Only making "a what's on tonight" search did I see listed a programme about the last days of George Melly on BBC 2, and subsequently learnt that the programme had previously been shown on BBC 4 and is available in its 60 minute entirety on a computer reference. This is so much more than a portrait of a larger than normal life talented personality, performing and giving and receiving love in all its dimensions, meeting his end of days, despite dementia and double lung cancer with acceptance and humour. It is programme about the nature of the human spirit, understanding, forgiveness, toleration, being true to oneself and love. It is available to view on
George Melly's Last Stand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0087
The programme rounded an exceptional three and half hour viewing period, the second programme of which was the next episode of Lark Rise to Candleford also on the BBC I player, This was the most moving so far, only part caused by familiarity with the core characters. Authentically set in rural Oxfordshire England at the turn of the 19th into 20th centuries the programme has a beautiful and tender reality enabling each character to reveal their rounded depths of experience. There are no short cut or caricature personalities so that the programme enlighten and enriches those who care to be engaged. In this inside out sandwich there was the eagerly awaited next episode in the penultimate series of Lost which featured Sayed after his apparent escape from the Ireland into an assassin working for, well get who? This unexpected twist was not the only clever piece of writing, although I have to say the episode lacked the pace of the end of lasts season and the first two openers. Perhaps it was me but I thought the there was something missing.
Earlier I had enjoyed a programme about the life of Fred Dibnah who first came to national TV fame because of his role of blowing up industrial chimneys and former industrial buildings before we discovered his love of restoration work sharing his interest in discovering not just how machinery worked but how buildings were put together. Not only did the public enjoy his down to earth explanations but it was evident from the film that he was widely respected by experts involved with our heritage and restoration work.
A different kind of experience was open the evening viewing with the last half hour of the Antiques Road show which came from Bexhill and the De Vere Pavilion, I had one or two holidays at Bexhill on Sea with my mother and two iof her sisters and went to a Summer show at the Pavilion.
Having yesterday written that I preferred to watch and listen to recordings of Freddie Mercury I switched channels at one point in the day to find Queen at Milton Keynes. This stage was comparatively bare, especially when compared to that provided at the memorial concert, but this only reinforced the focus of everyone's attention, the music and the performance. I have not attended a concert at Milton Keynes although I was caught up in the traffic once as stopped en route for a meal at a restaurant there, part of a chain which meant one knew the menu in advance, and where for a time I had vouchers for a discount.
There was also more F A Cup football football, a drab game of two teams desperate for success, the Boro and Sheffield United whose fans caused the departure of Bryan Robson earlier in the week. The match ended 0.0 and a replay. The second part of the curse of Tutankhamun was also on this evening but I was otherwise engaged.
To mark the anniversary this week of joining Myspace I list my Blogs published on this site. Nothing like the two or three a day notes I put on AOL which totalled over 750 in about 18 months with at least 25000 photos uploaded, probably more but I quickly forget. The dates are approximate to within a day or two. I had intended three lots of 110.75 but managed over 275. This is the first 100.75
001 A Granddad goes Pop 17.02.2007
002 How I came to do what I do 19.02.2007
003Virtual realities with Tracey E 21.02.2007
004 Nauman and Lucas 22 02.2007
005 The work and its structure 24.02.2007
006 Lipsynch total Theatre experience 25.02.2007
007 Confidentiality and Eva Gruber 26.02.2007
008 Thatcher the Musical 27.02.2007
009 Catching up American Idol 28.02.2007
010La Dolce Vita 01.03.2007
011. Baltic and New Media 01.03.2007
012 Satyricon 02.03.2007
013 La Strada 03.03.2007
014 Summer with Monika 04.03.2007.
015 Citizen Kane 05.03.2007
016 How Can You 05.03.2007
017 Mothers and Daughters 07.03.2007
018 Listening to voices 09.03.2007
019 My 68th birthday 09.03.2007
020 Words without Sounds 11.03.2007
021 Life of Marionettes 12.03.2007
022Perspectives on a month 12.03.2007
023 The Seventh Seal 12.03.2007
024, Lady Sings the Blues 13.03.2007
025 Blow Up 13.03.2007
026 Bad Education 13.03.2007
027 Three Strange Loves 13.03.2007
028 Scenes from a marriage 13.03.2007
029 Dark Habits 13.03.2007
030 On Top of the Town 13.03.2007
031 Exquisite Pain 14.03 2007
032 Lost Episodes 1-8 14.03.2007
033 Son of Man 15.03.2007
034 And death has no dominion 15 03.2007
035 Creative Lost 16.03.2007
036 Saraband 16.03.2007
036 Myspace work this and that 17.03.2007
037 A bit of a bitch 17.03.2007
038 On the nature of men 17.03.2007
039 Sunday Magicians 18.03.2007
040 The world in two hours 18.03.2008
041 Oh Danny Boy 18.03.2008
041 The Hour of the Wolf 19.03.2008
042 The Wicker Man 19.03.2007
043 Artist Disorganised 19.03.2007
044 Beyond Belief 19 03.2007
045 A typical Englishman 20.03.2007
046 We shall remember them 20.03,2007
047 Wild Strawberries 21.03.2007
048 Through a Glass Darkly 22.03.2007
049 Amarcord 22.03.2007
050 What have I done 23.03.2007
051 Lost in Translation 23.03.2007
052 Cornish Rhapsody 25.03.2007
053 A Gothic fantasy 26.03.2007
054 Aching Hearts 27.03.2007
055 Here's looking into you kid 28.03.2007
056 My Space Bulletin 1 28.03.2007
056 Just another Day 30.03.2007
057 Freedom From Freedom To 31.03.2007
058 April Fools Day 01.04.2007
059 Black 02.04.2007
060 Black as Hell 04.04.2007
061 The outsiders 05.04.2007
062 Bulletin 1 of 101 I need you 06.04.2007
063 The need and ability to control 06.04.2007
062 I need you 07.04.2007
063 The masochistic passion of a ménage 08.04.2007
065 The evolution of me into myspace 10.04.2007
066 In awe 11.04.2007
067 My creative workspace 12.04 2007
068 An addiction to experience 13.04.2007
069 Chocolate topped cream doughnuts 15.04.2007
070 The Pope summons his curia 16.04.2007
071 Sister Sophie 17.04.2007
072 Roma and tragedy 18.04.2007
073 Talking with Ancestors 19.04.2007
074 Being only public Goth at Gormghast 20.04.2007
075 The concept of Time 21.04.2007
076 On being electronically illiterate 22.04.2007
077 The music of Geoff Davis 24.04.2007
078 An old man goes out into the night 27.04.2007
079 How dare they give the 2008 City 28.04.2007
080 Writing about childhood 30.04.2007
081 Carmen and Roma experiences 02.05.2007
082 False Prophets 04.05.2007
083 Rejoicings 05.05.2007
084 La Marieposas and me 06.05.2007
085 How Many Children 13.05.2007
086 Additional Experience 14.05.2007
087 Hullo Berlin 16.05.2007
088 But who is to guard the guardians 20.05.2007
089 Scotland 26.05.2007
090 A near perfect day 27.05.2007
091 The wages of desire 28.05.2007
092 A day with TV 29.06.2007
093 Going Dutch 31.06.2007
094 Transitions 01.07.2007
095 Still in Transition 03.06.2007
096 Trying to understand the transition 04.06.2007
097 Two remarkable people 07.06.2007
098 Froth versus substance 08.06.2007
099 Boiling Eggs 09.06.2007
100 Freud and the Butterfly Effect 10.06.2007
101 Just another day 11.06.2007
George Melly's Last Stand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0087
The programme rounded an exceptional three and half hour viewing period, the second programme of which was the next episode of Lark Rise to Candleford also on the BBC I player, This was the most moving so far, only part caused by familiarity with the core characters. Authentically set in rural Oxfordshire England at the turn of the 19th into 20th centuries the programme has a beautiful and tender reality enabling each character to reveal their rounded depths of experience. There are no short cut or caricature personalities so that the programme enlighten and enriches those who care to be engaged. In this inside out sandwich there was the eagerly awaited next episode in the penultimate series of Lost which featured Sayed after his apparent escape from the Ireland into an assassin working for, well get who? This unexpected twist was not the only clever piece of writing, although I have to say the episode lacked the pace of the end of lasts season and the first two openers. Perhaps it was me but I thought the there was something missing.
Earlier I had enjoyed a programme about the life of Fred Dibnah who first came to national TV fame because of his role of blowing up industrial chimneys and former industrial buildings before we discovered his love of restoration work sharing his interest in discovering not just how machinery worked but how buildings were put together. Not only did the public enjoy his down to earth explanations but it was evident from the film that he was widely respected by experts involved with our heritage and restoration work.
A different kind of experience was open the evening viewing with the last half hour of the Antiques Road show which came from Bexhill and the De Vere Pavilion, I had one or two holidays at Bexhill on Sea with my mother and two iof her sisters and went to a Summer show at the Pavilion.
Having yesterday written that I preferred to watch and listen to recordings of Freddie Mercury I switched channels at one point in the day to find Queen at Milton Keynes. This stage was comparatively bare, especially when compared to that provided at the memorial concert, but this only reinforced the focus of everyone's attention, the music and the performance. I have not attended a concert at Milton Keynes although I was caught up in the traffic once as stopped en route for a meal at a restaurant there, part of a chain which meant one knew the menu in advance, and where for a time I had vouchers for a discount.
There was also more F A Cup football football, a drab game of two teams desperate for success, the Boro and Sheffield United whose fans caused the departure of Bryan Robson earlier in the week. The match ended 0.0 and a replay. The second part of the curse of Tutankhamun was also on this evening but I was otherwise engaged.
To mark the anniversary this week of joining Myspace I list my Blogs published on this site. Nothing like the two or three a day notes I put on AOL which totalled over 750 in about 18 months with at least 25000 photos uploaded, probably more but I quickly forget. The dates are approximate to within a day or two. I had intended three lots of 110.75 but managed over 275. This is the first 100.75
001 A Granddad goes Pop 17.02.2007
002 How I came to do what I do 19.02.2007
003Virtual realities with Tracey E 21.02.2007
004 Nauman and Lucas 22 02.2007
005 The work and its structure 24.02.2007
006 Lipsynch total Theatre experience 25.02.2007
007 Confidentiality and Eva Gruber 26.02.2007
008 Thatcher the Musical 27.02.2007
009 Catching up American Idol 28.02.2007
010La Dolce Vita 01.03.2007
011. Baltic and New Media 01.03.2007
012 Satyricon 02.03.2007
013 La Strada 03.03.2007
014 Summer with Monika 04.03.2007.
015 Citizen Kane 05.03.2007
016 How Can You 05.03.2007
017 Mothers and Daughters 07.03.2007
018 Listening to voices 09.03.2007
019 My 68th birthday 09.03.2007
020 Words without Sounds 11.03.2007
021 Life of Marionettes 12.03.2007
022Perspectives on a month 12.03.2007
023 The Seventh Seal 12.03.2007
024, Lady Sings the Blues 13.03.2007
025 Blow Up 13.03.2007
026 Bad Education 13.03.2007
027 Three Strange Loves 13.03.2007
028 Scenes from a marriage 13.03.2007
029 Dark Habits 13.03.2007
030 On Top of the Town 13.03.2007
031 Exquisite Pain 14.03 2007
032 Lost Episodes 1-8 14.03.2007
033 Son of Man 15.03.2007
034 And death has no dominion 15 03.2007
035 Creative Lost 16.03.2007
036 Saraband 16.03.2007
036 Myspace work this and that 17.03.2007
037 A bit of a bitch 17.03.2007
038 On the nature of men 17.03.2007
039 Sunday Magicians 18.03.2007
040 The world in two hours 18.03.2008
041 Oh Danny Boy 18.03.2008
041 The Hour of the Wolf 19.03.2008
042 The Wicker Man 19.03.2007
043 Artist Disorganised 19.03.2007
044 Beyond Belief 19 03.2007
045 A typical Englishman 20.03.2007
046 We shall remember them 20.03,2007
047 Wild Strawberries 21.03.2007
048 Through a Glass Darkly 22.03.2007
049 Amarcord 22.03.2007
050 What have I done 23.03.2007
051 Lost in Translation 23.03.2007
052 Cornish Rhapsody 25.03.2007
053 A Gothic fantasy 26.03.2007
054 Aching Hearts 27.03.2007
055 Here's looking into you kid 28.03.2007
056 My Space Bulletin 1 28.03.2007
056 Just another Day 30.03.2007
057 Freedom From Freedom To 31.03.2007
058 April Fools Day 01.04.2007
059 Black 02.04.2007
060 Black as Hell 04.04.2007
061 The outsiders 05.04.2007
062 Bulletin 1 of 101 I need you 06.04.2007
063 The need and ability to control 06.04.2007
062 I need you 07.04.2007
063 The masochistic passion of a ménage 08.04.2007
065 The evolution of me into myspace 10.04.2007
066 In awe 11.04.2007
067 My creative workspace 12.04 2007
068 An addiction to experience 13.04.2007
069 Chocolate topped cream doughnuts 15.04.2007
070 The Pope summons his curia 16.04.2007
071 Sister Sophie 17.04.2007
072 Roma and tragedy 18.04.2007
073 Talking with Ancestors 19.04.2007
074 Being only public Goth at Gormghast 20.04.2007
075 The concept of Time 21.04.2007
076 On being electronically illiterate 22.04.2007
077 The music of Geoff Davis 24.04.2007
078 An old man goes out into the night 27.04.2007
079 How dare they give the 2008 City 28.04.2007
080 Writing about childhood 30.04.2007
081 Carmen and Roma experiences 02.05.2007
082 False Prophets 04.05.2007
083 Rejoicings 05.05.2007
084 La Marieposas and me 06.05.2007
085 How Many Children 13.05.2007
086 Additional Experience 14.05.2007
087 Hullo Berlin 16.05.2007
088 But who is to guard the guardians 20.05.2007
089 Scotland 26.05.2007
090 A near perfect day 27.05.2007
091 The wages of desire 28.05.2007
092 A day with TV 29.06.2007
093 Going Dutch 31.06.2007
094 Transitions 01.07.2007
095 Still in Transition 03.06.2007
096 Trying to understand the transition 04.06.2007
097 Two remarkable people 07.06.2007
098 Froth versus substance 08.06.2007
099 Boiling Eggs 09.06.2007
100 Freud and the Butterfly Effect 10.06.2007
101 Just another day 11.06.2007
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