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offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-10-02 15:57 [#01350984]
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Just bought this on DVD, chlidren's 7-part series from
1977, compared to The Wicker Man.

IMDB page


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-10-02 15:59 [#01350987]
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Hey Paul...how's things? Is the DVD any good?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-10-02 16:02 [#01350993]
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hi there Lee - I'm watching the 1st episode now - looks
promising thanks.

Things are going very well thank-you - started uni, started
seeing Fiona again, learning French, feeling better about
myself -- how about you?


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-10-02 16:03 [#01350995]
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Excellent. I am learning Japanese and I am taking my
girlfriend to Japan in November for a couple of weeks.

What are you studying at university?


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-10-02 16:04 [#01350996]
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I`m learning Spanish. I don`t have a missus called Fiona
though, so the similarities end there!


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-10-02 16:04 [#01350997]
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I have a couple of books on Spanish and Italian -- but ...
French seems to be the most familiar to me :D


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-10-02 16:05 [#01350998]
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Permita que mi vuele sobre
La tierra en mi motocicleta
como icono Che Guevara
El rebelde con una causa

the lyrics to my new song!


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-10-02 16:12 [#01351003]
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Hey marlowe, have you heard the new Roger Waters songs?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-10-02 16:17 [#01351005]
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I have not, beatz - any good? I downloaded the new Cohen
album...

sorry, Lee, I didn't see your response ! I'm studying
Publishing - hope your Japan visit goes smoothly :)


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-10-02 16:21 [#01351010]
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LAZY_TITLE

"lLeaving Beirut" is a nice poetic rambling on US/UK foreign
policy. The other song is not so great.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-10-02 16:24 [#01351013]
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he can be a bit of a pompous waffler, can our Rog...


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-10-02 16:28 [#01351017]
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"WAFFLE"

LEAVING BEIRUT

So we left Beirut Willa and I
He headed East to Baghdad and the rest of it
I set out North
I walked the five or six miles to the last of the street
lamps
And hunkered in the curb side dusk
Holding out my thumb
In no great hope at the ramshackle procession of home bound
traffic
Success!
An ancient Mercedes 'dolmus '
The ubiquitous, Arab, shared taxi drew up
I turned out my pockets and shrugged at the driver
" J'ai pas de l'argent "
" Venez! " A soft voice from the back seat
The driver lent wearily across and pushed open the back
door
I stooped to look inside at the two men there
One besuited, bespectacled, moustached, irritated, distant,
late
The other, the one who had spoken,
Frail, fifty five-ish, bald, sallow, in a short sleeved pale
blue cotton shirt
With one biro in the breast pocket
A clerk maybe, slightly sunken in the seat
"Venez!" He said again, and smiled
"Mais j'ai pas de l'argent"
"Oui, Oui, d'accord, Venez!"

______________________

Are these the people that we should bomb
Are we so sure they mean us harm
Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime
Is this a mountain that we really want to climb
The road is hard, hard and long
Put down that two by four
This man would never turn you from his door
Oh George! Oh George!
That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were
very small

______________________

He beckoned with a small arthritic motion of his hand
Fingers together like a child waving goodbye
The driver put my old Hofner guitar in the boot with my
rucksack
And off we went
" Vous etes Francais, monsieur? "
" Non, Anglais "
" Ah! Anglais "
" Est-ce que vous parlais Anglais, Monsieur? "
"Non, je regrette"
And so on
In small talk between strangers, his French alien but
correct
Mine halting but eager to please
A lift, after all, is a lift
Late moustache left us brusquely
And some miles later the dolmus slowed at a crossroads lit
by a single lightbulb



 


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