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Stereolabdream commented 1 day ago

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Jack Hargreaves - John Pickett's cart

"What is alleged to be the finest flat cart in England" A visit to a yard "lost in the middle of Wiltshire" where JH meets the most skilled wagon a...

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Stereolabdream said:

@dan7plus3

Glad to hear it-

thanks for taking the time to keep me updated- will you kindly message me if you find out?

Cheers

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  Jonathan Meades :: On France ep2 (2 of 5)

  A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries.

  France granted independence to its colonies in the 1960s. That, anyway, is the official line. In fact,...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Stunning.

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  Jonathan Meades :: On France ep2 (1 of 5)

  A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries.

  France granted independence to its colonies in the 1960s. That, anyway, is the official line. In fact,...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  We mourned the loss of Christopher Hitchens as a major "political" voice of our times.

  Let us celebrate,while admitting his faults (purely human), having Jonathan Meades as our cultural and architectural voice. No, more than this- his confidence in his opinions, and people's willingness to accept...

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  Whistle And I'll Come To You part 6

  Very creepy ghost story. Surprising how something so simple can be so scary

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  Stereolabdream said:

  There are more things...wonderful synesthesia of M.R James and Jonathan Miller...

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  Whistle And I'll Come To You part 4

  Very creepy ghost story. Surprising how something so simple can be so scary

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Sometimes the synethsesia of two sources excels...

  M.R James story is fine, but it is made magnificent in this wonderful production.

  This happens rarely, I might add to the side of a whistle...

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  Whistle And I'll Come To You part 3

  Very creepy ghost story. Surprising how something so simple can be so scary

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  Stereolabdream said:

  "care for a round of golf, professor?"

  That moment when we must chose between the solitary and the social.

  Always the most difficult. Miller was right to highlight it in this M.R James story...

  wonderful.

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Stereolabdream commented 5 days ago

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"OLV26" Stereolab

unofficial video Stereolab "OLV26"

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Stereolabdream said:

tout son paradis...

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  International Colouring Contest-Stereolab

  This is a video for Stereolab's International Colouring Contest. If you like this song check out their other songs. They're great!

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  Stereolabdream said:

  I think this is the true spirit of Lucia...and of course Stereolab...lovely!

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  Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (1/3)

  'Further Abroad' (1994)

  Meades investigates planet golf.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  @yippitydodah

  Who are the "Celts"? Really...who are they? They are not a genetically identifiable group of people, neither are they identifiable with a political identity, a social, artistic, cultural or religious identity either...The "Celts" were the lazy creation of those very identifiable Ro...

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  Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (1/3)

  'Further Abroad' (1994)

  Meades investigates planet golf.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  @yippitydodah Hmmm...I think he spent the years 1990-2004 doing just that, to be honest. Only, he made it clear in those years that these constructs we were taught at school of the "anglo-saxons" and "celts" and "welsh" etc etc are just lazy paradigms...reality is so much more exotic and interest...

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  Tarkovsky tribute (music by Stereolab)

  A tribute to the artist Andrei Tarkovsky, comparable in stature to Picasso in painting as a 20th Century icon of cinema.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Well, a direct answer might be that Picasso, because of his longevity and the complete range of his work, is usually seen as the most influential artist of that century.

  I might just add though that much of Tarkovsky's imagery involves the intense symbolism of a moment...so that the mother washin...

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  Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (3/3)

  'Further Abroad' (1994)

  Meades investigates planet golf.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  The comments here are full of bilge and snobbery that Meades never encourages...the lesson of Jonathan Meades is that all art and taste and values are relative...Golfers (no I am not one) have as much right to their taste and rituals as you or I...and yes, some of them think we are laughable too....

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  Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (3/3)

  'Further Abroad' (1994)

  Meades investigates planet golf.

  2,877 views

  Stereolabdream said:

  @belisariusorb My first thought was to agree with you...But then I thought about what Jonathan Meades has taught me-that all values are relative, that the banal is exotic and that "taste" is the most easily identifiable form of snobbery...more than this, a form of fascism.

  Have you considered ho...

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  Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (2/3)

  'Further Abroad' (1994)

  Meades investigates planet golf.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  @backrowman I think that sometimes Jonathan invites us to make such assumptions...he makes us think about what "is" and "isn't" tasteful...and how everyone creates their own snobbery...you ceate your own snobbery with this comment.

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Stereolabdream commented 1 week ago

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Jonathan Meades :: Victorian House - ep5 (2/3)

'The Victorian House, episode 5: Time And Change' (1987)

not his script, and the presentation style is disconcertingly slightly "off-model", but h...

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Stereolabdream said:

Resonances...as I watch this on the internet in a large Victorian house in Upper Norwood-South London, that is is now 6 flats...9 people live here now, probably not too far from same number as when it was built for a prosperous "city" type in 1878...(at least, when you count in the live in servan...

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  Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)

  Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)

  Director: Fritz Lang

  Moonfleet is a 1955 film directed by Fritz Lang which was inspired by the novel Moonfleet by ...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Lang is brilliant- as subtle as a sack of bricks, but, where in others this would be laughable, he always just....just...keeps things the right side of startling...

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  Jonathan Meades :: Joe Building (1/8)

  'Joe Building : The Stalin Memorial Lecture' (2006)

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  Stereolabdream said:

  @altar1968 Meades spent most of his television career prior to this in reminding the people who live in the UK to the social and political injustices, collective amnesias and strangeness of its past and present.

  So, why do you mention the Indian Mutiny ?

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  Jonathan Meades :: On France ep1 (3 of 4)

  Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia

  Jonathan Meades travels through Lorraine and explains why, although close to its eastern border, it has bec...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  1.55-2.32

  brilliant.

  Meades is to Social Commentary and Arts what Hitchens was to religion and politics-

  With Meades however, we must accept the misquoted maxim of P.T Barnum to want more...hmmm...Hiram Maxim's machine gun...where more is more.

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  Jonathan Meades :: On France ep1 (2 of 4)

  Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia

  Jonathan Meades travels through Lorraine and explains why, although close to its eastern border, it has bec...

  545 views

  Stereolabdream said:

  1.25-1.40 I'm wondering what the evolution of the Scottisn National Party will be if/when Scotland becomes politically independent of the UK.

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Stereolabdream commented 1 week ago

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UK TV Ads from 1980

UK TV Commercials Adverts from 1980 from ITV just before a showing of Hammer House of Horror

Fresh Cream Cakes (Naughty But Nice Outtakes) Tommy C...

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Stereolabdream said:

How many adverts for deep fat friars do you see on TV these days?

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  McMemphis: Chapter 7 - You Asked For It And You Got It

  August 26, 1993 from USWA TV.

  Vince McMahon sends in the first of his heel interviews. Again this is years before the Mr. McMahon character was born.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Straight out of the Kaufman angle 10 years earlier...as it says in that old book "there is nothing new under the Sun..."

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  McMemphis: Chapter 4 - Don't Forget the Softball Plugs

  Still from the August 21, 1993 USWA show. One of the things that made the WMC show the WMC show. In the middle of promoting Vince coming to the M...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Fascinating watching how Lawler had to manage (and he still does!) the split role of Babyface in Memphis and Heel Commentator in WWF/WWE...

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  The Kaufman Lawler Feud: Chapter 3 - The Shove

  Here's a clip from the great movie I'm From Hollywood. Kaufman's challenge is accepted by a large local woman named Foxy. The match isn't really ...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  The internet is a wonderful wonderful thing; but it was a hard nail in the coffin of this kind of beautiful Theatre. Look at their faces-just magical escape.

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  Harold Pinter's The Collection (1976 TV) part 3 of 6

  Laurence Olivier... Harry

  Helen Mirren... Stella

  Alan Bates... James

  Malcolm McDowell... Bill

  Director: Michael Apted

  Writer: Harold Pinter (ada...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Pure Pinter....brilliant. Every word makes you think about the multitude of meanings for that word; and every exchange of words is a shift in the balance of power between individuals.

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  New Order MTO 7" Mix

  This is the far superior original mix of MTO, the b-side of Run 2 from 1989. I'm not a fan of the 12" remix version.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Agree the 12" remix cuts out the best bits- 0.45-1.23 repeated even better with Barney's "love technique" at 2.16. And then that remix misses out 3.17-3.39

  This is much better.

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  In Search Of Myths and Heroes - Shangri-La

  For more Documentaries go to WWW.DOCUFANS.COM

  I will add description soon, probably next week. Just want to get my stuff up asap.

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  Stereolabdream said:

  24:20 "As custom demands..." ie-be wary, corruption and/or power is to be exerted. Here it is cultural/religious. You do wonder, as a guardian of these "secrets" that need saving from the Chinese why the Llama wishes so keenly to show and tell...no surprise that he says Shangri-La exists on came...

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  Church "Du Soleil"

  Steve Munsey is one of those pastors who is so over the top in teaching error that I simply don't know why anyone with a gram and a half of biblica...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Hello Bezel- yes, another "New Year" and another endless list of prophecies, blessings, seed sowing and other predictable chicanery.

  As you say, you do wonder when people will wake up to it.

  Its very painful not only spiritually, but intellectually and socially, that they do not.

  In my part of So...

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Stereolabdream commented 3 weeks ago

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Dr Brian Cox on Faking the Moon Landings

Dr Brian Cox on faking the Apollo Moon Landings

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Stereolabdream said:

@bobbyeph

Nor can you; sentences end in a full stop. Just shows you how unimportant that is compared to years of dedicated study, research and peer assessment.

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  Someone at the top of the stairs (1973) thriller

  Thriller,perhaps the most suspenseful series of the 1970s written by genius Brian Clemens, there were 44 episodes of this series in total spanning ...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Very effective....quite atmospheric...until Cartney appears, then it loses all its power to frighten and mystify in an instant. A shame really. The end didn't live up to the first 50 minutes or so.

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  F1 Michael Schuamcher vs Mika Hakkinen

  Luxembourg 1998

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  Stereolabdream said:

  defining win of Hakkie's career. Takes me back... Come on Mika! YESSSS!

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  Muhammad Ali 1981 Funniest Ali Video Ever Must Watch

  Muhammad Ali In 1981 Completely Captivated And Taken In By Freddie Starr

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  Stereolabdream said:

  I did'nt have much respect for old Freddie before this-and dislike much about the man from what I've read...but it takes guts to do this to a legend...(even if you were hoping for more from the punchline/gag)

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  Original Out of Town - this is what we need

  Jack Hargreaves appeared on Southern Televisions 'Out of Town' programme for half-an-hour on Friday evening between 1959 and 1981. To the best of m...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  @Sibadd

  34 episodes not seen since 1981 ?

  That's wonderful news.

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  Jack Hargreaves ~ Visiting the countryside

  "A lady wrote to me and said 'We love the country. We'd like to drive down to the country at the weekend, but can you tell us what to do when we ge...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Very rare for me to see these clips without learning something new. Didn't know the story of brambles/briars for example.

  I tend to bore my walking partner on our wanderings with these bits of knowledge because, of course, I do not have the same calm and authoritative but friendly tone as Jack Ha...

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Stereolabdream commented 1 month ago

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Stephen Fry on Ulysses - James Joyce

WWW.WHYILOVETHISBOOK.COM - BOEKENTIPS IN 1 MINUUT - "I'll tell you the book I have chosen as my favourite book. And it may make some people's heart...

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Stereolabdream said:

Can this lover of James Joyce also suggest Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Peake has become famous in the last ten years, but actually READ by far fewer. I mention Mervyn Peake, because he and Joyce are the GREATEST writers in English at Prose/Poetry.

Do yourself a favour, READ HIM.

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  Jack Hargreaves ~ Horse driving; up-tight and laid-back

  "Long ago we used to say there were two ways of driving horses - bow top and drop thong."

  Another part episode from 'Old Country' by Jack Hargreav...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Snobbery is hateful. Especially when it is meaningless.

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  Escorting Farrakhan

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Salman Rushdie has been protected by my UK taxes for decades.

  It is worth every tiny part of a cent/penny that I pay.

  Rushdie "insults" some Muslims

  Farrakhan "insults" some Jews

  BUT there is a difference...

  As far as I am aware, Salman Rushdie has never suggested/implied violence towards others....

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  Jack Hargreaves ~ Corn, chaff, straw and thatching reed

  An episode of Old Country for Channel 4. JH, my stepfather, visits a thrashing barn catering to a growing market for thatching reed. Many many tha...

  1,075 views

  Stereolabdream said:

  @Sibadd

  I have nothing to offer this campaign except my utter support. I watched the man as an urban child with country roots in fascination. I, like you, now cherish every moment we can find that is recorded.

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  Otto and George 2011 Looney Bin.m4v

  Otto and George is a great comedian, and I had the pleasure of meeting and working with him while I was in New York at the Looney Bin Comedy Club. ...

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  Stereolabdream said:

  Nice being on the set from "Escape from New York"...love it.

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  Otto and George 2011 Looney Bin.m4v

  Otto and George is a great comedian, and I had the pleasure of meeting and working with him while I was in New York at the Looney Bin Comedy Club. ...

  1,934 views

  Stereolabdream said:

  Go for it, Otto!

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