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John from Broughton Astley, 2008
We're ready for take off,
The window is coming.
We'll all be back soon,
To land in Wyoming.
Our spacesuits are on,
And oxygen pumping.
The boosters are primed,
And media watching.
Our purpose is clear,
Research our compulsion.
The guages are steady,
Controlling propulsion.
One hundred and counting,
Our pulses are rising.
But something is wrong,
The alarm bell is sounding.
We'd like to go now,
But a message is here.
Our budget's been cut,
So we'll go in a year...
Movies [ Index ] : April Competitions
12 DVD Prizes
Possible titles:
Finding Nemo, Collectors Edition.
Eight Harry Potter titles! External link. Wikipedia
The Italian Job with Michael Caine and Noel Coward.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Star Trek Beyond with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldaña.
Two movies with Tom Hanks. The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons.
Musicals:
Happy Feet & The Lion King.
Highway 61 Revisited
Well, Georgia Sam, he had a bloody nose.
Welfare department, they wouldn't give him no clothes.
He asked poor Howard, "Where can I go?"
Howard said, "There's only one place I know."
Sam said, "Tell me quick, man, I got to run."
Oh, Howard just pointed with his gun
And said, "That way, down Highway 61."
External link. YouTube#1
Some related material here, in an on stage clip.
Three or four wierd musicians there, including Susan Tedeschi. So its rather like being outside McDonalds in Leicester. But don't tell anyone, in case City Mayor Soulsby tries to close down YouTube.
External link. YouTube#2
Prose [ Index ] : Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare, England, around 1602
If music be the food of love, play on!
Music [ Index ] : Competition [ Probably in May ]
Three Music CD Prizes
The prizes are most likely to be published recordings of classical style Indian music, vocal and/or instrumental. Indian Raga or traditional Folk or Spiritual music. Maybe even a little bit modern but coming from a traditional background.
Possible CD titles:
Gurbani Keertan, sung by Nina Kaur Virdee. A tribute to Bhai Gurmit Singh Virdee. Very strong Leicester connections.
Rimpa Siva. A tabla wizard. Expositions in Teen Taal and Jhaptal. Over 20 tracks.
Sacred Mantras of India. Vocalists and musicians including Ashit and Hema Desai, Sanjeev Abhyankar and Rakesh Chaurasia.
Ragas Madhuvanti and Mishra Tilang, played by Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain.
Drive East. Including Madras-born violinist Kala Ramnath.
Purity 2. Various musicians. Arranged and conducted by Ashit Desai. Three tracks in Ragas Pahadi, Bhoopali and Yaman Kalyan.
Prose [ Index ] : Tao Te Ching [ More ]
Lao Tsu, China, around 500 BC
As it acts in the world, the Tao
is like the bending of a bow.
The top is bent downward;
the bottom is bent up.
It adjusts excess and deficiency
so that there is perfect balance.
It takes from what is too much
and gives to what isn't enough.
Translator: Stephen Mitchell
Music [ Index ] : Elvis Presley
Wooden Heart
From the musical G.I. Blues. Sung partly in German. During a Puppet Show for children.
External link. YouTube#3
Music [ Index ] : Eric Clapton & J.J.Cale
After Midnight & Call me the Breeze
Rocky and bluesy concert clip.
External link. YouTube#4
Updated 27/4/2025
After midnight on the 30th April 2025, 99% of English politicians should be replaced, for reasons of de facto incompetence or evasion or for acting with some form of deception, etc. Councillors, Members of Parliament and Mayors.
Has our UK democracy become a demonocracy? It looks rather like that to me!
But more likely is that these politicians are just in a form of political trance state and they need a break and some therapy.
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