Just a collection of curios and ramblings, rumours and rants.
‘….. in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? … The Cuckoo Clock.’
HARRY LIME. ( THE THIRD MAN.)
OCTOBER 2017.
THE PEPPERED MOTH; Margaret Drabble.
MY BRILLIANT CAREER; Miles Franklin.
LAST ORDERS; Graham Swift.
IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER; Italo Calvino.
THE COUNT 5. Psychotic reaction.
? AND THE MYSTERIANS. 96 Tears.
VELVET UNDERGROUND. Waiting for the man.
JOY DIVISION. Love will tear us apart.
‘An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex,’
ALDOUS HUXLEY.
WHY HASN’T E.T. PHONED?
1. THE UNIVERSE IS TOO YOUNG. It is believed that the BIG BANG occurred 12.8 billion years ago. It took Life on our planet this time to evolve to a point where we could send a message to the rest of the universe. If this is typical throughout the cosmos then it will be some time before we get a reply.
2. WE’RE ALL DOOMED CAPTAIN MAINWARING! Life may be a universal given, like gravity. Under certain conditions PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY will combine to create BIOLOGY. Life evolves to a point where it becomes self-conscious and after the initial era of vanity; religion and creation ‘myths’, the inevitable endgame is apparent. Eventually we’ll have a very large, but finite, number of photons zapping around an endless and expanding universe becoming more and more remote from one another. In effect; nothingness.
DISCUSS.
CALAMITY JANE.
The Deadwood stage.
The Windy City.
The Black Hills of Dakota.
Secret Love.
‘Whipcrackaway’
Never trust a Hippie!
SITUATIONIST SLOGAN.
OLD GEEZER (1). Danger!
OLD GEEZER(2). What?
OG(1). Young person approaching the Juke Box!
OG(2). What do you think?
‘Duran Duran.’
‘Heaven forbid!’
”Poor old Johnny Ray……….”
‘Thank the Lord!’
‘Best first lines?’
”Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack……..”
‘Existentialist! ”Chewing on a piece of grass, walking down the road…”
‘Hippie!’
”Right now! I am an anti -christ!”
‘Situationist!’ But can’t better it.’
‘Your round!’
GORDON LIGHTFOOT:
‘Sit down young stranger.’
‘If you could read my mind.’
‘Saturday clothes.’
‘The last time I saw her.’
‘When Gordon Lightfoot sings, I don’t want him to stop.’ BOB DYLAN.
THE SCENE: THE ‘SNUG’ OF A PUB IN NEWCASTLE.
TERRY: I hate this town!
BOB: It’s fine. It’s home man. Where we grew up!
TERRY: It’s like a prison! No excitement, boredom. I feel trapped!
BOB: What do you want man?
TERRY: Something different, I’ve decided to go south.
BOB: You don’t mean…………?
TERRY: Yes…..I’m moving to Sunderland!
THE DRUM AND FIFE. 