More Limpid Natter -

Which Might Have A Different Meaning In German
I believe "Natter" in German is "Hornet" whereas in English it means "Witless babble", and thus both combined result in pretty much a benchmark definition of what BOOJUM! is.
     Thank you for paying attention, and here is Part Two of tonight's witless babbling, with the sting removed (mostly).

An Hornet going supersonic.
Less natter at the back!

"Synedoche"
Which might sound like a Pulp-wannabe band from South London in 1998.
     Wrong!  No, sorry about the misdirection, this is a grammatical term, obviously - O! so obviously! - of Greek derivation, part of the metaranomy classification of grammar.
     More simply put, it means "part of which, that which is put forward as representing the whole".

College Charles Doche.  Close enough

     Rather obtuse, eh?  One of the examples given is "Bread and butter" when referring to the whole process of earning a living across the livelong day.  
     You might also want to recognise "Suits", long used as a term in referring to the "talentless-bean-counting-executive-parasites-working-at-Company-HQ-in-Hollywood".*

Today's Haul
As you surely know by now, gentle reader, on that weekend directly after payday, I am likely to venture forward into, Lo! that modern Babylon dubbed "Manch of Ester**".
     The normal routine today was disturbed by Oxfam having a great big Fire Engine sat outside it.  Later chat with the staff revealed that there had been a false alarm, but whichever way you rolled the Purple Dice of Doom.
     Anyway, here we are:

What ho, chaps - Tally ho! 

     The books:  Well, Mr Glubb was one of those indestructible British warriors who cropped up for forty years, doing the derring-do.  The other book features a whole lot of - well, there is no other word but "pirates" to describe them - who were frequently not British, but who fought alongside us during the Late Second Unpleasantness.  I have of late read about Pierre Closterman, a Free French pilot who tore a huge bloody swathe across the Luftwaffe whilst in service with the RAF; in "Secret Warriors" the chap of note is a ferocious Dane called Anders Lassen, and one really cannot but comment about being grateful that he was on our side.

More Of The Haul
This will - for those who like to keep accounts - be the results for March.  Conrad has a limit to acquisitions, and thought You The Audience might like to know what he's got today.***

     A whole swathe of CDs.  There's two from Bjork in there, and The Script, and Thirteen Senses, and David Bowie and Turin Brakes, Coldplay, M83, Yes and Massive Attack.
     Referring back to Mr Breen, he has sent through a link to Bjork playing live with an Eskimo Choir, which I had followed for a while; not the whole thing as it's over an hour long.

More Of The Haul
This time the DVD elements thereof.  What do you want to know?

     Well, "Lillyhammer" is a comedy drama set in provincial Norway, which instantly gets Conrad's attention^, except that it's not new, so you can't find properly dubbed <cough cough> torrents.  Watching characters dubbed into Dutch whilst actually speaking Norwegian and trying to follow in English is pretty surreal, I can tell you.
     "Coherence" is a low-budget science-fiction film with a plot that begins simply and ends up more convoluted than a cross-Channel ferry hawser.  Since I watched a <cough cough> version a couple of weeks ago and liked it, the Conrad Rule is that it has to be purchased.
     I have seen "The Raid", which is a kind of latter-day "Dredd", and liked it so it's a no-brainer to pick up the sequel.





* My bias isn't showing too much here, is it?
** Ester - lady from the Bible or an aromatic chemical compound.  One of the them. Or both.
*** You might not.  Once again, whose blog is it?
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