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That's kind of a variation on the theme actually. a close up intimate perspective. A shallow space. Kind of like a Bryan Ferry opus.

He looks a bit like Rupert Murdoch.

I watched this live as it unfolded in the early hours in Australia. The commentators could not hide their joy at the performance. They said the same thing as Cram. It took me right away from the hype. The walking is on now. Another event that always seems plagued with controversy and authenticity. India did it first.

Nah. I still think they're opportunists with deep pockets. I wouldn't lose any sleep over employing 'killerjoe's' method (post#7). This thread - on another board - has an interesting argument about the Vaults. Admittedly it was 2007ish...probably before a lot of 'fine tuning' went on. My link

I didn't think Stephen Fry grew up in a Jewish family culture. By far to me he is a continuum of the English Public/University culture. My link Ben Elton on the other hand I took for Jewish culturally. But it appears some opinions differ. My link

He's got a more engaging personality that's for sure. And a Jamaican accent. He just comes across as a great guy who's simply the best in the world.

Is that YOU, Freelancer, or something from the hype on the site? MG It was the usual hype from the site. Larry Young 'changed everything with one elegant stroke' but still ended up dying of medical neglect. That truth wouldn't suit their marketing campaign now would it.

The cheek of Wolfgangs Vault - which is just a glorified bootleg organisation - in claiming a concern for ethics. It just seems like a place where 'someone' has got it together to round up as many circulating grey area recordings as possible and begin to strike some 'deals' to make it all legit. I doubt much of anything would be getting back to the estates once they add up all their time and expenses.

And we haven't finished yet. About time the world woke up to us, let alone the featureless desert of the pointless 'rest of the UK'. Go Yorkshire! What do you mean by 'the featureless desert of the pointless rest of the UK'?

And they have to put up with the ruling classes on their backs I did get a bit more respect for the BMXers when I saw the two nasty crashes. I still felt like calling their parents though. That would be Harlem Globetrotter-esque.

Funny Hughes anecdote from this obituary about how he became Art critic for Time. Obviously I have overlooked Hughes was an Australian Hunter S Thompson... "The magazine was America's window to the world and the men and women who worked on it belonged to a sort of east coast Brahman class. But when the senior editor phoned to offer the Time art critic job, Hughes recalled he was so stoned he thought it was the CIA calling. ''In a measured and dignified way, I told this spook exactly what I thought of the American imperialism whose tool he was, of American policy in Vietnam, of American perfidy. It was quite a little performance. I then, secure in the knowledge of a good day's work compressed into a couple of minutes, hung up in his ear,'' Hughes wrote in a 2006 memoir Things I Didn't Know. Nevertheless, he moved to Manhattan in 1970 and wrote for Time for the rest of the century". My link This reminds me of an interview with Paul McCartney, who said that when The Beatles finished work on Revolver, he decamped to Germany for a few days (with a tape dub of the freshly completed album in his hands). When he got to Germany, he immediately imbibed some high toxicity German hashish, and proceeded to luxuriate in listening to his newly recorded masterpiece. Unfortunately the hash had clouded his judgement - and he thought the guitars were all out of tune. Oh no -he thought - we're going to have to go back into the studio and record the whole album again

Hopefully he is happy enough not to give his wife another backhander. It's good to see the UK melting pot in action.

This is very fine too. I even thought the music had definite 'crossover' potential until I heard the saxophone solo. Maybe you could edit it out That's some beautiful trumpet playing.

I'm having a hard time taking these mall rats on BMX's seriously.

I doubt Geoffrey Boycott would be impressed with all this blubbering either.

One on that list would be George Gobel. Not to my taste, but there's Will Rogers. Buster Keaton. Fatty Arbuckle. Harold Lloyd. Dick Van Dyke. Jackie Gleason. Fred Allen. Steve Martin. Johnny Carson. A little late for me for list-making, but you get the idea. It's a good list, but it doesn't have the volume or overall magic of the Jewish contingent. George Carlin? would make a non-jewish list for sure. Poor old Fatty Arbuckle. Didn't he get framed for a murder he didn't commit. My dad used to love him.

Luv. Darling.

Well said Bev. I have the same feeling here in Tokyo and find myself regularly checking the BBC News website. My Japanese colleagues are all very impressed both by the performance of Team GB and the London Olympics in general. The consensus seems to be that the games have been a great success thus far. I heard on BBC radio yesterday that some are referring to the London Olympics as "The Crying Games" with so many participants who have been winning that have burst into tears The Crying Games. I hope there's not a big podium reveal at the end.

It's hard to believe that simply didn't look worse than it was.

Deadpan humour is something that comes to mind when I think of Jewish comedians. Steven Wright takes that to absurdist levels. Is he Jewish? Also with regard to the Black saxophonists reference, isn't there a common denominator present in the blues, or 'the cry of the blues' or 'the sound of the blues' or whatever. Anomalies like Braxton notwithstanding. Perhaps it's social because nearly all the great Black saxophonists learnt their craft playing in earthier Black music bands. I still feel there is some overarching 'thing' in Jewish humour, same as I do in British humour, which has both an intellectual academic kind of humour (like Peter Cook, Stephen Fry, Pythons etc) and the 'working class' humour of Kenneth Williams and the Carry On gang, Benny Hill and myriads of half hour 'situation comedies'. And the lists in this thread begs another question, 'what great American comedian's weren't Jewish or Black". Which surely says something.

And Sally wins. A great race. And the Nation Builders can live on.

100m hurdles final imminent. All Australia is anticipating a Gold medal from Sally Pearson. Australian commentator even suggested parents go and wake their kids up so they don't miss this Nation Building moment. Obviously this is a reaction to our shocking performance at these games. Sports types here are even claiming Primary schools need to take more responsibility to direct children towards sporting activity so as to help rectify this calamitous situation. Unbelievable. Anyway USA reigning Olympic champion Dawn Harper has plans to thwart the Nation Builders hopes.

See, this post makes sense to me. And 'suffering Motion' too

Well I wasn't the only one. quoted from a KJ interview... TR: When I was fourteen or fifteen, I bought a few of your records. When I saw your picture I thought, "I wonder if this guy's white or black." KJ: Ornette asked me that way back in the 60s. TR: Was there any intention to your appearance? Did you feel you had to fit in with a certain set of people? KJ: No. It's how I wanted to look but, I didn't have my hair done, it just grows like that! I had a feeling of closeness to the world that I was a part of, and that world was in a large part black. I think it was just an environmental thing. But I had a hell of a time convincing a few people that I wasn't black. There was one guy who would have gone and done research into my family tree if he had the money to do it. He didn't want it to be true that I was white. {Laughs} TR: Why not? KJ: Well I shouldn't be able to do that (play jazz) or something like that. Ornette said -- it was more as a joke -- "You sure you're not black, man?" I said, "Yeah. I'm sure." He said, "I don't know." {Laughs} quoted from here My link