If Love Were All - A Night On The Town

Because for some reason it vanished from the last post...



FUCK SAKE BLOGGER STOP DELETING THE EMBED CODE EVERY TIME I PUBLISH THIS!!!!

A Night On the Town Videos!

Uploaded some Videos of some of the songs from A Night On The Town. Enjoy!

Mad Dogs & Englishmen;



If Love Were All;



Begin The Beguine;



Enjoy! :D

Lewis Collins - A Night On The Town videos!

Just thought I'd share these two clips of Lew in A Night On The Town from my YT channel. Lew looks absolutely gorgeous in this first scene in top hat & tails and his singing voice just melts me every time! <3

"Change Partners" <3





"All Alone"




Enjoy! <3

Casting a Pod!

My pal, RedBlackStripe and I have made a podcast! Yay! XD

It's mostly just going to be us nattering on about stuff and the occasional bit of comedy and gaming chat. Enjoy!

Warning: We do swear and come out with rude jokes; so if you don't like, don't listen. 

Lewis Collins & Gordon Jackson NAAFI Outtakes

Here is a video with a ton of outtakes from a video about NAAFI that Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson were a part of. The outtakes are brilliant and very funny! :D

Doctor in the House pics!

I need some cheering up so...

Time to go back to 1969 and look at some screen grabs of a very young Martin Shaw as Huw Evans in Doctor in the House. :D

Above: (From left to right) Huw Evans, Dave Briddock, Dick Stuart-Clark, Paul Collier and Duncan Waring.

Above: "In a little bottle, sir?"

Above: "I think I've found a tonsil." lol

Below: Is it just me or do men like dressing up as women... a lot? XD lol

Above: From Episode "Keep It Clean." (From left) Huw Evans, Dave Briddock and Paul Collier dressed up as Nurses. XD lol

Above: Also from the episode "Keep It Clean" (from left) Michael Upton, Duncan Waring, Paul Collier, Huw Evans and Dave Briddock.

I love this show. If you want to view the pictures bigger, just right click on them and choose view image or open in new tab. :D

Lewis Collins - JTR: George Godley pics

I love this film! They say its got bad 'Ripperology', but it's still a bloody good film. (See what I did there? ;D)

Any way, Pictures ahoy!

Phew, I think I need a moment to recover. lol ;D 

Night peeps! 

-PurpleTartan 

Jeremy Brett Fan Vid #2

I love the song that's on this one and the video it's self is very good...



...Excuse me one moment while I try to recover from Mr Brett in his towel scene... ;D

Jeremy Brett - Fan vid

Little clips of Jeremy Brett in the film "Shameless" or as it's know over here "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".

**warning video may contain stuff viewers may find offensive, even if they are there ever so briefly**



He's plays quite a good villain, though I really am more used to seeing him as Sherlock Holmes. ;D

Enjoy!

Update

I've made a few updates to the blog. I've made the whole blog wider to allow for wider videos and posts, I also slightly changed the background shade and the text and finally I've added a Youtube link and a Live Stream Embedded link to the bottom of the blog. :D

So, now if you want to avoid the chat on the Live Stream you can just watch it here instead. :D

Also, I've changed my mind about my fictions and have decided to use LiveJournal for them instead. You can find the link to my LJ in the side bar. :)

-PurpleTartan

Is anyone else seeing this? ;D

**Warning, Slash ideas ahoy, if you don't like, don't look/read/comment etc.**

I never noticed this before, but in ODWNT when Ray wakes Bodie up, his hand seems to take a detour...



... Did Ray just cop a feel of Bodie's arse? ;D lol I think I'll let you all make up your own minds about it.

Slow motion is great isn't it? I also never noticed that Ray grabs Bodie's Shirt with his left hand and then passes it to his right, before throwing it at the back of Bodie's head. I have seen this episode more than any other, shame on me for not noticing. XD Though in my defence, I'm usually too busy, staring at Bodie's lovely broad back, to notice anything else. lol

Credit for the video goes to "Crimson_37" on LiveJournal. It's her video and her awesome find. :D

De-Lovely - Lewis Collins & Ann Reinking

Another scene from "A Night on the Town", staring Lewis Collins & Ann Reinking.



Lewis Collins is "Delightful, Delicious and De-Lovely!" X3 <3

Tonight At Noon by Adrian Henri

TONIGHT AT NOON
By Adrian Henri

Tonight at noon
Supermarkets will advertise 3p extra on everything
Tonight at noon
Children from happy families will be sent to live in a home
Elephants will tell each other human jokes
America will declare peace on Russia
World War I generals will sell poppies on the street on November 11th
The first daffodils of autumn will appear
When the leaves fall upwards to the trees

Tonight at noon
Pigeons will hunt cats through city backyards
Hitler will tell us to fight on the beaches and on the landing fields
A tunnel full of water will be built under Liverpool
Pigs will be sighted flying in formation over Woolton
And Nelson will not only get his eye back but his arm as well
White Americans will demonstrate for equal rights
In front of the Black house
And the monster has just created Dr. Frankenstein

Girls in bikinis are moonbathing
Folksongs are being sung by real folk
Art galleries are closed to people over 21
Poets get their poems in the Top 20
There's jobs for everybody and nobody wants them
In back alleys everywhere teenage lovers are kissing in broad daylight
In forgotten graveyards everywhere the dead will quietly bury the living
and
You will tell me you love me
Tonight at noon

Lewis Collins - A Night on the town

Mr Lewis Collins sings and dances in "A Night On The Town". Enjoy. X3







It's amazing what you can find at 1am in the morning when suffering from insomnia. lol ;D

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.

I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said
-'I love thee true'.

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep
And there I dreamed - Ah! woe betide! -
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.

And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Original Version) by John Keats
1819

Minecraft Memories #5

My first encounter with a "Thunder Creeper"...

Above: watching the sun setting...

Giant holes in the floor anyone? D:

The Cake is a lie! D:

Flying on my Pegasus! :3 

Now for some pet Tigers... yes you heard me. >:D

and Finally... My sky Castle that was made of Netherrack. >:D

The castle was unfinished at this point and as you can tell I was still working on it. :D

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
   As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
                Only this, and nothing more."


    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore-
  For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
                Nameless here for evermore.


    And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
  Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
    So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
    "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-
  Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-
                This it is, and nothing more."


    Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
  "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
    But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
    And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
  That I scarce was sure I heard you"- here I opened wide the door;-
                Darkness there, and nothing more.


    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,
        fearing,
  Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
  This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"-
                Merely this, and nothing more.


    Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
   Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
    "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:
    Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore-
  Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-
                'Tis the wind and nothing more."


    Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and
        flutter,
  In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed
        he;
    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door-
  Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-
                Perched, and sat, and nothing more.


   Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
  By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
   "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no
        craven,
   Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore-
  Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."


    Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
  Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy bore;
    For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
    Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door-
  Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
                With such name as "Nevermore."


    But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
  That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
    Nothing further then he uttered- not a feather then he fluttered-
    Till I scarcely more than muttered, "other friends have flown
        before-
  On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
                Then the bird said, "Nevermore."


     Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
  "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
     Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
     Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore-
  Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
                Of 'Never- nevermore'."


    But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
  Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and
        door;
    Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
    Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-
  What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
                Meant in croaking "Nevermore."


    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
  To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
    On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er,
  But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er,
                She shall press, ah, nevermore!


    Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
  Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
    "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee- by these angels he
        hath sent thee
    Respite- respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore!
  Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."


    "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!- prophet still, if bird or
        devil!-
  Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted-
    On this home by horror haunted- tell me truly, I implore-
  Is there- is there balm in Gilead?- tell me- tell me, I implore!"
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."


    "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil- prophet still, if bird or
        devil!
  By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore-
    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
  Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."


    "Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked,
        upstarting-
  "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
    Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!
  Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my
        door!"
               Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."


    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
  On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
    And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the
        floor;
  And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
                Shall be lifted- nevermore!

-The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
1845

Now try reading the poem out loud in rhythm; try not to trip over some of the lines. :D It's harder then you might think. lol

Truly one of my favourite poems; I love reading it aloud, sadly though I often read aloud to my self as there is never anyone around to hear me.

Why?

Why do the babies starve
There's enough food to feed the world?

Why when there are so many of us
Are there people still alone?

Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill?

Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her home?

Love is hate
War is peace
No means yes
And we're all free

But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
Amidst all these questions and contradictions
There are some who seek the truth

Tell me
Why do the babies starve
There's enough food to feed the world?

Why when there are so many of us
Are there people still alone?

Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill?

Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her home?

Love is hate
War is peace
No means yes
And we're all free

But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
When the blind remove their blinders
And the speechless speak the truth

Tell me
Why do the babies starve
There's enough food to feed the world?

Why when there are so many of us
Are there people still alone?

Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill?

Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her home?

Love is hate
War is peace
No means yes
And we're all free

-Why? by Tracy Chapman

Gavin/Cuckoo Waltz Fan Vid

Yes, I found another Fan vid of Lewis Collins as Gavin from The Cuckoo waltz. <3 X3 It'll be the last one I promise... Just thought I'd share in case any of you are interested. ;D




Enjoy! X3 ... I know I will lol ;D