Futtocks
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A sequel to 'Hawk the Slayer'? Ace!
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Here's an oddity - Russian author Kirill Eskov wrote The Last Ringbearer in 1999. Going by the rule that history is written by the victors, this is his Lord of the Rings sequel, but where the good guys are the bad guys and vice versa.Gandalf & Co. are portrayed as warmongers pushing a 'final solution' to the problem of the progressive and enlightened orcs and trolls whose burgeoning industrial revolution and enlightened civilisation is snuffed out by the forces of mysticism and sword-swinging barbarity. The elves are seen as racial supremacists, who only desire to turn Middle Earth into a leisure park and treat the humans as amusing pets.It's not brilliantly translated (Google will find you a free copy in various formats), or maybe the original text wasn't much cop to begin with, but it is an amusing conceit, written with more thoroughness and detail than you would see in regular fanfic.
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Archie Roach - Summer of my Life. I can't find a clip on YouTube, but let's just say that if you've had a couple of drinks and you're feeling maudlin, don't play this song. Tears will occur. It is a song about an old woman who continues to visit the hospital bed of her dead husband and remembers his last words to her.
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Own up. It's a jazz mag.
Or, to quote the sitcom Bottom, a "rhythm publication".
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I just went through my collection and realised I don't have that album after all, so I'll be getting it this afternoon.
Well, I'm listening to it right now! The 'magazine' is really just an 11 inch square leaflet, but that's okay. If it was a full magazine, I probably wouldn't keep it for long, but this pops into the LP sleeve as extended liner notes. A subtle positive is that the barcode is on the packaging, not the LP sleeve, so you get a nice authentic look to the whole thing. The inner sleeve has an anti-static liner too. As the Fast Show's John Thompson would say, "nice!"
A really quiet and clean pressing which, according to the sleeve, is the 2008 Blue Note reissue. I emailed Michael Fremer of the AnalogPlanet website in the USA about it and he was pretty gobsmacked that a partwork magazine was bringing 180g Jazz LPs out and they were selling in British supermarkets and corner shops.
So I uploaded a ripped track to DropBox for him, so he can hear and judge for himself, albeit a file created with far inferior hardware than he has at his disposal.
The music - well the only track I really knew well before this purchase was 'Blue Train' itself, but the rest of the album is wonderful too! Currently on 'I'm Old Fashioned' and loving it.
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Not much interest in football but my eyebrows shot up a bit at the Etihad goings on today. as I've a mate who's from Leicester and is a fan.
Splendid!
It is a real story for the Premier League, seeing a 'little' club bothering the established big names. And playing some good Football in the process too.
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Wharfdale Diamond 8.3, in very good nick
£55 inc auctioneer's commission
My first proper speakers were Wharfedales (Delta 30s). They make very good speakers at competitive prices.
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Just picked up the 2nd issue of the Jazz magazine series, John Coltrane ... Blue Train.
Sounds excellent again, my new Avid phono has bedded in really well sounds very smooth really easy to listen too.
I am going to have a look at one of the new Pro Ject record cleaning machines hopefully next week.
I just went through my collection and realised I don't have that album after all, so I'll be getting it this afternoon.
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The Monkees are releasing a new album this year!
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'Tammy & the T-Rex'.
A scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus. He takes vengeance on his high school tormentors and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy. In the end, Michael's brain is removed from the robot lizard and, now just sitting in a jar. It is, as far as I can tell, played for laughs. Not many laughs, mind. There is also some magnificently bad SFX, especially when the T-Rex uses a phone box.
Tammy is played by Denise Richards, who has actually been in some reasonably good films, including the funny and underrated 'Drop Dead Gorgeous'. I think, if you mentioned 'Tammy & the T-Rex' to her now, she'd start crying uncontrollably. So if you meet her, be kind.
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Strap yourselves in for possibly the most overwrought performance ever!
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Good work:
That's impressive!
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£14:99 is still good value for a 180gm vinyl record I agree, as I said the Miles Davis really is a super quiet pressing, realty good quality.
I spotted the Coltrane one (issue #2) in Sainsbury's yesterday. As I have both the first two albums already, I'm still waiting before I buy. Not 100% sure I'll get the Billie Holiday one, but the Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck issues are very tempting.
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Here at the Clawphin © skunkworks, progress never stands still. Only yesterday, one of our team crossbred a sense of deja vu with a dolphin.
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Long before Peter Jackson, back in the fabled Eighties, there was a feature film of 'The Hobbit'. No, not that one. Or the other one you might be thinking of.This was the USSR's attempt and it is, at least, shorter than the Kiwi bloatmeister's trilogy. Provided with what I suspect are not entirely serious translations in subtitle form, here is "The Hobbitski". Some swearing.
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The historical reality is that England is an annex of Scotland. After all, the first King of Britain was James I who was James VI of Scotland first and expanded his kingdom to include England and Wales. Once people got fed up of the Stuarts, we sold Britain as a job lot to the Germans.
*throws hand grenade and runs*
Actually, Scotland is Berwick-upon-Tweed North and England is Berwick-upon-Tweed South.
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The bass player is Kim Gardner, who also played (with Ron) in The Creation, before Kim became the middle name in Ashton, Gardner & Dyke.
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To mark the death of Frank Finlay, I was watching 'The Deadly Bees' (1966). Early on in the film, you see a performance by a band called The Birds (not Byrds). Who's that familiar figure playing a pretty funky-looking guitar? Just Ronnie Wood!
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Roasted cod with salami. Would never have put the two together, but it was lovely.
A sort of Spanish surf'n'turf, eh?
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Here's one for Paul Kantner.
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I got mine from WHSmiths I think it's a John Coltrane issue up next
John Coltrane next, then Billie Holiday.
While I think partworks in general are for mugs, even the full price issues (from #3 onwards) are well priced for the 180g market. And the extras you get if you subscribe seem quite decent: https://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/jazz-vinyl/
Plus a £50 discount on a Pro-Ject USB turntable.
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