partner songs

A link that I posted in the comments has provided some amusement as we warble our way merrily through a list of Partner Songs mainly from the American folk genre. Looking to expand the reportoire, I tried to think of some similar sounding songs to mesh but it's hard to track them down.

Jazz Web Page a list of songs that have similar chord progressions and tonal shifts

Songs with the common musical Pattern Desh "diatonic elaboration of static harmony"

Columbia Law School Musical Plagiarism Project - Song List
allows you to hear the superimposition of melodies
eg My Sweet Lord/He's so Fine

Disturbingly Similar Songs


In the meantime I should study my counterpoint

questionable

Scott has been working on ways to arrest the comment spam afflicting blogs of the Ubersportingpundit domain, and I notice I received a "Comment Submission error" for questionable content on my last. I thought the obvious culprit would have been organs, but it turned out to be a combo of Go and Ro... "Here we Go Round The Mulberry Bush" is questionable.
This may add an exciting new element into the sport of commenting. I like getting apparently random challenges of bad letters to reconcile.

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Comments: questionable

go [Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content -- g and o and r and o missing from here] your boat
gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
life is but a go go

Enough of the random prose, time for random wordery ...

google, boon-doggle, hog-wash, glo-worm, dog-wash, Og Oggilby ...

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0032234/quotes
Posted by Tony.T at October 26, 2004 01:40 PM

Gosh!... Oh, pardon my language

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/denniscj/glugs/ogs.html
Posted by boynton at October 26, 2004 10:02 PM

Golly, Doreen. I dops me lod.
Posted by Tony.T at October 27, 2004 09:54 AM

We can play the shakuhachi, or get pierced and take New York, or perform for kipper snacks in large quantities.

http://home.hpo.net/mishaal/goro.html
We are not slang in readily translatable Finnish, Korean, or Thai.
This man and his band
http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_2931.html followed their success in taurine evocation with this nice tune
http://www.mp3.com/tracks/4172258/dl_streams.html
The national domain of Romania being what it obviously would, the word "go" being almost as fundamental as the first person pronoun - you can see that separating the syllables would create an over-abundance of southern-eastern European travel and fun sites.
There are artists and scholars, and Mortal Kombat demi-urges, but so far the most endearing, as always, is the large marine mammal.
http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/japanorcas/
Posted by vernaculo at October 27, 2004 01:08 PM

Eee god!
Posted by Tony.T at October 27, 2004 02:32 PM

Yes indeed the orcine is more endearing than the Taurine, and I have duly travelled the back ro's of southern eastern europe sites and assorted ports:
http://www.norditalien.dk/billedarkiv/deltapo/PORTO%20DI%20GORO.jpg


but elsewhere it's raining cats
http://www.kachineko.com/c_neko_fashion/pic_page/fn-nid-bag-goro-1.jpg
and dogs
http://www.gallery-h-maya.com/goro4.html#02
even running cats -
http://www.mayasone.com/art/nekomimi/guest/run-goro.html

and then is it more apples or oranges?
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lescrets/pomme1/fpommes/goro/goro.html
Posted by boynton at October 27, 2004 03:36 PM

T - a googled image search for eee god suggested a "Hymns of Worship for the Harmonica"
although you may prefer this number?http://www.harmonicacountry.com/lessons/chromatic/takemeballgame.html
Posted by boynton at October 27, 2004 03:51 PM

Has it occurred to anyone that there may be a correlation between the new spam offensive aimed at blogs and blog service providers like MT Blacklist jackin' up their fees now that yer hooked on blogging?

Of course I’m not paranoid. But a good few of my ancestors did get blown up by the products of Vickers-Armstrong and Krupp, sometimes during the same war.
Posted by Nabakov at October 27, 2004 10:14 PM

the plot thickens

I wonder if bob@ knows where can I buy some conspiracy? ;)
Posted by boynton at October 28, 2004 12:23 PM

canon

32 versions of Pachelbel's Canon in D (via J walk)

I listened to the guitar versions, to try to pick the alleged similarities with Streets of London. This was before finding this detailed analysis with midi files
The musical roots of the songs "Seek ye First" and "Streets of London" in Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D

Streets of London is not among this list of Songs based on Pachelbel's Canon, although it is listed here at Coverinfo where you can in turn discover the covers of Streets of London.

Wikipedia's Pachelbel's canon in Popular Culture
And also List of popular songs based on classical music

Pachelbel's Cannon on Pipes? Anyone ever hear of it?

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Comments: canon

There's also "The First Noel" (or is it Nowell?) which I've heard sung by a combined children & adult choir, with pipe organ.
Posted by wen at October 25, 2004 01:26 PM

ah yes, an arrangement I no well.

Actually, I hadn't heard of it, wen, but it sounds good. Googling brought me to this related page of "Partner Songs"
http://www.angelfire.com/nb2/musicedresources/PrtnrSon.html
From that list how could you go past.
"Here We Go around the Mulberry Bush" and "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be"
If you threw in a pipe organ to that combo it would be perfect.


(nb got a "questionable content' block for this comment - it didn't like the 2 words after "here we..." in the quote so I made it "around")
Posted by boynton at October 25, 2004 04:06 PM

The Canon in D on bagpipes is by Colin Clansey and can be heard on a brilliant CD called "Wagner's Rinse Cycle" (an ABC Classic FM disc) which is full of musical jokes and silliness.
Posted by John R at October 25, 2004 10:35 PM

Going to row your boat
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:39 AM

Go run that mile
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:42 AM

G o round the roses
Posted by at October 26, 2004 06:43 AM

Go r o ewer bow at
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:44 AM

I know! It's Al Gore!
-
or no I guess not
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:45 AM

algo roman
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:46 AM

I fought fire one summer at a place just outside Igo round Redding in Northern California.
I did, but I'm only saying that because...say, you don't mind my doing all this do you?
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 06:49 AM

Thanks John
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=309142
Does indeed look good - and I may have to try to acquire this CD. A lovely outcome from a whimsical link.

V-o

No, Go for it, G o Roam in the gloamin...
Go
rotogravure
roadshow
romp
rocket launch.
http://www.kids.net.au/d.php?beginwith=ro

(Had to Go ogle help. No time today to do much better)
Posted by boynton at October 26, 2004 10:10 AM

The unmentionable campaign.
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=159738
More as it develops...
Posted by vernaculo at October 26, 2004 10:40 AM

"Like all great TORCH singers you have to have lived some life before you can put that into a song..."

keep us posted.
Posted by boynton at October 26, 2004 09:52 PM

life bits

overheard in the opportunity shop...

If I had a good leg, I'd walk down the street...

meanwhile I'm sure if some people had a MyRoom they wouldn't ever leave the house... (via the presurfer)

I guess in the future we'll all sit in Myrooms and quietly work on MyLifeBits

precedent

There's been a lot of recent attention here on the dangers of driving while under the influence of a telephone. Browsing some historic photos of the Bell system I found an early example of the perilous practice.
See (The first version of a mobile radio telephone being used in 1924.)

Despite the headset it does not appear to be hands-free.

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Comments: precedent

That boat, and what's in the upper window? And the twiny spirally things at the base of the lamp poles?
Great find Boynton.
Posted by vernaculo at October 23, 2004 09:05 AM

yes the twiny things are interesting

I also like the eyes of the transformer (or whatever that unit is called). They look anxious in a twentieth century way.
Posted by boynton at October 23, 2004 10:46 AM

yeah, conjoined robot twins eyeing the photographer
Posted by vernaculo at October 25, 2004 07:19 AM

70 year black hair

I suddenly found myself at this site in googled german...

For 45 years Mrs. Mouskouri sings her songs and is more successful than all different, to Greek singers.

Nana Mouskouri is finally already for a long time enough on the way

There it is not amazing that humans like it.

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Comments: 70 year black hair

Other hit albums in Nana's vicinity include:
Stelter, Bernd "Dad Is ' Ne crack sausage Live" with the hit songs:'Good morning, small man' and 'extreme shopping'
Posted by nora at October 21, 2004 10:14 PM

Live sausages? Humans like it.
See also:
"The clown cannot any longer laughs"...
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 11:21 PM

shatner

Tell me why (I bid on Shatner's old toupee)
They had it on eBay

the link- and quote - via fishbucket. The line jumped out because it tied in nicely with another Shatner link:

William Shatner Has Been (via Idle Type)

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Comments: shatner

Q. Why was Lieutenant Uhuru so brown ?

A. Because William Shatner.
Posted by Brett Pee at October 22, 2004 03:32 AM

Gotta love Shatner. Read today's EG album releases.
Posted by Tony.T at October 22, 2004 11:17 AM

ageless
Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 04:22 PM

Shatner's first album release back in the 60's was so bad it was almost good, if yer get my drift. He mumbled his way through a whole LP of bullshit and nobody bought it- only now has interest in his previous work reawakened.He is becoming a cult (no spelling error there!) figure in the 'musical' world.
Posted by Brett Pee at October 23, 2004 12:31 AM

Yes I've heard Lucy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner%27s_version_of_%22Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds%22

" George Clooney chose William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as one of his Desert Island Discs as an incentive to leave the island. He said, "If you listen to [this song], you will hollow out your own leg and make a canoe out of it to get off this island." "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatner#Musical_tangents


But like the sound of 'Has Been'.
Posted by boynton at October 23, 2004 10:37 AM

dog training

How to Train your Dog To Weave (via things)

How to teach your dog to paint

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Comments: dog training

must... not.... start.... Australian branch of ... dogscouts.
Posted by David Tiley at October 22, 2004 02:44 AM

I generally prefer the work of dogs who explore concrete as a medium. That is - paw prints in the pavement.

I saw Pshychodrama was offered at one dog camp.
I have a backlog of ideas to workshop there.( no names, no pack drill)
Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 04:03 PM

spring attire

A very melbourne shirt... (via sarcasmo)


Meanwhile this is how some recent visitors chez boynton were attired.

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Comments: spring attire

Have already decided upon my nicely vicely regal outfit for the big spring day out at the W.S. Cox Plate.

Don't think you can go far wrong with a quietly understated number.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/wombat3041/New%20Blogger/cox_plate_clobber.jpg
Posted by Sedgwick at October 20, 2004 01:50 PM

Regal Roller, Elegant Fashion or Miss Potential?
Posted by boynton at October 20, 2004 01:57 PM

We use the vice-regal Roller as our weekend runabout, so omenously lock in 1 Mr. Dease.

Point to note before laying down your 50 cents (though the sky-rocketing oil prices now means the min. bet is $2. Shylocks!) each-way at the Lucky Shop.

R.R. is well named, it wins its races by rolling to the front and (in his last starts at Group 1 level ... the poor steed is now lumbered with the kiss of death cliche, "the most improved horse racing") stays there. However Miss Potential is characteristically a tear-away leader. The upsetting of R.R.'s apple-cart is on the cards.

(R.R.'s trainer was heard bitterly complaining that Miss P. did not have the class and shouldn't be in the race. The aforementioned pattern of Miss P.'s racing might be closer to the reason for his teeth-gnashing.)

Elegant Fashion ... simply outclassed.

Moi, on the other hand ...
Posted by Sedgwick at October 20, 2004 06:15 PM

Well I thought your regal outfit was potntially elegant, but thank you for the tips.

I love the name Miss Potential, it covers all bases. Is she more verb than noun, is she a chance or will she squander her potential?
I think I'll just have to put my $2 on her.
Posted by boynton at October 20, 2004 06:34 PM

At last, a bee Burqua! Either that or it's a little schlager play with the yellowjackets - to see who drinks from the Honeycomb of Honour.
Posted by Nabakov at October 21, 2004 02:24 AM

Yes we had the be-burquad bee people round to remove a swarm asap to their apiary.
Donne so swift there was no time to plath...

(btw: I once found a much better pic of the outfit, but was reluctant to re-offend with the hotlinking...see 'confidence wearing.')
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/002409.html
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 10:45 AM

I've invented the "new black". It's a colour called "October the Tenth".

When you look at it you fall in and disappear for three years.
Posted by David Tiley at October 22, 2004 02:41 AM

"That's very black, that is,...even the white bits are black"
Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 03:51 PM

Even the orgeshtra is beautifully black.

Even the quinella ticket we collected put us in the black.
Posted by Sedgwick at October 24, 2004 07:10 AM

congrats.
I should have backed S with those Z bloodlines.
Instead I lost on Number 9, although he did fight on well. Again.
Posted by boynton at October 24, 2004 06:25 PM

cross golf

while fishing for golf ball fishing links I found my way to JunkYard Golf and from there to Urban Golf

A game played on a large outdoor course located in a non-residential section of a city, with a series of targets placed far apart, the object being to propel the tennis ball with the use of various clubs towards each target with as few strokes as possible

I wonder if there's any cross golf occurring in this golf-happy suburb?

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Comments: cross golf

Most golfers are cross. Some are even cross-eyed, and one or two are cross-dressers.
Posted by Tony.T at October 19, 2004 02:59 PM

crosswords..."Beat in return game here (4)" ...

and as for dressing:
http://www.lynnenicoletti.com/largergolfers.html


+ I think cranky suburban golfers should switch to urban golf immediately.
Posted by boynton at October 19, 2004 03:28 PM

Yesterday evening I wanted to propel my tennis ball (preferably with blue heeler attached) at the dame who regularly turns our local reserve into her private driving range. Every day she arrives in the gear as illustrated above, with golf bag and hubby who has to hold the ball bucket and run and fetch the balls after she's pinged them in every direction. I can say she clearly NEEDS the practice. Her method of swinging shots at you until you move on always seems to work. Tanty Park!
Posted by Nora at October 19, 2004 04:53 PM

I half expect a certain blogger to 'tee' off re hubby and 'golf bag' there, Nora.
Something like: the golf bag has the hubby well trained...(although that may be below par)

Sounds as if the strangely attired hubby is in training for an agility trial, and you should probably throw the bluey onto the fairway as a hazard.

But seriously, I sympathise. I used to have to dodge such off-course golfers myself of course and would curse them. This is not in the spirit of "urban golf' at all, which would seem to be much more respectful. Just unbound.
Posted by boynton at October 19, 2004 05:19 PM

Tanty? Call Elaine Canty.
Posted by Tony.T at October 20, 2004 08:39 AM

Can't...

EC last seen in southgate bunker a fairway away and can't rule on scaborous play in the rough.
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 10:34 AM

Yes, I saw her too. She was eating a sandwedge.
Posted by Tee at October 21, 2004 11:10 AM

with par-sley (sage etc) on the way to scarborous fairway (to quote a creative team-mate)?
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 11:24 AM

We were below par-sley last night. Musically we were well out of thyme.
Posted by Tony.T at October 21, 2004 05:11 PM

I think I'll always triple bogey that kind of music.
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 05:48 PM

Indeed. Was almost tempted to sign my card incorrectly and four-feet the match. Dogs all. Frightful caterwauling. In thyme (just), but sounded like Rosemary's baby screaming for a bottle. Least we didn't cop country sage Casey Chambers, that would have been the final insult. Glad I didn't know any. Glad all over. Woof.
Posted by Tony.T at October 22, 2004 11:16 AM

tempted to four-feet?
Alas - there were eight-feet of us, and noone was tapping any toes...
(although Bach rocked somewhat)


Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 04:15 PM

Bach? Ok. Woof.
Posted by Tony.T at October 22, 2004 06:35 PM

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992962

The dogs are discerning, but sadly JSB will have to work on his swing if he wants to make the trivia cut.
Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 10:24 PM

golf ball fishing

Golf Ball Fishing in America via diversionz

Clad in waist-high waders, a 70-pound feedbag girdling his waist and his ball-retrieving invention, "Mr. Lucky," in hand, Aux Tinee wastes little time before plunging into one of the many amoeba-shape ponds that dot this Illinois course. "I can't tell you all the golf courses I hunt," Aux Tinee says in a conspiratorial whisper. "I don't tell nobody. There's a lot of freelancers."

Welcome to the secretive world of golf ball retrieval, an estimated $200 million industry that thrives beneath the crisp surface of mainstream golf.

I used to be a bit of a freelancer. Not diving, strictly retrieving on the ground. And not actively seeking, just pocketing the found. I was aided in this task by the Jack Russell Terrier (aka Miss Lucky) who had trained herself to work with maximum efficiency and discretion.


Related:
Six months jail for picking up golf balls
Vets cut open a German Shepherd dog to find she had scoffed no fewer than 28 golf balls

emphasis

Think I should do some overdue commemorative spring cleaning with the template. It's always a bad sign when things look so much better after being run through a generator. Like this emphasis one, which makes the tired old boynton blues and greys and verdanas almost cool in a concrete poetry kind of way. And at least "I' was a little way down the hierarchy of emphasis behind the definite article and October.

Emphasis via the Presurfer

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Comments: emphasis

Yes, that 'Emphasis" is a boon to the visually impared.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at October 18, 2004 06:36 PM

Indeed.
And your comment looks very EMPHATIC in emphasis mode, Scott.
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 10:38 PM

Well, after a protracted bout of physical spring cleaning recently (Did you know dust bunnies turn feral after lying untouched under yer bed since the last Duran Duran revival?), I'm vibed up about the whole concept.

The overall look of yer site is cool by me. A wryly sparse frame for content that may seem a bit girly at first but always leads onto where women and then the humans they give birth come from, and then what they go on to do that lifts and seperates us from all the original basic primate hoo-ha.

However, if yer gonna do a website spring clean, can I suggest a subtley off-white background. Maybe something more in the tonal range of yellowing pages.

That would be more easier on the eye than trying to pick acquamarine 10 pt arial out of a glowing white screen.

But hey, it's yer patio darlin'. I'm jus' sayin'
Posted by Nabakov at October 19, 2004 03:00 AM

acquamarine, eh? who knew...
I only knew ever knew it as haloscan blue, from whence # it was pinched.

Good to get this feedback, Nabakov.
Is it girly to confess that I've always hankered after a Table on the patio? I had been thinking something with black edging (a la SP actually) would be nice, but may consider the yellows.
And as always when window shopping, I need to look at the Tags.
Posted by boynton at October 19, 2004 12:04 PM

miss b, I fiddled with your stylesheet - result here:
http://www.soulpacific.com/boynton/

feel free to use in full or in bits; there are background patterns galore on the net (google squidfingers) but always tempted to have a go at wallpaper if you've got a design/image as seed starter
Posted by nardo at October 19, 2004 09:44 PM

PS - there are lot of good colour tools too

try http://del.icio.us/tag/colour
or http://del.icio.us/tag/color
Posted by nardo at October 19, 2004 09:47 PM

PS2 - jus checked colours on an LCD screen, completely different... will update soon, to ensure burnt orange is just that (my girl has banished said hex from our home, this is purely vicarious)
Posted by nardo '74 at October 20, 2004 11:15 AM

Many many thanks, Nardo.
She certainly looks quite different in burnt orange, don't she, and the text looks tougher too
within a 'black edged table'. Hmm - maybe the wallpaper could involve those laminexy boomerangs of many a retro site...
Speaking of laminex, I'm still fondest of blue, so I might play around with the palette later on when I get a chance to tweak.
Thanks for the del-ici-ous links too, and that news about Firefox. That's an incentive to switch.

I have Dreamweaver here and this extension thing:
http://dreamweaver-mt.sourceforge.net/download.html
which I haven't downloaoded yet - so perhaps I could tweak away on IE?

Thanks again.
Posted by boynton at October 20, 2004 12:59 PM

yep, that dreamweaver extension would be handy, not seen it before ... but the firefox 'edit' is visceral plus the browser has TABS! worth a geek for sure
Posted by nardo at October 20, 2004 04:34 PM

Hmmm, "tougher", "burnt orange", "laminex" "retro boomerangs"(band name alert)".

I don't think any of that is really you, boyno.

My suggestion is think Fairfield Boat House - before the heritaged-coloured renovation.
Posted by Nabakov at October 21, 2004 02:40 AM

well I do have a penchant for laminex, but the Fairfield Boathouse is a perfect cautionary thought.
Is that the same as Maldon-ising, or worse?

(My laminex has always been cheap and grungy if that helps...)
Posted by boynton at October 21, 2004 10:57 AM

encore:
http://www.smartpixel.net/chromoweb/uks/indexgb.html

lovely explication about colour
Posted by nardo at October 22, 2004 09:50 AM

Yes - the explication is good indeed.
The Flash app is very good. Most useful I imagine.
And the Matisse may just have to get a link...
Posted by boynton at October 22, 2004 04:26 PM

flash festival

Flashforward Finalists in the Flash™ Film Festival 2004 New York

(via J walk)

3 cockatoos

Yesterday morning I glanced up to notice three yellow tailed black cockatoos in a tree in the back garden. I crouched under the clothesline and watched in wonder. Maybe they had flown in from Mt Disappoinment.
Later as I walked down the road a magpie was the sole fixture on the bombsite of a recently blitzed house and garden circa 1930. Getting his dazed bearings.

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commemorative

The Age has published a fascimile of its first edition of Tuesday 17th October 1854.

Might hop down to the Cremorne Gardens as advertised:

The admired Gymnastic Exercises on the Horizontal Bar by Professor Sampson...
Teas in Perfection. Water Cresses from the Lake. The Elephant will take the water from 6 o'clock. Numerous novelties of first rate description are in active preparation.

In the meantime... we present our own anniversary edition:

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Comments: commemorative

Boynty, did you dunk that jpeg in cold tea? For the authenticity like.
Posted by Tony.T at October 17, 2004 11:25 PM

No way, TT. Those are coffee stains.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at October 18, 2004 11:59 AM

I was a bit lazy and dunked the jpeg in the 'Cold tea' first available Paintshop filter.
Oddly I didn't try the Coffee 'filter'.
I did happen to notice on page 5 of the special edition:
"The Age is marked this morning by many imperfections which we trust will not characterize future numbers...
A large quantity of matter prepared for publication has been necessarily excluded"

(I might pinch that if I ever update my blog description)
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 12:31 PM

That sounds like a typically pompous way for The Age to say; "We have an editor".
Posted by Tony.T at October 18, 2004 02:15 PM

WANTED for the Age Jobbing department, a first rate band...
"WANTED a well educated and intelligent youth; apply to Mr. Harnett, Age editor"
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 04:37 PM

yay to Boynton for another year!

Thank you ....
Posted by David Tiley at October 19, 2004 02:15 PM

thank you, David.

and thanks all commenters of the community

one should commemorate the 'commentariat'
commensurately
Posted by boynton at October 19, 2004 04:19 PM

I thought the anniversary was "coming soon" -- but oops! - I missed it...

Happy belated Blog-birthday blog-sister!


Posted by wen at October 24, 2004 01:31 PM

Ta.
But you know - still not entirely sure if the 2 year milestone is good or bad.
Posted by boynton at October 24, 2004 06:31 PM

sketching

Would love to go on a sketchcrawl with a few pencils one day. Or even a couple of HB's and a ballpoint.

Sketchcrawl (via bifurcated rivets)

Ballpoint Pen Art (via fishbucket)

smiles

Looking forward to Smile after reading these reviews:

Grapez ...It is an Aaron Copland work of pop music. Brian deconstructs the pop song and then rebuilds it. Van Dyke Parks, the lyricist, works wonders with his words. Themes appear and disappear and reappear like the seashore on a wavy day

Twists and Turns ...a melodic meditation on American history, childhood and the four elements, as meditated upon by a psychedelic barbershop quartet, using multi-layered, four-part harmonies and surreal lyrics

Junk For Code ...The more appropriate way of responding to the Smile album is in terms of the model provided by classical music: there is an unfinished musical score written in 1967 and this is one particular performance of that composition. It is more an interactive album than a simulation of the original; a soundscape full of interwoven musical collages.

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Comments: smiles

You can listen to some of the tracks of Smile here. They give you some idea of the uniqueness of this music.

It is very quirky music.It is very very different to The Beatles' Revolver or St Pepper, with which it is often compared.

It is also much more idiosyncratic than Pet Sounds which it evolved.

I often think it is similar in concept(a musical collage) to the Grateful Dead's 1968 Anthem of the Sun, even though that primal dead album was acid rock rather than pop.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 14, 2004 07:21 PM

Dam the links did not work.
They are

http://www.smilethealbum.com/index.php

for the smile tracks

and http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/dead.html

for a review of Anthem of the Sun
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 14, 2004 07:30 PM

Aaron Copland? Never heard of him ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html

Until then.
Posted by Tony.T at October 14, 2004 11:02 PM

Gary, thanks, great link.
I love what I've heard so far.
I've been listening to 'A Jazz portrait of Brian Wilson" more than the Beach Boys lately, so maybe that's a smooth intro to the collage of SMiLE.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005H0L/102-0963253-0788967?v=glance.

More on smile here - and a link trail.
http://www.scrubbles.net/mt-archive/000506.html


Posted by boynton at October 15, 2004 04:06 PM

That's a good AC site, T - will have to explore more. I paused at this photograph:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/music/copland/phot&topImages=phot0096r.jpg&topLinks=phot0096v.jpg,phot0096u.tif&title=Aaron%20Copland%20with%20landlady%20and%20dog,%20Königstein,%20Germany,%201927%3cbr%3e&displayProfile=0&dir=ammem&itemLink=S?ammem/coplandbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(copland+phot0096))
Posted by boynton at October 15, 2004 04:10 PM

Should that site get the official WWW Longest Link Award for Excellence in the Field of Length?
Posted by Tony.T at October 15, 2004 10:39 PM

http://yep
Posted by boynton at October 16, 2004 09:58 AM

Boynton.
Many thanks for the link re smile. The review on Pop Culture Gadabout by Bill Shearman is a good one.

http://oakhaus.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_oakhaus_archive.html#109698764146840463

You need to scroll down the page to read it as it is blogspot.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 16, 2004 10:08 AM

Oooh! I'm gonna be hasslin' Gaslight Records, first thing tomorrow morning.

I am so looking foward to this, I've got wood.

From my own experience, "Pet Sounds", along with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and the Necks' "Sex", is a surefire soundtrack when moving from a deep amd meaningful in the living room to a braille discussion in the bedroom.

(Umm, not sure if you needed to know that.But it's too late now, I've already posted it.)


Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 03:32 PM

Must be all that talk of grits and mainsails. How does The Sloop John B work in Braille?

http://www.pulsedata.com/t_input.asp
Posted by boynton at October 17, 2004 04:41 PM

"How does The Sloop John B work in Braille?"

God Only Knows. But Wouldn't It be Nice if I Know There's An Answer, Here Today. But hey That's Not Me 'cos I Wasn't Made For These Times.
Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 05:43 PM

Alas, I wasn't made for these times either.

I was possibly made for 1854.

(wouldn't it be) Nice to do the Block...
To me it excels aught else beside

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/14/1097607353139.html
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 12:01 PM

Another review of Smile from PopMatters that I just came across

http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/041012-brianwilson.shtml
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 18, 2004 12:59 PM

That's a great review, Gary.
The parallel universe of the speculative and bootlegged is fascinating, and if it manages to reconcile and even transcend it, then SMiLE is indeed "closure on a cosmic scale".
Can't wait to buy it.
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 04:31 PM

glove of flowers

at the moment boynton seems to be turning link blog, without even the slightest brief remark and here's another:

Glove of Flowers

Felieke van der Leest Jewellery and objects
(via grow a brain)

So Melb had it's 4th hottest October night, Mildura had it's hottest October day ever, (whatever ever may be) and today it's back to moderate grey drizzle. So the lovely glove above reminded me of our 4 seasons in one day Springtime and what to wear perennial.

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Comments: glove of flowers

It was f***n hot, wasn't it? I couldn't sleep. Cooler today though, thankfully. I fear a long hot summer is coming to balance out the freezing cold winter we had.
Posted by Scott Wickstein at October 13, 2004 05:51 PM

Scott's in Adelaide, where long hot has a special meaning.

Place in January can be a dessicatorium.
Posted by David Tiley at October 13, 2004 10:57 PM

I hope you're wrong, Scott. Some don't like it hot. I'll rely on you to send warnings of days over the mid thirties.

Long Hot sounds like a meaningful coffee? ;)
Though I have been there during one heat wave in Adelaide. Hotter but a drier heat than Melb made it seem easier? (Of course, this may have had something to do with the presence of an air conditioner.)
Posted by boynton at October 14, 2004 11:39 AM

whisp...

Chinese whispers

(via snarkout)

how we compare

The US overlaid on us.
Size comparison maps of Australia (via Incoming signals)

Elsewhere - the surrealist map of the world, 1929

bliss'm m'ssilb

Stairway to Heaven Backwards - and eight other clips.
The Indistinguishable gibberish at the end of I'm So Tired is impressive in reverse, almost germanic, certainly less soporific.
(via sarcasmo)

And elsewhere: Bliss'm bliss'm, habuts-a-hoffen. Tidja tidja, pleh an attempt to transcribe the nonsense speak that slides seamlessly into Blackbird

figures

Mr Wonderful
Usually ships within 1 to 2 business days.
(via Twists and turns)

Mr Right When You Need Him Doll
New Lower Price!

Mr Out of this world

Crazy cat Lady has a wild look in her eye
(via quiddity)

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Comments: figures

Jesus! That's cheap. Not even seven DOLL-ars ...

http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/10746.html
Posted by Pearly Gates Marketing at October 12, 2004 12:47 PM

For me? A double flat cinnamon soy low calcium half decaf long black white latte please ...

http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/10975.html
Posted by David Tee Hee at October 12, 2004 12:54 PM

Mr Pearly: It's more valuable in AUS-doll-ars at 9.48027. JC has more hair than the more expensive Mr Shakespeare, who might say, if you press his hand: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"...or something.

And yes - Mr T is on notice.
(I like her sandals - on the first sandal wearing day of spring)
Posted by boynton at October 12, 2004 01:22 PM

That Barista looks like a junkie librarian.

Not like me at all - I have a snorkel.
Posted by David Tiley at October 13, 2004 10:55 PM

She looks like a soul-food type of barista to me.
Her glasses might be st kilda but her apron is smith street.

btw - does the proportion of junkie to librarian shift at all in the red-head mode?
Posted by boynton at October 14, 2004 11:19 AM

Innerestin' that all the blokes are brunettes and all the blokesses blondes.

For those that want their action figures a little more transcendental, try:
http://www.jesuschristsuperstore.net/

The Allah one is apparently packed and measured by volume not weight.
Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 03:57 PM

hereafter

A Home Hereafter: Photographs by Helen Sweeting

In September of the year 2000 my Grandmother Rene died. She was 90 years old and had lived on the same road in Handsworth, Birmingham, all of her life, moving ten houses away from her parents upon her marriage to my Grandfather, Jack, 60 years ago.

Following her death I started photographing her home, a space that evokes many personal memories for my family and myself. I wanted initially, to capture her essence within these walls - her private space, creating one final portrait of her, a portrait-in-absentia. I photographed her home before the possessions, the remnants of her existence, were removed.

Digital Handsworth A history of the ancient parish of Handsworth

(via Plep)

finnish

A Finnish proverb is:
"Strong willpower will take
a woman even through stone

The Meaning of Sisu

From a mefi thread on What concepts do not exist in the English language? (via bifurcated rivets)

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Comments: finnish

That concepts meme is lovely. So much to think about - if I had the energy to pummel my poor drained bonce into active ratiocination.

It's alright - we will all bounce back soon enough.
Posted by David Tiley at October 13, 2004 10:29 PM

A very shih Gedankenexperiment for those employing too much talanoa to cover the Zchwishenraum.

But in my case maybe it's just Treppenwitz brought on by ostranenie within a nemawashi.

Lagniappe sourced from
"They Have a Word for It"
Howard Rheingold, St. Martins's Press 1988
Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 04:15 PM

Hmmm - must secure a copy to translate comment.

Treppenwitz?
http://richter.colorado.edu/~sethmc/words.html

Actually it was the mefi discussion on "espirit de l'escalier" that has stuck in my mind out of all those tenses and nationalistic nuances.
Posted by boynton at October 17, 2004 04:37 PM

Well, you say "Treppenwitz", I say "Treppenwitz".

But yes, to a resolutely English ear, it does sound like some kinda hunting accident in a Silesian game marsh.
Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 05:35 PM

ninth

Australia voted today. I walked up to the local primary school and bought a raffle ticket. Don't think I'll win.


John Lennon's birthday. A good time to post this lovely piece by Jozef at A Media Dragon:

In Vienna young exile men wore cheap John Lennon’s specs and pretended leather jackets ... spent disproportionate amounts of their time looking for dreams to come true. When I first came to Australia the limited English words I possessed in my vocabulary generally came from the Beatles songs...

Tears, like water, provide the glue that turn the raw material of exile into useful concrete of collective survival. John Lennon was the strongest cement there ever was for many Czechs who felt part of this fragile universe during the Christmas of 1980

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Comments: ninth

We thought one gamble a day was enough and we bypassed the raffle tickets.

Bought a carrot cake.

Discovered outsourcing has now infiltrated the sacred institution that is the election day stall.

We know a cake that rises to the "cream butter and sugar, add an egg and gently fold in thrice sifted self-raising flour" call, whose natural habitat is the veteran chipped earthenware bowl on a scrubbed wood kitchen table - thereafter delivered unto a wood-fired, 'Zebra' blacked, bible-black stove.

This was NOT such a cake!

Our investigations (involving the judicious application of caring-sharing lethal force) ascertained that they had been shipped in from a commercial bakery.

This is our real and devastating disappointment on this election night.

It may be that we never vote again!
Posted by Sedgwick at October 9, 2004 09:08 PM

We had a sausage sizzle at our booth. It was great.

This is harder than your real job," I said to the large man with the sauce bottle.

"Yes", he said.

Probably a brain surgeon. Not a rock star, I think I know the St Kilda ones.

The real hard was probably not splerfing tomato sauce all over the crazy woman from Family First who gave out HTV cards and shouted for two hours about how the government stole her children.
Posted by David Tiley at October 11, 2004 01:28 AM

Someone left the cake out in the rain. Again...

Very disturbing news, Sedge. I guess it's the touch of the latex-handed gloved fear and loathing, of food and litigation, that has sacked the home made, making museums of the once bountiful zebra-black habitats.

Now that you mention it, David, Sausage Sizzles and Politics is a dangerous mix, given the sharp objects involved. Wonder if things have ever turned nasty in the key marginals?
Posted by boynton at October 11, 2004 01:13 PM

zoom phone

web metaphors in these two links from diversionz:

The Zoom Quilt
a collaborative art project

The phone

cocktail muse

from trouser news to cocktail muse

It's time to praise (and occasionally curse) the muse of a million cocktail lounges, the genius who gave voice to the common man in the 20th century, Daisuke Inoue...

He helped invent karaoke, creating a tradition that, in 30 years, has become as universally known as pizza or disco...

And in a world of ever more customized entertainments--the home video or the home page--karaoke is a kind of fantasy chamber for the circumscribed

(via apothecary's drawer)

trouser news

Vibrating trousers treat angina

When the heart is resting the cuffs inflate and then deflate again just before each heart beat

(via kevan del.icio.us)

cricket films

A reader chided me last night for the post on football in films.
It's over, he said. ( Meaning the finals have been and gone, and my team didn't win)
Topicality has never been my strength, but I have noticed the outbreak of October cricket in the parks, looking overly green this wet spring. Last weekend I saw a match being played in very bucolic conditions, more meadow than paddock, with the grass growing rate outstripping the run rate and the daisies encircling fine leg.
But I take the point and have found a more seasonal link
What films are based around cricket matches or have cricket scenes in them?

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Comments: cricket films

Bodyline ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086672/

Outside Edge ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108891/

There's also a great little British film about an aging groundsman and his young black apprentice who treat the pitch as hallowed turf, but I can't bloody well remember what it's called.
Posted by Tony.T at October 7, 2004 02:53 PM

Did you check that link, T?
Might be among those more obscure listings.
(and if we're talking scenes -
Was there a cricket scene in "The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith"? )

Meant to post this link to an early film
99 feet of cricket.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/collections/catalogues/silent/details.php?filmid=80
Posted by boynton at October 7, 2004 03:03 PM

I'm told this one is a doozie but unfortunately ain't caught it myself...
http://www.missliberty.com/Filmlagaan.html
Posted by nardo at October 7, 2004 03:58 PM

and via IMDB bulletin board:

"The April 2004 edition of The Wisden Cricketer, probably the foremost cricket magazine in the world, had their list of the top 10 cricket moments in movies, and Lagaan come in at number 1. Having just seen the movie, I wholeheartedly agree."

my favourite sports film: 'When We Were Kings'

used to play Super 8 movies as visual backdrop to music affairs; moon walks in backwards slow motion and Ali boxing were regular pieces, incl. that Frazier left hook smash that floored Ali in 'the fight of the century'... one of the most arresting bits of footage I ever seen
Posted by nardo at October 7, 2004 04:32 PM

Yep - Lagaan looks good - at four hours though, it might need a tea break.
That Wisden list would seem to be the elusive thing I was looking for, although the above forum was pretty good.
Haven't seen many Sports Films myself - and (probably terrible to admit) don't think I've seen that famous left hook footage.
Posted by boynton at October 7, 2004 04:51 PM

"Did you check that link, T?"

Huh?
Posted by Tony.T at October 7, 2004 07:33 PM

There was a very unconvincing dream sequence bowling from American actor (?) Forest Whittaker in (of all things) the crying game.
Posted by Zoe at October 7, 2004 08:03 PM

T - In the link to the Brit film forum there's the following description:

"Just really enjoyed arthurs hallowed ground 1986,on film 4,jimmy jewel played a great part as a cantankerous,perfectionist,cricket groundsman,who really dosen't want anyone to even walk on his pitch let alone play on it,a nice gentle comedy,with the familier faces of david swift,jean boht,michael elphic,exec prod david putnahm,script edited by jack rosenthal."

Thought that might be the one you mentioned. Some good films there, (including a Carry On one.)

Zoe - I remember the sequence. I'll have to check its cred again.
A new question - did the cricket fool you in TCG? ;)
Posted by boynton at October 7, 2004 08:13 PM

Oh. Were we supposed to look through the forum? Once I saw it wasn't about football, or more specifically, Melbourne Football Club player trades, AND had a black background, I bailed/baled.

I'll just go and read it now ...

noooooo noo noooo nooo nooo ummmmm umm hmmmmhh ...

Yes, Arthurs Hallowed Ground was the fillum and most enjoyable it was too. I think I've seen most of those films, but strangely the only one I haven't is one of the ones I mentioned, Bodyline. Strange, no?

They played cricket in Master & Commander too. Have you seen it?
Posted by Tony.T at October 7, 2004 11:17 PM

I'm not a number one fan of the game, tending to agree with whoever it was who said that all cultures have their own definitions of eternity & the British call theirs cricket. But surely the all time howzatt classic is the one at the top of the link site list, The Final Test, starring Jack Warner & Robert Morley & scripted by Terence Rattigan. Apparently it was inspired by Don Bradman's early dismissal in his last Test Match.

Not a classic outside the genre but fair example of '40s British whimsy in which Warner, as in every film he ever made throughout a long career, carries himself like a man in his late 60s while Robert Morley camps it up something rotten.
Posted by Dick at October 8, 2004 11:02 AM

Don't forget the episode of All Creatures Great and Small where a younf Fred Trueman turned out for the local XI.
Posted by Tony.T at October 8, 2004 11:08 AM

T - I haven't seen Bodyline either.
Actually I did see M&C, and forgot about that striking match.
Have you seen Carry On - Follow that Camel?

Dick - I chased the GBS quote and found it in good company here
http://en.thinkexist.com/keyword/cricket/
with Pinter and Wilde also on the team.
Actually it's the langour of the game that I like, 'the organised loafing', 'baseball on valium'.
A DVD has made an appearance in this household, so I may try to see TFT - sounds good.

The episode was "Big Fish Little Fish" (apparently - I had to look it up)
Must have seen it, but can't recall it.
Did a young Geoff Boycott ever visit the vetinry?
Posted by boynton at October 8, 2004 12:04 PM

Didn't Herriot once treat a dicky bird?
Posted by nora at October 8, 2004 03:21 PM

one of my favorite films of all time, losey & pinter's the go-between, has a crucial sequence involving a cricket match, with a very sexy alan bates as batsman (if that's the word). if you haven't seen it, definitely do.
Posted by michaela at October 8, 2004 04:30 PM

Dicky Who?
Posted by Tricky Woo at October 8, 2004 05:37 PM

I read the book a long time ago, Michaela, but funnily enough have never seen the film. Have always meant to.
I fully agree with your assessment of the late great Alan Bates, so may try to obtain the DVD ASAP. For the cricket of course.
Posted by boynton at October 8, 2004 05:43 PM

Not Dicky, Doctor. Dr Who.
Posted by Tristan.F at October 9, 2004 01:08 PM

a very peculiar practice...

http://www.who2.com/cgi-bin/library/searchindex/query.pl?swishindex=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fswish-e%2Findex.swish&metaName=Keywords&detail=yes&maxresults=1000&maxdisplay=20&keywords=doctor+who

(who2 via presurfer)
Posted by boynton at October 11, 2004 12:50 PM

Two recent UK crick flicks

"Wondrous Oblivion" and "Not Cricket: The Basil d'Oliveira Conspiracy" (TV).

And "Shaun of The Dead" and "Spinal Tap" both show what you can do with a 3 pound Gray Nicholls off the pitch.

And for yer vast international audience unacquainted with the smack of leather on willow, Boynie, here's a quick and concise guide to cricket.

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, then stumps are drawn.
Posted by Nabakov at October 17, 2004 06:05 PM

Crick Flicks - marvellous shot that

Must try to see Wonderous Oblivion.
(good name for a blog - as indeed are many of your Lagniappe of another thread. Although Treppenwitz sounds like he could have played for Australia A, or in the ruck for Carlton.)
Posted by boynton at October 18, 2004 12:22 PM

phone song

I tried out a couple of these telephone songs but my landline phone seems to be tone deaf. That's ok - Happy Birthday sounds quite good sung flat. Different tones for different zones?
(via the Ultimate Insult)

footy films

A nice description of the game in Film Journal's Footy Film's Brilliant Mark: What Australian Rules Football Films Illuminate About Sports films
(via Hot Buttered death)

However, this Yankee has been intrigued for some time by Footy, and a big reason is due to the Footy-specific "Mark." ... Besides this creative use of the crook of another player's neck, players will dive catch, leap over opponents, collide with opponents, jump with their legs out parallel to the ground to use their cleats to warn off approaching opposing players, or simply wait to catch the ball with no threats around them...
Yes, there is a similarity here with the mark and the American Tackle Football receiver catching a pass, but the leaping, laddering and leveraging of other players adds something unique to Footy.

The article discusses The Club and Australian Rules - The only two Footy films on DVD about which I am aware. There is another, A Salute To the Great McCarthy. Coincidentally I just viewed an Age photo showing the making of.

And The Big Men Fly is a much performed play that was adapted for ABC TV series in 1973 and I was recently telling a Yankee friend -who'd never heard of Aussie Rules - about a ballet which included a Football scene, The Display 1964.

Eventually Helpmann would claim that The Display, with his own choreography and scenario, music by Malcolm Williamson and designs by Sidney Nolan, was the first fully Australian ballet...It even featured an Aussie Rules football game and the dancers were coached for this part of the ballet by the football star Ron Barassi.Source

(Did I imagine it - or does Ron make a cameo appearance in The Club?)

See also Sport in the Australian Arts

weblob

I've been keeping a sideways eye on the shape of the archives as they build into a blob representing so many months' worth of blogging.

what's pelvis

Flightless Hummingbird's Fashion Tips. What's hip and what's pelvis in the post-hypnotic age.

via tip from wood s lot to
No More Words: A non-Glossary

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Comments: what's pelvis

weird, and wonderful! you're sick boynton!
Posted by Link at October 4, 2004 06:21 PM

fully.
Posted by Link at October 4, 2004 06:22 PM

well I never claimed to be Hip, anyway, (and my pelvis would probably second that)

And I am looking forward to the next issue: Sensible Shoes.
Posted by boynton at October 4, 2004 06:33 PM

wood engravings

The first Yan Yean image below was from this National Library of Australia Collection:
Wood engravings published in Victoria, Australia, exhibited by the Commissioners of the International Exhibition, 1873 .


Remarkable remains of trees, near Bendigo. [after: Ludwig Becker; engraver: Frederick Grosse]

Wood carting - the gum tree (eucalyptus), 1862

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Comments: wood engravings

That stuff is fascinating. I've been involved in research for a film about the 1939 fires which means lots of slow interviews with really fantastic oldies whose stories of their parents and grandparents take us right back to pioneering.

Old men saying "I made my living for my whole life with me axe." and families who are still in the woodchopping comps are called "chopping families.."

Where did you get your milk? my colleague asked.
From a cow, shrieked the two old ladies in unison.

The power of oral history.

The sooner this election is over, the better. We are obsessed with politics; I neglect the wider joys.
Posted by David Tiley at October 6, 2004 01:21 AM

I've got "chopping family" on one branch of the tree myself. (That is - ex axemen - the generations that followed stopped chopping, but I love that cf term)

Don't know if it was a coincidence that I posted this on the day the ALP released its old Growth Forest Policy - the Libs to follow - shortly?
Posted by boynton at October 6, 2004 11:45 AM

dress age

She had not been able to wear her dress since.
Dress torn by dog

As part of The Age's 150th anniversary celebrations, The Age has compiled a snapshot of articles and photographs. The list is not meant to be definitive or exhaustive; we simply capture some of the things that made news.

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Comments: dress age

Found this in one of those links of yours - imagine - bubonic plague in Melbourne!!
"PLAGUE HOSPITAL HASTENED
Dr. Gresswell now urges that the erection of the proposed plague hospital on Coode Island should be proceeded with at as early a date as possible."
Posted by nora at October 5, 2004 02:10 PM

http://www.150.theage.com.au/view_bestofarticle.asp?straction=update&inttype=1&intid=1706
That Coode reference was too good, Nora, and I had to follow up the story.
Fascinating reading - sure beats the days of reading The Age on wonky Microfilm and wrestling with the photocopier in The SLV till closing time- eh?
From the same article - some rats in the ranks?

"RATS AT SIXPENCE A HEAD
Cr. Backhouse said the report had not referred to rats. There were thousands of rats that might at any time endanger the health of the town. As only 20 had been purchased by the council he moved that the price should be raised to 6d. per head"
Posted by boynton at October 5, 2004 02:25 PM

yan yean

The Yan Yean Reservoir, 1862

View east of Yan Yean Reservoir



.. It'll give you some idea of the bush, Mr Raffles, and you'll see the sources of the water-supply of this city, sir. You'll see where every drop of it comes from, the pure Yan Yean  The Tale Part two

Raffles Le Premier Pas The full text of the original story... with annotations and photographs of the various locations as they appear today.

sak

Here it is -the ultimate swiss army knife
a tool for every occasion
(via bifurcated rivets)


the XLT displaying some of its dazzling 50-tooled plumage


After 14 years of service my Victorinox mini-Swiss Army Knife (SAK) has finally begun to show its age: the toothpick went missing, the enamel casing cracked, the insignia fell off... Customer Review

Does the Swiss army really use the Swiss army knife?

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Comments: sak

It's the only weapon they're allowed.
Posted by Dick at October 4, 2004 08:42 AM

Magnifying glasses at twenty paces.
Ballpoints at dawn.
Posted by boynton at October 4, 2004 12:22 PM

hip

according to a glossy real estate brochure

succulents have become incredibly hip

shrinking

I took the What's the Colour of Your Blog Personality? Quiz at About Web logs and...

My Blog Personality's True Color Is... BROWN It's all about simplicity and nature. The world is bigger than ourselves. That's why in my blog, I try to shrink the importance of my existence in favor of things that really matter.

(via the Presurfer)


Brown? Wouldn't you know it. Last week when I wanted to be Charlie Brown, I was more Schroeder. (via Pop Culture Junk Mail)

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Comments: shrinking

At least it wasn't Beige.
Posted by Nora at September 30, 2004 09:53 PM

doubt

You don't like to encourage them, but I laughed at the latest offering from the spammers happening at this post. So I've extracted the link and left the random literary bit of commentary by an author of long winded name..

sing a long beatles

Undiscovered Beatles Reviews of obscure Beatles tracks
(via twists and turns)

Meanwhile I've been singing the catalogue at this excellent Beatles Karaoke site.
(via grow a brain)
(There may be something quite sad about singing along solo to sixties songs at your computer, but I'm smiling.)

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Comments: sing a long beatles

The great thing about so vast a catalogue is that you're constantly stumbling across half-forgotten songs & experiencing something of the shock of the new. And what a great song 'Because' is. McCartney = ballads, Lennon = rockers - bollocks: 'Here, There & Everywhere' & 'Because' eclipse the McCartney soft-rock oeuvre completely.
Posted by Dick at September 28, 2004 08:26 AM

A. The sad thing may be that you have to keep enough self-monitoring running to reflect on whether it should be embarrassing to do something in private you thoroughly enjoy. That comes fromt he schoolyard, where the cruelty of constant judgement by the most important people in your life, your peers, who don't know anything about anything, especially concerning the value of singing for joy, begins its life-long spirit-dampening sting.
B. McCartney screamed his ass off and people thought it was Lennon, becuse Lennon cultivated the greaser/hood image against McCartney's pretty-boy choir-boy. They were a great team and more than the sum of their parts combined. Dissing one at the expense of the other is sort of cultish and odd.
Writing songs your grandmother likes isn't a weakness, nor is writing songs and making music that people still enjoy singing 40 years later.
George Harrison did great work in that band as well.
Posted by vernaculo at September 28, 2004 11:10 AM

Dick - I agree. Been a while since I sung along to "Things we said today" or "If I Fell"
I love Because.
Notice it's up at Undiscovered Beatles now.
Can only hear the Beethoven (rollover?) now, and in an earlier post I linked to the means of reversing 'Moonlight'
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/004696.html

You're right, Vernaculo.
But it's the Midi tinny thing as well.
downmarket player piano?
But these are surprisingly good.
Nothing better than singing in harmony though.
& I've been singing GH's "For You Blue" and "Here Comes the Sun" (a good song for early spring)
Posted by boynton at September 28, 2004 03:14 PM

Hey guys...good to seee McCartney getting some love...it's a rare thing nowadays. However, Paul did write Here, There, and Everywhere. Hope you liked the Undiscovered stuff and there's a new one coming up next week.
Posted by Matt at October 12, 2004 09:23 AM

Yep - I am enjoying the UB. Had almost written off "She's Leaving Home" myself - so caused a bit of a re-think.

I think "Here, There and Everywhere" is one of Paul's best, as John said in the Playboy interview: "That's Paul's song completely, I believe. And one of my favorite songs of the Beatles."
One of the best ballads to sing, too.

Looking forward to the next installment.
Posted by boynton at October 12, 2004 11:36 AM

find

Couple who met at Goodwill store decide to get married there.
(via Diversionz)

Many years of haunting the local op shop and I've brought home many pre-loved objets d'art, but sadly no obscur objet du désir. Might hop down to St Vincents now to see if there's a nice Man amongst the retro treasures.

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Comments: find

Well that sounds like your dream come true. If you can bring home a fully functioning "free" washing machine surely you can manage "Mr Right"?
The H'op shop IS your shop afterall.
Posted by Norabone at September 27, 2004 05:39 PM

Please don't put such a 'spin' on a kind act of charity, Nora. I've always relied on the kindness of strangers when it comes to washing machines, y'know. ;)
(But I'm misty-eyed at the sweet memories of those far off days before centralised pricing)
Posted by boynton at September 27, 2004 05:51 PM

bolts

A big game of football was on today apparently.
I heard the Coodabeens observing the supporters arriving at the MCG:
(Port) need an animal. You can't dress up as a lightning bolt.
The lightning bolts beat the lions but we stopped watching before the final siren.
An unprecedented event.

The only thing that seemed genuine was the kick-to-kick happening in the dead street at half time. Later, three generations of Victorians kicked the football in a paddock, the toddlers tumbling, the fathers umpiring, the grandpa calling. As I walked past one backyard party spilling into the park a guy with a stubby was leaning against a tree protesting into his mobile But it's Grand Final Day!
Was he convincing?

content grazing

Darren of Living Room has a new blog ProBlogger Tips and Advice on Blogging for Dollars . Looks good (although I suspect I shall always be a poor blogger)


From this link to a series on Blog Formats I think boynton may be closest to the brief remark.

Brevity is generally a good thing in weblogs – it promotes content grazing by readers who are looking for a few quick items of interest rather than an in-depth reading experience. From the reader’s perspective, blogs that include mainly brief items are usually easier to absorb, especially when blog-reading is an activity crammed in during the odd spare minute

I like the expression content grazing.
Images of ruminative sheep. The cattle are lowing.

perfectly content grazing with the muzzle on

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Comments: content grazing

Muzzles for horses? What will they think of next?
Posted by Link at September 27, 2004 11:25 AM

I want one for the blue heeler of my discontent.
For the next time she grazes my knee.
Posted by boynton at September 27, 2004 03:43 PM

what is it?

I was speaking to an old friend today about the Internet.
What is the Internet? He said.
Yeah yeah.
No - what is the Internet? What is the Internet?
Oh right. I shrugged.
I didn't have this online definition up my off line sleeve. Or this
Who knows.

I've been told it's a research tool, but it's bloody hopeless. He added.

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Comments: what is it?

Please to consider my silence approval, generally, of your always interesting and at times most droll efforts, making exception for this, comment, which is to say that.
And also to wonder if you've tried this A9 thing
http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp
yet?
It is a Google-Amazon hybrid, or purports to be.
Google has my loyalties all sewn up, generally, but searching is a dispassionate enterprise, engine-wise, and I keep looking.
Also your countryman, Barista,
http://dox.media2.org/barista/archives/001161.html
has a little squib vis. Google's vulnerability to reactionary fiddling.
Also I have here by me that Google Hacks book
http://a9.com/Google%20Hacks
that I paid good money for, but it took seeing your use of the [define:] protocol to bring it into my purview. No reflection on the book's author that, just my own slothful ways.
Also I missed entirely that time you linked and said good things about that Fridge thing I did, and take this opportunity to thank you for that, having recently discovered it in your archive.
Thank you for that.
Posted by vernaculo at September 25, 2004 06:39 PM

A9 looks good. Just tried (randomly - as I remember my google search of a few months ago)
"Betty Grable Fred Astaire" and it was much more efficient. I could have got to this page in two.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/barnard/theater/kirkland/3136/1930sgallery/pages/LS1934.3.htm

Is it the presence of images?
The combo is an interesting thing in itself for data retrieval. Must play with it.

And Google Hacks looks worth a read.

Thank you for your kind words. Timely.
(What is the Internet?)
& I was very taken by your Fridge/s.


Posted by boynton at September 25, 2004 08:02 PM

Interesting.
The Internet is seen as research tool. Very academic. On this model it is akin to going into library and looking up an index.

How about a Heideggerian perspective: connecting up with broadband discloses a world.

That world is there but it has remained hidden even though it now enframes us and our activities.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 26, 2004 06:19 PM

That's great, Gary.
I think that is the model he was using, and has found some online indexes wanting. I muttered something about the 'invisible web' - but much prefer the sense of undisclosed world. (Undisclosed even on poorman's dialup)
Posted by boynton at September 26, 2004 07:33 PM

significance

Read small stories and attend to page two
Just because something is reported in a single paragraph does not mean it is insignificant. Busy subeditors, with their own blind spots and unexamined prejudices, and with limited space, often cut the most interesting or significant piece of news down to a few lines

Between the lines Tips on reading newspapers
(via Kevan del.icio.us)

curling

So I scored a white tea in fine china and a house chocolate as my hair was snipped in a salon. No House music for the shearers in this salon.
The guy who cut my hair said we're actors.
On slow days when the stories run out, you have to make them up.

A MAN CURLING A WOMAN'S HAIR. A SMALL GIRL STANDS BESIDE HER AND A MAN HOLDS A CRYING BABY IN THE BACKGROUND

hairdressers

Half thinking of making a hairdressing appointment, when I saw the link at I like to old hairdressers. Every town has at least one and they're another taste of yesteryear with quality signwriting, 50s styling, or simple charm.

I think there's an old salon in this very suburb, but I wish this travelling hairdresser from 1945 was still around.


Meanwhile ...Members of the Hairdressers Council

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Comments: hairdressers

That old salon up the road?

Take my advice, Boynton. Don't go there.
Posted by Nora at September 21, 2004 05:27 PM

Yes I think old salons could be rather scary places. Memories of scary old hairdressers of childhood. However, if they had a 'Happy Hour' like one of the neighbouring establishments, I could be tempted.
Posted by boynton at September 22, 2004 12:34 AM

Damn, speak for yerself ladies.

I came over here to escape all the testosterone bitchiness of the blokey political blogs, only to find you hairsprayed harpies dissing the local barber with his trusty shears and staple-detached copies of 'The Australian Post" and "National Geographic".

Where else could I keep up with the latest developments for the Ettamongah Pub and the threat to puffin colonies on the Isle of Rhum, while also being trimmed off the top and tipped about a nice little stayer in the second at Flemington?
Posted by Nabakov at September 22, 2004 01:52 AM

Yeah OK, Nat Geo was gluebound - but it's the principle of pages drifting loose under nervous prepubscent fingers while yer waiting for yer Number 2 that's the nub 'n' stubble of my point.
Posted by Nabakov at September 22, 2004 04:39 AM

There's an ancient guy who runs a one-man barbers in the covered market in Letchworth. It's just a glazed booth with one barber's chair, a sink, a table bearing the most basic implements, some chairs for waiting patrons & a garish seascape on the one wall. And there are always three or four custoners waiting. Glimpsed in passing, it's like an Edward Hopper painting.
Posted by Dick at September 22, 2004 07:45 AM

No no nabakov - didn't intend to diss any such barbers. I'm too fond of the stubble of suburban yesteryears to diss any remnant barbers, which afford the universal time-warped glimpses for passers by, as Dick suggests.
The outer suburban lone ancient female hairdresser of yesteryear on the other hand, brings back ancient memories, not all sunny.

I know that you mean the ethnology pix of Nat Geog, but coincidentally I was going to link to this site yesterday, which features an ancient 'beehive'
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/bestvintage/photogallery_01.html

(link via Life in the present
http://michellefierro.typepad.com/veritas/2004/09/national_geogra.html)
Posted by boynton at September 23, 2004 02:47 PM

my first barber had a mirrored ceiling and every wall-inch covered with girlie pics - damn those were the days, at seven and a half
Posted by nardo at September 23, 2004 06:40 PM

description of the blogopshere ?
or at least the 'testosterone local blokey political' parts thereof ;)
Posted by boynton at September 23, 2004 11:16 PM

blokosphere
Posted by nardo at September 24, 2004 05:28 PM

My apologies ladies for the "hairpsrayed harpies" phrase. T'was meant jocularly, in context, in character, in...oh bugger it, I was drunk.

Anyhoo, finally saw the Coens' "The Man Who Wasn't There" the other night. Classical barbershop shit.. and some serious voudoun shit too - which must have involved raising James Wong from the the dead for the some of the most stunning B&W cinematography I've ever seen.

But yer I'm old enough to remember being young in an old barbershop chair. Part of the appeal was being a 12 year old hearing unrelated grownups talking about manly things and happy to explain some of them to you in a reasonably unpatronising way. "Well sonny, handicapping a horse means that you take some lead...", "Raquel Welsh? Well sonny, it's like this..."

That means a lot to a twelve year old who's Mum left him there with strict instructions for his tonsure.
Posted by Nabakov at September 25, 2004 01:19 AM

the jocular vein was spotted.
the movie sounds ok.
'Sonny' memories sound intriguing.
(I would have liked to have had handicapping explained to me as a young lass. There's still time I guess before the first Tues of Nov.)

Coincidentally today I read about the old barber shops of old Port Adelaide, gone in the gentrication.
Posted by boynton at September 25, 2004 08:42 PM

photographic

I googled a church in Adelaide and suddenly found myself spinning round the famous Duryea Panorama, a link I'd often seen but never clicked. It was quite giddy, the historical details functioning as a kind of handrail, until I worked out how to slow down the spin to a sober pace befitting the city of (still standing and now demolished) churches..

This was quite coincidental (or is the correct web word serendipitous?) I had just been reading about another panorama at this site. The history of South Australian photography from 1845 to around 1915

Also: A French photographic site Phot'optic Collection
(via Ramage)

and more local photos to explore at the Campbelltown City Library Collection
This Image Library is a unique collection of just over 7,000 historical pictures of the Campbelltown District dating from the early 1800's

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Comments: photographic

It is great panaroma of Adelaide. I had seen it at the Mortlock. Great to see it online.

I tried to find the site of my 1890s cottage in the south east corner of the city but the panaroma was too early to get a sense of that part.

When I have some more time I will have another look.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 24, 2004 02:11 PM

Great isn't it. I've seen one early panorama of Melbourne (off line), but they suit the medium.
Posted by boynton at September 25, 2004 08:50 PM

conference

Meanwhile I've been meandering through the various hypertexed categories of photographs from overalls and loudspeakers to filing cabinets (which were quite absorbing).
Conferences have proved to be a rich source of imagery...

As these two images from Stock breeders conference may demonstrate.

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broken linkage
Posted by vernaculo at September 18, 2004 05:25 AM

Yes - I don't know why this one keeps breaking.
I tried a couple of things but they seem to be temporary.
Only solution here seems to be to access the direct pictures of the Stock Breeders Conference of 20/4/1935
by that last bit of the address - after ? .
Posted by boynton at September 18, 2004 11:14 AM

btw
these were the other links that seem to be temporary:


http://libapp.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus/FULL/PM/SUHDGPICT/311/85883,10

http://libapp.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus/FULL/PM/SUHDGPICT/311/85884,11
Posted by boynton at September 18, 2004 12:20 PM

I've found a good link (I think)

waiting to see if they stay put.

(found through a cross-ref at Picture Australia)
Posted by boynton at September 18, 2004 02:12 PM

smiley

Jerz's Literacy Weblog: Tracking the smiley.

Are the origins to be found somewhere in the Reader's Digest or, as Wikipedia suggests, a 1953 ad in the New York Herald Tribune?

I wonder if the wink has been tracked? 'Tis my emoticon of choice, but strictly in txt only. This sort of wink would seem to need a ;) somewhere to work.

As someone who is overly fond of a wink, I should brush up on some variants.


*\:-) the tam o shanter may have been useful *\;-)

*\;#) apparently this means drunk wink in a tam o shater which may have been appropriate on the occasional winter bloggerly evening.


~= and this a candle, for today... *\;#)

some overalls

Some highlights from the 133 images of overalls collection...

Cleaner cleans lipstick kisses from a window with a photograph of Johnny Ray, Royal Arcade

Sheep researchers

pest exterminators, with collection of dead rats from a ship

Man who works on a cactus garden of an historic stone house inside with a sea-shell collection, Parramatta

I might start on the loudpeakers next

darkness

This, Vonnegut believes, is the writer's obligation, to make connections, to offer insights, to ask essential questions, even (or especially) if the answers remain unknown. "We walk around," says Simon, "with an exhausting awareness of a darkness we don't want to acknowledge or even have words for. And Kurt says to us, 'You're not alone. I feel this too, and it's all right. You can say it.' "

Older and Bleaker Vonnegut's humor has become more pessimistic. 'I now give up on people,' he writes. (via a media dragon)

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Comments: darkness

Great guy. Nice quote.
Posted by cs at September 16, 2005 09:36 AM

Poor old vonnegut. Maybe he really does wish some brilliant but 'humane' aliens would take us all captive as zoo exhibits aka billy pilgrim.
Posted by armaniac at September 16, 2005 12:55 PM

Really looking fwd to reading his latest.
Posted by boynton at September 16, 2005 03:57 PM

overall

I was idly googling rams, as you do, and found this link to a Picture Australia
Prize winning Merino .
I like the alternative list of subjects there.
Akubras, graziers, lawns, loudspeakers, ministers (government), overalls.

Couldn't resist clicking on overalls.
Your search for overalls in subject found 133 images

I guess Overalls is as good a classification as any for this 1958 study.

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Comments: overall

Woolly for ewe.
Posted by Tony.T at September 14, 2004 05:33 PM

she knits her brows and thinks of Ramekins...

(she of the 1958 sheep show that is)
Posted by boynton at September 14, 2004 05:42 PM

Knit, perchance to sheep.
Posted by Tony.T at September 14, 2004 05:44 PM

with a bare bodkin.
Posted by boynton at September 14, 2004 06:03 PM

Ah, those were the days when rams were rams and men were nervous.

A bit of triva I found about the other day. That ram would have been sheared with the machine developed in Australia by Mr Fred Wolseley, with the assistance of Mr Herbert Austin, who both then moved back to England to become the Wolseley and the Austin of the UK's auto industry.
Posted by Nabakov at September 16, 2004 08:27 PM

All among the Wolseley...

a good bit of trivia.
Posted by boynton at September 17, 2004 11:09 AM

fridges

Another day another fridge...

Fridge Poetry Flash Game (via bifurcated rivets)

different wordset to the earlier model which offered off cuts of Revelations

the Fridge (via db)

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Comments: fridges

These are brill! Thanks a bunch boynton.
Posted by Link at September 15, 2004 06:50 PM

conditions

Watching the football play out in the heavy rain last night, we soon wanted to keep count of the number of times we heard the phrase in these conditions .
eg A great mark in these conditions. Good kick in these conditions. Clever tackle in these conditions.
We soon lost count. And we soon lost heart.
(It's hard to be a Swans supporter in these conditions)
But then South supporters learnt early on to expect these conditions.
Losing was pretty much the universal South Melbourne Condition.

vintage fabric

Nostalgia fabrics at Fabric Attic (via exclamation mark)

Vintage Toys 1950's Children's Wall Decorations (via grow a brain)

prettiest songs

I was half listening to the radio yesterday and heard The Littlest Birds
Those moments when the prettiest songs get you smiling ...
Googling led me to this live version, and then back to a recent post at J walk, which links to Jolie Holland's solo version.

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Comments: prettiest songs

Littlest Birds is indeed a beautiful song
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at September 10, 2004 02:23 PM

Yep.
"I'm not too blue to fly"

btw. The Jolie Holland version is about 37.22 into Catalpa. Another CD on the wish list.
Posted by boynton at September 11, 2004 05:52 PM