Friday 24 May 2013

In The WIndow - 51 Just William 1


In The WIndow - 51 Just William 1
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01. Sam Cooke - Ee-Yi-Ee-Yi-Oh (2:36)
02. Billy Bragg - Handyman Blues (3:03)
03. Franz Nicolay - I Had A Good Time Tonight (4:43)
04. Mop Mop - Run Around feat. Fred Wesley & Anthony Joseph (5:17)
05. Uncle Buffo - Just William -Weak Spot (14:15)
06. JJ Heller - Loved (3:41)
07. Monkey Business - Up To Speed Now (3:52)
08. Mystical Weapons - Colony Collapse Disorder (3:29)
09. Wanda Jackson - Funnel Of Love (2:03)
10. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts (6:03)
11. 06 - Bish Bang Boof (2:54)
12. Emmy Rossum - Nobody Knows When You're Down & Out (3:18)
13. King Dude - Please Stay (In The Shadow Of My Grave) (2:32)

 The first in a series of Just William stories a favorite of mine for over 50 years.


Richmal Crompton Lamburn, pictured on the cover of her biography



Sometimes William can be very moral – he is inspired to tell the truth for the duration of Christmas Day in William's Truthful Christmas (Still William, 1925) with terrible results:
       [William has just received a geometry set and a book on church history for Christmas.]
"Did you like the book and instruments that Uncle and I gave you?" said Aunt Emma brightly.
"No," said William gloomily and truthfully. "I'm not int'rested in Church History an' I've got something like those at school. Not that I'd want 'em," he added hastily, "if I hadn't em."
"William!" screamed Mrs. Brown in horror. "How can you be so ungrateful!"
"I'm not ungrateful," explained William wearily.
"I'm only being truthful...

William has been criticized by the RSPCA for stories where he is cruel to animals. For example, in one story he paints his dog blue as a circus exhibit. In another he has a competition to see how many rats his dog can kill in a certain time. Some stories have been removed from modern publication, such as William and the Nasties from William The Detective where William suspects a Jewish shop owner of dishonesty and forms a mob to evict him. ("Nasty" was William's mispronunciation of Nazi.) This story was written in 1935 before the Second World War, and was probably meant as parody. By the end of the story William and the Outlaws help capture a thief who had imprisoned the Shopkeeper and the Shopkeeper generously allows them to take many items free.

This story appeared in all the 20 impressions of "William the Detective" published by George Newnes (1935–1967), and in all the editions brought out by Armada in the 1970s. It was in 1986, in the edition brought out by Macmillan Children's Books, that this story was first omitted. Richmal Crompton's biographer, Mary Cadogan, wrote that both Richmal Crompton's literary executor – her niece Richmal Ashbee – and her publisher Macmillan "unhesitatingly decided to drop this episode [William and the Nasties] completely from new editions of the book." [Mary Cadogan, Richmal Crompton – The Woman behind "Just William" pp. 117–18]






Saturday 18 May 2013

Video

In The WIndow - 50

                Victoria            (33:15)
Side X
01    One Way Road                                (2:34)
02    Pay The Price                                  (3:50)
03    Love More Than One Man               (10:12)
Side Y
04    Now Your Gone                               (3:34)
05    The Suns A Lady                              (3:49)
06    Sweet And Bitter                              (2:44)
07    We Got Ways To Keep High            (6:32)

        Yoko Ono         (27:00)
08    I Learned To Stutter                         (6:54)
09    Approximately Infinite Universe        (3:21)
10    Open Your Box                                (6:19)
11    'I Remember Everything'                  (2:40)
12    Turned the Corner                            (2:57)
13    What a Bastard the World Is            (4:35)


Who is Victoria if you have ANY idea please email me at

 spiritplantsradio@spiritplantsradio.com I have had this white label lp for around 30 years - who is she - did she make any other records?


My Exploding Head animation made using PovRay

I can not recommend the wonderful PovRay too much, for non programmers there is a steep learning curve but it comes with a very good tutorial and a VERY complete manual and needs it as it dose not work like any of the other 3D rendering software you may have tried and it's FREE. Thank you POV-Team.

http://www.povray.org/download/

Here is a pic from the PovRay hall of fame - brilliant
"Bonsai Life" by Jeremy M. Praay (2008)
http://www.beantoad.com/
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C47961654%40news.povray.org%3E/



And now a track from my soundcloud - if it works - All the sounds in Lady Strange are from speeches made in Parliament both the Commons and the House of Lords.    



Friday 10 May 2013



Hi I am just back from a week in hospital after a FOOSH (fall on out stretched hand) it was an impacted fracture of right distal radius which extends to involve radio-carpel and distal radius - broken in 5 places (a personal best) - I will try to get copies of the X-rays and scan to post here - anywho - last weeks playlist was 
In The Window #48

01. Sam Cooke - Ee-Yi-Ee-Yi-Oh (2:36)
02. Goodbye Leopold - George Herburt's Heaven (1:51)
03. Olivia Ong - The Girl From Ipanema (3:42)
04. D.R. Hooker - The Sea (4:27)
05. Dutch Uncles - Fester (3:56)
06. Tina C - Tiny Island Tour part 3 (14:00)
07. Bob Dylan - Froggie Went A Courtin' (6:23)
08. Hypnotic Clambake - Rasta Cyborg (7:15)
09. Dan The Rapper Man - Dan The Rapper Man (2:13)
10. Tom Jones - You Can Leave Your Hat On [live at Wembley] (4:01)
11. Sandy Denny - It Ain't Me Babe (3:40)
12. Jill Barber - Melancolie (4:04)


and this weeks is :-
In The Window #49

01. Noel Coward - Bren Gun (could You Please Ob (3:37)
02. Diane Cluck - Far Too Witchy (3:22)
03. Alasdair Roberts & Friends - The Wheels of the World/The Conundrum (9:37)
04. Alasdair Roberts & Friends - Scandal and Trance/We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City (7:41)
05. Dutch Uncles - Zug Zwang (4:56)
06. Beady Belle - Every Moment (4:38)
07. Fiction Family - Reality Calls (2:16)
08. Alice Russell - Twin Peaks (4:30)
09. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - We're All Water (7:10)
10. Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal (5:53)
11. Vestal - Bald (3:29)
12. Magicyclops - Rainbow of Pain (1:05)

I'm off to lay down