Posts by Backdrifter

  • What did you have for breakfast today?

    Good range at Houston's by the look of it. As with my local butchers and bakeries they do a macaroni pie, something you don't tend to see outside Scotland. As with the chicken curry pie, another popular one in the Highlands, I've shopped around and settled on where to get the best ones. They differ quite a bit, which I like.


    I divide my time between Inverness and SW London and when at the latter I always try to get along to CD Jennings, local to where our London place is. They're on to their 3rd generation now and it's great seeing their young son taking up the family business.

    Quote from foxfeeder

    It's a shame your M&S ad wouldn't work to a wider audience, it's genius!

    An overstatement but thanks for the accolade!


    😄

  • TotW 01/04/2020 - 01/10/2020: GENESIS - No Son Of Mine

    Getting back to the lyric, there's a very minor thing that makes me smile as it brings to mind my English teacher Mr Jeffries. He advised against ambiguity, such as "I scratched my head with my dog by my side." He'd point out you weren't literally using the dog by your side to scratch your head. Similarly - "I rang the bell with my heart in my mouth" would've had him asking if the narrator had his heart clenched between his teeth while pushing it against the doorbell.

  • GENESIS: In The Cage Medley 1987 in Hannover

    Quote from RICHL74

    Ditto to this really. I've only just joined so if the comment was directed at me too then I take issue to that.


    I would like to stick around here more than one day however if this is the kind of welcome new members get then maybe I'll have to rethink that.


    I also wasn't complaining in fact I think I made that perfectly clear in my post that it wasn't a complaint.

    As explained above they don't mean you, I'm the one in the doghouse. Definitely do stick around, it's generally a good forum and has been livened up recently by some new arrivals and returners after a period of less activity (that's not a complaint, by the way). So get stuck in and enjoy. 👍

  • TotW 01/04/2020 - 01/10/2020: GENESIS - No Son Of Mine

    Quote from foxfeeder

    He tries twice. Head, banging and wall spring to mind. I know someone who has been in this situation, he knew when to call it quits, luckily.

    Absolutely fair enough in your acquaintance's case I'm sure, but not everyone is cut from that same cloth. To pick up on the comment from FeelItComing I've equally known a couple of people with past experience of abuse who have felt compelled to see the abusive relative again. As mentioned, the feelings and motivations of the survivors can be very complex and, to the rest of us, baffling but it does happen. Again, as FIC said, family bonds can sometimes remain strong and pull the survivor back in even with such horrible past events.


    And I've known of survivors who left the first second they possibly could, never to return.


    Humans are complicated...

  • What did you have for breakfast today?

    Quote from foxfeeder

    Aye, ye cannae beat the Chieftain o' the puddin' race!


    Choice is a bit restricted in North West England, it's either this or McSween, if you want the authentic item. Most of the others, even Marks & Spencer, are pork based, which is just wrong!

    As I recall, McSween isn't too bad. I agree, pork 'haggis' isn't haggis. M&S should do one of their sultry-voiced ads - "This isn't just haggis.... In fact it just isn't haggis."


    As you can imagine, here in the Highlands you're spoilt for choice. Mine was my preferred one, from one of our local butchers, the wonderfully named Hastie and Dyce. I'm not sure why I like that name so much but I just do. If a detective duo drama was ever set in Inverness....

  • What movie have you watched?

    Four this last week:


    The Grudge - remake of a Japanese horror, one of those things featuring a scary girl with long wet hair, as so many seem to. It was okay but it had too many horror cliches in.


    Little Women - I wasn't sure at first, the first 45 mins just seemed to be girls running, shrieking and hugging. Then it moved up a gear and ultimately I enjoyed it.


    The Personal History of David Copperfield - the best of the bunch, it was funny, moving and very entertaining.


    Bombshell - excellent, infuriating in what it depicted (true story of sexual harrassment cases at Fox News), very compelling.

  • The Beatles

    I've been planning a 4-disc Beatles compilation and only just recently got around to it. As usual with my compilations, not chronological and all very carefully planned in terms of running order.


    DISC 1

    Paperback Writer

    Twist and Shout

    All My Loving

    Dear Prudence

    Tell Me Why

    I Want To Tell You

    Your Mother Should Know

    Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

    With A Little Help From My Friends

    If I Needed Someone

    You Never Give Me Your Money

    Sun King

    Mean Mr Mustard

    Polythene Pam

    She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

    Revolution

    Love Me Do

    The Word

    From Me To You

    I’ll Follow The Sun

    Don’t Let Me Down

    Blackbird

    I’ve Got A Feeling

    She Said She Said

    A Hard Day’s Night

    I Want To Hold Your Hand

    Yes It Is


    DISC 2

    Eight Days A Week

    And Your Bird Can Sing

    Old Brown Shoe

    Happiness Is A Warm Gun

    We Can Work It Out

    Fixing A Hole

    Help!

    You Won’t See Me

    I’m Only Sleeping

    Every Little Thing

    Michelle

    Yer Blues

    Two Of Us

    Matchbox

    Things We Said Today

    Ticket To Ride

    Oh! Darling

    Mother Nature’s Son

    I Should Have Known Better

    Yellow Submarine

    Helter Skelter

    Bad Boy

    Rain

    You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

    Hello Goodbye



    DISC 3

    Getting Better

    Can’t Buy Me Love

    For No One

    I’m So Tired

    The Night Before

    Love You To

    The Fool on the Hill

    Sexy Sadie

    Drive My Car

    It Won’t Be Long

    Think For Yourself

    Here, There and Everywhere

    I Feel Fine

    Eleanor Rigby

    I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

    Blue Jay Way

    Strawberry Fields Forever

    Hey Bulldog

    She Loves You

    Norwegian Wood

    Lady Madonna

    She’s Leaving Home

    Hey Jude


    DISC 4

    Get Back

    Please Please Me

    It’s All Too Much

    What You’re Doing

    Yesterday

    Because

    Doctor Robert

    And I Love Her

    Come and Get It

    For You Blue

    Cry Baby Cry

    Revolution 9 (edit)

    Good Night

    Come Together

    Penny Lane

    Taxman

    Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)

    A Day in the Life

    Something

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    The Long and Winding Road

    Let It Be

    I Saw Her Standing There

    Golden Slumbers

    Carry That Weight

    The End

    In My Life

  • What TV shows have you been watching ?

    Yes I mostly like the Trek tv shows, TNG being probably my favourite. I didn't like Voyager at first but warmed to it, although it was largely despite Kate Mulgrew's largely poor performance as the captain. Like you OneForTheVine I never clicked with DS9 or Enterprise. I've seen two episodes of Discovery so far and don't feel any urge to continue with it.


    I'm interested to see Picard, I liked that character in TNG and the associated films, and I like Patrick Stewart.


    I really like the 'reboot' films to date, I think they've been quite affectionate with regard to the original tv show. The 4th in the series is apparently now back on track with the main cast in place, with release in the next 2 years.

  • GENESIS: In The Cage Medley 1987 in Hannover

    Quote from The_Genesis_Archive

    We guess that someone would complain, we work hard to bring these exceptionally rare items to the public. We risk the law and any potential relationship with the management company, only for people to moan.


    Why should we bother to find, discover and release more?


    TGA

    If this is directed at me, I wasn't complaining or moaning, just expressing frustration at the apparent dearth of professional films of this medley - that's a broad observation and not aimed at this clip or those who've posted it here. As I said, it's still good to see it - but I didn't specifically thank whoever brought it here so let me say it now: well done and thanks.

  • GENESIS: In The Cage Medley 1987 in Hannover

    It's good but frustrating. I've been dying to see a professional film of either IT tour version of that medley and when we finally get one it's all on stage and we can't see the full show! But still better than nothing.


    There is a snippet of the Apocalypse version in the Visible Touch documentary so it was professionally filmed and must exist in its entirety somewhere.

  • Wind & Wuthering

    Quote from Fabrizio

    I found a new appreciation for the album version of Afterglow. For years it was almost impossible for me to revert to the original, then it dawned on me that is is a nostalgic, wistful song

    I've enjoyed the live renditions, both recorded and in person, but never relinquished my liking for the original. It shows what a good songwriter can come up with when being direct. Banks's description of writing this and Vine sum it up perfectly. One is a big long sprawling affair put together over the course of a year, and leaves me cold, especially its typically overwrought lyric. The other was written on the spot and conveys its message simply and clearly, is enduring and one of my favourite Genesis songs.


    I don't find it nostalgic and wistful - I'd likely not care much for it if I did - rather, my interpretation comes directly from Banks's description of what he had in mind, ie it's tragic yet hopeful. The narrator has lost everything but still has hope for the future - what a powerful message.

  • Genesis in the media

    Quote from Mark Bataitis

    I mean't it's over YOUR HEAD, in that, you don't understand. Carter's little pills was a product that came out long before you were born. Has nothing to do with Jimmy Carter, Bonham Carter or whatever, GET IT?

    Bloody hell calm down. You could've just told us that straight off!