Entertainment For Lively Minds
Hounds of Lund
Posted by Paul Cunningham on 16 November 2011 - 3:48pm.
The latest Word subscribers edition, and the Radio Times, which I picked up today. Just noticed them lying next to each other. One of those cases of accidental symmetry, do you agree? Two of the 'women of the year', in any case. Good to see The Killing back on the BBC4 soon - and the great Kate is on fine form in the Word interview with Dorian Lynskey.
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The Word missed a trick there
"Knit Your Own Kate Bush Winter Shawl!"
Imagine how many more magazines they could have sold with that sticker on the cover...;)
The knitting thing...
...they weren't joking. Nor being half-hearted about it: a full 2/3 of a page of RT (!) is taken up with knitting instructions that are completely impenetrable, and yet fascinating, to those of us without a clue how to knit.
What would the Word do? 'Sew your own Editor's Editor blue shirt'?
By the way Locust, Sofie Grabol [apologies for the lack of umlauts - no idea how to get them on my keyboard] keeps telling interviewers that it's only Denmark and Britain that are fascinated with her knitwear - no one else in Europe seems that interested.
How do Swedes feel about The Jumper?
I have to confess
that I have never seen The Killing...crime stories bore me to death.
I can't say that I have noticed any knitting patterns anywhere, but I only read magazines about music and literature.
There was a Swedish band called Jumper many years ago, unless I'm mistaken!
By the way, I've been playing my Mahavishnu Orchestra albums for a couple of weeks now, and I really like them, even the MO II ones.
I also put them on when I'm writing (just finished the first draft on Chapter One of what I hope will be my first novel!) and they seem to fuel my imagination, so many thanks for your powers of persuasion!
The Inner Mounting Flame is my current favourite, followed by Between Nothingness & Eternity.
Crikey!
...I'm both humbled and delighted, locust. That's terrific news - that my recommendation wasn't a waste of time and that its inspiring! I have an unfinished novel (one of two which I must get back too when time/spirit allows) where I toyed with the idea of taking chapter titles from MO tunes - though the novel is nothing really to do with the MO and only tangentially with music (baroque music mostly). It transpired to be an unsustainable idea!
I'm awaiting delivery of Sony's latest MO box set, 'the Complete Columbia Albums', later this month, being the three MO Mk1 LPs plus 'The Lost Trident Sessions' and plus an extra disc of 'Between Nothingness & Eternity' concert material (with that album, I believe, wholly remixed). I'd be happy to send you a copy of the new BN&E if you wish - given that we'll both have been paying customers of Sony MO product, I have no moral qualms about it!
Continued good luck with the novel writing!
Thanks
I have a good feeling about it.
I've stuck with writing short stories so far because I often have a problem sustaining my interest for anything longer.
But my short stories have become longer and longer in recent years so I'm guessing it's time to give the novel format a try.
Plus I got a killer idea! Still, plenty of time to fail yet.
That's a very generous offer, Colin, and I'm sure I would enjoy the new material, but you really don't have to go to any trouble for me.
I'm still getting to know their music (two weeks are not long enough to even start to recognize which track is which!) so it's a bit like offering a University course in algebra to a kindergarten child because she says "I really like those brightly coloured magnetic numbers - they're pretty!" ;)
For now I have all I need, but as soon as I start to crave some more MO material, I promise to turn to you first!
(And I bought an awful lot of albums this month so I have plenty of new music to devote my time to. And that's before I buy the new Kate Bush album...so much music, so little time!)
But thank you again, five great albums and I've only deleted one track that I deemed unlistenable (track 3 from Apocalypse, some ghastly operatic screaming going on that I just couldn't get on with, and I speak as a fan of the opera).
You deleted 'Smile Of The Beyond'?!?!?!?!!!!!!!????????
...Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
*sighs*
haha
You see ? I am clearly not worthy of any extra material...
Really ? You like that one ?
It sounded like a cat in a bag being hit with cricket bats.
(sorry)
Ah, but if you had persevered with the (surely glorious!)...
...Gayle Moran vocal section you would have reached several minutes of McLaughlin/Jean-Luc Ponty bliss-out. This, in fact:
Well
If they had played that loud over her voice from the beginning, it would have been OK!
Sorry, I'm just teasing you now. ;)
We can't love everything. Quite frankly, I'm rather surprised that I didn't find many more tracks unbearable!
Consider the glass half full, Colin - not half empty!
Oh, don't worry Locust...
...I'm only kidding. :-)
I am, truly, amazed and pleased that you like so much of the MO music. It's a very rugged beauty that doesn't easily appeal to people, or at least takes a bit of effort it seems...
Oompah! oompah! stick it up yer jumper!
Have only just finsihed watching the 1st series and so this is great timing. Season 3 is filming atm
I'm finding the hype surrounding this show off-putting
It's killing it for me. When the Guardian and the RT get hold of something - and something let's face it they're pushing because they think it puts them on a higher cultural plane than everyone else - it's time to calm down.
Love the original as much as I did, I will be watching the new series but remembering that it's only another TV show and not the best thing ever. It was only interesting because it was set in Denmark and in Danish with a sullen but attractive lead actress. No one but no one talked even as quarter as much about the US version.
We've been down this road before with The Wire. Enough already.
Its already on
on a plain rarely visited by a good 95% or higher of the population as its subtitled. I offered my mum copies of the episodes to watch but got the the reply "oh I can't do subtitles". I doubt putting it on front of the Radio Times will make much difference to its ratings. Plus its on BBC4 which pushes it so far from the mainstream viewer that it might as well not be on.
The US version falls into the catergory of remakes of foreign language horror films. They seem to think just be changing the language that they will maintain the magic of what made the original sucessful. It almost always fails.
I shall be watching
the second series, but, (and how shall I put this without upsetting too many people, oh, who cares?) I'm pleased it's only over 10 episodes. The first series did meander a bit, much as I enjoyed it.
well there were so many suspects
arrested in the first season I was wondering if in fact I did it.
Or maybe I just wanted her to knock on my door in the dead of night *growl*
Just for a moment there
I thought it was Jenny Agutter on the RT cover.
Gosh...
...now that you mention it...
Jenny Agutter
Walkabout.
* that's all.
Gets hanky. Leaves.
*sniggers*
Well, there's walkabout and then there's this
become a monister by Anyclip
but to the more romantic and less priapic
there is this
Yikes!
I came back to this thread to look for new entries, the Media Player on random was playing an old Scritti Politti track and as I was reading an answer higher up in the thread there was suddenly a strange interlude in the Scritti Politti song, where someone was saying he was a warewolf.
Strange, I thought, I don't remember this bit...and then I scrolled down.
Funny thing is, it kind of fit because the lyrics of the song said something about the night and the stars and "I'll be home before it's light", which is what a warewolf would tell his girlfriend I guess...
Dissenting voice
Got to disagree with the conventional wisdom of The Word/Guardian. Me and the missus watched the rerun of The Killing over August/September, sat through all 20 episodes, and decided it was 20 hours of our lives wasted.
It meandered all over the place, in real life the cops would have kicked off the case after the second time they told the media they had a suspect who turned out to be innocent, and the resolution had more holes than a Danish cheese.
I'm sure that if it had been a British or American show everyone would have written it off; but gloomy Scandi crime is in vogue at the moment.
Won't give any time to series two.
No bad thing to have fewer
No bad thing to have fewer episodes in The Killing: 2. A few in the first series were a bit repetitive.
So it must be quite unusual for RT to put a BBC4 show on the cover ...
The Killing 2
I cannot wait!