Jonathan Meades :: Magnetic North ep1 (2/6)

Magnetic North - ep1of2 (2008)

Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails

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[violamadre]

i'm off to the pub to get a chemical illusion of ease

[kernel2006]

Meades is pretty much everything I want to be.

[Stereolabdream]

The man who singlehandedly sparked my passion for architecture and the rememberance that it is fine to demonstrate intelligence.

That dinner party fantasy where you choose 10 guests...

Meades is there on my list.

(He'd probably be the first to be replaced, but I'm sure he'd understand...)

[georgeridesagain]

'Who drank my beer...' appears on a compilation called 'rhythm and booze' which is widely available, but I don't know the artist.

[georgeridesagain]

The Gin song is Nina Simone, but I'm not sure of the title.

[david552]

Anyone know whose version of 'Me and My Gin' and 'Who drank my beer?' were used on this?

Thanks.

[jabrenna]

Nice quote. I'm not convinced of his theory that Bosch painted the way he did as a symptom of being from 'the north'. Van Eyck was from the north, Van Dyck was from the north. Bosch is quite unique in many ways.

[georgeridesagain]

According to Bosch, heaven is a doggers paradise, a celestial car-park rendezvous, and so too is hell, the difference being the pigs are dressed as nuns...

What is all this corrupting flesh is just wishful thinking, and both heaven and hell are car parks where no-one turns up, where you are alone forever?