fingerprint file: black and white night

Douglas Skyrocket

Felice Bryant

mata hari

For some strange reason Roy Orbison recordings are almost unobtainable in the usual channels. You can always get them off the interweb of course but I'm talking secondhand or from friends.

they have just gone.

A friend lent me  the dvd "Black and White Night" and I plugged the player in last night and watched it. I just want to learn Pretty Woman but the whole thing was compelling. By the time it was made Roy was losing a bit of timbre around the edges but his mighty 3 octave range was still there and oh so beyootiful. The restof the gang was in attendance. Elvis Presleys old band and a whole host of luminaries like JD Souther and Elvis costello and Tom Waits playing guitar and piano!!! Yes yes yes. there was a string section and Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes and KD Laing doing the oohs and ahs with some fervour and mighty grins. Everybody was having a ball and Brooce Windscreen gave as good as he got doing lead duels with the incomparable James Burton. I found myself looking at the old 14" and clapping at the end of every song.

It was gorgeous.

Thank you Roy.

the piccys of the Douglas skyrocket are there because It was a a machine of truly aesthetic beauty.

so is the piccy of Felice who co-wrote the Everly Brothers best songs and mata hari is there because she was on the same site I got the pic of Felice.

Her boobs look like droopers. same as the kardashians featured on MSN news this morning. nascent steatopygia. some like them like that.

Just finished reading "The Victorians" by A.N. Wilson. a harrowing journey through the satanic mills and the stupidity of the wealthy. Money is no guarantee of intellect. Especially if it has been inherited.

From hunter gatherers on the African Savannah to the in bred klonks of the British upper class is a bit much to take in all at once.

I live in New Zealand and I wonder why the co-operative movement never took off here. There are 4,500 shops in the UK but none here.

Everybody in New Zealand wants to believe that they are incognito members of the British upper class here to improve the colonials or came in the firs four ships or something but all they really want is a hardly davison and a plastic replica ford t-bucket so they can go downtown on a Saturday morning and make a big noise.

howzatt?