tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70972352012-01-28T12:51:21.318+02:00CorfuciusNext stop IthacaCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-20729360802794011242012-01-23T14:10:00.005+02:002012-01-23T15:01:53.821+02:00REDEMPTION ~ sober or die ~"Lord have merceh!" as Big Jim Potts would have it "Time for some redemption songs," quoth Dickie Wells (whom I rather wish i had here as wing man as i wrestle with the devil, plucking at my sleeve and whispering his evil in my ear) "You can't stay drunk forever, you're either going to sober up, or die." Amen, Ricardo, amen.I'm alone in the house. Really finally Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-19652584699502759922012-01-23T09:27:00.002+02:002012-01-23T09:37:36.709+02:00PIECE OF WORKAfter the ball is over ...Today, Monday Jan 23's Facebook photo album that seems appropriate to post after all the rages and rants I've scattered around about my filched heirloooms.I feel somewhat appeased now. Perhaps revenged is a better word. At peace.So, my stuff is lost somewhere in the bowels of Villa Thefti, but I've got a replacement batch and very fitting, too.When I was Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-65545849272001043172012-01-14T12:25:00.006+02:002012-01-14T12:37:12.617+02:00MARBLESSounds a perky enough romp: Elginia for the masses.Must get hold of a copy and opinionate.Boogaloo! ~ gonna need some music as as we get elginised.Cue them Jackson Fahve Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-31937486661787438252012-01-13T14:22:00.007+02:002012-01-13T17:19:47.675+02:00BLUES FOR 'BUDDY' POTTSI shoulda titled it 'blues pour l'apostrophe' - seen the waterston's brouhaha? - but i'm after screen cred so i'm doing a double whammy ~ Focus groups nominate the use of 'buddy' as the sure-fire quickest ruse for a white boy to pose as the sorta real thing. [Memo to Anna: sweetie, can i say that i'm like 'down' on the blues? Thanks, mwah. Dont forget to write b&b letter toCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-48364712499044807522012-01-10T16:17:00.003+02:002012-01-10T16:19:50.378+02:00VICTORIA WOODNow that the christmas fairy dust is settling, dad's folks are remembering their softie southern cousin and sharing some of what kept *them* entertained. no downton dementia for *them*.wonderful profile of Victoria Wood (prestwich, lancs) whose chooby lass next door looks enabled her to get away wi' jokes like:'Ive got a dyslexic boyfriend, aye? He's right enthusiastic about my Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-32719248092572065632012-01-09T01:41:00.002+02:002012-01-09T01:44:49.745+02:00AMAZING CATCH Usually these 'amazing' 'best ever' whatevers are no big deal but this double whammy did catch my admiration.The presence of mind of #1 and the anticipation of #2.I'd've turned away or made eyes at some tottie over the boundary. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-10303357398745129602012-01-09T01:37:00.002+02:002012-01-09T01:39:48.779+02:0050 GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS Always a sucker for these silly polls. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-78632645168030344622011-12-29T10:10:00.001+02:002011-12-29T10:29:49.452+02:00YEAR OF THE DRAGON~ Water ~What with reading dad's Chinese poems, I'm reminded to be on the ball over this year's Chinese New Year ~ 23 Jan - 9 FebDo check out the page by my old alma mater, the Hong Kong Tourist Association (as it was called in those days; prolly completely different under Mother China) Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-63626614313480498532011-12-28T09:27:00.004+02:002011-12-28T10:00:49.460+02:00THE CRANES~ Po Chü-i ~Too quick to post the earlier poems from Dad's collection!An hour or so later I came across another collection, more heavily annotated.The Cranes seems to have invited particular attention, although I cannot match a single word or annotation to any line of the translation.How interesting to have been able to ask my father what and where he was fiddling and have him peel backCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-55421077861864512972011-12-27T18:29:00.003+02:002011-12-27T18:59:00.402+02:00POEMS FOR WINTER Suddenly colder but I've built a good fire and my mother is warm in her room.Tassia and Kosta brought me a bottle of Jack Daniel's. Some sips as I take down my father's books of poems.Poets various.Feelings on Watching the Moon ~ Bai JuyiThe times are hard: a year of famine has emptied the fields,My brothers live abroad- scattered west and east.Now fields and gardens are scarcelyCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-78318576226426019282011-12-26T10:19:00.000+02:002011-12-26T10:20:46.249+02:00ST LOUIS BLUES just what i need to set me up for boxing day.you, too Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-7173062002681428522011-12-26T08:31:00.002+02:002011-12-26T08:38:58.790+02:00ONIOMANIA dot wordsworth does a downton anachonism number on PD James.Mum swears Dot is Chris Howse but i'm not now so sure. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-50087920363893055082011-12-24T11:17:00.002+02:002011-12-24T11:21:28.889+02:00EUPHEMISMS once again, the economist deliver. everyone catches it in the neck, every profession. long time since i read anything thru with such satisfaction. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-45437224162780710672011-12-22T08:57:00.010+02:002011-12-22T23:42:22.725+02:00PELTING DOWN Just hearing 'Lightning' singing with such feeling - and cop that guitar! - makes the little dribble I'm moaning about feel like sunny days again.Anna's ploy: some friends of friends on Bainbridge Island were coming up from CA to check out property and we were thinking on how to discourage them.It was cats and dogs at the time. Anna - circa nine - chirped up, "Why dont I put on my Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-89106303925262515992011-12-21T23:48:00.005+02:002011-12-22T00:01:29.359+02:00Bert Simplicity.He changed us all. Bert's kinship with the guitar and his clear vision of where he was heading on the frets is now in our DNA, impossible to separate from what was before.Merry Christmas. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-87530276811502168822011-12-20T21:36:00.009+02:002011-12-20T22:20:24.160+02:00NO RENT BLUES~ Landlord Whine ~My script to a T. Our hitherto trustworthy tenant in the cottage has done a bunk and left a few gaps.Also a whole lotta mess outside his bijou accom.Also a ton of good stuff and his precious car which his spurned girlfriend intends to sell. Apparently, when our lad set off for England - unannounced to all - he was passengering a little chickadee he told his lady Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-49321420386246127992011-12-20T16:10:00.004+02:002011-12-20T16:19:17.996+02:00BEST VIDS 2011 "Food". What was in it?""Bacon, the maple kind." Absolutely spot-on voice-over and the dog's expressions. And it looks as it was one take.Sheen - tech dubbing and massaging at its best Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-75419956517780988582011-12-20T14:07:00.004+02:002011-12-20T14:36:45.849+02:00ANDROGYNOUS BROOMS Ha! I'll dust that CorfuBluesMan's yuletide broom for him! [Thanks for e-greet from chilliest Dorset, by the way; might as well get that in and multi-task: blues to bread 'n' butter]My brother and I share a delight in campy white Brit blues from back before the real deals came along. Clapton tells the story of his salad days when a bloke up his street ordered all these Chess Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-9837202631588253002011-12-16T15:57:00.005+02:002011-12-16T22:17:24.336+02:00MALCOLM BRABANT~ Yellow fever vaccine disgrace ~Go now. Google 'Malcolm Brabant yellow fever' - and I'm ashamed to my roots not to have kept current with this hero journalist - then dash out and pick up today's 16 Dec Athens News, Thrasy Petropoulos's page 13 story of how this consummate news sleuth has, allegedly, had his life wrecked by Stamaril/Sanofi Pasteur vaccine [I blush to see the name Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-70345385536626371162011-12-16T11:16:00.006+02:002011-12-16T15:55:33.136+02:00CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS RIPThe very sad passing of a much-needed thorn in many eminently thornable sides.And that's the photo that conjures up the Hitch I remember from my booksy days when I brushed the garment hems of the Lords of the London Lit Universe: Amis, Fenton, McEwen, et al.I used to mewl and mow whenever Martin Amis breezed into my ken but to no effect. Then Alison Press came out with Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-39202664185715147762011-12-14T21:46:00.002+02:002011-12-14T21:52:36.735+02:00MIFFEDEuhh, spoke out of turn. Dog house.Key won't fit the door, phone off the hook.The dulcet tones of John Lee will bring her round. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-8646061467471853662011-12-14T21:04:00.006+02:002011-12-14T21:20:41.225+02:00Dr David Kelly CMG, DScAmong my circle I seem to be a lone indignatus over the shifty treatment of David Kelly's death.I did at the time believe that there was a strong possibility that he had been helped on the way and the bizarre attitude over an inquest increased my suspicion.On the other hand, none other than Tom Mangold poo-poohs this. David Halpin has stepped in.Halpin websiteThe Inquest Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-63095312377469568022011-12-14T08:47:00.006+02:002011-12-14T14:51:51.222+02:00LONESOME DAY BLUES One of my favorite blues whose words are so good that, despite my own fluting fauntleregal voice, I sneak up to the bedroom with the Ovation and sing it out over the Gouvia badlands.Do listen to the reference to "been to the nation and round the territo'"Likewise going to the big house and he dont even care ... he might get 4 or 5 years, Lord he might get the chair."Going to Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-40398474554005418782011-12-11T10:42:00.002+02:002011-12-11T10:46:54.107+02:00ALIVE BEAUTIFUL FINITE I'm probably the last person to have caught up with this, but i share Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-85709427027345362712011-12-05T19:35:00.019+02:002011-12-06T14:39:26.253+02:00WHAT'S THE PLAYBOOK?- Charlie Brooker's 'Black Mirror' -I read everything that clever Charles Brooker writes.Here he excels himself: not a word wrong, masterly delivery by a spot-on cast. Rory sublime as PM.Listen to his wife's delivery of part 1's closing line, "Can I have a word?"Next Scenes, the mirror blackeneth.Denouement.Best actor ~ LYDIA WILSON.Everyone is top-notch but a huge bouquet to Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-86763736615733146182011-11-28T09:51:00.003+02:002011-11-28T09:56:37.451+02:00THIS TRAIN ~ Rusty and Fred ~Just traced this clip after umpteen years. Been looking everywhere for this inspiration to get playing and recording again.Now, post it somewhere I can find it again and listen and be inspired. Let the rallying call be "A recording by Christmas" Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-37872206488053100982011-11-26T13:25:00.006+02:002011-11-26T13:33:31.907+02:00SPECCIE ATHENS DIARY Brendan on form. I'm sure you know his Spiked online 'rag' Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-66054581513891735182011-11-24T23:08:00.004+02:002011-11-24T23:18:10.255+02:00CORRUPTIONLetters to Editor ~ Athens NewsBrave letter."I am a Canadian, who moved to Greece to live with my husband, a member of the Hellenic Coastguard.During our three-year relationship, I have learned how corrupt the law is here and how the police abuse their power and, more specifically, how the authorities on the islands get away with everything and ignore all formal procedures and Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-2659382683451351112011-11-24T02:04:00.031+02:002011-11-26T23:19:09.352+02:00BAD SEXBravo the Literary Review! It's that time of year again ~ The Bad Sex in Fiction award."In a year in which literary awards have come under fire for parochialism and dumbing down ... proud to uphold and recognise literary excellence from around the world ... The purpose of the prize is to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-30377722977724448162011-11-22T22:11:00.005+02:002011-11-22T22:47:40.918+02:00BLEAK FOR BLEAKLY I'm sorry Chris Bleakley has finally been dumped with her equally abysmal co-host. She's hot as hell but a disaster as a living moving walking talking TV front person.But that gorgeous nose and sensuous features ... Next in the chat chair ~ albeit with that bland bore Eamonn Holmes (no connection whatsoever) ~ is rumoured to be Tassia "Rue my view" Kaplinksky, better known in Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-23390412910972210582011-11-10T23:00:00.012+02:002011-11-11T09:40:31.686+02:00DIMITRIS KYRIAKIS~ fineartamerica ~What greater pleasure than to introduce others to artistry and beauty?Myself, I love taking a camera out and stalking subjects that catch my eye.Alas, there it ends: the result never approaches the joy of the hunt. I lack the eye to frame and have no technical skill when it comes to understanding what's going on in the camera itself.And I fuss and I faff and tryCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-57195110246704786932011-11-05T08:54:00.017+02:002011-11-06T11:18:36.496+02:00 AD MURDEROUS NAUSEAM Excellent piece by Matthew Parris in The Spectator for 29 October asking what is the point of the storytelling bore? I am the expert on repetitive bores and I'm forwarding this link to my fellow caregiver contacts in case it gives them any inspiration on how to cope with those endlessly burbling Groundhog-Day droners. I've lived with my 91-year-old mother for five and a halfCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-50929653792536552402011-11-02T09:50:00.008+02:002011-11-02T11:26:28.531+02:00DOWNTON ABBEY ~ spoof two ~Concentrate, everyone - spoof 2 is far funnier than #1 and our Joanna is hilarious. Wonderful when someone knows how to mock themselves.Spoof One Callow and Lumley - how do they do it? Brendan Coyle interview - lucky bastard, him and that Anna.If Lady Mary keeps rebuffing my advances, it's Anna I'm hitting on next. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-81964512561955218732011-10-27T10:09:00.023+03:002011-10-30T12:12:19.026+02:00MULTIRAMA ~ CORFU~ Multi δράμα ~I've told this story so often of my unsuccessful purchase from Multirama / Sanyo, but a crusading techie journo pal wants me to put something online to which she can refer the top Multirama~Sanyo honchos when she buttonholes them at trade fairs or interviews them in their own offices.I think she plans a consumer magazine report on the straightforward sloppy Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-6653314747008386502011-10-26T22:22:00.009+03:002011-10-27T01:55:37.709+03:00CHILL OUT~ John Lee Hooker ~ Santana ~Every now n then, not often, I treat myself to one of those muzakynthos nightmares such Santana's prissy pure vibrato 'n' cutesy Karibbean bongo beat getting together with John Lee's growly vox profundo.This is one of my exemplary apogee favorites, a satirical fretting of a tongue-in-cheek parody of what it might sound like if some honky marketing whizz daredCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-76817526141321500912011-10-25T11:56:00.006+03:002011-10-25T13:08:18.918+03:00Hickory Dockery Dick ... so to speakThis has nothing to do with the entrancing enhancing 'garment' Michelle Dockery is wearing across there and everything to do with her comments on the Lost Art of Chivalry.OK, perhaps that forthright 'Lady Mary' gaze did draw my eye to the article but my concern is for more pressing matters than whatever manners maketheth. To be honest, I'm very worried that 'Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-28149824039884489792011-10-22T08:42:00.026+03:002011-11-06T18:59:04.618+02:00VISIONS OF JOANNA~ some music, maestro ~Thursday Oct 21, 2300hrs Clio Muse Time: A hush has fallen over Prospero's Cell as we huddle round our HDTV screens to watch [and listen to - that voice!] the very professional and watchable Joanna Lumley "do" Corfu.I've been invited to 'Maki's Manger' ['soignee swaddling of the gentry'] by the manager Gerasimos himself to share the sumptuous buffet he's Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-78710509176209121742011-10-19T23:59:00.002+03:002011-10-20T00:06:24.869+03:00HANK SAID IT BESTGuy said it pretty good, too.Perfect tempo, good authentic accent, all the instruments given their due. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-89474447501008726252011-10-18T11:00:00.004+03:002011-10-18T11:22:01.978+03:00" That 3 a.m. ‘tribunal’ "~ Kate Chisholm - The Spectator ~Wonderful quote winkled out by The Speccie's ace Radio reviewer, the incisive, Kate Chisholm.Well placed there by her masters: one dribbles ones eye past that dead wet loss Deborah Ross and her self-referential twittering about 'cinema' - God, she gives editorial patronage a bad name - and is just about to cancel the subscription when theCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-46696880373075809132011-10-17T21:30:00.005+03:002011-10-17T23:10:29.563+03:00HarGate Mandy said it for us all: "He would, wouldn't he?".Look at the thug. Blackguard. Pray God for 'justice'. Surf for Harwood and all who sail in him.Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-33291799568537503662011-10-13T23:23:00.003+03:002011-10-14T00:27:56.460+03:00GYAKU GIREWonderful term and discovered just in time for my further writings on the loss of my personal jewelry and my daughters' heirlooms: "A Japanese term for [such] hostility: gyaku gire, literally “reverse rage” ... refers to a situation in which someone who isn’t in a position to be mad unfurls fury." In April 2007, my entire 40-year collection of personal treasures of cufflinks and tie Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-29691606969360004862011-10-13T19:28:00.004+03:002011-10-13T19:47:15.168+03:00WILLS ONLINE This is what i did in my will of jan 9 2003, along with URLS of many other sites where i've stored details and financial finagling manoeuvres linked to the theft of my personal jewelery of April 2007. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-53048749633512978532011-10-11T16:54:00.000+03:002011-10-11T16:55:15.190+03:00Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-4385641111017825632011-10-11T11:47:00.004+03:002011-10-11T12:01:54.545+03:00She Belongs to Me at last on youtube. my favourite dylan and the only one i sing with any confidence.the old 45rpm is exactly like the one i still have somewhere in the attic.i bought it in hong kong and sang it all summer of '64. you don't know the lady in the photo so stop pretending you do. And I certainly ain't pretending she belongs or be-anythings to me. It's just a great photo of a super Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-28054945586605130462011-10-08T15:58:00.002+03:002011-10-08T17:40:08.972+03:00FACE BOOK OLDIE GOLDIES Horace Shipp's tribute to the "Living Fossil with Legs", thought extinct until discovered in the 1930s in a South Efrikan fish market."There lived a happy CoelacanthIn dim, primordial seas;He ate and mated, hunted, slept,Completely at his ease.Dame Nature urged: 'Evolve!'He said 'Excuse me, Ma'am.You get on with making Darwin,I'm staying as I am." Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-83317562678027289962011-09-18T19:18:00.011+03:002011-10-07T18:27:30.899+03:00COLD STEEL COMEUPPANCEVINCE CLEARED!Oh don't you love these tales of heroism and bravado?Two intruders bust into a house, threaten a solo bloke; wife and kid return, pater naturally leaps to their defence, prongs one of the villains as t'other scarpers.Photo left/right: Valiant Vince ~ Tea LeafEven better, the pronged pratt isn't killed outright but has time to think it over while being "given Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-49880464019136041802011-09-10T16:26:00.006+03:002011-09-10T17:44:24.240+03:00Η ομορφάσχημηThe Ugly BeautyStunning, gripping performance in the Art Café annexe of the Garden of the Palace by Natalía Kapodístria.I quote from Corfu's God-send, Whats-up-Corfu:"Theatrical adaptation, direction, costume interpretation by Natalía Kapodístria.The Omorfaschimi (The Ugly Beauty) ... a theatrical monologue adaptation of the eponymous literary text of Νίκος Καχτίτσης, narrated in a Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-21807971881265589662011-09-07T11:32:00.003+03:002011-09-07T11:39:25.640+03:00CORFU GRAPEVINE Splendid splendid. Just what I want.Let's hope it's juicy and scurrilous.I'll certainly be feeding it from the hot sweaty bottom of the compost pile. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-60861852646823885802011-09-05T11:51:00.006+03:002011-09-06T13:00:14.092+03:00JOHN LEE FOR PREZ "Great guitar" - Corfu Blues ManLord have mercy! Have the porter's boy run like the wind to Nonesuch. Pray God we're in time for them to fire up a reprint for when the Blues Man quote hits the street.Also ~ "One of the best albums of a distinguished career ... the sharp gallows humour and uncanny impersonation on John Lee Hooker for President, which imagines the great old Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-34190186081006260432011-09-03T17:20:00.011+03:002011-09-04T14:57:32.762+03:00POISONOUS PRATTLESYou know my devious ways ... deeve deeve deeve. Plot, scheme - a brace of rumours here, fun fibs there. See that distinctly dubious-looking cove stage right? Rebekah's gutter press certainly judged landlord Chris Jefferies weird enough to hound over the murder of Jo Yeates before the jury was even in. Jefferies was cleared and it was payback time. The beguiling Rebecca Leighton Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-41127526587024946552011-08-28T21:49:00.024+03:002011-09-04T19:46:32.216+03:00VENETIAN VALETE~ Venetian Well closing Sept 10 ~I had ever such a nice comment posted this morning. I had to scroll back to see what I'd done or said wrong.It was my post on clever talented Caroline Philp's Kyma Therapeutic arty periptero opposite the equally gaze-glazing Bam 'n' Boozle grub, glug and snub rendezvous.Please note that Mr Nice-Comment, "Devid Pul", [as bogus a name as I've come Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-2024723327434669832011-08-19T18:14:00.008+03:002011-09-01T13:44:16.472+03:00KYMA THEMAGiftedest artist Caroline Philp is pulling off wonders in her gallery across from the new Navigators eaterie meetery (itself no slouch at wondrous meads, sweetmeats, and serveuses of lapine beauty).That up there is, to quote CP elle-meme, a "New roof tile, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci, after I was given the most beautiful book about him."I think I'll make this a Philp archive of Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-88047125054264149182011-08-09T00:44:00.009+03:002011-08-09T03:02:48.796+03:00REDRick Driscoll ~ Dave Good ~ Steve HillsThere is something going on down in Kondokali and clever Sue Peacock's savvy Navigators eaterie meetery musiki. I can't work out the chemistry, but it sure as hell works.MUSIKI ~ top sounds, top service, ambiance you can't buy. And speaking of sounds, I am getting very hooked on that Red combo.Whoa - went down to see out Sunday with a brewski or 5 and Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-33093340813680683022011-07-27T17:11:00.003+03:002011-07-27T17:33:35.447+03:00GUNS AND STABS My kind of heroism tale:72-yr-old bloke playing dominoes with palTwo armed men burst in - clearly intent on no good - one (30-ish bastard) stabbed in the front, good man-to-man stuff.In the chest - no foppish low blow - fatally.Gimme an high 5. I don't usually go in for these Americanisms but in this case I exceptionalise.The other bloke gets away but later checks into a hospital, Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-41040596289432759522011-07-23T09:14:00.004+03:002011-07-23T11:06:24.919+03:00RICHARD LANE~ country singer ~Just when I was wondering where Corfu's premier country crooner had disappeared to, up he crops on ever-reliable WhatsUp-Corfu with a whole slew of dates. Note them now:24 July ~ 2130 hours ~ Kerkyra Golf Hotel ~ Pool Bar25 July ~ 2100 hours ~ St George's Bay Country Club ~ Pool Lounge28 July ~ 2130 hours ~ Corcyra Beach Hotel, Gouvia.Kerkyra Golf - I was going to Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-77300655054858881942011-07-23T01:41:00.009+03:002011-07-23T11:11:04.701+03:00FOULARD IHT, 21 July, 2011Can't you just imagine the prelim argy-bargy negotiations?"So, infidel, you wanna make photo? What paper this for? Croydon Advertiser? Bravo.We make good photo - Salome! A clean white vest and my new foulard from Marks n Sparks. I lean back, I drape like this. Look cool.Bubba, you stay there, look fat and stupid like always; wear that naff cap, look more stupid. Put outCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-90221950714502365342011-07-18T10:14:00.020+03:002011-07-21T11:54:54.400+03:00Kyma Kyma Kyma ... Hey girls (and other Kymaleons), gather round. Big day coming up ~ le tout Corfu will be milling and spilling and troughing and sluicing.So listen up ~ I may not say it again.That demure Caroline PHILP is having an official opening of her wonderful Kyma gallery.MURALS AND ART CLIPSLIDE SHOWFEEDS & POSTS ~ Cornucopia of CaroliniaWHERE BUY? I know we've stood there knocking backCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-69515035491496134772011-07-16T09:44:00.003+03:002011-07-16T10:13:01.620+03:00DOWNTON HOTTIEWho's the hottest tottie in mesmerising Downton Abbey? No, not the entrancing Elizabeth McGovern ... nor Lady Mary (flawless Michelle Dockery)... It has to HAS to be Head Housemaid Anna, Joanne Froggatt, she of the perfect nose and also perfect accent, being the real thing, like, from Littlebeck, Scarborough. Can you imagine the casting director's joy to come across not only a Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-67271381230617467432011-07-13T16:17:00.002+03:002011-07-13T17:30:19.040+03:00rafferty Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-78206320934253232232011-07-13T00:51:00.005+03:002011-07-15T12:41:21.930+03:00PLETHORA OF IMPLAUSIBLESI love to see the Filth clutching at straws, gasping for life-lines, wanking not waving.Here is as unconvincing a pack of smarmy pathetica as you'll see smearing your screens over the hack factory probes.ANDY HAYMAN ~ do stick it out until 3 mins 26 secs in when Andrew Hayman knots the noose round his scurvey scrannel. If ever guilt spilled forth, it's here - lies lies andCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-42055012212165139002011-07-12T10:44:00.002+03:002011-07-12T10:46:33.097+03:00YOUNG TURKS William Dalrymple excellent in the Speccie on vile Blighty youth.Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-65664623365691142882011-07-10T09:10:00.017+03:002011-08-02T19:59:43.943+03:00CARDIGANMy pal Sasha came to stay for a few days, she who'd lent me the DVD of Thank You for Smoking that I was watching in my brother's house when it dawned on me that my box of jewels was sitting on the neighbouring dressing table.I had a favourite favourite cardigan bought by my ex wife 20 years ago right here in Corfu. I spotted it immediately as a candidate for export - but where hide it?Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-8694642896410056612011-07-08T10:23:00.000+03:002011-07-08T10:24:07.389+03:00Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-46197016771203841342011-07-02T17:37:00.020+03:002011-07-11T17:06:26.778+03:00Kύμα TherapyAs most folks know, I try never to say anything nice about anyone. Against my principles, especially when it's a question of complimenting some writing, daub or musicking.Woot! Knives out, bovver boot in.But what I can't resist is those cosily aloof types ~ all wan 'n' wistful. Bang, crash; straight onto the floor. Out for the count.I know, a bit kinky and I'm raising it with my Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-23746431564441844302011-07-01T21:40:00.000+03:002011-07-01T21:41:08.996+03:00HOW WE MISS THE DRACHMA! Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-64811127785505211422011-06-29T10:03:00.017+03:002011-07-02T09:13:47.144+03:00DOWN TO A T-I have come to the conclusion that I am as a naive lamb to the slaughter when it comes to thievery.I should be the alertest on the block but I seem to be Exhibit A in Kyria Tussaudorakaki's 'Thefted and Berefted' section.I needn't go into the details - too boring - and they can be found in my extended letter to my daughters and future sons-in-law ~ just type in Villa Thefti or 'Piece Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-10548750200972368402011-06-28T20:37:00.002+03:002011-06-28T20:40:48.560+03:00TOBY YOUNG BLOGIf I have to explain the excellent and energetic Toby Young to you, you're in the wrong place being on my blog.This is for them others who've put up with me reading from his books or Speccie articles and fumed like me over his brave adventures setting up the school. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-72023996304355096092011-06-27T14:40:00.006+03:002011-06-29T12:50:29.288+03:00JON VENIAL~ filmed in shadow ~ Pray God some misguided twerp lets the panoramic Venables interview go ahead. As much shadow as he likes, voice coder, wah wah distortion ... anything to lure him into the studio and a false sense of security and injustice.The ratings!All it needs then is that they place the CCTV cameras absolutely everywhere. Can you imagine the bounty on that murderers head? Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-72965157614325283692011-06-26T05:52:00.002+03:002011-06-26T05:56:17.167+03:00FRANK EDWARDS I just like the camera angle on this one and his thumbpick hand and just the whole composition how they captured this song. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-40423869090310175502011-06-25T22:03:00.000+03:002011-06-25T17:19:48.039+03:00CAROLINE 'Caroline, Yes', the Beachboys should be singing.Just the nicest person has set up shop in Kontokali, opposite the savvy Navigators, so that's double incentive to pop over and spend spend spend til Daddy takes the T-bird away. [Likes of you shouldnt be driving flash wheels like that anyway - get yerself a bike and spend the money where it should be ~ chez Carolina.]KYMA: Look for Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-69002726167814492712011-06-25T21:43:00.002+03:002011-06-25T21:44:50.089+03:00DRIFTERS WIND Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-83904518760376055792011-06-25T11:59:00.002+03:002011-06-25T12:27:48.260+03:00FREE JON VENABLES"Father of murdered toddler James Bulger last night begged authorities not to release killer Jon Venables - warning he will once again target children if he is freed." Oh boo hiss, 'Grieving' Ralph, where's your sense of adventure? Your spirit for the kill?For years I've been railing at the so-called sleuthy webhounds and their soi-disant nose for a fugitive. Fat lot of success Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-91472458545386157332011-06-24T18:43:00.002+03:002011-06-24T18:55:50.905+03:00Patrick Leigh FermorI hear people referring to the late great Patrick Leigh Fermor as 'Paddy'. "Oh," I brighten, "did you know him, too?"They have not. My family did - from many years ago. I remember at a party chez nous on The Peak, Paddy was coming and then he was coming and then he was coming and every taxi that pulled up in the monsoon rain was peered at. Who was this boring old fart, I Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-83496590915262052762011-06-24T12:25:00.005+03:002011-06-24T13:06:28.351+03:00Olympics schmolympics To hell with no tickets, slow tickets for these stoopid Olympics whenever they are.No way am I trading my olive grove for a soggy street in ... wherever it's being held.I'm only interested in any chance to run luverly big pics of that Jessica Ennis.Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-70388917602789179182011-06-22T08:00:00.001+03:002011-06-22T08:00:48.285+03:00Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-24293348864323981322011-06-21T15:33:00.004+03:002011-06-21T16:10:11.406+03:00"PRIVATE TAXI SERVICE"~ heads up ~KV, all you chaps who weekly entertain the cricket team and their trophy wives and send Jarvis to meet them in the jalopy.Good pal who does just that, and when the banger isn't full of toffs it's driving down thru France crammed with bubbly: last week he was meeting some pals and was hauled over by the local fuzz and grilled to an inch over running a private taxiCorfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-75587438929506094672011-06-20T20:57:00.007+03:002011-06-21T15:13:25.282+03:00John Knox Forte, MBETo Palaiokastritsa-sous-Monastère-sur-Mer to visit my hero and Corfu's National Treasure, the doughty John Forte.A little too deaf even for my bellowing to get through, John had no problem chatting to my soft-voiced mother.But I did have an animated chat with his wife, Nadia (née Kourkoumeli), both of us ranting and raging at the vulgar 'Yellow Submarine' tourist underwater Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-30283046081202920932011-06-20T09:30:00.004+03:002011-06-20T10:07:26.934+03:00HARWOOD'S HIKE At last! Oh boy, oh boy ... can you imagine how bully-boy Simon must be feeling?Enfin! I'm amused the paper lists his suffering family so we know who's been going thru the hell with him. Orf to school for the little ones where their playground mates will be re-enacting their new best favourite game - "You be that Tomlinson bloke and I'll whack and knock you down."I do hope the Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-60395370200986194812011-06-19T20:10:00.005+03:002011-06-21T22:36:04.594+03:00CéciliaI have always always fancied ex-Madame Sarkozy, Cécilia Attias, over that Bruni usurper. Don't tell me - I would be a lamb to the guillotine. J'sais! That's part of the attraction, mon dieu!And now news has it that Mlle Attias will be publishing an autobiographical novel in 2012.Cat fight! And the French do these things with such aplomb.There's something about her non-eyes and shrew-sharp Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-33931197965551103352011-06-19T09:36:00.002+03:002011-06-19T09:46:18.488+03:00SPENCER: THIRD MARRIAGE By the viagra of Verrius Flaccus! Truly The Lord moves in strange ways.What on earth is a beauty like Karen Gordon doing hitching up to a choleric monster like Spencer. Her intelligence shines from her eyes so ... whazzup, people?Do you remember Spencer's pathetic OTT performance at sister Diana's funeral? Talk about Alice's sick bag.And now this triumph of optimism over Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-21832954858145615752011-06-16T21:18:00.005+03:002011-06-16T22:32:08.290+03:00GOOD GOLLY, MISS GOROS!Friday Frolics and to the nouveau Navigators eaterie and chummery [which needs its own new website to do it justice], there to be blasted by Roy Kendal's new band, starring the fantabulosa Maria Goros.Perfect end to a week of lawyers and builders and online bankery wankery ... in other words, the usual.All the Players there, hobbing and nobbing and ordering the costliest Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-47950277391896626212011-06-15T20:13:00.008+03:002011-06-16T10:18:34.759+03:00Necessary Protection Systems "Mike in Corfu" mails me (and one or two others) from itrivoli@tellas.gr with the reassurance that "I shall not provide such information to your website, nothing personal, but you are very unlikely to have the necessary protection systems in place."He then proceeds to ignore the very basic 'protection system' of the bcc button and consequently shares with me a Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-74565244024703899782011-06-07T23:56:00.000+03:002011-06-07T23:57:22.408+03:00Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-48458827038851641962011-06-07T21:51:00.006+03:002011-06-08T11:22:54.445+03:00GIGGSLES GALOREThat corker to the right - the Pippa Middleton dark horse of the Giggs 'n' Thomas Laugh-In - is Natasha Giggs, slinky sister-in-law of Randy Ryan and, shock horror, yet another of his bedmates. Lucky sod.If I was the fragrant Imogen, far from curling up and dying, I'd be hooting my hooters off - dudette, even Samson would have been hard put to bring down as varied a temple of Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-33704901308131313152011-06-05T12:14:00.004+03:002011-06-16T19:17:26.397+03:00HAMPOTSCA(I was going to head this "Corina Hamilton" but I couldn't find that razzmatazz showbiz font that blinks and flashes like a used-car scam.)Oh but don't you love that shot of Big Jim Potts as if in supplicatory pose? Talk about Lawd Have Mercy.'F course, if that had been moi, it'd be: "Please please, Cori - just one cuppa round the corner at the Nomad Tea Rooms." Loipon, Friday 3rd June,Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-15102519990467311212011-06-03T17:13:00.002+03:002011-06-03T17:20:23.721+03:00 My favourite cartoon/caption of all time.I use it instead of "Up to a point, Lord Coppper".She is saying to him:"In the book they just shake hands"So clever. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-19368186500513100772011-06-02T23:15:00.008+03:002011-06-04T08:31:10.431+03:00Παρασκευή PlunkereeAt ease, chaps.I just plonked a pic of Ms Christina Hendricks in here to get your attention.I don't have a pic of either of the two singers, Corina Hamilton on the church gig and Nouveau Latitude's Maria GorosJim's décolleté gown is at the cleaner ... and Roy's sponsorship contract includes a specific veto on his Reed Smith competing with distracting cleavage... pity, because Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-534583738198308782011-06-01T01:10:00.001+03:002011-06-01T01:12:09.583+03:00OXI? good name. tell someone oxi they'll scramble for it Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-27553986714492257242011-05-31T23:17:00.005+03:002011-05-31T23:39:10.873+03:00SOCKIN' 'N' ROCKIN' Separately, several people with no 'axe' to grind have told me what a great new sound this revised line-up is pumping out, how Roy is grinning chops to chops as if new blood is pumping thru his veins and as for Maria ... apparently she really is sensationale - indeed, words fail the ones I've chatted to. I've not heard her so I can't comment but just the fact that people are Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-34010113544525882142011-05-30T21:17:00.002+03:002011-05-30T21:22:40.704+03:00LIP DUB apparently, some newsweek reporter reported that Grand Rapids MI was dead. the entire city mobilised.sorta brought a tear to my eye. made me take down a map of corfu and check where we should be singing about. To Poùlima en chanson, sort of. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-1893293139280500472011-05-30T00:16:00.003+03:002011-05-30T00:49:40.126+03:00SCERRIEOh good god, I'd've freaked in my Pampers if I'd turned on the tele and found myself ogling this.Perfectly charming young lady, I'm sure, altho' they could have used a clip that didnt also make her look as if she fields a speech defect.Nice plain face, nothing to get the dads wanked up over; fills her bra if not her bras [but at that age, I wouldna been focusing on cup size] ... but I Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-28785937745957583412011-05-29T13:49:00.014+03:002011-05-31T09:43:47.315+03:00HOSPITAL HIPSounds like malaise afflicting nurses and cleaners. This is more how to behave when hospitalised and above all how loved ones should comport themselves while hanging around waiting for crumbs of information from the olympian staff. I have recently minded my mother thru a minor op and the greatest danger to the success of the mission was the bleating cry-baby blubbering text messages Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-10730775742942885752011-05-28T21:27:00.002+03:002011-05-28T21:33:50.670+03:00TRAIN TIME This is totally blues material. "Green pepper on the front, red pepper at the back ... whoa, there goes that box o' OJs, left too close onna track."Got up singin' 'n' cryin' ... Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-14362715758020041662011-05-28T00:39:00.004+03:002011-05-28T22:52:01.092+03:00MARMEET VEETVed min Viking forfædre!My father was as brooding a Dane as any who crossed over on a day trip, found a Wold he liked and stayed on ... Dad was a very precise man who took his Marmite seriously, usually eating it when mum was out. He and I would sit down with some good bread before us and dad would slice it slim and even. If there was an open fire he'd hand me my fork and we'd toast Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-18869310953468475962011-05-23T20:01:00.004+03:002011-05-23T20:27:38.788+03:00Super-injunction Blues Went down to the goal mouthGet some ball time before the sun goes downNgh ngh, down down on that goal mouthLet that good man dribble down [lawd have mercy]All he shows me is the red cardBefore the news gets all around[Wouldna blabbed on that man anyway ...]Gigs and Gags.Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-80233991433216549102011-05-23T09:42:00.002+03:002011-05-23T09:48:02.696+03:00‘Scare quotes’ Charles Moore's Spectator's Notes for 14 May.He's writing about vol 2 of Harold Macmillan's diaries."Like many highly educated people, Macmillan used ‘scare quotes’ (there — I am using them myself) to an astonishing degree. Such inverted commas are a device for distancing oneself from something ...." I've often wondered what they were called. Why 'scared'?My father described their Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-76487336890909807992011-05-22T23:33:00.004+03:002011-05-23T00:18:41.993+03:00MONEY ~ WATERWell, I can't see much similarity but then again I haven't a clear enough photo of the respective cufflinks in front of me on which I base my poison post imprecations on Villa Thefti.Imprecations ~ is that the right word? I sort of thought it was more the spoken kind and with a slight religioso flavour. And does it not appear in the Scottish Play? No matter; I've never used it, even Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-3741176343901221962011-05-22T22:31:00.003+03:002011-05-23T07:10:32.459+03:00GOOD MOUTH Not just good mouth but goal mouth, I'll wager.Indeed, what with all the hoo-ha over super injunctions, own goal mouth, I wouldn't be surprised.Goodness what a tangled web. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-6124700934828257752011-05-22T11:27:00.002+03:002011-05-22T11:30:08.105+03:00Sympathy for the Devilremind yourselves how it felt. Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-31686763533684091042011-05-17T00:42:00.002+03:002011-05-17T01:35:38.982+03:00NOT WAVING BUT RUSHING Ulp. Not good. Strauss-Kahn denied bail.But wait ... he "had not tried to flee the scene and was actually rushing for a lunch appointment."M'lud ... members of the jury ... let us not 'rush' to judgement [laughter].May I also submitTired and emotional.Ugandan discussionsExotic cherootAnd if I could quote from the Book of Sinbad, Caliph of Krakatoa ...M'Lud: Quite so, Mr Corfuciusnoreply@blogger.com2