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“I'll let you wear my underwear“ possibly the scariest line in movie history...

Hmm, deeply suspicious of this The only thing missed off is lubricating your rubber-mounted tunnel thrusters...

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by Montague Rhodes James During the 1970s the BBC filmed some of the ghost stories of MR James, a Victorian antiquarian and England’s greatest writer of ghost stories. They were shown late in the evening each year around Christmas. When the nights are long and dark. And the wind blows the branches of the leafless trees, scratching and tapping against the window...

the best ever screen Bond for me

Thanks Myr

The tree image I posted October 6 in The Lounge / “Hallowe’en and Autumn mists” disappeared The image displayed normally when the thread was created When I revisited the thread with my iPad 6 there was just an empty box with “large.image.jpeg.b3e8cdb338181d64657b5334ac7ff1bd.jpeg“ displayed at the top I checked with my iPad 2 and it displayed normally, so I assumed it was an issue with the iPad 6 (this device seems to behave quite differently to the iPad 2) Today I again looked at the thread with the iPad 2 and the image wouldn’t display and showed the empty box described above Q1 Is this the correct image address format? The image was posted as follows (can’t remember if I used the iPad 2 or 6): Insert other media - Insert existing attachment - Gallery Images - select - Insert Selected I’ve just used “copy” from the Gallery image and somehow got two more and different image addresses: “https:// gayauthors.org/gallery/image/16546-the-tree-at-the-edge-of-the-wood/” and ”https:// s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/gayauthors-cdn/monthly_2020_10/large.image.jpeg.fb74d4174de3b2b6644ad5b4f7b2cd6d.jpeg“ Q2 Which of these is the correct image address? I’ve just gone into “Edit” and somehow got the image to display again but I’m very confused as to what I did wrong and how to avoid this happening again. I’m guessing I must have used the iPad 6 and it maybe did something weird? It clearly doesn’t work well with the GA site because I’ve had other problems. I’m just glad I kept the old iPad 2 which seems much more reliable. Q3 Any suggestions / ideas? Thanks

"Clean up on aisle 5"

cue Barry White...

or the fourth member is what Dick handles...?

“Some bright, miraculous morning they’ll be back in your dresser drawer!” Just as soon as Mom’s washed out all those nasty stains...

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We’ve all heard about “method acting”, but what about method writing? Meaning you try to immerse yourself completely in the character(s) and / or the narrator in order get into their mindset (behaviours, emotions, speech patterns etc) which you want to be different from yours, as the writer, in order to create an authentic and interestingly varied “cast”. Is this something any of you have tried, or do regularly? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35379361 Btw I can’t post this in Writer’s Circle because I’m not a writer so it has to go here...

Wales goes back into lockdown for two weeks on Friday and Hallowe’en has been cancelled Which means these friendly funsters won’t be allowed out to bring joy and happiness...

“Reveille“ from “Pushkin's Garland” by Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov Composers love acoustic effects and in this piece a boy soprano is separated from the choir to produce a sort of answer or echo. It’s called antiphony (“music in which an ensemble is divided into distinct groups, used in opposition, often spatial, and using contrasts of volume, pitch, timbre, etc“ - Grove) and has roots in ancient music and across cultures (“call and response” is another term commonly used in religious and also gospel music). Vaughan Williams used a similar trick in his Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis performed by a double string orchestra separated by distance to create a “surround sound” and echoing effect for the audience. In an acoustic space like a church or Gloucester Cathedral, where the Fantasia premiered in 1910, the effect is dramatic. Sadly I get none of that with this recording on my feeble iPad and I doubt the performance was miked to capture the effect - I guess you had to be there... Anyway, this is part 7 (of 10) from the Russian neo-romantic composer ’s 1979 choral concerto (set to verses by Alexander Pushkin). Oh yeah, and you’re in for a real surprise when blondie opens his mouth... 

I love the endless variety of trees and how they change over the seasons or from day to night from sunshine to wind and rain They can be enchantingly beautiful and disturbingly sinister... Even a single tree can display both qualities during the same day or, as in your mini-chiller, when it grows old And malevolent...

The tree stood at the edge of the wood Guarding it Or watching it

If you’re wanting recommendations for interesting online mystery detective stories I enjoyed Horatio Nimier’s “Two Divisions” series very much - a dozen or more individual story chapters if I remember right - with an ongoing gay romance story arch across them all. They’re so good they could / should have been published but the writer was happy just with the reward of feedback

I was going to watch it but something came up - thanks for the iPlayer link Sancho was a significant figure in English society and history. A man of many talents, music being just one, he lived a full and most interesting life. If I’ve time I might post more in The Lounge - more people should know about him.

Minuet no 11 in G Minor, pub 1779, by English Composer Ignatius Sancho (1:00)

It seems the earliest example of detective fiction is Islamic from the first millennium (The Three Apples, from One Thousand And One Nights), and it used reverse narrative storytelling. I assume all detective mystery writers must start with the end and work backwards in order to get the plot and structure right before the actual writing is done in “forward time” (with maybe flashbacks), so retaining the reverse chronology should work well with a good writer. But I think it could become tiresome if done too often...

Columbo did this brilliantly - 'Oh, just one more thing...’

I’m guessing the PC primer hasn’t sold well in the South...

8 year old Emily Barton plays Handel’s Zadok The Priest ...with a little help from dad, Paul “The Elephant Man“ ...and mum on “bucket” drum

https://youtu.be/Y4VMWpUV3hc?t=424 This is also a good example of ground bass baroque songwriting where a lovely and interestingly varied melodic line has been constructed on top of the bass line, which repeats exactly throughout the song including the quite different and fully orchestrated instrumental final section, or ritornello. That’s quite a compositional trick to pull off but Purcell was master of this musical form and he stuck with it when most other composers had moved on to newer musical forms in a period of significant innovation not just in the structure of music composition but across all aspects including music theory, music tuning (note harmonics) and instrument developments. Many pop bands have taken inspiration from old music and repeating bass lines are common, as in Lykki Li’s I Know Places. This song also ends with a lengthy instrumental ritornello but, unlike Henry Purcell, the modern songwriter was unable to compose an interesting instrumental above the repeating bass line and instead the ending sounds and feels entirely different, like an afterthought stuck on the end I Know Places, Lykki Li ://youtu.be/0DKw_xnzKok

happy birthday penguin! have a great day ...and don’t gobble all the cakes