tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3665460338039520841..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Reverberation / Shipspotting (Order of Battle) / Giuseppe Ungaretti: Pilgrimage (Displacement)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68210144503099262852016-10-27T23:47:41.919-07:002016-10-27T23:47:41.919-07:00Duncan, once again grand thanks and, yes, that has...Duncan, once again grand thanks and, yes, that has to be the backdrop. Robert Wyatt's beautiful bittersweet version. The song has been in my broken old head along with the Shipspotting views over these past weeks -- see <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/keel-laying-calling-giant-meteor.html" rel="nofollow">keel-laying</a>.<br /><br />I remember a few days spent Tyneside, '64 or so, as that industry was dying.<br /><br />The song feels so relevant now, again. Every tech worker in the West, diving for pearls, every day.<br /><br />Looking at the present heavily armoured guided missile destroyers and corvettes, we can look back at that Falklands object lesson in why the armour should be so thick. Almost as thick as the politicians.<br /><br />Is it worth it?<br />A new winter coat and shoes for the wife<br />And a bicycle on the boy's birthday.<br /><br />It's just a rumor that was spread around town<br />By the women and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding<br /><br />Well I ask you<br />The boy said 'Dad, they're going to take me to task<br />But I'll be home by Christmas.'<br /><br />It's just a rumor that was spread around town<br />Somebody said that someone got filled in<br />For saying that people get killed in<br />The results of their shipbuilding.<br /><br />With all the will in the world<br />Diving for dear life<br />When we could be diving for pearls.<br /><br />It's just a rumor that was spread around town<br />A telegram for a picture postcard<br />Within weeks they'll be reopening the shipyard<br />And notifying the next of kin<br />Once again.<br /><br />It's all we're skilled in<br />We will be shipbuilding.<br /><br />With all the will in the world<br />Diving for dear life<br />When we could be diving for pearls.<br /><br />Shipbuilding: Clive Langer / Elvis Costello, 1983<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=193R8zjWUb8" rel="nofollow">Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello, live on Swedish telly, 9 March 2014</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEX8__VoMU" rel="nofollow">Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello, from Punch the Clock, 1983 (w/Chet Baker & bits of Falklands vid)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34428385506746549772016-10-27T14:39:44.791-07:002016-10-27T14:39:44.791-07:00Somebody's doing well out of all this. They&#...Somebody's doing well out of all this. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Res3-YX4X8g" rel="nofollow">They've been doing well for a long time.</a>.<br /><br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54571510195117992212016-10-27T05:49:55.439-07:002016-10-27T05:49:55.439-07:00Thanks very much, Sandra.
At least the Russian mo...Thanks very much, Sandra.<br /><br /><a href="https://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/happiness-trigger.html" rel="nofollow">At least the Russian mothership is so politically incorrect as to smoke constantly</a>.<br /><br />There is an obscure fascination that develops after three or four nights of Shipwatching on the Bosphorus with Yörük Isik and alper böler. <br /><br />One grows to understand that each has his own distinctive perspective on these curiously intimately scaled maritime chuffings and puffings and comings and goings.<br /><br />Yörük is on the European side of the Straits, alper on the Asian.<br /><br />This powerfully affects the POV.<br /><br />I believe it was Yörük who recently sussed out the interesting subterfuges of the "innocent" seeming cargo vessels transiting in and out of the Black Sea were actually military resupply ships in (not very good) disguise.<br /><br />The Royal Navy (retired) types are having a fine time rollicking and bollocking about re. the embarrassingly smoke-belching carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which has lately passed through the English Channel en route from Barents to, ultimately, Syria,<br /><br />The poor old tub is in trouble in the Med, and now The State Dept has even leaned on Spain via NATO so that the emergency pit stop at Ceuta, requested by Russian Naval Command, has been refused them.<br /><br />A bit of an affront I'd say speaking of apokaliptik.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48652849850660525012016-10-26T09:42:57.692-07:002016-10-26T09:42:57.692-07:00Everybody's flashing their ships about these d...Everybody's flashing their ships about these days. Do the apolkalypse, baby!<br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22988671885356734422016-10-25T17:46:34.284-07:002016-10-25T17:46:34.284-07:00hermoso poema !hermoso poema !Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44214376395196108192016-10-25T06:39:37.148-07:002016-10-25T06:39:37.148-07:00Roky Erickson & the 13th Floor Elevators: Reve...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptv3oIrWc_o" rel="nofollow">Roky Erickson & the 13th Floor Elevators: Reverberation (from Easter Everywhere)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE" rel="nofollow">Hanson: MMMBop (1997)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtlzcxBXBo" rel="nofollow">Amiri Baraka: Who Will Survive America?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzBz7p0A3-Y" rel="nofollow">Tjinder Singh / Cornershop: Brimful of Asha on the 45 (live 1997)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsA1CcA4Z8" rel="nofollow">Caetano Veloso: Cucurrucu Paloma / Hable Con Ella</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmEbfo59aaE&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Paloma San Basilio: No llores por mí Argentina</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEQpp2xvWY0" rel="nofollow">Ibrahim Ferrer & Omara Portuondo: Quizás, Quizás,Quizás</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDT-xuqpH2U" rel="nofollow">Ibrahim Ferrer: Perfidia</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com