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carey jeggs 25th Jan 2017		TV Ask The Family (1967 - 1984)	Robert Robinson gave me the impression that he was sending it up himself the way he used to make fun of Eric Ilett's cheap animation effects and commenting on what nice middle class names the imaginary characters in the maths problems had. The usual pattern for parents was that Father would be the managing director of a light engineering company and Mother would be a 'teacha' who would refer to children as ch'ldr'n.
carey jeggs 15th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Itzhak Perlman, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn - Max Bruch / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	At first glance I thought that was half of The Monkees.
carey jeggs 15th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger	I've not listened to it for years and,after buying it in the seventies,I was put off buying any more of his records or any more alt.country.I don't know if it was meant as a joke but,as I recall,there's a bit where the protagonist shoots a woman dead when he suspects that she might steal his horse and gets away with it because,well hell,this is Blue Rock,Montana where horses are more valuable than women.It certainly doesn't sound as if irony is intended. Having said which I'm now going to have to give it another listen.
carey jeggs 22nd Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Girls! Girls! Girls!	Thanks ppint. and Lee Wrecker.
carey jeggs 21st Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Girls! Girls! Girls!	Something I've never noticed before.On the back cover,why does 'twangy have an apostrophe in front?What letter or letters have been omitted?
carey jeggs 16th Sep 2016		Book H. H. Munro - The Complete Saki	Now who's being Saki?
carey jeggs 9th Sep 2016		Book H. H. Munro - The Complete Saki	Whoever that is on the cover it certainly isn't Saki.
carey jeggs 7th Sep 2016		TV University Challenge (1962 - Now)	There was one of those questions this week. Starter for ten Negative e to the i pi is equivalent to what? Contestant buzzed in with -1 Wrong. Contestant from other team went for +1 and got it. I usually say 2.
carey jeggs 10th Aug 2016		TV Judge John Deed (2001 - 2007)	Written by a vegetarian and starring a vegetarian and don't we know it.The propaganda isn't subtle. One of those programmes that's so bad it's unmissable.
carey jeggs 22nd Mar 2016		Book Ian Fleming - On Her Majesty's Secret Service	I've only just got that.At first I thought you were referring to Donald Duck,who was famously banned in China for not wearing trousers.
carey jeggs 20th Mar 2016		Book Ian Fleming - On Her Majesty's Secret Service	That skier appears not to be wearing trousers.
carey jeggs 10th Mar 2016		Book Patricia Lee Holt - George Washington Had No Middle Name	I think I've read an explanation of how that myth arose but I can't remember how it went. I don't think not having a middle name is particularly noteworthy;after all Christ didn't have one in spite of sometimes being referred to as Jesus H Christ.
carey jeggs 9th Mar 2016		Book Patricia Lee Holt - George Washington Had No Middle Name	Any mention of his wooden teeth?
carey jeggs 1st Mar 2016		Book Joel Whitburn - Top Adult Songs 1961-2006	It makes a change to see 'adult' used properly,as opposed to its modern weaselly usage which tends to mean childishly lewd.
carey jeggs 23rd Feb 2016		Book Georges Bataille - Story Of The Eye	I used to be a structuralist but now I'm not Saussure.
carey jeggs 22nd Feb 2016		Book Go Girl Boyfriend 1969 - Proprietors City Magazines	Is that a waxwork of Scott Walker?
carey jeggs 9th Feb 2016		Book Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly	Contains my favourite set piece in a Dick novel,the stoner argument about the missing gears on the bicycle.It's ten-speed so somebody must have stolen three of them. Sorry.That was of course a comment and not a review.I've not quite got the hang of this yet.
carey jeggs 9th Feb 2016		Book Poul Anderson - The Byworlder	It must be nearly forty years since I read it and I can only remember one thing about it.It's set sometime in what was then the future but is probably round about now and there's a scene in an amusement arcade where there is an animated display of hairy miniature figures protesting and waving signs,taking their clothes off and rolling around in mud.The tableau is entitled Grandad's World and the young people in the story laugh at it with scorn. Anderson was of a conservative disposition and seems to have been trying to exact some kind of posthumous revenge against tendencies he disliked.
carey jeggs 1st Feb 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo	I can imagine Frank Skinner saying 'And what doesn't Friedrich like'?
carey jeggs 31st Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo	He wasn't too keen on Englishwomen's feet either.
carey jeggs 31st Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo	I'm baffled by the business about the soup.I would have thought that eating it before, not after,the meal was the usual practice.He thinks the Germans are barbaric for doing this and cites Venetian cookbooks of the sixteenth century as confirmation. All nutritionist websites I've checked insist that soup as starter is best for digestion.
carey jeggs 14th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	'Nietzsche is dead' God
carey jeggs 13th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	'You would not enjoy Nietzsche,Sir.He is fundamentally unsound.' Jeeves.
carey jeggs 12th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Of all his books it's the one I like least.I've read it about half a dozen times but I'm finished with it now.It's a bit overblown and probably best read in German so that you get the benefit of the puns although his two main translators,Reg Hollingdale and Walter Kaufmann,have said that it is possible to render his 'voice' into English without distortion of tone.Still,I prefer the the aphoristic books of his middle period,particularly The Gay Science. His bizarre notion of the Eternal Recurrence,whereby we keep living exactly the same lives repeatedly,is something that I fervently believed in round about 1973-74. But at that time I was in a dark place....Irlam
carey jeggs 7th Jan 2016		Book Leo Tolstoy - War And Peace	Another thing they've got over Penguin Classics is that they haven't resorted to desperate gimmicks like publishing stupid pop star autobiographies.
carey jeggs 11th Dec 2015		Book Charlie Gillett - Rock File	The best thing about this book is its back-cover photograph.I don't have the book any more,just the back-cover which I still use as a bookmark.
carey jeggs 27th Nov 2015		Book Rich Podolsky - Don Kirshner. The Man With The Golden Ear	It's been said of Don Kirshner that he had the mind of a fourteen year old girl.I think it was intended as a compliment.
carey jeggs 25th Nov 2015		Book Ian Fleming - Moonraker	Very silly story but the compensations are in the writing.There's a scene where Bond is searching an office which contains the observation that 'Bond knew a lot about filing cabinets.' It's things like that that you can't get from the films. Priceless
carey jeggs 25th Nov 2015		Book Ian Fleming - Casino Royale	I only started reading Fleming about three years ago after reading an article by Philip Hensher lamenting the decline in the quality of mainstream thriller writing.He was praising Fleming, John Buchan and Nevil Shute at the expense of Dan Brown. Something particularly striking about this book is the line:- 'Bond lit his eightieth cigarette of the day.' There's no comment or mitigation offered which I found refreshing as it serves as an antidote to our modern pieties.
carey jeggs 25th Nov 2015		TV The Lone Ranger (1949 - 1957)	I think Bowie also had a problem stepping down from his role in The Virgin Soldiers.

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