I was out for a spin in the sunshine today and dug oot a three cd compilation called 'renaissance the classics'.
Had forgotten what a brilliant comp selection it was. The mixing of the tunes is flawless.
Darabont and Hurd discuss the show and the first photos
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Couple more details about the show.
It is due to air this Oct. Already got renewed and they haven't even aired an episode!
While at Comic Con, producer and series overlord Frank Darabont has announced a second series has been green-lit so impressed are AMC with what’s been delivered already.
Bear McCreary of BSG fame is doing the score!
Cam trailer which was recorded by someone at comic con. I am sure the proper release should be around in a few days.
For a start Japan, now I was only there for a brief time but an incredible place. The subway system puts our excuse of a transport network to shame.
Lot of data about Scandinavia although I haven't been there so guess I am basing on 2nd hand experience.
I guess you could identify a near infinite number of metrics to measure quality of life but looking at our political class, transport system, health service, cost of living, general indebtness - and I mean debts ordinary people have, not just giant debt country holds. With all that I find it hard to believe we are number 1 on the list.
For a start Japan, now I was only there for a brief time but an incredible place. The subway system puts our excuse of a transport network to shame.
Lot of data about Scandinavia although I haven't been there so guess I am basing on 2nd hand experience.
I guess you could identify a near infinite number of metrics to measure quality of life but looking at our political class, transport system, health service, cost of living, general indebtness - and I mean debts ordinary people have, not just giant debt country holds. With all that I find it hard to believe we are number 1 on the list.
Japan is about the one place I haven't been that I'd like to visit.
Quality of life is so subjective though that I guess there is no real way to compare.
When you look at the practical things ,the Government and the economy we are an awful mess but for Community, environment and general attitude to life we can't be beat. I'm in the middle of a funeral at the moment, a relations son died after a long struggle with his health, when you see the way the extended family and friends got through those years, the medical care and attention the lad got and the way that everybody comes together to help and be with people to get them through terrible times, I don't think you get that sort of community in other places.
Japan is about the one place I haven't been that I'd like to visit.
Quality of life is so subjective though that I guess there is no real way to compare.
When you look at the practical things ,the Government and the economy we are an awful mess but for Community, environment and general attitude to life we can't be beat. I'm in the middle of a funeral at the moment, a relations son died after a long struggle with his health, when you see the way the extended family and friends got through those years, the medical care and attention the lad got and the way that everybody comes together to help and be with people to get them through terrible times, I don't think you get that sort of community in other places.
As I said to Zuutroy I and most everyone reading this are amongst the luckiest people alive or ever to have lived and it's very easy to forget how good we have it but I still question our placing on top of the list but as you said it's pretty subjective and depends on what metrics you want to focus on.
True but, and I know always seem to stereotype like this, but I found the Japanese people so incredibly nice and helpful.
I remember 1 night, we got kicked out of the taxi as someone(not me) got sick in it. We had no idea where we were or how to get back to our hostel so I went off and hoped I could figure it out seeing as I was least drunk of our group. I remember asking some Japanese couple, they didn't speak a word of English but they tried so very hard, far beyond the call of duty, to help me out.
Now imagine at 4am some drunk foreigner who is a different race comes up to you speaking a totally different language. How helpful do you think you would likely be?
I remember 1 night, we got kicked out of the taxi as someone(not me) got sick in it. We had no idea where we were or how to get back to our hostel so I went off and hoped I could figure it out seeing as I was least drunk of our group. I remember asking some Japanese couple, they didn't speak a word of English but they tried so very hard, far beyond the call of duty, to help me out.
Now imagine at 4am some drunk foreigner who is a different race comes up to you speaking a totally different language. How helpful do you think you would likely be?
Ah come on I was listening up until the anecdotal evidence!
True but, and I know always seem to stereotype like this, but I found the Japanese people so incredibly nice and helpful.
I remember 1 night, we got kicked out of the taxi as someone(not me) got sick in it. We had no idea where we were or how to get back to our hostel so I went off and hoped I could figure it out seeing as I was least drunk of our group. I remember asking some Japanese couple, they didn't speak a word of English but they tried so very hard, far beyond the call of duty, to help me out.
Now imagine at 4am some drunk foreigner who is a different race comes up to you speaking a totally different language. How helpful do you think you would likely be?
They were probably trying to convince you to appear on 'Shiny Happy Silly Game Show' where to get home you would have to wrestle alligators or something, but gave up because you were too drunk.
Don't know if its been mentioned here before, just watched the first episode of Sherlock which is a new show on BBC and its excellent. Its Sherlock Holmes set in modern times.
'Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you' - Bill Belichick
Don't know if its been mentioned here before, just watched the first episode of Sherlock which is a new show on BBC and its excellent. Its Sherlock Holmes set in modern times.
Was actually going to ask if anyone had seen it. Will give it a go, Moffat the guy from Dr Who was involved in writing it so was expecting good things.
Was actually going to ask if anyone had seen it. Will give it a go, Moffat the guy from Dr Who was involved in writing it so was expecting good things.
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I liked it, I've always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, although for my liking it was a little too much like the Movie and not enough like the old Sherlock Holmes show (the 80's one) which I absolutely love and watch the odd episode now and again.
I wasn't gone on the Sherlock Holmes actor, but he kinda grew on me...
As I said to Zuutroy I and most everyone reading this are amongst the luckiest people alive or ever to have lived and it's very easy to forget how good we have it but I still question our placing on top of the list but as you said it's pretty subjective and depends on what metrics you want to focus on.
Do we have it good? Yes. Are we among the very highest happy countries? No. The question of metrics is of course an issue but the field of positive psychology has been researching measures such as gross national happiness and subjective well being for a while now. Gallop has put a lot of money into measuring wellbeing.
Gallop polled 150+ countries and found that wellbeing might be broken down into career wellbeing, social wellbeing, financial wellbeing, physical wellbeing, and community wellbeing.
They track wellbeing in America on a daily basis with a wellbeing index which includes these metrics - life evaluation, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviour, work environment, and basic access.
Here is a pdf of the latest gallop world survey on the issue of 155 countries:
You will note that Ireland does well but very far from the top. Turkmenistan pwn us for example, and we only edge out Colombia.
As to the temporal issue. We aren't really happier than we were decades ago, and there is a far greater amount of mental health problems now than decades ago.
One interesting coincidence has been the increasing interest in wellbeing / happiness measures which have emanated from positive psychology and the global economic meltdown. I predict that increasing national wellbeing is going to be something of a political Zeitgeist over the coming few years.
When we were all so rich before postmaterialist politics sprung up and we all had lolz voting for the Green Party and whatnot. We have been in the mire of ultra materialist politics again for a couple of years now, which is a tremendous shame because people in suits talking about economics is soul suckingly boring and an exercise in intellectual sophistry by second rate minds and bluffers a lot of the time.
When we do next have a pot to piss in, we won't have the stomach to just piss it away like before. The greedy scum and the incompetent morons will be held to greater account going forward, and the transient decadence of flash new cars and "huge growth of our economy like a thousand year Reich" fuelled mortgages should hopefully give way to demands that our wellbeing as a people improve and not just our pay-packets.
We have the science, tools, and desire to focus on wellbeing now. We genuinely never had those three before.
Jesus, nothing like insomnia to get you rambling...
Don't know if its been mentioned here before, just watched the first episode of Sherlock which is a new show on BBC and its excellent. Its Sherlock Holmes set in modern times.
Got properly caught in my first texas storm tonight at training. Raindrops so big and hard they actually hurt my eyes and pounded down for 15 mins. was pretty awful running sprints in them.
was cool seeing shit tonne of lightning off in the distance though
I love playing in the fitz
got told by someone I was (can't remember the term!!) mega gaming everyone into thinking I was a tool.... I am in fact, a tool!
Possibly the greatest movie ever made, complete with carefully interwoven subplots thats keeps the viewer guessing for days afterwards.
Mickey Graham is nothing short of spectacular and James P. Bennett plays the role with all the coolness and natural ability of Bruce Lee, but also has the emotional acting ability of a young Marlon Brando or Humphrey Bogarts performance in The Big Sleep.
As far as scenery, you couldn't wish for a more serene setting than Trim, its a character in itself, just like Sergio Leone's mid 1960s westerns.
jesus that was really boring. can't believe I let it run the whole way
Yeah i agree.
I left it playing in the background, but i only let it play all the way through becasue i was 100% convinced that your man was going to do a runner aswel. Waste of 10 minutes
Scala are excellent, they have many cover versions.
Definitely the funniest one I've heard is a cover of Puddle of Mudd's " She Hates Me"; hearing the angelic voices come together as one to sing "She fucking hates me, na na na na na na" was quite the experience!
No youtube access in work, but if someone could find it, post it!
Re: Japan, I worked with a lot of Japanese guys in my time and they certainly don't have it easy from a career point of view. They get something like 8 vacation days a year which in many cases they don't take because they feel their worth to the company will be called into question if it continues to function while they're away.
Anyway I'm sure everyone knows the stories...That ain't my idea of a quality life!
Still looking forward to going there though. My trip now includes Shanghai as well
It's hilarious how many people think this song is about devil worship, just because it was used in a few movies as background music for evil things. The whole Carmina Burana from which this song comes is an hour long tribute to drinking, gambling, whoring and general debauchery. It's actually pretty awesome considering the time and place it was written.
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