Rule Britannia
Firstly, Judi Dench and Daniel Craig doing a spot about equality. As M and Bond. Sometimes it's hard not to conclude British actors are just cooler. (Must be something in the tea, and all that.)
Secondly, re: Being Human, meta on the whole Annie and Nina versus Mitchell matter which does not make me want to scream in frustration but points out vampire privilege and concepts of justice. (I also liked this review of the last episode broadcast in the UK.)
Thirdly, remember a while back when I quoted from some teen magazine questionairs the Beatles had to reply to in the 60s, with hilarity ensuing? Well, the Stones had to do that, too. Behold young Keith Richards replying. He's both funny ("Favourite Clothes: Mine, Hobbies: Biting my nails") and aw-inducing - "Favourite Composers: Lennon/McCartney, J.S. Bach". Aside from the mutual admiration society (as he calls it in Life) they had going with the other band, I find the Bach naming intriguing, not least because Paul McCartney has been raving about Bach through the ages as well; the piccolo trumpet on Penny Lane was the result of him having watched a broadcast of Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto on tv (he even got the same musician to play the piccolo trumpet). And he said re: the melodic origins of Blackbird: The original inspiration was from a well-known piece by Bach, which I never know the title of, which George and I had learned to play at early age; he better than me actually. Part of its structure is a particular harmonic thing between the melody and the bass line which intrigued me. Bach was always one of our favourite composers; we felt we had a lot in common with him. For some reason we thought his music was very similar to ours and we latched on to him amazingly quickly. We also liked the stories of him being the church organist and wopping this stuff out weekly, which was rather similar to what we were doing. We were very pleased to hear that.
In conclusion, Bach = soulmate of 60s British rock musicians? And here you'd think it would have been Händel. :)
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Click to viewSecondly, re: Being Human, meta on the whole Annie and Nina versus Mitchell matter which does not make me want to scream in frustration but points out vampire privilege and concepts of justice. (I also liked this review of the last episode broadcast in the UK.)
Thirdly, remember a while back when I quoted from some teen magazine questionairs the Beatles had to reply to in the 60s, with hilarity ensuing? Well, the Stones had to do that, too. Behold young Keith Richards replying. He's both funny ("Favourite Clothes: Mine, Hobbies: Biting my nails") and aw-inducing - "Favourite Composers: Lennon/McCartney, J.S. Bach". Aside from the mutual admiration society (as he calls it in Life) they had going with the other band, I find the Bach naming intriguing, not least because Paul McCartney has been raving about Bach through the ages as well; the piccolo trumpet on Penny Lane was the result of him having watched a broadcast of Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto on tv (he even got the same musician to play the piccolo trumpet). And he said re: the melodic origins of Blackbird: The original inspiration was from a well-known piece by Bach, which I never know the title of, which George and I had learned to play at early age; he better than me actually. Part of its structure is a particular harmonic thing between the melody and the bass line which intrigued me. Bach was always one of our favourite composers; we felt we had a lot in common with him. For some reason we thought his music was very similar to ours and we latched on to him amazingly quickly. We also liked the stories of him being the church organist and wopping this stuff out weekly, which was rather similar to what we were doing. We were very pleased to hear that.
In conclusion, Bach = soulmate of 60s British rock musicians? And here you'd think it would have been Händel. :)
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/660556.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.