BigJackBrass

BigJackBrass, 4 hours ago to music

Added to the project folder today, "After My Laughter Came Tears" by Roy Turk and Charles Tobias (1928):

https://youtu.be/7LDOlMrehn0

#Music #Ukulele #CliffEdwards #UkuleleIke

BigJackBrass, 6 hours ago to InitialD

The sit down version of Spy Hunter was particularly cool, not least because of the speakers blasting the theme from Peter Gunn right by your head, but the upright cabinet was far more common. I spent a lot of time playing this game very, very badly.

Time Rift Arcade: "Spy Hunter Arcade Restoration"

https://youtu.be/9j6E8zDYhbg

#Arcade #VideoGames

BigJackBrass, 12 hours ago to random

I really need to work out how best to digitise the 16" transcription discs I bought for the Cliff Edwards Project, given that I don't currently own a turntable capable of playing them. It would be nice to retrieve the music from them, given that it doesn't seem to be available elsewhere.

Obviously, paying someone to do it for me is an option, but not until I can scrape some funds together.

BigJackBrass, 1 day ago to random

#NormalForNorfolk

BigJackBrass, 1 day ago to random

Personally, I'd suggest cleaning the food off your cat before doing anything else.

#MeanwhileInTheWorldOfAmazonReviews

BigJackBrass, 3 days ago to random

@lordof1 In case you're wondering why this headline immediately made me think of you, I should point out that further into the article she says "At first, the accent wasn’t that recognisable…"

BigJackBrass, 3 days ago to random

I know that the English have a reputation for unnecessarily apologising, but the postwoman just apologised for delivering a parcel and I think that might be taking it a bit too far.

BigJackBrass, 3 days ago to random

Reading a news report about an arrest following the death of a man back in February, which features a rather befuddling element:

"His death was initially thought to be 'medical-related' but… [the] death certificate… confirmed he died of a shotgun wound to the neck and chest."

I'm intrigued to know what medical condition they thought caused that.

BigJackBrass, 5 days ago to random

#Mosstodon?

BigJackBrass, 5 days ago to history

It's hard not to feel that part of the problem with my homeland is summed up rather well by this object: a chair, specially made so that the visiting monarch wouldn't have to park his pampered posterior on a piece of used furniture, venerated four hundred years later.

#History #GreatBritain #DivineRightOfKingsMyArse

BigJackBrass, 5 days ago to random

I do think that this café might be laying on the British nostalgia theme a wee bit heavily.

BigJackBrass, 5 days ago to RPG

Currently reading this history of the music hall, the British counterpart of vaudeville and precursor to variety. My favourite RPGs tend to be things like "Call of Cthulhu" and "Forgotten Futures" with a strong Victorian to Georgian (George V, that is) tone and history, but I often feel that the popular culture of the time is ignored when it should be a vital part of the world and the characters. NPCs ought to be playing records, going to the pictures, whistling the latest hits, referencing movie stars and stage actors, encouraging the PCs to read a new novel they're enamoured with—or recommending they avoid one they dislike.

A few sentences here and there, a name dropped, an encounter when shopping for sheet music or looking at the posters advertising coming acts… it doesn't take much to add to a great deal of flavour to the world and make it feel alive, rather than like those cheap cartoons where the only people moving or even present in a scene are the PCS.

#RPG #History #MusicHall

Scene from the movie "Bullshot". The titular hero is attempting to fend off the advances of an attractive woman who is wearing a very revealing dress and has just put a jazz record on the gramophone. Caption: "Is this seemly, Mrs. Platt-Higgins? Playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?"
Photograph taken in London in 1910. A figure wearing a straw boater is standing, partly obscured by an ornate lamppost, reading one of several advertising posters pasted along a wall. They include one for "The Sins of London" at the Lyceum; Madame Sarah Bernhardt and a number of other acts appearing at The London Coliseum, Charing Cross; and a travel poster advertising Blackpool by very sensibly not showing the town, but going for a painting of a smiling woman beside the sea instead.

BigJackBrass, 8 days ago to random

You've come a long way, baby.

BigJackBrass, 11 days ago to random

“He’s not very melodramatic, and I like his acting style. He says a lot with his expressions and with his face rather than in other ways. He just keeps it very calm.”

• Actor Finn Little describing, apparently seriously, his "The Surfer" co-star Nicolas Cage.

BigJackBrass, 12 days ago to random

It would be very easy to go overboard with this whole sticker printing thing.

#Ukulele #CliffEdwards

BigJackBrass, 12 days ago to random

Definitely a website lovingly crafted by a human, yessiree.

#CliffEdwards

BigJackBrass, 12 days ago to random

Just enough time on my tea break to cut out a couple of the test stickers I printed yesterday and slap them on one of my ukulele cases, mainly to test for durability.

No sign of smudging as I applied them, although I've yet to test the water resistance. I'm certainly happy with the appearance: they don't look out of place with the professionally printed stickers already on the case (but my goodness that orange is bright!).

Photograph of a black rectangular instrument case with a rigid black carrying handle and chrome fixtures. A variety of colourful stickers decorate the surface.

BigJackBrass, 12 days ago to RPG

Still feeling a little unnerved that the party appeared to make some progress in our Cthulhu Eternal investigation last night. We may be on the wrong track, I suppose, but the usual Whartson Hall method is to rope a red herring and ride it erratically into the sunset, whereas @RogerBW seems to have put his finger on a highly plausible possibility (given weight by the traditional Lovecraftian investigation marker: it prompted a handout from the GM).

#RPG

BigJackBrass, 13 days ago to random

The crocodile declined to be interviewed about the award, releasing a statement that they wished to put the matter behind them and move on with their life.

BigJackBrass, 14 days ago to random

I have just seen a modern version of a traditional instrument described as "folkternative" and I'm sure that civilisations have been toppled over less.

BigJackBrass, 14 days ago to uk

Reasons to be Cheerful: "Beavers Are Back in London — and They’re Thriving"

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/beavers-are-back-in-london-and-theyre-thriving/

#UK #London #Environment #ThrivingBeaver

BigJackBrass, 15 days ago to movies

'“By mistake Roger would actually make a good picture every once in a while,” Jack Nicholson said of his frequent collaborator. “But I was never in it.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/12/roger-corman-hollywood-mentor-and-king-of-the-b-movie-dies-aged-98

#RogerCorman #Film

BigJackBrass, 16 days ago to random

Cover up the obviously bird part of this picture and suddenly it's a shoggoth 😶

https://universeodon.com/@JonBowie/112422828442412660

#Cthulhu #Lovecraft

BigJackBrass, 17 days ago to music

Inevitably, the part about skipping today and taking a rest from the Cliff Edwards Project can be safely ignored.

A popular Irving Berlin number this time, covered by all manner of people over the years including Cliff on the "Shakin' the Blues Away" LP.

#Ukulele #Music #CliffEdwards #UkuleleIke

Ukulele songsheet for "Everybody Step" by Irving Berlin (1921). Lyrics and chord diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text.

BigJackBrass, 17 days ago to random

Tea break this morning involved a spot of plinking and strumming on my Ohana O'Nino sopranissimo. I've settled on CDAF tuning for this one, which sounds good and has also improved the intonation (always a problem with fretted instruments of this size). Pretty happy with it.

#Ukulele