@El Loro posted:Video clip on the BBC of a trailer carrying fridges crashed over on the M5 yesterday near junction11 (where the bypass between Gloucester and Cheltenham is):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98y72gyw43o
wow lucky - thankfully the lorry managed to stop EL
night EL slim moonsiee
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Raining here, could last much of the day, it's fairly light but won't help those areas which have had huge amounts of rain.
I hope everyone has a good day
Tis a fair autumn day here El...with just a little wind and the occasional sunny breakthrough 
Stay warm & dry folks! 
Apparently there's a new film called "Nosferatu" to be released.
The original film "Nosferatu" was a German silent film made in 1922 by F W Murnau. It's regarded as a classic silent horror film. It's effectively "Dracula" but couldn't be called that due to copyright issues. Max Schreck as Count Orlok/Nosferatu was so convincing that some thought that he really was a vampire. Nowadays the film has a PG certificate. The new film won't.
@El Loro posted:Apparently there's a new film called "Nosferatu" to be released.
The original film "Nosferatu" was a German silent film made in 1922 by F W Murnau. It's regarded as a classic silent horror film. It's effectively "Dracula" but couldn't be called that due to copyright issues. Max Schreck as Count Orlok/Nosferatu was so convincing that some thought that he really was a vampire. Nowadays the film has a PG certificate. The new film won't.
Yeah...won't be watching that 
I remember not seeing the original through to the end...way too creepy for my liking 
@slimfern posted:Yeah...won't be watching that
I remember not seeing the original through to the end...way too creepy for my liking
I thought it very unlikely you would be watching that film, Slim. There was a 1979 film of the same name made by Werner Herzog which was sort of a remake of the 1922 film though the characters had the book's names so Dracula, Harker etc. That was in sound and in colour rather than silent and in black and white. Klaus Kinski was the count in that one and was very creepy. That has been shown more often on television than the 1922 film, so it's possible that you saw that one rather than the 1922 one.
@El Loro posted:I thought it very unlikely you would be watching that film, Slim. There was a 1979 film of the same name made by Werner Herzog which was sort of a remake of the 1922 film though the characters had the book's names so Dracula, Harker etc. That was in sound and in colour rather than silent and in black and white. Klaus Kinski was the count in that one and was very creepy. That has been shown more often on television than the 1922 film, so it's possible that you saw that one rather than the 1922 one.
The one I saw was in Black & White and he had very long pointy fingernails
@El Loro posted:then that's the original 1922 film, both that and the 1979 one have the count with very long pointy fingernails
One wonders how those with such long nails manage to tend to certain rituals 
....but then I guess, being on a 'liquid' diet they wouldn't have to worry about such things 
Per this Met Office press release today:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/a...-some-this-september
In September Gloucestershire got more rain than any other county in the country (212.mm).
@El Loro posted:Per this Met Office press release today:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/a...-some-this-september
In September Gloucestershire got more rain than any other county in the country (212.mm).
been a horrible September EL
night EL slim moonsiee
A movement fro Vaughan Williams' "Serenade in A minor" with photographs taken at Stourhead in Wiltshire:
@El Loro posted:A movement fro Vaughan Williams' "Serenade in A minor" with photographs taken at Stourhead in Wiltshire:
Beautiful...both music & pictures.
Thanks El
A new species of moth has been found - the story of how they were found is extraordinary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy43j55e1l9o
@El Loro posted:A new species of moth has been found - the story of how they were found is extraordinary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy43j55e1l9o
I saw that El âĶ.amazinh, eh 
@El Loro posted:A new species of moth has been found - the story of how they were found is extraordinary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy43j55e1l9o
Quite amazing how it managed to survive the journey....
Also a little concerning ....I've watched 'Arachnophobia'....some little beasties need to stay in their own habitat
@El Loro posted:A movement fro Vaughan Williams' "Serenade in A minor" with photographs taken at Stourhead in Wiltshire:
@El Loro posted:A new species of moth has been found - the story of how they were found is extraordinary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy43j55e1l9
gorgeous EL - music was sublime - thank you omg the moth was amazing EL
night EL slim moonsieee velvet bazzy
A performance of Mozart's "Serenade in C"/AKA "Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" (K648) which had been lost but found last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEye2UQptIA
"Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" = "very little night music". Mozart also wrote "Eine Kleine Nachtmusic" = "little night music" which in well known (unrelated to the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music").
@El Loro posted:A performance of Mozart's "Serenade in C"/AKA "Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" (K648) which had been lost but found last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEye2UQptIA
"Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" = "very little night music". Mozart also wrote "Eine Kleine Nahtmusic" = "little night music" which in well known (unrelated to the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music").
Link to a performance of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_oK8dKIBYc
@El Loro posted:Link to a performance of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_oK8dKIBYc
Prefer this piece El
@slimfern posted:Prefer this piece El
I do too, Slim
The first one I posted "Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" was composed in the mid to late 1760s so Mozart would have been aged somewhere between 10 and 14.
The second one "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was composed in 1787 when he was 30/31.
Although he was a famous child prodigy, the second one seems to be a more mature composition.
@El Loro posted:I do too, Slim
The first one I posted "Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik" was composed in the mid to late 1760s so Mozart would have been aged somewhere between 10 and 14.
The second one "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was composed in 1787 when he was 30/31.
Although he was a famous child prodigy, the second one seems to be a more mature composition.
Blimey! I think my musical ability at that age didn't stretch further than London's Burning on the recorder & The Camptown Races on the guitar
The second piece is also played by seasoned musicians...I think that makes a little difference to the first piece 
I was lying on the dining room floor in the middle of a radiogram trying to imagine Nutbush City Limits in stereo.
Hope all are A Okay
Served it's purpose in the 70's - John Peel
I'll tell you my first stereo.
NAD 3020, Sansui SR222 and Videotone Minimaxes
It was like a new world.
@velvet donkey posted:I'll tell you my first stereo.
NAD 3020, Sansui SR222 and Videotone Minimaxes
It was like a new world.
Can't remember what my first one was...it came to me via my brother who realised that a record player doesn't perform so well onboard ship (merchant navy)
The speakers locked on top as the lid and it fit just nicely into a suitcase for me to take to boarding school
First record was 'Where's ya Mama Gone' ...
Blimey! I think my musical ability at that age didn't stretch further than London's Burning on the recorder & The Camptown Races on the guitar
The second piece is also played by seasoned musicians...I think that makes a little difference to the first piece
Mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of 8
I've mentioned Alma Deutscher before who was a British child prodigy who started playing the piano when 2, the violin at 3, started composing at the age of 5. That's why some thought of her as a possible Mozart. She's now 19 and has moved to Austria.
@El Loro posted:Mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of 8
I've mentioned Alma Deutscher before who was a British child prodigy who started playing the piano when 2, the violin at 3, started composing at the age of 5. That's why some thought of her as a possible Mozart. She's now 19 and has moved to Austria.
Yes, I remember you posting about her
An Extremely talented young woman.
