Tuesday Allsorts #2 at Funerals & Snakes

Tuesday Allsorts #2

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dano

2 years, 4 months ago

in Allsorts, Cats, Cinema, Cricket and Music

Alright then, while I am fiddling with css here are some links to amuse and alarm you:

Cat Piano â€“ I love cats and and yet I still find this idea highly amusing;
Wim Wenders talks to MovieMaker magazine about what heâ€™s learnt about making films;
Screenwriter John August on the influence of enthusiast, fan, media on the film-promoting and film-going process;
The wonderful Nellie McKay chats with the legendary Eartha Kitt for something called â€œHarpâ€ (by the way Nellie just reviewed â€œGreat Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With ’50s Pop Musicâ€ by Karen Schoemer for the New York Times but that may already be behind their pay-wall);
George Bush learns to play cricket in Pakistan with Inzamam Ul Haq (who seems to have borrowed my beard). This is about the most engaged I have ever seen the man, perhaps he should try and run America while dodging bouncers.

There, all of these are weeks late but none the worse for that I shouldnâ€™t wonder.

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What have I learnt this week?

During study, when noting an important part of a book, write the page number beside it. You know, so you can find it again later.

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I love this idea:

Speaking of caring, though, no discussion about coffee would be complete without mentioning the Neapolitan tradition of the “caffè pagato”, the paid-for coffee. What happens is after you’ve consumed your customary morning espresso sometimes you’ll choose to pay double, and leave a paid-for coffee. Thanks to this practice, the place will be able to cater for a few known customers who couldn’t otherwise afford their daily tazzulella ‘e cafè, without them having to ask or you having to offer.

I’d like to think it might save some of our beloved seniors from having to beg for the free cups at McDonald’s.
[via a post by Giovanni Tiso in the epic coffee thread at Public Address System]

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Roger Ebert repeats an anecdote told him by Marcello Mastroianni about filming the famous Trevi Fountain splashabout in La Dolce Vita:

“The water, it was-a very cold,” He said. “Fellini, he shoots again and again. Finally, the time for the close shot of my fingers reaching to touch-a her cheek. I am always smoking, smoking, smoking. My fingers, the nicotine!”

He held them up to illustrate.

“Anita’s skin is alabaster white. Fellini, he looks-a my fingers against her skin, and shouts, Marcello! When-a you gonna learn the right way to wipe-a your ass?“

Made me laugh anyway.

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