Recent content by davidraphael

Just stumbled across this. Any idea about the age? Lining is stitched.

I must be the only person on the planet who thinks The Stones are (and were) wildly overrated. I always found them unoriginal, 1trick ponies. Gimme The Who any day of the week for that meaty, beaty, big and bouncy 60s/70s Brit rock sound (Live at Leeds makes anything The Stones recorded sound...

I have 58s smaller than some 57s and 59s as big as some 60s. You'd think math/numbers would be fixed, right? Imagine if this flexibility with numbers was applied in other areas of life: Next time I charge £1000 for a design job I'll tell the client that it's a "large £1000" (which is...

The Shining The Innocents The Exorcist Psycho Rosemary's Baby 28 Days Later All the classic Universals The Thing (from another world) (ie, versions 1 & 2) Alien Come and See (a war film, but really truly horrific) Is it possible to make a truly scary horror movie nowadays? I seem to have become...

Still one of my favourite hats. Grey 1930s velour.

Two graphic novels: "Alice in Sunderland" A historical account of 19th C Sunderland and Lewis Carroll's time spent there, with a lot of (almost overwhelmingly so) diverse cultural and historical information. It was been called "the greatest graphic novel ever written" "Marvel 1602"...

Club sandwich,marinated anchovy fillets and dark beer in Hemingway's, Heidelberg

Copyright and 'sampling' has always been an issue. Here's Glenn Miller's enormously successful (but patently 'borrowed') "In the Mood." Below that, one-armed Wingy Manone's "Tar Paper Stomp," which predates Miller's recording by 10 years. Wingy was eventually paid-off to stop him...

Very nice hat!

Great find!

great!

Nice! Will you ship to Germany? If so how much would it cost?

In our house he's called the 'hairspray Bond'. The worst Bond. And I'm including Woody Allen's Jimmy Bond in Casino Royale

Sam Smiths oatmeal stout and mature cheddar... Korbinian/doppelbock and Allgaeu alte Bergkaese...