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Post by patricklondon on Dec 29, 2023 10:57:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 11:29:55 GMT
That's kind of hilarious.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2023 16:32:56 GMT
Yep! "The police helicopter report appears to have poured water over the idea of a fire ..." Of course even a small fire would have been meltingly dire for Mme. Tussaud's.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2024 20:21:41 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 30, 2024 7:28:59 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2024 16:32:49 GMT
Tomorrow, February 18, Yoko Ono will celebrate her 91st birthday. The exibition, The Yoko Ono: Music Of The Mind opened two days ago at London Tate Modern, to run through January 9, 2024 The largest UK exhibition yet of conceptual artist, activist, vocalist and songwriter Yoko Ono’s works encompassing film, performance, participatory work, installation, writing, scores and photography spanning over six decades.Video: www.euronews.com/video/2024/02/14/yoko-onos-politically-charged-protest-art-takes-over-londons-tate-modern
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2024 17:37:55 GMT
I remember when everybody thought she was a nobody that John Lennon would toss aside when he came to his senses.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2024 22:20:53 GMT
She was pretty much somebody when they met, but in a more rarified world. Here is a fun fact ~ Probably most of us immediately think of her singing when we hear her name, and perhaps not in a positive way. She "received rigorous musical training in German lieder singing [and] Italian opera" source
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Post by bjd on Feb 18, 2024 8:12:29 GMT
I don't think of her singing but rather that she was known in the contemporary art world. Didn't she make a very long, very slow film panning over a body?
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Post by whatagain on Feb 18, 2024 10:17:46 GMT
I am like the average dumb Beatles fan disliking her as the reason why the group disbanded.
Since then I never felt the need to dig à bit deeper and learn something about her.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2024 17:26:37 GMT
I have always felt the same, whatagain.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2024 20:18:01 GMT
Oh sure, and bad Eve ate that apple and forced innocent Adam to eat it too and that's why the world sucks now. Let's not blame creative differences among evolving musicians, or death of a long-time manager, or money or any of a thousand things including their thinking they might have gone as far as they could together. Nope, it had to be that mean evil Jezebel
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2024 20:21:05 GMT
Yep
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Post by whatagain on Feb 18, 2024 22:00:38 GMT
Yep. But still she broke the Beatles. And yes it is always women’s fault : - eve - the stupid wife of ?? Who could have been saved by her husband but turned back to look on Sodomme or Gomorrha - Pandora who cannot keep a box shut - Helen of Troy who could not stay faithful and went with Paris - Yoko Ono - need I continue ?
And no, saying that all these stories have been written by men who wanted to keep women at a lower level than men is irrelevant and irrecevable.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2024 22:38:13 GMT
#2 Lot’s wife
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Post by fumobici on Feb 19, 2024 16:24:54 GMT
After watching Let It Be, my feeling was that George and his hubris and constant whining was causative as much as anything. He thought that his association with the Beatles was holding back his creativity as a songwriter, and it was quickly proven not to be the case after the break-up.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 19, 2024 16:39:24 GMT
He wasn’t up to Lennon and McCartney standard but produced some decent stuff all the same.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 19, 2024 17:54:19 GMT
I don't think that Yoko Ono had anything to do with the Beatles breaking up. They were already doomed after being too popular and hearing all of the comments about so-and-so being better than the other one and Ringo being the worst. Truly artistic people go their separate ways sooner or later and those with less talent (the Rolling Stones, for example) stay together for the money.
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Post by bjd on Feb 19, 2024 19:37:42 GMT
I wouldn't say the Stones stayed together for the money. They have kept on performing and producing music for all this time. The bands who split up years ago and are now coming together again, even if some of them are no longer alive, to get back in the public eye are the ones in it for the money.
As for the Beatles, I had gone off them well before they split up. They were full of themselves and their music was not that great any more. I much preferred the Stones and other bands.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2024 23:02:23 GMT
"Less talent" ??!!!! I will hunt you down like a dog and kill you! Go get your ears checked! As for the Beatles, I had gone off them well before they split up. They were full of themselves and their music was not that great any more. I much preferred the Stones and other bands. Humph, YES. What she said!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2024 4:24:51 GMT
Today is the pantheonisation (yes, it's a word in French) of Missak Manouchian and his wife, He was a communist immigrant to France who represented everything that the Nazis hated. We've only been waiting for 80 years. The Germans plastered this poster ("l'affiche rouge") all over France to justify the execution of these 23 mostly Jewish, mostly communist foreigners who gave their life for France.
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Post by bjd on Feb 21, 2024 7:01:37 GMT
There is a bit of a kerfuffle about this, with Marine le Pen, the far right politician, saying she will attend the ceremony, while Macron and others think she has no place there given her party's attitude to immigrants.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2024 7:21:38 GMT
Manouchian is the first non French citizen to enter the Panthéon. He tried to be naturalised twice and the government refused.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 21, 2024 16:54:30 GMT
Marine le Pen, the far right politician, saying she will attend the ceremony, while Macron and others think she has no place there She has no place anywhere except for maybe a zoo featuring vile humans.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2024 17:15:30 GMT
I just saw her on television and she is there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 22, 2024 1:42:54 GMT
THANKS, PATRICK!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2024 16:32:23 GMT
I just found out/realized that 2024 is a leap year. That means a certain esteemed anyporter will get to celebrate a rare birthday on the 29th.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 23, 2024 17:57:53 GMT
I never forget leap year because it is also a US presidential election year and an Olympic year.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2024 18:47:12 GMT
Plus of course a friend's birthday.
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Post by htmb on Feb 23, 2024 19:25:43 GMT
Shouldn’t this "highlighting today" info be withheld until the actual 29th? It’s really odd to me that I never really associated the Olympics and US Presidential elections with Leap Year. My mind is less of a steel trap than Kerouac’s, for sure.
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