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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9826 Registered: 05-2005 |
I generally have limited tolerance for Sleaford Mods, but this performance of Mork N Mindy on Late Night With Seth Myers is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S9pYwfn tis | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9829 Registered: 05-2005 |
A very good short film made by the New Yorker about how foreign correspondents based in Washington view and report on what is happening in the US. https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/th e-new-yorker-documentary-what-do-foreign -correspondents-think-of-the-u-dot-s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9832 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - World Leader Pretend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwS9_vqd HcQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9833 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seth Myers hits it out of the park on his last show before the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZjdA1H 8Ks | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9834 Registered: 05-2005 |
And here’s the Stephen Colbert link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qkucY_o Jk8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9844 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is an incredibly moving monologue from Stephen Colbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeSiJmLo Jd0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9845 Registered: 05-2005 |
Myers just goes for the gags, and mostly they're very good ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3Fa-lD 7Ds | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9847 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Biden’s speech. Not inspiring by any stretch, but at least it reached for the right, unifying note. He didn’t mention Trump by name, which was very wise. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9851 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is quite a funny take on the US election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-RDsk4Y W9c | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Biden’s speech. The best speech I’ve ever seen him deliver. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9858 Registered: 05-2005 |
This SNL election clip is very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M4e93Qj Z_8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9859 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Oliver on the election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47YORTE BdI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9870 Registered: 05-2005 |
An excellent Seth Myers monologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDQ1f_R 9CU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9880 Registered: 05-2005 |
The latest Colbert monologue features a great, comedic takedown of just how low the Republican party and its lackeys have sunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mJwuKhf vqY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9882 Registered: 05-2005 |
And Colbert is grinning like the cat who got a new president in this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8swPgYv aiY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9904 Registered: 05-2005 |
Colbert keeps on coming up with the good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4c-44Cy ogs What's he going to do for jokes when Trump is actually gone? There's only so much mileage you can get from "Biden is really old" gags and they're not going to be as funny, or lethal to the public, as "Trump is really incompetent" gags. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9908 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just watched the first episode of a UK political intrigue drama called Roadkill. It's a great start. It's nice to see the prime minister from Borgen in something again too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9914 Registered: 05-2005 |
I watched a couple more episodes of Roadkill, with the finale to come on TV on Sunday. It hasn't quite lived up to the opening episode, but is still very good. I do find it tedious, though, that cigarette smoking is used as shorthand for a transgressive person. Time for a new cliche, TV makers. That old cliche is decades past its use by date. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Australia v Argentina in rugby. It’s just over, a 15-15 draw. The Pumas have become such a formidable team in recent years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9940 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is the funniest video clip I've seen in a while, even if it does go on too long. It also shows how multicultural Ireland has become. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on19whJ3 D0I | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1839 Registered: 10-2006 |
Conor Oberst: Full Concert | NPR Music Front Row https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFokrwZ1 4K4 Knocked sideways by the song Persona Non Grata last weekend, I settled down to watch this bookstore concert and was pretty mesmerised. A bookstore concert is already just about my idea of heaven, if they also serve bitter and cheese and onion crisps, just in case anyone’s taking notes up there. He is the very model of the modern American songwriter, I suppose, with that wonderfully broken voice, slightly scruffy and twitchy, the punchy non-virtuoso piano style, the drawled offhand stage comments. Highly parodiable, I should think. But the songs are intense and vivid and thrilling and literate and I loved every minute. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9941 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I saw Oberst playing in a Dublin pub with his band Bright Eyes 19 years ago. He was just 20. I reviewed it at the time https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/brigh t-eyes-gemma-hayes-good-time-john-1.3261 77 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1840 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks, Padraig. How about Gemma Hayes, did she stay the course? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9943 Registered: 05-2005 |
She’s still releasing music, Stuart, with a new album due next year. All her releases are good, but nothing topped her debut album, which is stunning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_M y_Side | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4514 Registered: 03-2005 |
Conor Oberst is one of the few American artists currently working whose songs I still want to hear. The eternally adolescent voice is a challenge but the songs deploy classic pop folk structure to great effect and his word pictures outstrip everybody else by a country mile. Because I tend to be bored by the narrow genre arrangements found on most American country and folk records, the first Oberst album that attracted me was Bright Eyes' synth album "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn," still probably my personal favorite. It makes perfect sense to me that one of this country's best--if not THE actual best--troubadours of the era comes from a totally overlooked place--the ultimate in "flyover"--like Omaha, Nebraska. While I certainly won't claim to have approached any of their creative heights, Conor Oberst is one of the American inspirations for my own songwriting. The others are Dylan and Gene Clark. There's a pretty long temporal hiatus between the earlier and the more recent inspiration, which I think says something. And I'm not one of those guys who can only listen to old stuff. So thanks for bringing up Conor. Rant over. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4515 Registered: 03-2005 |
Btw, I like Jenny Lewis' "On the Line" too. Maybe that means a better era is on its way. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9957 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Kind of Story We Need Right Now: Alligator Puppy Rescue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IEemg6t S1Y | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1842 Registered: 10-2006 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kezhfKX UZg&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1EK2oOo-qHI wxFzZAKv5t8tBTQPGdm-_qzs-w_YtE_NzloTPjTC koae64 Unlikely that anybody else here is so slow of the mark as to be in the same kind of just-smitten Conor O glow as I am, but after the intimate, croaky bookshop show posted above, here he is in full-band outdoor-concert rock mode, backed excellently by Dawes and, marginally, by the First Aid kit sisters. Highly enjoyable. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1389 Registered: 04-2005 |
Absolute perfection. Extra marks for use of a paint brush on "dragon eyes". Adrianne Lenker on Tiny Desk playing 5 songs from her new solo record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKcQyUsz dhw My partner can't stand her and refuses to be in the same room if her music is playing. It might be the end of a beautiful relationship  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9978 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just watched the first episode of The Plot Against America. It’s a slow build up, but it needs to be to set the scene. Anyone else seen it? No spoilers if you have. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9995 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sign o’ the Times’: How Prince Wrote and Recorded a Classic Song. This is a great insight into his writing process. https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music /100000007334512/prince-sign-o-the-times .html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20201204 &instance_id=24702&nl=todaysheadlines&re gi_id=33795071&segment_id=46051&user_id= cbe1711fb1a9b330cf9b74a05c3e7b1b | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2022 Registered: 08-2006 |
That Prince piece is pretty cool, right? I thought the insights from his sound engineer were fascinating. I loved how she says, "Prince... didn't really talk." I didn't realize he did so much of it on a Fairlight, which I've always associated with Kate Bush. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9997 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, true story, the Fairlight was invented in the suburb next to mine - Fairlight. And I went for a swim in the harbour pool there today. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9998 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fairlight pool https://www.timeout.com/sydney/sport-and -fitness/fairlight-rock-pool (me playing the synthesiser, just out of shot). | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1397 Registered: 04-2005 |
Todd Haynes' "Dark Waters" - Brilliant and sombre take on the lawyer Rob Bilott's battles again DuPont. The NY Times article that the film used as its' starting point is accessible on-line https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magaz ine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst- nightmare.html It will have you chucking all your Teflon cooking utensils away. Sophie Deraspe's "Antigone" - French Canadian contemporary retelling of the myth. The film won best Canadian film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019 and was released in France in September of this year. One of those absolute gems that you feel will have not got the exposure it deserves because of the situation. No release in the UK apparently for example. A mainly non professional casting, the lead actress (Nahéma Ricci) is a revelation. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1400 Registered: 04-2005 |
Promo for Paul Quinn's "Stupid Thing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqXmsWNj h6o Alan Horne seems to be reviving Postcard for a one-off vinyl box set of Paul Quinn. In his typical perverse fashion it is limited to 300 copies ! http://www.postcardrecords.co.uk/pre-sal e/ There doesn't seem to be any current information about Quinn's condition. Many years ago it was reported that he had MS and that Horne was caring for him. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10004 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death on a US chat show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZDuniNp ZsQ&feature=youtu.be | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4551 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a great number. I really do like the second album better than the first. I hope it works for them here. But Americans . . . a bunch of them will grumble "I can't tell what he's saying. Is this in English?" and go off to the fridge for another beer. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1413 Registered: 04-2005 |
A wee film on the photographer Robert Blomfield who died recently. A family doctor by profession, his street photos are of a rare quality. Some beautiful B & W images of Edinburgh and Glasgow from the 60s. Those grubby Glaswegian weans look straight out of a painting by Joan Eardley ! https://www.robertblomfield.co.uk/bio/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4565 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for this Andrew. Dr. Blomfield sounds like he is the U.K.'s counterpart to Vivian Maier. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 669 Registered: 08-2005 |
Go-Betweens at Glastonbury, 1986, which is also the first time I saw them. It's a glorious lo-fi, handheld camera affair but still fantastic. I'll see if I can spot the back of my head - I had very, very long hair at that point, usually worn Willie Nelson style, so, quite distinctive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=156xUlKX vhM I love one of the comments: 'They made some great music- But watching this, it's not difficult to see why they never "made it". A sharp indie guitar-pop band, co-fronted by a New Romantic ponce, with a fiddle player. What a mess.' | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10067 Registered: 05-2005 |
1986 interview with Lindy and Amanda in which Lindy describes Alex Chilton as “a pretty old guy”. Chilton was born 10 months and five days before her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZuH5sL qrI | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4596 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's pretty funny Pádraig, an interesting reflection of internal disconnect for Lindy. But it's also odd because Chilton was enjoying a huge comeback with a younger audience thanks to the belated discovery of the classic Big Star albums. In '86 I was ALL Big Star all the time and I'm just 7 1/2 months older than Robert. Maybe Lindy didn't realize how young he was when he was in the Box Tops. Chilton's own solo music by that year, though, would have been an awkward match for the Go-Betweens. He had embraced a Southern slacker schtick. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10070 Registered: 05-2005 |
One of my favourite ever film scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUAA8jk F4k | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 671 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, I'm driving my 86-year-old dad to hospital for a heart procedure tomorrow morning, but that made me laugh out loud! Many thanks for that. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10071 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good luck to your dad and you, Simon. I'm glad you got a laugh from it. |