h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Being a geordie I would love to share some geordie culture with the Blaydon races

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0isRxDLDEc

Superb. I was at college in Durham for three years. Wonderful part of the country. Lovely people. And even I could only make out half the words - like gannin' etc. [It's OK, I know Durham's Wearside not Tyneside but there were lots of Geordie students there as well]

This lot drank the bar dry, Newcastle Brown of course, and still beat everyone at darts - both before and after going on:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5xVnTo8gs

Sound a bit sober here unfortunately -

Fog on the Tyne - Lindisfarne

Jab

Here's a sweet Elvis song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLCT4_1Nuqw&feature=PlayList&p=2F75A84579C0F6FB&index=0

It was buried in a terrible movie, so you may not have heard it before.

That was lovely.

Apologies for this. Catchy, though:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs8CgpH980

Jab......

A little Mozart to redress the balance ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gw9KgQmlR0

For anyone who doesn't know The Marriage of Figaro, this is the page Cherubino singing about his wonder at the first stirrings of sexual attraction. The part is always played by a woman and this one, Renat Shahan, is brilliant. I saw this production on stage - she is brilliant at impersonating a boy and (at one point) at impersonating a boy impersonating a girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvenKS Hope everybody loves this as much as i do

There seems to be something wrong with your link, Violet. I couldn't get through to your song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvenKSl2AG8 Hope this'll work.

Got straight through, Violet. Beautiful voice. Thanks.

Try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22Aboj9tQo

Can't get sound at the moment, here's another that I love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzQVHCvNDk

That's fun. You have broad tastes, Violet.

A truly evil Queen of he Night from Mozart's The Magic Flute. Her show-stopping coloratura (super-high note) aria.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24VZ9p2xWg

Jab

Jab!

(For entirely different reasons)

How about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZPNQPNw-U&feature=related

Syd Barret going back to his Cambridgeshire country roots.

Lovely, Infie! I know that spot well, just outside of Grantchester, it's a leisurely punt's ride down from Cambridge along the River Cam.

There is a blot on the landscape though. As the camera pans round at first you see a large house in the background - the Vicarage, where Rupert Brooke was brought up and lived his short life. Unfortunately it now belongs to Jeffrey Archer

I know the song well too. I used to have Ummagumma on L.P.

I've sat there, on that spot, many a time, watching the swans, the ducks, the coots and moorhens, listening to the river splashing as it squeezes under the narrow bridge. It's a great video, brings it all back

Jab.

Don't you ever get that certain very strange feeling? Like it lasts for hours, or for ages?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=old6xeBVIfw


Jab

Great, Jab, but I think we could do with a little culture.

Not actually Larry Olivier, but Peter Sellars doing a wonderful impression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s

Brilliant, Infie! I love how he shows up the absolute banality of the words, as well as the bombastic acting that once was prominent.

OK then. Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet. The gravedigger scene - alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.

I'm sure you know, but just in case, the Alexander he keeps referring to is Alexander The Great, who conquered most of the known world. Sit back and enjoy the finest actor we have - our finest by a mile:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wcm2COoHh6s


Jab

Re: Syd Barret. Always though he was vastly superior to Pink Floyd. Couldn't ever see why they were thought so great! I can't listen to these you tubes at moment as soundless, But shall share my tastes with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS1NO Dylan Moran on Rejection

Vi,

You gave me the wrong link. This is the right one:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oS1NOXWVWgo


Thanks for this, though. One of my absolutely favourite comedians, with a scenario I know only too well.

Jab