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Post by tannis on Aug 17, 2008 6:37:36 GMT
NIGHT OF THE SWALLOW ~ The Maltese Connection..."Meet them over at Dover I'll just pilot the motor Take them over the water Like a swallow flying to Malta With a hired plane And no names mentioned...British Aircraft SwallowThe B.A Swallow was a British light aircraft of the 1930s. A total of 135 were built. The Swallow, which proved robust and safe, was popular in service. The majority were sold to private owners or flying schools within the United Kingdom. But at least one B.A Swallow (1935) made it to Ireland... flyinginireland.com/eireg.php?Registration=EI-AFFThis aircraft spent the better part of 30 Years in a shed rotting away. The owners set upon a rebuilding the aircraft and have returned it to flying condition.Swallows and MartinsOrder: Passeriformes Family: HirundinidaeThe Hirundinidae family is a group of passerines characterized by their adaptation to aerial feeding. Their adaptations include a slender streamlined body, long pointed wings and short bills with wide gape. The feet are designed for perching rather than walking, and the front toes are partially joined at the base. There are 75 species worldwide. 5 species which occur in Malta: ~ Bank Swallow Riparia riparia ~ Eurasian Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris ~ Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica ~ Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica ~ Common House-Martin Delichon urbica 5 species which occur in Ireland: ~ Bank Swallow Riparia riparia ~ Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (A) ~ Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica ~ Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica (A) ~ Common House-Martin Delichon urbica The swallow's journey is a remarkable one. They leave Ireland and, covering about 200 miles per day, travel through western France, across the Pyrenees, down through eastern Spain and into Morocco. Once there they face the most daunting leg of the journey: the barren expanse of the Sahara desert. Many swallows falter on this crossing, but those that make it will spend the winter in various locations across sub-Saharan Africa. Wintering swallows feed in small flocks by day and gather in large communal roosts by night. In late February swallows begin the arduous journey back to their nesting sites in northern Europe. Ringing experiments have shown that pairs often return to the same nesting site as the previous year and will even use the same nest, but the chances of both adults surviving the ordeal of their long migration is only about one in five. 8 species which occur in Great Britain: ~ Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, very rare vagrant ~ Sand Martin, Riparia riparia ~ Crag Martin, Ptyonoprogne rupestris, very rare vagrant ~ Purple Martin, Progne subis, very rare vagrant ~ Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica ~ Red-rumped Swallow, Hirundo daurica, rare vagrant ~ Cliff Swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota, very rare vagrant ~ House Martin, Delichon urbicum The Republic of Malta Malta is a small European microstate in the Mediterranean Sea. It is 93km (58mi) off the coast of Sicily (Italy), and 288km (179mi) off the coast of Libya.Throughout much of its history, Malta has been considered a crucial strategic location. The island is commonly associated with the Knights Hospitaller who ruled it. The Greeks called the island Melite meaning "honey" or "honey-sweet" possibly due to Malta's unique production of honey; Malta has had an endemic species of bee which lives on the island, giving it the common nickname the "land of honey". Malta was granted independence from Britain on September 21, 1964 (Independence Day). Under its 1964 constitution, Malta initially retained Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Malta. On December 13, 1974 (Republic Day) it became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President as head of state. A defence agreement signed soon after independence (and re-negotiated in 1972) expired on March 31, 1979 (Freedom Day) when the British military forces were withdrawn. Provisional IRA arms importation ~ The Maltese ConnectionThe French Connection involved smuggling the drug heroin from Turkey to France and then to the United States. Could Night of the Swallow involve smuggling weapons, ammunition, personnel, etc from Libya to Malta (or Maltese waters) and then to Ireland or the UK mainland? The Provisional Irish Republican Army began importing large quantities of weapons and ammunition into Ireland for use in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. One source was America. The other source of IRA arms in the 1970s was Libya, whose leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, sympathised with their campaign. ( The coasts of Malta and Libya are barely 180 miles apart.) The first Libyan arms donation to the IRA occurred in 1972–1973, following visits by Joe Cahill to Libya. Cahill was arrested on board the vessel Claudia on 28 March 1973 in Irish territorial waters off the coast of County Waterford. Cahill stated at his trial that, "If I am guilty of any crime, it is that I did not succeed in getting the contents of the Claudia into the hands of the freedom fighters of this country". The Claudia was found to be laden with five tonnes of Libyan arms and ammunition. It is estimated that three shipments of weapons of similar size and makeup did get through to the IRA during the same time period. Moloney reports that the early Libyan arms shipments furnished the IRA with its first RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and that Gaddafi also donated three to five million US dollars at this time. In the 1980s, the IRA secured larger quantities of weapons and explosives from Gaddafi's Libya — enough to supply at least two infantry battalions. The Casamara took on ten tonnes of weapons in September 1985 off the Maltese island of Gozo. These weapons were landed off the Clogga Strand near Arklow later that month. The vessel Dushkas left Maltese waters on 6 October 1985 carrying HMGs. These weapons were also landed in Clogga Strand. A court action is currently (May 2006) underway against Libya by victims of IRA violence: "Gadaffi sued by 160 victims of IRA: Victims of the Enniskillen and Warrington bomb attacks have joined the rapidly growing lawsuit holding Libya accountable for arming the IRA" www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/apr/23/uk.northernirelandPan Am Flight 103: "Made in Malta""The Lockerbie trial has heard that fragments of a baby romper suit recovered from the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 were traced back to a clothes shop in Malta. The blue Babygro was said to have been in the suitcase carrying the bomb which blew the plane apart above Lockerbie." Further examination of the clothing believed to have been in the bomb suitcase found fragments of a label with the words "Made in Malta". This label was the first indication of possible Libyan involvement. BBC News: 'Malta link' in Lockerbie chainnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/828586.stm"Night of the Swallow" was the fifth single release from The Dreaming. But it was only released in Ireland. KT on The Dreaming: "I look back at that record and it seems mad... I heard it about three years ago and couldn't believe it. There's a lot of anger in it..." "Booze, Fags, Blokes And Me" (1993)gaffa.org/reaching/i93_q.html
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Post by tannis on Aug 17, 2008 6:56:17 GMT
NIGHT OF THE SWALLOW and RIVERDANCEThe epic track, though, the cornerstone of the album is "Night Of The Swallow", which shows both her growing maturity as a writer and her arrival as an outstanding producer. Another complicated song (surprise, surprise) it moves gracefully through many changing moods and patterns; it's a work of both beauty and anguish, poignancy and eeriness. These twists of mood are enhanced by the use of sublime Irish music (Liam O'Flynn and Donal Lunny of Planxty, Sean Keane of the Chieftans) interspected with the rugged main action. MELODY MAKER, Dreaming review, September 11th 1982 gaffa.org/reaching/i82_mm2.html
Night Of The Swallow: Drums - Stuart Elliott; Fretless & 8 String Bass - Del Palmer; Piano and Fairlight - Kate Bush; Pipes & Strings written and arranged by Bill Whelan; Uillean Pipes & Penny Whistle - Liam O'Flynn; Fiddle - Sean Keane; Bouzouki - Donnal Lunny.
HOUNDS OF LOVE ~ All Irish arrangements by Bill Whelan Jig Of Life: Drums - Stuart Elliott, Charlie Morgan; Fiddles, Whistles -John Sheahan; Bouzouki Bodhran - Donal Lunny; Uillean Pipes - Liam O'Flynn; Bass - Del Palmer; Dijeridu - Paddy Bush; Narration by John Carder Bush.Bill Whelan (born May 22, 1950) is the Irish composer who was asked to compose a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music. It was released as in single in the UK in 1994, credited to "Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra". It reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995. Whelan is a native of Limerick, and was educated at Crescent College, University College Dublin and the King's Inns.
Dónal Lunny (born 10 August 1947) is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the cutting edge of the evolution of Irish music for more than thirty-five years and is generally regarded as having been central to the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period. Planxty was an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting, in its original configuration, of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhran), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitars), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica, and Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle). In 1975 Lunny left them to form The Bothy Band, playing guitar and bouzouki. They disbanded in 1978. In 1981, Lunny got together with Christy Moore again to form Moving Hearts. Another founding member was the young uilleann piper, Davy Spillane. Davy Spillane did session work on Kate Bush's The Sensual World (1989), and was involved in "Riverdance" in 1995. Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Interval Act www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUxGr3Yc9Q8 1994 Bill Whelan Composes Riverdance for interval segment of the Eurovision Song Contest. The segment is an unprecedented success and spins off into the long running stage show.
Eurovision Song Contest 1981 Interval Act www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn64svpvQ_Y 1981 Timedance, composed by Whelan and Donal Lunny, and performed by Planxty, features in the interval of Eurovision. Timedance released as a Planxty record.
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Post by tannis on Aug 18, 2008 2:51:11 GMT
Ireland was the only worldwide appearance of "Night of the Swallow" and "Houdini" on a single. The cover shows Kate sitting on rocks playing Uilleann pipes. The sepia tone evokes Séamus Ennis' early nineteenth century pipes (bequeathed to Liam O'Flynn), or even Daly playing "Erin's Lament" as the Titanic steamed away from Queenstown!
seamus ennis plays a reelwww.youtube.com/watch?v=lLe9etQ0iwQ&NR=1Uilleann pipes (originally known as the "Union pipes") are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Uillinn, an irish word, means elbow. This is where the pipes got there name as they are powered by the elbow to pump the air. The first bagpipes to be well-attested to for Ireland were similar, if not identical, to the Highland pipes that are now played in Scotland. These would be the Irish pipes, which were given the name of "Irish Warpipes" or "Great Irish Warpipes" in the 1920s. In Irish, this instrument was called the píob mhór ("great pipes").
While the warpipe was alive and well upon the battlefields of France, the warpipe had almost disappeared in Ireland (as a result of its outlaw by the English). The union or uilleann pipe required the joining of a bellows under the right arm, which pumped air via a tube to the bagpipe under the left arm, with bellows. The uilleann or union pipes developed around the beginning of the 18th century. The term "uilleann" came into use at the beginning of the 20th century.
The use of "uilleann" was perhaps also a rebellion against the term "union" with its connotations of English rule. KATE BUSH Night Of The Swallow eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=7431 (This very rare 1982 Irish-only EMI label 2-track 7" vinyl single includes Houdini on the flip side. Issued in a very smooth and unique picture sleeve of Kate sitting on rocks.)
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Post by tannis on Aug 19, 2008 6:00:43 GMT
THE MALTESE SWALLOW... ;D In Malta, catch a swallow For all of the guilty--to set them free Wings fill the window And they beat and bleed They hold the sky on the other side Of borderlines...Like most of the other tracks, I'm still not entirely sure what the hell's going on or what it's all about, but the puzzle's intriguing enough to entice you back until you unravel it. It's the sort of album that makes me want to kidnap the artist and demand the explanation and inspiration behind each track. MELODY MAKER, Dreaming review, September 11th 1982 gaffa.org/reaching/i82_mm2.htmlWife: No, please, you'll get caught. You'll get caught in Malta and they'll lock the door and throw away the key. You want to be a swallow, but swallows behind bars just beat their wings against the windows until they bleed. They'll keep you in jail, in another country far away. No! I won't let you do it! The Dreaming: "Night of the Swallow"gaffa.org/dreaming/td_nots.htmlHer female intuition senses that he's been set up. The Scapegoat. The Fall Guy. The Patsy. The Maltese Swallow... 'On the other side' evokes the b-side separation between Bess and Houdini - a terrible distance dividing love and embrace. The borderline between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is a constitutionally and ethnically contested area, born out of civil and political strife in 1921. 'They hold the sky' might suggest incarceration, keeping the sky behind bars, and the jailbird caged. 'They hold the sky' could also reference the condemned Atlas, his shoulders holding the sky for all eternity... A lengthy prison sentence and heavy burden!Ancient Libya was the region west of the Nile Valley. It corresponds to what is now generally called Northwest Africa. In the Greek period the Berbers were known as "Libyans" and their lands called "Libya" extended from modern Morocco to the western borders of ancient Egypt. Ancient Libya included the Atlas Mountains... They hold the sky on the other side Of borderlines...Atlas was a Giant, one of the four sons of the Titan Iapetus (a son of Uranus--Heavens-- and Gaia--Earth--, and thus elder brother of Cronus) and the Oceanide Clymene (or Asia, a daughter of Ocean and Tethys in both cases). His brothers were Menoetius (who was so proud and rude that Zeus struck him with lightning and plunged him into Tartarus, as he did with his father and all the Titans), Prometheus and Epimetheus. He took part in the fight between Giants and Gods. When the Titans were defeated, many of them (including Menoetius) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia, the Earth and hold up Ouranos, the Sky on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace. He was said to live in the far Occident, in the country of the Hesperides (who were said to be his daughters from his wife Hesperis), near mount Atlas (which, in later traditions, was said to be a metamorphosis of Atlas himself, changed into stone by Perseus with the head of the Gorgon Medusa), and this is where he was met by Heracles and picked for him the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides (beyond the Atlas Mountains) while Heracles was taking his place to sustain the heavens. Atlas agreed to perform the task readily enough, since he did not plan on ever bearing that burden again. When Atlas returned with the apples, Heracles requested him to assume the load for a moment, saying he needed to adjust the pad to ease the pressure on his shoulders. After Atlas bore the heavens again, Heracles walked off with the golden apples! In art, Atlas is depicted holding a Celestial Sphere. Fun Stuff Trivia:Both my partners Act like actors: You are Bogart, He is George Raft, That leaves Cagney and me...The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart ... "Sam Spade"
George Raft was originally cast as Sam Spade. He turned it down because it was "not an important picture," taking advantage of a clause in his contract that said he did not have to work on remakes.
The "Maltese Falcon" itself is said to have been inspired by the "Kniphausen Hawk," a ceremonial pouring vessel made in 1697 for George William von Kniphausen, Count of the Holy Roman Empire. It is modeled after a hawk perched on a rock and is encrusted with red garnets, amethysts, emeralds and blue sapphires. The vessel is currently owned by the Duke of Devonshire and is part of the Chatsworth collection.
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Post by tannis on Aug 20, 2008 13:41:51 GMT
BONNIE AND CLYDE... "Like a swallow. There's no risk. I'll whisk them up in no moonlight. Though pigs can fly, They'll never find me Posing as the night, And I'm home before the morning..." "When pigs fly" is an idiomatic way of saying that something will never happen. Pigs are heavy animals, without wings, and cannot possibly fly. So "when pigs fly" is a time that will never come. The phrase is used for humorous effect to scoff at someone's intentions to achieve or carry out something which is beyond their previous efforts and accomplishments. Possibly the first occurrence of a pig actually flying occurred in 1909 when the British aviation pioneer Lord Brabazon made the first live air cargo flight with a pig in a basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane. In Night Of The Swallow, KaTe plays with the idiom and uses "pigs" as an uncomplimentary term for policemen. However, that the pilot should refer to the police as "pigs" suggests that he is entrenched in the gloomy underworld of crime and corruption. So is the dame his would-be moll? ... The Police as Pigs: The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force. Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked. The use of "pig" to refer to police was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. It became especially popular during the 1960s and 1970s in the underground hippie and anti-establishment culture. It has also been used in anti-authoritarian punk and gangsta rap circles (Tupac’s record collection included CDs by Kate Bush). Oz magazine showed a picture of a pig dressed as a policeman on a front cover. "Special Pig Issue" of Oz magazine from May 1971www.pooterland.com/index2/literature/oz/35_front.JPG"Police have been accused of censorship after they seized copies of a poster from a shop window showing a pig in a officer's helmet. The posters, promoting cult author Irvine Welsh's latest book Filth, were on display at independent book store... City police confirmed that the posters were seized under the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act which deals with offensive and obscene material..." BBC News, August 13, 1998 news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/150129.stmIrvine Welsh, Filth (1998) upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/IrvineWelshFilth.jpg"A Body Count album the following year, however, was to make the artist, in the words of one commentator, "a one-man race riot". It included a song called Cop Killer, written, Ice has always insisted, from the viewpoint of a character who had vowed to kill corrupt police officers ("I got this long-assed knife/and your neck looks just right... /I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'/A pig stopped me for nuthin'!"). He insisted that the song was a social critique, but the furore it caused, in a country still twitchy over the Rodney King incident among others, was as unprecedented as it was savage. George Bush Snr called the song "sick", while police federations called for a boycott of all Time Warner products. Charlton Heston even gatecrashed a Warner shareholders meeting to read out the song's lyrics in protest ("Die, die, die, pig, die!"). With his gangster credentials, Ice T presented much more of a menace than, say, Eminem, who would prompt a watered-down version of the same debate a decade later (his race also played a significant part)." Ice T, the godfather of gangsta rap, talks to Esther Addley www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/aug/13/popandrock"Piggies" is a Beatles song from The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It was written by George Harrison as social commentary on class and corporate greed. Though Harrison intended the song as social commentary, it was often misinterpreted as an anti-police anthem, due to the formerly common, but now seldom-used term "pig" which was used as slang for policeman. Charles Manson interpreted many of the songs from The White Album to justify his murders. During the Manson murders, the words 'political piggy', 'pig' and 'death to pigs' were written with the victims' blood on the walls. Were it not for Bonnie, Clyde would be long forgotten. Most gangsters keep their molls well away from their business. Bonnie, in contrast, was always by Clyde's side. Why? Because she, too, was a psychopath? It's true that one eyewitness - a farmer - described her shooting two wounded troopers in cold blood, gloating: "Look-a-there; his head bounced just like a rubber ball!" But all the other accounts have her down as not even knowing how to fire a gun. Instead, she was the smiling decoy or the driver of the getaway car. But the main reason why the Barrow gang became famous was because of the myth Bonnie created. Not only was it she who choreographed the iconic photographs of herself and Clyde acting tough with their cigars and their rifles. But as her latest biographer, Nate Hendley, puts it, she was the self-styled "poet laureate" of the gang; the one who immortalised them in verse. The poem, "The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde", was passed by Bonnie to her mother early in 1934 when she knew the cops were closing in. Published by Emma Parker soon after Bonnie's death, it more than anything helped create the couple's image as a latter-day Robin Hood and Maid Marion: "Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow Gang/ I'm sure you all have read/ How they rob and steal and those who squeal/ Are usually found dying or dead/ They're lots of untruths to those write-ups/ They're not so ruthless as that/ Their nature is raw, they hate all law/ Stool pigeons, spotters, and rats." The best comparison might be with the broadside ballads of the 19th century, moralistic popular ditties that told of the exploits of both heroes and villains. Partners in rhyme: Poems shed light on Bonnie & Clyde romance www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/partners-in-rhyme-poems-shed-light-on-bonnie-amp-clyde-romance-451795.htmlThe LP cover to Hounds Of Love sends "A big woof to Bonnie & Clyde" ... The Grifters...A couple of the songs on The Dreaming seem to draw heavily from film noir. "Night of the Swallow", the female is straight out of the awesome Barbara Stanwyck mould of Double Indemnity. She's a domineering, passionate woman who not only doesn't want her lover to risk his life trafficking refuges because of the danger to him, but because she wants him. At the end he pleads - "Would you break even my wings/Just like a swallow/Let me, let me go..." KT: "Yes, unfortunately a lot of men do begin to feel very trapped in their relationships and I think, in some situations, it is because the female is so scared, perhaps of her insecurity, that she needs to hang onto him completely. In this song she wants to control him and because he wants to do something that she doesn't want him to she feels that he is going away. "It's almost on a parallel with the mother and son relationship where there is the same female feeling of not wanting the young child to move away from the nest. "Of course, from the guys point of view, because she doesn't want him to go, the urge to go is even stronger. For him, it's not so much a job as a challenge; a chance to do something risky and exciting. "But although that woman's very much a stereotype I think she still exists today." Melody Maker, "Dreamtime Is Over", Oct. 16, 1982 gaffa.org/reaching/i82_mm.htmlFemmes Fatales in Film Noir: The females in film noir were either of two types (or archetypes) - dutiful, reliable, trustworthy and loving women; or femmes fatales - mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women. Usually, the male protagonist in film noir wished to elude his mysterious past, and had to choose what path to take (or have the fateful choice made for him). Invariably, the choice would be an overly ambitious one, to follow the dangerous but desirable wishes of these dames. It would be to pursue the goadings of a traitorous, self-destructive femme fatale who would lead the struggling, disillusioned, and doomed hero into committing murder or some other crime of passion coupled with twisted love. When the major character was a detective or private eye, he would become embroiled and trapped in an increasingly-complex, convoluted case that would lead to fatalistic, suffocating evidences of corruption, irresistible love and death. The femme fatale, who had also transgressed societal norms with her independent and smart, menacing actions, would bring both of them to a downfall. FILM NOIRwww.filmsite.org/filmnoir.htmlBonnie and Clyde 1967 Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qnnwPLpxI
The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvVLw-ItEz0 Original photos and film of Bonnie and Clyde's life and death. Merle Haggard sings "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" and Georgie Fame sings "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde".
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Post by tannis on Aug 21, 2008 9:17:25 GMT
Night Flight (Clarence Brown, 1933)
Night Flight (French title: Vol de Nuit) is the second novel by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in 1931 and became an international bestseller. The book is based on Saint-Exupéry's experiences as an airmail pilot and as a director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company, based in Argentina. Fabien is an airmail pilot of the Patagonia Mail. One night, he is lost while flying through a storm. His manager, Rivière, left waiting for the mail, slowly faces up to the situation. He has to tell Fabien's wife what has happened, but he also has to go on running a mail service and risking the lives of other fliers. Rivière thinks to himself at one point "We don't ask to be eternal. What we ask is not to see acts and objects abruptly lose their meaning. The void surrounding us then suddenly yawns on every side." The book was turned into a movie directed by Clarence Brown in 1933.
On December 30, 1935 at 14:45, after an 18 hour and 36 minute flight, Saint-Exupéry, along with his navigator André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan Sahara desert en route to Saigon. They were attempting to fly from Paris to Saigon faster than anyone before them had for a prize of 150,000 francs. Their plane was a Caudron C-600 Simoun n° 7042 (serial F-ANRY). Supposedly, the crash site is located in the Wadi Natrum. Both of them had survived the crash, but they were then faced with rapid dehydration in the Sahara. Their maps were primitive and ambiguous. Lost in the desert with a few grapes, a single orange, and some wine, the duo had only one day's worth of liquids. After that day, they had nothing. Both men began to see mirages, which were quickly followed by more vivid hallucinations. Sometime between the second and the third day, the two were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating altogether. Finally, on the fourth day, a Bedouin on a camel discovered them and administered native dehydration treatment that saved Saint-Exupéry and Prévot's lives.
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry's most famous novella.
"Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely any bigger than himself, and who had need of a sheep . . ."
The Prince asks the narrator to draw a sheep. Not knowing how to draw a sheep, the narrator draws what he knows, a boa with an elephant in its stomach, a drawing which previous viewers mistook for a hat. "No! No!", exclaims the Prince. "I don't want a boa with an elephant inside! I want a sheep...". He tries a few sheep drawings, which the Prince rejects. Finally he draws a box, which he explains has the sheep inside. The Prince, who can see the sheep inside the box just as well as he can see the elephant in the boa, says "That's perfect".
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Post by tannis on Jun 3, 2009 18:27:29 GMT
KATE BUSH and THE LIMERICK PIPER A painting by Joseph Patrick Haverty RHA (1794-1864) entitled "The Limerick Piper" became one of the most famous lithographs of the 19th century, copies of which sold throughout Ireland. Haverty painted the original in 1844 which was sold to Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth who exhibited the work at the Cork Exhibition in 1852. William Smith-O'Brien commissioned the artist for a copy of the painting which he later presented to the National Gallery in 1864. The painting depicts Patrick O' Brien, the blind piper from Labasheeda, Co. Clare playing his pipes at his stand at the corner of Hartstonge Street and the Crescent. The young girl is reputed to be of the Russell family ( a later member of this family, Anna Russell performed at the Athenaeum in the 1880s and gave a Command Performance in London on June 18, 1898).
In the early 1990s the original painting was purchased by Limerick University as a visual symbol to grace their new Traditional Music Department, World Music Centre and Concert Hall which is now the home of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Meanwhile at the Theatre Royal [Athenaeum] a young rock group, The Cranberries, gave their first public performance. Within 3 years, they were a huge international success. At the 1994 Eurovision Contest, Limerick composer, Bill Whelan, astonished Europe with his brilliant composition for the Riverdance sequence performed during the intermission of the Eurovision Song Contest.
If a painting is worth 10,000 words; then Haverty's painting of the Limerick Piper in 1844 is visual proof of this older musical tradition. There is an echo of harmony in the picture that evokes a sense of poignancy when you realise that it took 150 years for Haverty's painting to return to the city that inspired its creation. It is a happy portend.So maybe KaTe took inspiration from Haverty's 1844 painting, Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper, for the picture sleeve to the Ireland-only release of Night Of The Swallow (Uilleann pipes: Liam O'Flynn).~ Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper, Joseph Patrick Haverty; 1844. A native of Galway City, Joseph Haverty is best known for his picture "The Limerick Piper" (1844), which became one of Ireland's most famous nineteenth-century lithographs. The picture portrays Patrick O'Brien, a blind Gaelic piper from Labasheeda. ~ Jem Byrne (d.1903) busking in old age. ~ KATE BUSH, Night Of The Swallow. Very rare 1982 Irish-only EMI label 2-track 7" vinyl single, also including Houdini, issued in a unique picture sleeve of Kate sitting on rocks playing uilleann pipes (Photography & Toning: Kindlight; Additional artwork: Nick Price). Arranged by Bill Whelan. ~ Philip Martin (1907-1942). ~ William Rowsome (1870-1928). ~ Leo Rowsome (d.1970). ~ Tom Carthy, Irish Uilleann piper from Kerry (1799-1904). ~ Liam O'Flynn (Irish: Liam Óg Ó Floinn, b.1945). ~ Unknown piper. ~ George McCarthy from Co. Cavan (d.1908).
see more: Uilleann Obsessionwww.uilleannobsession.com/diary_2004.html
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Post by tannis on Sept 12, 2009 2:27:51 GMT
Your face on the moon...
The night doesn't like it. Looks just like your face on the moon, to me.
A sailing could also be held up by dreams, if a voyager or the ship's officers took them seriously, as so many of the age did... To dream that you saw your face on the moon meant destruction, to dream of flying on your back or walking on water were good omens. Travel in the ancient world, Lionel Casson, (1974, pp.155-6).
Take my shoes off, And throw them in the lake, And I'll be Two steps on the water...
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