Any portal in a storm
February 17th 2010 08:42
You'll all have heard of loose cannons. Well today, Stanton,I want to talk a little about loose diamonds.
{Stanton? Who's he? When I used to write a column for the local newspaper, I'd occasionally address a fictional person by the name of Stanton. Some people just didn't get it - in particular the person who was on the board of the shop of which I was manager, who somehow thought I was referring to him, because his name also happened to be Stanton...oh well. ]
Back to the loose diamonds. I'm not actually referring to jewels as such, although it was only today, via the Net, that I learned there were such things as loose diamonds available from a jeweller's shop. (Why do Americans miss out one of the 'l's from jeweller?)
What I'm referring to are the films on you tube that aren't rubbish and twaddle or apparently aimed at making an infant who's not even been born yet laugh, but the short movies and even the longer ones (neither of which we can watch at present because our modem keeps flicking off) that can be seen if you know where to look.
For a while I use to check out some of the shorter ones that were on You Tube's Festival (?) section (if I remember rightly). But I lost the URL and haven't been back there in a while. But there were some brilliant little movies amongst them. How they ever make any money is anyone's guess, but that's another issue entirely.
There was a very strange but delightful animated film about a Swedish girl which had a narration (in English) from one of Ingmar Bergman's famous female stars. And the one I remember more vividly was about comedy about a man who always wanted to be the first to clap at a classical concert. He would virtually interrupt the last notes of the music in order to get in before anyone else. This began to infuriate one particular concert pianist that he began to improvise just a bit more all the time in order to catch the applauder on the hop. There was a nasty moment under the concert hall after one event as a result, but it settled the issue!
And there have been some even stranger ones the details of which I won't go into on this page (!)
Anyway, as Joe Queenan writes in the article I've linked to above, there's a heap of good stuff there - if you can find it. Diamonds among the debris.
{Stanton? Who's he? When I used to write a column for the local newspaper, I'd occasionally address a fictional person by the name of Stanton. Some people just didn't get it - in particular the person who was on the board of the shop of which I was manager, who somehow thought I was referring to him, because his name also happened to be Stanton...oh well. ]
Back to the loose diamonds. I'm not actually referring to jewels as such, although it was only today, via the Net, that I learned there were such things as loose diamonds available from a jeweller's shop. (Why do Americans miss out one of the 'l's from jeweller?)
What I'm referring to are the films on you tube that aren't rubbish and twaddle or apparently aimed at making an infant who's not even been born yet laugh, but the short movies and even the longer ones (neither of which we can watch at present because our modem keeps flicking off) that can be seen if you know where to look.
For a while I use to check out some of the shorter ones that were on You Tube's Festival (?) section (if I remember rightly). But I lost the URL and haven't been back there in a while. But there were some brilliant little movies amongst them. How they ever make any money is anyone's guess, but that's another issue entirely.
There was a very strange but delightful animated film about a Swedish girl which had a narration (in English) from one of Ingmar Bergman's famous female stars. And the one I remember more vividly was about comedy about a man who always wanted to be the first to clap at a classical concert. He would virtually interrupt the last notes of the music in order to get in before anyone else. This began to infuriate one particular concert pianist that he began to improvise just a bit more all the time in order to catch the applauder on the hop. There was a nasty moment under the concert hall after one event as a result, but it settled the issue!
And there have been some even stranger ones the details of which I won't go into on this page (!)
Anyway, as Joe Queenan writes in the article I've linked to above, there's a heap of good stuff there - if you can find it. Diamonds among the debris.
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