It Appears that wait for it .... Classical music is making a come back....
First noticed something strange happening when school orchestra players started turning up on concert program.. And young 16 year old man turned up in northland saying he writes classical music announcing it with a very very plain kiwi voice....
something odd was afoot ... could it be that culture can be made by peoples all over the world no matter how they pronouced their vowels?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230113-gen-z-and-young-millennials-surprising-obsession
As a half irish immigrant its almost sacrosanct not to listen to the pogues ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFarc3yjSC8&list=OLAK5uy_m2KrQXGEFRQIZqAWx3D47xt3EsZifBf1A
for a read this XMAS dont forget the Classics...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/book-review-the-passionless-people-revisited/M53VUNAS2LWKDV4HGAXSBEBY5Q/
and the best of them all ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Half-Gallon_Quarter-Acre_Pavlova_Paradise#:~:text=The%20Half%2DGallon%20Quarter%2DAcre%20Pavlova%20Paradise%20was%20a%20popular,New%20Zealand%2C%20and%20Kiwi%20culture.
speaking of culture and reading...might be opening up some Huxley this summer...
well its time to La bomba tomorrow in auckland ...
better brush up on how the pros do it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6Oa45HxtE
Quote from: Waltzing on Oct 26, 2023, 09:07 AMAs a half irish immigrant its almost sacrosanct not to listen to the pogues ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFarc3yjSC8&list=OLAK5uy_m2KrQXGEFRQIZqAWx3D47xt3EsZifBf1A
Sad to read of the passing of Shane McGowan. (https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/301018566/shane-macgowan-fastliving-harddrinking-lead-singer-of-irish-folk-punk-band-the-pogues--obituary) I met him of all places on the morning sailing of the Interislander on their aptly named "Fall From Grace" tour. McGowan was already three sheets to the wind before we boarded. He passed out about half way across. Spider Stacy seemed to have drawn the short straw of playing his minder. I had a long chat with Stacy - one helluva nice guy. Saw the band at the Christchurch Town Hall. They played a short set that was a bit flat. McGowan was vertical and still drinking. RIP Shane McGowan.
OH MY GOOSSH HP... you actualy met the man...
there was a great doco on him on ART channel recently and an interview with Gerry Adams....
The drink got him in the end ...
" three sheets to the wind"
classic ... thats a great saying...
Quote from: arekaywhy on Oct 26, 2023, 03:35 PMspeaking of culture and reading...might be opening up some Huxley this summer...
It's officially summer today! I just finished reading Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death." If you enjoy Huxley, it's odds on that he'll float your boat too. Published back in '85 but so, so prescient.
Here's the foreword:
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Is the world of instant social media the drug that will lead to a world where no one reads....
hence the ban at schools on phones for many reasons but wait till your watch can take a photo and make a call...
THE GET SMART WATCH!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eik96tIjAg
In TV Land Get Smart set the standard on many levels including creating real world gadgets that the CIA began investigating....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngazWNQkzqA
some pretty cool ballroom dancing at the weekend at the Australian Dance champs... as stated recently by a dancing with stars winner... Dancing is dead in NZ... not so in AUSS and certainly still big in the US...
https://www.facebook.com/AustralianDanceSportChampionship/videos/879058197234202/
if your visiting the UK dont forget to get your drama booked for 24 ....
No Taming of the .... lined up but...
https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/new-season-of-delights-announced-for-winter-2023-24
Rialto Channel ... this summer "House of Splinters"
House of abandoned children in Eastern Ukraine...
Denmark 2022.
123 ... Waltz with me...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67742576
Quote from: Waltzing on Dec 18, 2023, 08:11 AM123 ... Waltz with me...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67742576
Sad. Where I am coming from they say that people never get too old for dancing. However, they get old if they stop dancing.
One of New Zealand's top women Pro AM dancers in Auckland who dances overseas is nearly 80...
Very elegant performer with great DNA..
For those who yearn to once again heat Russian opera singers like A Netrebko there is Christmas Eve on ARTS channel for some lovely Russian opera singers performing...
7:30 Pm to 10:05 Arts channel.
one hopes one day tourists will be able to visit ST Petersberg and once again listen and watch great perfomers and lets hope that is within a decade..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Netrebko
A bit of Kiwi culture. Even at war....boys will be boys.
The story of 6 men from the Maori Battalian who hunker down for the night in a ruined Italian home.
A very short film (15 mins) called 'Tama Tu' by Taika Waititi.
Well worth watching. Enjoy!
Quote from: Ferg on Jan 07, 2024, 06:10 PMA bit of Kiwi culture. Even at war....boys will be boys.
The story of 6 men from the Maori Battalian who hunker down for the night in a ruined Italian home.
A very short film (15 mins) called 'Tama Tu' by Taika Waititi.
Well worth watching. Enjoy!
His Quote from: Ferg on Jan 07, 2024, 06:10 PMA bit of Kiwi culture. Even at war....boys will be boys.
The story of 6 men from the Maori Battalian who hunker down for the night in a ruined Italian home.
A very short film (15 mins) called 'Tama Tu' by Taika Waititi.
Well worth watching. Enjoy!
His Two Cars, One Night (https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/two-cars-one-night-2003?collection=taika-waititi) from the previous year is a cracker too.
yes he has some great stories and films to his credit..
Drugs ... where there is the demand come the criminals ...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/why-christiania-copenhagens-lawless-hippie-oasis-could-be-dug-up-by-danish-police/B3IW73NEKNH2VMDKBENW7AZ7IY/
And the winners are ?
Where the drinkers are so watch out on your bike rides...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wastewater-testing-reveals-new-zealands-biggest-drinking-regions/A2GDMGE625BKZIK34ZDEPAF33M/
BBC - Take me to the Opera - Celebrating the 80 th birthday of ... on BBC TV this morning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiri_Te_Kanawa
Well who needs creative new zealand and maybe that department could be devolved into chartity ...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/tai-tokerau-sheilah-winn-shakespeare-festival-award-recipient-vying-for-international-stage/LSZBUUZNA5BWZKFB3774ZEHYIA/
Are humans mentally sick? who cares what shoes a person wears and is this the problem with the human race? it judges people by shoe style...
humanity doomed...
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/09/style/uk-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-sneakers/index.html
France the new retirement lifestyle destination ....
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/us-too-expensive-artist-relocated-french-pyrenees/index.html
Quote from: Waltzing on Apr 19, 2024, 09:15 AMFrance the new retirement lifestyle destination ....
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/us-too-expensive-artist-relocated-french-pyrenees/index.html
France is a lovely country, if it wouldn't be for the natives :) ;
OK - this might be unfair, but the handful of times I've been there I always felt they are trying to take advantage of foreigners. Providing inferior services for over the top prices. Quite different to my experience in any other country I visited in Europe, Asia or the Americas (and there are many).
Now look i love the french language and i even know DUTCHMAN who left is farms in NZ (sold) and retired to a lovely village in france somewhere... A DUTCHMAN!!!! in france!!!!
Well they do realise they are special and therefore can charge more for less...
For those of you who are missing amsterdam since COIVD brought you back to the lovely shores of NZ...
dont forget to watch on ARTS Channel .. Springtime in Amsterdam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19l6GsSqgE
ARTS Channel .... sunday afternoon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmM4jodAXuk
Back to shoes...
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/fashion/advice/a3331/women-love-shoes/
well men obviously like sneakers... but are they also addicted ?
These are the great questions of our fashion driven retail consumption world..
Dont forget to watch ATOMIC BLONDE ...
and Death of Stalin ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWg2nTYmk8
Got the orginal ... the first one but dont think it was as good as : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Half-Gallon_Quarter-Acre_Pavlova_Paradise
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/book-review-the-passionless-people-revisited/M53VUNAS2LWKDV4HGAXSBEBY5Q/
.. kick your heels up with some classics from the 60's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6QwnD-dp0E
Time to bring back latin and teach ...
meta ppphhhhhh what? well they did create the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqlJ50zDgeA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Time to bring security guards to schools as standard by the ministry...
Culture of nothing much...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mangakotukutuku-college-video-shows-another-violent-attack-on-student/2GAP6KXP75EITMPTILZAJMO54U/
In Keiv they reading more books...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-books-war-culture-russia/32983820.html
can we see the day when the wall of the russian fed crumbles like the berlin wall... heres hoping...
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-9january-record-label-minorities-lgbt-udmurt-tatar/33012033.html
now you are all looking forward to going to the opera this next friday saturday night right?
of course you are .... oh and the breads.. if you love home made breads and its the name of the new drone... not sure why they called it after a bread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYkRd-2GtbQ
take the train to LVIV... and for us she uses the english version of LVIV but if your from central europe you might throw in a W ..
well this is how its done...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOgdrrzOi1A
ah yes June 6th swedish national day ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1Jf5XZgto