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Trek Time
Which Star Trek film is your favourite and why?
Whom is your favourite Trekkie captain and why?
Which TV series of the franchise do you prefer and why?
2016-09-10
Which Star Trek film is your favourite and why?
Whom is your favourite Trekkie captain and why?
Which TV series of the franchise do you prefer and why?
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Tristan Murail ~ L'espri
Just one classical piece to end the night - another modern composer i love.
Tristan Murail ~ L'esprit des dunes (For ensemble and electronics)
Enjoy.
Tristan Murail ~ L'esprit des dunes (For ensemble and electronics)
Enjoy.
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Supernatural S10
I have just one more deposit of the Winchester brothers in Season 10 of Supernatural;to wars, Yay!
I just love Crowley's mum, Rowena!
I just love Crowley's mum, Rowena!
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SPN,Beer and Books
I have now completed watching Season 10 of Supernatural and already onto the second episode of Season 11. For a series that i started half heartedly to watch i am now quite hooked.
When i was at the pub ast night it tried the latest Sixpoint Craft beer - Sixpoint Resin (9.1 % ABV)!!!
Infact i did not go to Canterbury today but will be doing some Asda store visits tom morrow and Monday.Decided to take the day off after the long day yesterday. Contingent with that is the weather is dull and overcast, threatening to rain , and full of malediction.
Anyway,i have books to read - here are the ones i found yesterday.
If anybody is interetsed in purchasing books off me just message me.
Right folks,a tittle bit more reading now.
When i was at the pub ast night it tried the latest Sixpoint Craft beer - Sixpoint Resin (9.1 % ABV)!!!
Infact i did not go to Canterbury today but will be doing some Asda store visits tom morrow and Monday.Decided to take the day off after the long day yesterday. Contingent with that is the weather is dull and overcast, threatening to rain , and full of malediction.
Anyway,i have books to read - here are the ones i found yesterday.
If anybody is interetsed in purchasing books off me just message me.
Right folks,a tittle bit more reading now.
Which Star Trek Captain Are You?
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/09/personality-quiz-which-star-trek-captain-are-you
I got Captain Jean-Luc Picard
You may not be as blessed with easy charm and cunning as some other Starfleet Captains we could mention, but this means you've had to sharpen up your other skills, most notably as a tactician and a diplomat. As well as being supremely clever, you have an exceptionally long fuse, which allows you to play the long game in matters of extreme delicacy, even when tempers are becoming frayed all around you. This means you can lead your loyal crew less by instinct and more by a keen understanding of the best way to navigate some extremely strange situations.
I got Captain Jean-Luc Picard
You may not be as blessed with easy charm and cunning as some other Starfleet Captains we could mention, but this means you've had to sharpen up your other skills, most notably as a tactician and a diplomat. As well as being supremely clever, you have an exceptionally long fuse, which allows you to play the long game in matters of extreme delicacy, even when tempers are becoming frayed all around you. This means you can lead your loyal crew less by instinct and more by a keen understanding of the best way to navigate some extremely strange situations.
Attica Blues
This track is an homage to the prisoners strike in Attica -
Historical reference -
http://fusion.net/story/345567/prison-strike-slavery-attica/
Archie Shepp- Attica Blues
Frank Zappa & Archie Shepp - Let's Move To Cleveland Solos
Frank Zappa- guitar; Archie Shepp- tenor sax; Ike Willis, Ray White- guitar; Bobby Martin- keyboards; Alan Zavod- keyboards solo; Scott Thunes- bass; Chad Wackerman- drums.
Live recording 1984.
"You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4" (RycoDisk, 1988)
Historical reference -
http://fusion.net/story/345567/prison-strike-slavery-attica/
Archie Shepp- Attica Blues
Frank Zappa & Archie Shepp - Let's Move To Cleveland Solos
Frank Zappa- guitar; Archie Shepp- tenor sax; Ike Willis, Ray White- guitar; Bobby Martin- keyboards; Alan Zavod- keyboards solo; Scott Thunes- bass; Chad Wackerman- drums.
Live recording 1984.
"You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4" (RycoDisk, 1988)
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Just Wondering
Assuming you had a time machine -
What historical period would you like to visit most and why?
Which historical character would you like to have a chat with and why?
And if you could transport them to our modern times who would you take and why?
What historical period would you like to visit most and why?
Which historical character would you like to have a chat with and why?
And if you could transport them to our modern times who would you take and why?
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Book 73 - David Mitchell "Slade House"
David Mitchell "Slade House" (Sceptre)
Every nine years on the last Saturday of October a small, black, non-descript iron door without handle or lock, set into the wall of Slade Alley, opens and admits someone into the grounds of Slade House, but they will never leave.
Told in five interweaving instalments from five different points of view, with a time frame from 1979 to 2015, David Mitchell – a well-known word wizard – manages effortlessly to slip from character to character, giving each a distinct and discrete personality, and the few cultural references that help anchor each respective section in time are spot-on. There is a certain sense of inevitability once the speaker has identified themselves, making the reader complicit in the events surrounding the disappearance of a number of 'guests' of Slade House over the span of 36 years, yet the author also fiendishly gives the reader hope and inexorably and expertly draws the reader further into the narrative, like the inhabitants of Slade House do with their victims.
I wasn't sure after the first instalment whether there would be anything else to add to the story, but I should have had more confidence: while David Mitchell keeps to the same pattern each time, he also slowly moves the narrative forward, not only in time, but also to an inevitable denouement. I thought the last story was less successful than the others, but this is still a story by a master storyteller.
I now feel like re-reading "Cloud Atlas" or the other one i picked up recently , "Ghostwritten".
Every nine years on the last Saturday of October a small, black, non-descript iron door without handle or lock, set into the wall of Slade Alley, opens and admits someone into the grounds of Slade House, but they will never leave.
Told in five interweaving instalments from five different points of view, with a time frame from 1979 to 2015, David Mitchell – a well-known word wizard – manages effortlessly to slip from character to character, giving each a distinct and discrete personality, and the few cultural references that help anchor each respective section in time are spot-on. There is a certain sense of inevitability once the speaker has identified themselves, making the reader complicit in the events surrounding the disappearance of a number of 'guests' of Slade House over the span of 36 years, yet the author also fiendishly gives the reader hope and inexorably and expertly draws the reader further into the narrative, like the inhabitants of Slade House do with their victims.
I wasn't sure after the first instalment whether there would be anything else to add to the story, but I should have had more confidence: while David Mitchell keeps to the same pattern each time, he also slowly moves the narrative forward, not only in time, but also to an inevitable denouement. I thought the last story was less successful than the others, but this is still a story by a master storyteller.
I now feel like re-reading "Cloud Atlas" or the other one i picked up recently , "Ghostwritten".