The Dirty Mac was comprised of Eric Clapton (lead guitar), Keith Richards (bass), Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (drums), and John Lennon on guitar and vocals. Read the description on Youtube for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFwaWFTGYU
Plato’s Cave and the Cinema
In his Cave Allegory (Republic, c.360 BCE), Plato presents a strikingly visual account of the distinction between knowledge and belief and, in doing so, provides us with what may be considered the earliest picture-house.
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Good bye
A night builds own imperium.
A shadow steals my soul.
If my life is aimless delirium
Then death is a worthy goal.
An open window. Like drops of milk
These clouds in anthracite sky.
I finished a verse. I uncurtained silk.
I stepped on the sill. Good bye…
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2014
An update
The blog isn’t dead. The infrequent updates will continue 😉
Meanwhile you can get your fix of popular and unpopular culture in this blog: http://www.lytte.net/category/english/
The blog is mostly in norwegian, with the exception of the posts tagged with english that you can reach with the link above.
BBC 4 – Great lives
Samuel Beckett
Great Lives, Series 23 Episode 3 of 9Business guru Sir Gerry Robinson was born in Ireland but moved to England in his teens, and he chooses Samuel Beckett, another Irishman who lived away for much of his life – in Paris. Gerry, a late convert to Beckett’s plays, loves him because he’s accepting of the human condition: that we’re all locked in this repetitive pattern. We don’t want to keep on doing the same thing over and over again, but we do. Presenter Matthew Parris is also joined by Jim Knowlson, who was a personal friend of Samuel Beckett for 19 years, and is his authorised biographer. He reveals that Beckett was far from the dour gloomy figure of popular imagination, and was in fact very good company – as long as you didn’t interrupt him when he was watching the rugby on the telly on a Saturday afternoon..
Producer Beth O’Dea.
More Great lives from BBC 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb
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