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[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

An interesting BBC doc on The Roundhouse in Camden. A place I've never been to - though the description of the inadequate toilet facilities in the early Pink Floyd/Soft Machine days makes me think I'd not have stayed long. Seems quite plush now. 

Lived down the road from there at one time but if I remember correctly it was closed at the time due to funding issues so I never got to see the inside. It re-opened sometime later. I walked past there about 10 years ago and it was obviously in the very early stages of renovation - the old outside broadcast wiring was still hanging out of the walls.

[JohnS]

2 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

An interesting BBC doc on The Roundhouse in Camden. A place I've never been to - though the description of the inadequate toilet facilities in the early Pink Floyd/Soft Machine days makes me think I'd not have stayed long. Seems quite plush now. 

I went there many times in the late 70s early 80s during the golden age of arts funding.  Odd that the documentary didn't  mention jazz at all, just alternative music.   During the various Camden Jazz Weeks/Camden Festivals I saw among others, AEoC, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, George Coleman Octet, WSQ, Blood Ulmer, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker, Carla Bley Orch, Duke Jordan, Air,  as well as a number of UK bands in support.  Always very good sound and a good view of the stage for any seat.   I don't recall it being anywhere near as bad as the documentary made out during the time of my attendances.  My avatar photograph was taken there.

[brownie]

Cauught The Doors AND Jefferson Airplane at the Roundhouse back in September 1968. 

What à years it was!

[jazzbo]

Finished watching Season 4 of Longmire on DVD. I think I like Season 3 more, but I really like this show. 

Now on to Daredevil, Season 1 on Blu-ray. I watched Season 2 on DVD and loved it, have never seen Season 1 before, going to be fun.

[jlhoots]

4 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Finished watching Season 4 of Longmire on DVD. I think I like Season 3 more, but I really like this show. 

Now on to Daredevil, Season 1 on Blu-ray. I watched Season 2 on DVD and loved it, have never seen Season 1 before, going to be fun.

I thought season 4 was "darker", so I liked it better. Looking forward to season 5.

[jazzbo]

Season 3 was pretty dark too imo! I'm looking forward to Season 5 too, though I probably will have to wait for the discs once more.

[kinuta]

13 hours ago, JohnS said:

I went there many times in the late 70s early 80s during the golden age of arts funding.  Odd that the documentary didn't  mention jazz at all, just alternative music.   During the various Camden Jazz Weeks/Camden Festivals I saw among others, AEoC, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, George Coleman Octet, WSQ, Blood Ulmer, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker, Carla Bley Orch, Duke Jordan, Air,  as well as a number of UK bands in support.  Always very good sound and a good view of the stage for any seat.   I don't recall it being anywhere near as bad as the documentary made out during the time of my attendances.  My avatar photograph was taken there.

I went there a few times in the period 1967-69. I was pretty rough and ready, so there was probably some refitting and renovation during the early to mid seventies.

I haven't seen the documentary but will try to do so.

I'm not sure who I saw but certainly Floyd, probably Traffic. It's rather a haze, as it was at the time.

Did any of you guys attend the  Alexandra Palace 14 Hour Technicolour Dream ? That would make a good documentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_14_Hour_Technicolor_Dream

[A Lark Ascending]

11 hours ago, kinuta said:

Did any of you guys attend the  Alexandra Palace 14 Hour Technicolour Dream ? That would make a good documentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_14_Hour_Technicolor_Dream

There's another BBC doc about the early years of Pink Floyd (when they had an obligatory The) that went out on the same night that his some footage of the 14 Hour TD. 

Meanwhile the BBC continue to show its liberal left-wing elitist bias even though the people have spoken:

First part of a series. Was a bit worried that it was going to be a bit Davina McCall - excessive personal reminiscences and weeping into handkerchiefs - but I really enjoyed this once I got into it. Covered some of the first evidence of an African presence in Britain - Roman, Medieval, Tudor and mid-18thC. A marvellous bit about a trumpeter at one of Henry VIII's celebrations with some very nice jazz trumpet played by a military man. The section on the relatively give and take trade with Ghana that happened before John Hawkins discovered the money to be made from slavery was fascinating. Next week, the slave trade.   

I've not come across the presenter, David Olusoga, before but really liked his delivery - engaging and approachable but he clearly knows his stuff. Not just another celebrityor ex-politician being used for recognition factor.  

[JSngry]

 

[A Lark Ascending]

The John Lewis Xmas add:

Typical sentimental extended Xmas add that the big companies in the UK make at this time of year. 

But I had to laugh at this wonderful Guardian write-up:

John Lewis Christmas advert: Buster the boxer is a sledgehammer to 2016

Edited November 12, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[kinuta]

Falling Water

Paralyzingly complex and inpenetrable.

Guaranteed to cause older viewers concern over incipient cognitive impairment.

Guaranteed cure for insomnia, I give this one up as a lost cause.

Edited November 12, 2016 by kinuta

[jazzbo]

I'm really digging Falling Water myself. That and Channel Zero: Candlestick Cove are two new shows I really like.

Edited November 12, 2016 by jazzbo

[jlhoots]

guilty pleasure category - Gray's Anatomy

[kinuta]

11 hours ago, jazzbo said:

I'm really digging Falling Water myself. That and Channel Zero: Candlestick Cove are two new shows I really like.

Perhaps my second sentence really does apply to me.

In the meantime I'm enjoying the truly original  The Young Pope.

Edited November 12, 2016 by kinuta

[jazzbo]

Falling Water is as clear as mud, I just enjoy it. It has the elements of LOST that I like and miss. The Young Pope doesn't hit the US until 2017. I'll be on the lookout.

Edited November 13, 2016 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Falling Water is what, by who, on where? Please?

In my mind I have it linked with Mr. Robot?

[jazzbo]

It's a USA Network show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Water_(TV_series)

http://www.usanetwork.com/fallingwater/videos/ambergris

 

 

[JSngry]

Thanks, appreciate that 

[A Lark Ascending]

On 11/12/2016 at 6:34 AM, rdavenport said:

I hate the way the Grauniad has politicised it too, as if it is anything other than a cynical vehicle for relieving folk of their money.

I think they're being ironic! It is a mildly centre-left British paper after all - goes with the territory, 

Edited November 13, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[kinuta]

BBC Planet Earth Season 2 episode 1

 

I loathe the word ' awesome' but I'll make an exception for this.

It's awesomely beautiful and we can use all the beauty we can get these days.

[Use3D]

I decided to re-watch Deadwood, as it's been a decade or more and I never caught the first season. Very well done, and a missed opportunity on some levels, though I understand the pitfalls of period pieces that tend to befall even the biggest networks. Westworld, also on HBO, is picking up steam and getting interesting too. I wonder what Crichton would think of it.

[A Lark Ascending]

On 11/15/2016 at 9:04 AM, kinuta said:

BBC Planet Earth Season 2 episode 1

 

I loathe the word ' awesome' but I'll make an exception for this.

It's awesomely beautiful and we can use all the beauty we can get these days.

I loved season 1. I don't usually watch nature films, but ended up seeing clips when I had to teach a bit of Geography. I was utterly enthralled. Will wait for the DVD.

I share your dislike of 'awesome' - I used to rant on to kids that the Grand Canyon was awesome, Dayna's new hair style was not. Didn't take long before it was being sarcastically quoted back at me. Then I remembered the tiresome (rather than awesome) teacher I had around 1966 who used to grumble on about the misuse of the word 'tragedy'.  

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Finished 'John Adams' last night - one of the most enjoyable history-based series I've seen. Restrained, focused on dialogue and ideas and sparing in 'action' sequences. And completely free of any nationalistic myth making of the 'And this is how our great nation was founded' type (common to history films from any nation that regards itself as 'exceptional'...I hate to think what we're in line for here in coming years). 

I thought Paul Giamatti as the endlessly irascible Adams was excellent but the star for me was Laura Linney as Abigail Adams. 

Favourite bit was them arriving and living in the White House when it was still a building site, their own bodies already looking worse for wear and teeth falling out. Though the last episode - starting with a pre-anaesthetic mastectomy and then focusing on the decrepitudes of old age was unrelentingly grim. Nice bit where Adams denounces the a-historical nature of the famous Declaration of Independence painting - ironic given that the series itself also (inevitably) did its own telescoping of historical reality.

[Brad]

Making my way through Braquo.  It's a noir French detective series.  Very good.  On Hulu  

I had previously watched Spiral.  Also on Hulu but the first four (out of five) seasons are also available on Netflix. 

[Scott Dolan]

Still digging the hell out of Westworld. 

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

Still digging the hell out of Westworld. 

Indeed. This week's episode was spectacular.