Innocence and experience
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by James Higham
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Mainly flute and harp
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by James Higham
Only two pieces this evening:
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For a lady
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by James Higham
Where will you take her this evening?
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Venus in Snow
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by James Higham
You all saw the story and most likely shook the head. Why can’t people get it right? Why can’t they strike a balance?
Ordering the family to cover up the remarkably good, zaftig rendition of Venus simply meant the sculpture looked, as the artist said, “more objectified and sexualised” than before, something Alison is always going [...]
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The quality of the silent films
Posted on March 4th, 2010 by James Higham
The movie buff might tell you that the reason silents seemed so jerky in their action was because they were shot at 16 fps and modern machines have been standardized at 24 fps. Actually, the truth is a bit different and you can get an inkling of this from this 1923 article by one Victor [...]
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Just to cheer us up
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by James Higham
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The Pod People and the Apparatchiki
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by James Higham
Sometimes, you know, our current circumstances read like a bad movie, sort of like a meshing of dystopic sci-fantasy The Rise of the Pod People with 1984 and you only know these creatures by the marks on the back of their necks, if you can get a look. Our hero, an MP called Quan Billgo, [...]
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Spending time wisely
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by James Higham
Time to turn our attention to more important matters in life. Here is a little pdf I made of how I rate the 22 Bond films. Some surprises.
If you take the two best films of each Bond except for Lazenby’s one film, then they average out: Moore [39], Connery [37], Lazenby [37], Brosnan [36.5], Craig [...]
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Sheer menace
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by James Higham
Five people I wouldn’t like to be in the same room with:
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Mink de Ville
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by James Higham
Occasionally, a musical evening is particularly special to your humble blogger and this is one of the few. It’s from a tour just before the artist died, at the Museumplatz in Bonn and there are far too many tracks up on youtube to include.
Without further ado – Mink de Ville’s best known track, [...]
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