My latest listening
There is no connection between this icon and the text which follows, except my good mood, which embraces the embedded music and the sudden realisation of la Belle Dame Sans Merci's initials with equal delight.
I've just been listening to England winning the First Test against West Indies at Lord's, which got quite exciting in the morning, when they were 57 for four chasing 191, but reverted to the planned script by the afternoon.
But my head is full of the Magnetic Fields' glorious "Reno Dakota":
which according to the reply below is the truish account of Stephin Merritt's attempts to call film director Reno Dakota, who turns him down in a charming reply 1.58 minutes into his version of the story (but don't let that stop you listening to the start):
Also heard in the last 24 hours, a lovely documentary from The Film Programme about The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, though I hadn't heard it likened to Citizen Kane before! Probably more interesting is Martin Scorsese's explanation of how it influenced Raging Bull. I haven't seen Colonel Blimp in years, but was thinking of it recently in connection with a story my aunt told me about how her mother (my grandmother) might have married a German count called von Brockingen whom she met in the 1890s. But she decided against him and married my grandfather instead, and didn't seem to have heard much from the count until half a century later when she was reading the latest newspaper reports from the Russian front and said "Good God, Brocky!" Evidently he'd got into a sticky situation commanding some German forces there, but I can't remember whether he got out or not.
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I've just been listening to England winning the First Test against West Indies at Lord's, which got quite exciting in the morning, when they were 57 for four chasing 191, but reverted to the planned script by the afternoon.
But my head is full of the Magnetic Fields' glorious "Reno Dakota":
Click to viewwhich according to the reply below is the truish account of Stephin Merritt's attempts to call film director Reno Dakota, who turns him down in a charming reply 1.58 minutes into his version of the story (but don't let that stop you listening to the start):
Also heard in the last 24 hours, a lovely documentary from The Film Programme about The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, though I hadn't heard it likened to Citizen Kane before! Probably more interesting is Martin Scorsese's explanation of how it influenced Raging Bull. I haven't seen Colonel Blimp in years, but was thinking of it recently in connection with a story my aunt told me about how her mother (my grandmother) might have married a German count called von Brockingen whom she met in the 1890s. But she decided against him and married my grandfather instead, and didn't seem to have heard much from the count until half a century later when she was reading the latest newspaper reports from the Russian front and said "Good God, Brocky!" Evidently he'd got into a sticky situation commanding some German forces there, but I can't remember whether he got out or not.
Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
comments.