Every day a cia death....

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Wikileaks: CIA has tools to snoop via TVs

let me tell you: The Russians AND the Americans have been doin'/tryin' that since the 1960's! 

Le Carre/ Stella Rimington sell millions (ok...the latter some catch up..). Whistleblowers get sent to purgatory. Such is our fff'd up planet. Can't wait to die going to Homestead (after the big cheese gets mucho fries if we all die in transit thanks to a giant cheese meteor)

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MRI pioneer and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield dies

Every Day a Little...


The Show Must Go On

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
- All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)

The show!

Let's go sailing.....

Mr President Obama: you are ffffing awesome. And I rarely/hate use that word unless it is used in its proper Middle English context-wish I needed a pardon for Old Norse! They seemed to have had a great time. At the bloody expense of others.  Prime Minister Tony Blair asked for mea culpa over 'you know what':  'Ooops: I (and my advisors) had some bad 'trips' over that few years.' ! Oh really?!!! At least Nixon tried to get America out of Vietnam (I know-very arguably...). That's another movie.

A war that should never have been fought by America. I do not believe that President Obama condoned (or ever did) the actions of Chelsea Manning. The media buzz suggests that you do. There is so so much more to say on that, and how the NSA and major US telecommunications companies flagrantly violated the Constitutional rights of millions of Americans (not to say Europeans), who should not? be treated as she was? Arguable I know ...but......You, Mr President did not condone those actions either. But will 'they' ever believe you? We do. We know.

but I've been immersing myself in the art world all day. So I only just heard. I rather have my phone switched off when I am with art. Sounding like an old fogy I truly believe you breathe better.

I'm stunned. Thinking what else to say. Good thing I don't tweet: I'd been given loads of 'bs' bird seed at Christmas for being a budgerigar instead of the eagle that I am.....!-:)

Guessing the White House food budget will decrease immeasurably from Jan 20.  Feed the birds, tuppence a bag, tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.

what care!: Some fowls to be shot because they bit the farmer's balls. Like he could ever get it....!
That being said: how many of the younger generation have read Orwell's Animal Farm? French novelist Michel Houellebecq was just a writer raked over the coals because he saw real life coming.

They don't want to hear the truth Jemima Puddle-Duck (again......!--)
..ever considered pretending to be dead in the water?

Did all those lives (both sides) really have to be lost on Okinawa?

Who of the younger generation remembers Daniel Ellsberg?  Was what he did right/wrong/another? He braved the sea. But never a sailor. Never a lighthouse keeper. The sea is the most beautiful, deadliest adversary. Even to those who, may, rightly claim its shores; in a world darkly well away from the foam.

I'd Rather Leave When I'm in Love

and: this- is a song interpretation for those ...who...how/what do they talk?.....

Tweet or Moaeow , Moo...?  ;) Suddenly, one fine morning...I knew.

Nothing seems to matter anywhere in the world. Nowadays. Anymore. I know. Everybody is fine. Well: 'BS'- THEY and WE and YOU all are NOT! The 'bs' suffocates. !

Some more Eydie Gorme. WHO?! 100 more times brilliant than many some performers. But few ever care. They never did. It is all/and ever was about kissing the arse and making money. Well: let ME tell YOU. It was NEVER that. There is something called beauty and art that may not build new mountains, may not alleviate the suffering of millions, but at least those qualities allow the world to breathe a little longer.

A terrible beauty is born

Hacksaw Ridge opens UK wide Jan 27.

In a 12 hour period Desmond Doss saved 75 men single-handedly in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, conditions of hell.

to be continued... Perhaps...

photo courtesy: Tree Service of Nashville


The Poplar
A tall slim poplar That dances in
A hidden corner
Of the old garden,
What is it in you
Makes communion
With this wind of autumn, The clouds, the sun?
You must be lonely Amidst round trees
With their matron-figures And stubborn knees,
Casting hard glances Of keen despite
On the lone girl that dances Silvery white.
But you are dearer
To sky and earth
Than lime-trees, plane-trees Of meaner birth.
Your sweet shy beauty Dearer to us
Than tree-folk, worthy, Censorious.

Ivor Gurney


I saw things in Iraq that didn’t line up with my idea of being a soldier.

The truth is always stranger than the fiction....

.....A Boy From Texas

                                                              Ample make this bed.
                                              Make this bed with awe;

                                        Sibelius: Symphony No.5-Finale


Allegro molto not vivace or presto? Feels like a brisk Finnish canter to me…but what do I know about Finland;) (The speed of a canter varies between 16 and 27 kilometres per hour). Bernstein's much later version with the Wiener Philharmoniker still has vestiges of that fire but is non piu molto.  I can't imagine Bernstein heard Karajan's 1960 Philharmonia Orch recording. There are similarities. The final pages both totally !! Both different. Both Brit orchestras. Where would he find time! I remember hearing a Mahler 9 on radio and wondering who the 'f'! is this! Utter awe. I should know! I mean I should know! But I didnt'/couldn't. It was Bernstein. In point of fact, Bernstein's Sibelius London tempi were almost the same as Eugene Ormandy back in 1954. Is Philadelphia like London?;) But again-the arc will always be different. Or are the animals always: just ever so slightly different. This is becoming so much more fun than reviewing for, say, The Gramophone. G forbiddy: time on one's hands....I can say what I want;) You know what that is like Bernadette! Wish I had a green lizard and could be allowed to blow my its horn Lola☺ Andrew SHUT UP:! 

Now Horenstein is interesting (Northern Brit orch- how Sir Simon Rattle started...though Birmingham...rather THE Birmingham) And Rozhdestvensky makes it a fascinating mix of Sibelius meets Shostakovich meets Tchaikovsky. (I worked with Rozhdestvensky-like u do/did;) Sounds like a Malcolm McDowell tape for ...what is that TV series...?

Can’t find a Furtwängler Sibelius 5th. But there’s the Violin Concerto from 1943. Legend has it that Furtwängler once stormed out of a Toscanini concert, cursing the Maestro as a mere "time-beater." Interestingly, the recently deceased Sir Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony are very similar in tempi to Bernstein's. Davis (or Sibelius;) even manages a profound hint of Scarpia’s death in Tosca. Davis was so generous with his time at the Royal Academy of Music.

[Kulenkampff  tangent: Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor almost never saw the light of day. In 1937 Georg Kulenkampff gave the premiere of the rediscovered work. It was written in 1853 for  Joseph Joachim who never performed it. After Schumann’s ‘health problems’ and death in a sanatorium in Endenich, Joachim never let go of the manuscript. Why we shall never know. Clara listened and the Violin Concerto was neglected from the Complete Works edition. Joachim stated in his will that the work never be played until 100 years after his death (1956). But a 1933 séance in London attended by Joachim's two violinist grand-nieces channeled a message to release the work to the world.] Unbelievable!

And Brit Barbirolli /Halle oft makes one long for Texas with that Copland-esque brass. ! (Nothing without the wind, though) More American than Lenny B. All depends how you direct the blow...(musical term..) 
Go figure;)  
Tchaikovsky in Texas: sounds like a great idea for a 30min ep classical music TV show by a monolith company that sells books to folk who no longer read books.  ;)

...what does – Misterioso – Un pochettino largamente – Largamente assai – Un pochettino stretto really mean? Can ANY ONE SAY...Could you ever know what happened in that family?!! Whether it be human/animal/mineral/vegetable: how could you know? 

I guess Frank Sinatra was the most over-rated singer in musical history! Some Came Running. More Came Running. (btw- there isn't a Sinatra painting First Lady Nancy Reagan in your 'attic' that you could bequeath to my BrilliantAdventures ART Collection:).....Guess it is a little late to ask. There is a line one must never cross without descending into the abyss: to totally be a Dante. Andante moltisimo.;) ....The Butler

How could you ever know?!

Welcome.....

                                               Birds of a feather










May I ask you allow me to be totally musically/politically incorrect and quote THIS. ! If it had been written by Elton John or , or , or , OR: then you would probably/maybe think of it totally anew. The lyrics are timeless....but they were flown by a bird of another feather....

Tell Me on a Sunday ....

does anyone know how to write lyrics of pain to heal anymore: Mr Tony Bennett?! After all these centuries does the soul still need- a seal of approval...!


Love, design, tension, composition, light, balance: __________________________________________________-

a bit of... ,,,, ;;;; :

What love do you give to a ‘rescue’ dog or indeed a parrot when you welcome them and say lucky. Merry. Something!

There was an ordinary ‘exquisite’ guest on the Colbert Late Night Show…who wished for a Lucky canine whilst disseminating 1st draft Xmas cards (seek and e ye may find..). Not disimliar to Colbert’s 1st draft Trump Xmas congrats- we/yearall from the Cathoklic (did yu winterize the …) – dn’t want those pipes ‘r’ callin’ freezed///south begin northy, YE HEAR! Oh: for a human Mormon voice! …I hate to give too much info- draw attention to someone beautiful who could easily be Manhattanized La  Nova-[they will never gknow Now- they lib NYs cn’t no more …y know…(not Colbert’d)-smart cards don’t get better.. …if you got Cb’d then Mr.Cberd  would be on that  ffinbg button..wait..which one..I was’d told theres was just r/b/b/ me Jbbbstwnyz !!!!

The weather in Finland this evening was as it was for 2 centuries.
LIke : yo: what is that ...OK you were right. Finland is challenged. Even after Kaurismäki!

I did know where I was goining with this..but hang out ith the Tanks that got Finned: yad yada ydad !

RE-tuning ...hang in there as youfreeze....

I may nave diem!  my brain is finally disintegarting by watxhing Ken Xiang Loach!  If there is a film for ulimate ..... it is Xiang Loach Ken's I, Daniel Blake

Was going to say that there isn’t a wrong note in that Ken Xiang Loach's Piano Concerto ‘Blacked’. Me: not not the ‘north’. The South. London. There is only, ever: London etc an the North. ! Not much know about how the ‘north is more ‘abused’ than equally if not more so used. ‘Used’.

All the facts in the film are painfully true! To a Londoner. The north or England is a different place to the south. But so the so ‘centers’ we are startin’ to talk Snowpiercer 
here…are so startingly sane, cogent,…maybe so/not so in retrospect.

I was thinking in bed last few knights ago, that Ken Loach was again Ken L. K.L is always. But never again. THAT is what is extraordinary. One could easily argue that he is K. L. But never again. This is indeed a new story.  I hate social realism/political cinema. But I love cinema that is the imagination of reality. Therein lies the difference. Loach is never again. Always Loach. Inevitably the greatest Italian neo-Realist of British cinema. You can try and take that away from him. But forever in vain. ! He has been severely challenged to write an ending where his downhearted sprogs have even seemed ‘De Sica’ esqes , riding off on Spielberg (de Sica borrowed) broomsticks.

Methinks both stories are equally valid.

The only notes I would question (and I am NOT a fan of Engels) !)

And this needs no 'spoiler': But when Daniel's speech is read by Katie in the finale: shouldn't it just be the mention of his name: I, am Daniel Blake. 

Marx says there is a period of instability where capitalism will be shaken erschüttert, and Engels crosses that out (before he publishes the text) and says zusammengebracht (I brought about into collapse [together]). Thereby hangs one of the greatest mis-interpretations of Marxism. Like that is new in Western/Jewish democracy☺ ? Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Gareth Stedman Jones)

This may interest those researchers.....

In 2005 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) awarded Atos Origin a £500m seven-year contract(originally signed by Sema in 1988, the company Atos bought for $1.5bn in 2003 from SchlumbergerSema) for the delivery of medical advice and assessment services (also to the Ministry of Defence Veterans Agency). The company had just signed a $400m application management outsourcing deal with car manufacturer Renault. Atos’s longer-term aim was to eliminate paper from the DWP system.  (roughly paragraph 17)

These 26 Companies Pay No Federal Income Tax

U.S. Moves to Thwart Use of Foreign Inversions as Tax Dodge

Tax Inversions

President Obama on Tax inversions

The 'Red House' (dispiace…I keep thinking of Mr.Trump’s plans to repaint the ^%^%&^ House. If you’ve ever met ‘it’ in person it could do with a make-over. (Trump's hair fairs better methinks) The ^%^%&^ House isn’t exactly the definition of ‘white’;) Hello!….Did I keep that clean?;)……

Unknown Marxist/Aristotelian text of frogs and mermaids....:)

FFFFFing TARANTINO on your doorknob

Pardon my futur antérieur...?

January 2016: Sioux Center, Iowa 
President elect Trump said :"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." 

Sat 12 Nov NY protest rally (that photo from March, 2016)
Trump Tower!     

anyone remember that 1974 movie The Towering Inferno- hey it's a Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden. Anyone remember that President Bush used tax-payers money paying Hollywood screenwriters et al good money to come up with possible post 9/11 attack scenarios! Who could make this shit up...?

What if people started shouting “shoot Trump” in the middle of 5th Avenue?. Is that …? legally he is not yet President. What if one lone person started shouting that? Could that not be argued to be satirical response? People in NY shout in the streets on per second basis. If such were ever singled out, that be be legally defined as harrassment and impingement if not blatant denial of the 1st Amendment. You will find out what the law is like once you are sworn into office Mr. Trump. And, perhaps, you will be amazed at its efficacy. The allegations of those women against him (that I hope for their sake are true…God will not help you if they aren’t) will definitely impeach him.

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Having said that, Kirby Dick came a ‘cropper’ last year with his doc The Hunting Ground about sexual abuse in colleges. The girls who started their campaign are unbelievably naively brave and tenacious to get their cause all the way to the White House in Washington. Unfortunately for respected director Kirby Dick, the trial of his ‘lead subjects’  had just got underway before the Sundance Fest 2015 premiere. And the director’s use of so-called facts was fairly embarrassing in an otherwise urgent and powerful doc. Therein lies the problem for colleges taking action that when a case goes to trial facts are necessary. And the galling problem for the campaign recognizing college rape is that the facts, if there, are quashed and massaged or dragooned into a grey realm. Harvard Law School quite justifiably issued a press release. The campaign for justice by Andrea Pino and Annie Clark…thankfully thunders on!

Not a world particularly I want to live in anymore….I’d rather drown with the mermaid (s) and die happy…

BTW- must be fun for the kids going to Radio City Music Hall being confronted by heavily armed police bearing machine guns. True! Not that I distrust the officers or their judgement with those weapons (at least in New York City). (I wish I could say the same for London). Examine the 'nitty gritty' facts and you'll understand why I again raise this issue.

What are the police outside Radio City Music Hall going to do, though, in the event... that? It is nigh impossible on the ground to get a clear-shot in those crowded streets. But 'Collatoral Damage' has always been one of America's biggest bad-boy movie stars.

And Lou Lumenick of the NY Post called for banning Gone with the Wind last year. Perhaps looking down upon your own doorstep this year, sir?

Ask Yourself Why?

Nocturnal Animals (I thought long and hard before placing this here. (Saw the movie Friday night in NYC). You are very brave Mr. Tom Ford. I did not enjoy sitting through your movie at all. Yet totally applaud you thrice for creating it. There is nothing surreal in that film. Tomorrow is another day...

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016)-Canadian

Ballad of the Absent Mare

Françoise Gilot: The Greek Horse (1969)-Lithograph
Reference: Stone Echoes catalogue raisonné (p. 63, plate 29)

Printed at Mourlot Graphics, Ltd., New York Edition: 100 (Also 2 Trial Proofs, 3 Printers proofs and 10 Artists proofs.)