Elgar's First Symphony), it was first heard at the Norwich festival of 1902, the year of Stanford's knighthood. The first London performance followed at a Philharmonic Society concert at Queen's Hall on 12 March 1903, and it was so frequently played afterwards that Stanford said he begun to regret its composition.

Nowadays, this is less played and, once again, another composer that i feel is underrated. 

Fatback Sold

Yesterday i find the Yum Yum album by the Fatback Band for a quid in a charity shop in Faversham, and put it on Discogs. Sold it for £12 today!

I had a feeling it was a bit of a major find.

Sunday Funk!

Cousin is playing the latest Paul Weller CD downstairs so here is some hot funk for ya!

Fatback Band - Put The Funk On You

Miami - Kill That Roach

Ruben Wilson - Got To Get Your Own

Cameo - Rigor Mortis

Enjoy.

Whitstable Visit

Today i visited Whitstable for a couple of mystery shops. A pub food and drink visit followed by a charity shop one. As it was a hot sunny day again i did not want to stay in and the pub visit was already in my account for today.

The books found are -



My tan is really coming on nicely, and i look like alight tanned Indian.

Book 34 - Christopher Hill "The World Turned Upside Down"

Christopher Hill "The World Turned Upside Down : Radical Ideas During the English Revolution" (Penguin)








In a culmination of a long period of challenges to royal prerogatives, Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army overthrew the royal government. His foot soldiers, if you will, included some of the most original, radical and exuberant political thinkers in Western history. For a brief moment the king was gone and radical leaders like John Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley and their ideas held sway, although Cromwell and the gentry were shortly able to reassert control (before eventually losing power in the English reformation). Cromwell considered the radicals "a despicable and contemptible generation of men."

Hill's book tells the marvelously exciting stories of the Ranters and Seekers, Levellers and True Levellers (or Diggers), and the Quakers. Diggers, so called because they cultivated land they held in common in communes, were the most radical strain. They vied with the Levellers, who "merely" supported the universal right of every male head of household to vote for parliament. These events scared to death the usual powers-that-be. Thomas Hobbes' wrote the Leviathan in reaction against the chaos, as he saw it, of the English Civil War.

In summarizing the impact of the radicals' ideas, Hill quotes their enemy Clement Walker that they had "cast all the secrets and mysteries of government...before the vulgar (like pearls before swine)...[and] made the people thereby so curious and so arrogant that they will never find humility enough to submit to a civil rule."

Hill states, "For a short time, ordinary people were freer from the authority of church and social superiors than they had ever been before, or were for a long time to be again." Hill's excellent book tells the story of how such an event came to be and how the lords and gentry regained power and smashed the radicals.

Darn That Cat

The cat has decided to try and walk over my laptop as i write. It is very difficult to see the screen when you have a cat's bum almost in your face!

Buffy Books Again

As a big Buffy fan i downloaded this e-book for my Nexus tablet from Amazon this morning. Just 99 pence!

Bliss - Hymn To Apollo

Another English composer that should be better known is Sir Arthur Bliss. Both i and cmcmck agree on this. Here is one of his i do know, apart from the Colour Symphony and the ballet score Checkmate.

Sir Arthur Bliss - Hymn To Apollo

Enjoy.