Pure Luxury Music

So I was telling you about the Sydney Symphony's exposition of the complete Beethoven's 9th, if you recall.

But music is a lot of things; it's drama and dramatic portrayal, expression of various things - emotions, the 'spirit of machines,' in the case of the later Nineteenth century English industrial-age composers, the 'feel' of dark cities and factories, and the working-class perspective... And over the seas in New Orleans there was some kind of post-French Bohemian color and glitter mixed in with the Mississippi mud...

She's married to the guy whose musical performance
we are about to hear/watch. She comes from near where I live and
we've seen her once or twice at photo shoots at the beach here for
Scoop Magazine, a local top quality mag part-owned by a young Ukrainian
who is currently being held without charge pending likely extradition to NYC to
face some kind of internet manipulation charges...

Recently, I encountered a couple of examples of modern musical art, both of which were re-workings of very old themes and styles - but both possessed just the right amount of their own individuality and innovation to mark them out. I will post a specific reference to just one of them at the moment, but this stands as one of those rare cases, where the performing musician manages to deliver the meaning within the character of the song, of the music, itself - and then the whole thing becomes quite a visceral work of art.

To explain further, the only, and I do mean only time I have ever heard someone play Paganini's most famous '4th violin concerto' with the adagio ending by Albinoni where it actually made any kind of musical sense - and Malmsteen enables it to make perfect sense - was in an early heavily-amp'd rock version on his (Yngvie Malmsteen's) electric guitar. Virtually all other players - either who try it on violin, or on guitar - turn the thing into note salad leaving the decisive 4th downbeat whole entire point of the thing somewhere 'on the table' so to speak, when the cards have all been played and the lights go out.

So now today we go to this guy - a relatively new name on the global music scene - Gary Clark Jr - and his performance of what is effectively a modification of a Blues' standard about trains and train lines: this is the age of steam, of rail, of iron and steel, and not so much of the 'angels (or 'engines') of gold' that Howling Wolf sang about at the Royal Albert Hall in the UK.

The real music starts about 1:10 in

Tommy Robinson Ice-Picks The BBC

The independent journalist Tommy Robinson and well-known anti-UK Jihadi activist (many run-ins with Andy Chaudary! LOL) just published a video of himself confronting the BBC producer John Sweeney about a covert filming of Sweeney being extremely obnoxious and arrogant about the British working class, and getting violently drunk at the British taxpayer's expense. And after a few days of going completely paralyzed like a deer caught in the headlights, the BBC has 'launched an investigation into Sweeney's behavior.'

Now, this whole thing might not be able to be kept forever off the mainstream media, but even so, there are some things you should know about John Sweeney that they NEVER will tell you. Sweeney was a close friend and colleague of Jamal Khashoggi... That will likely NEVER be related in the mainstream public media sphere.

But what most certainly will in due course, be revealed, is that Sweeney is in fact, the main person responsible for the heavy promotion of the Steele 'dodgy dossier' into all of this false nonsense about Donald Trump being some kind of Russian puppet.

And now you can see why the government of the United Kingdom, including some judges and magistrates and police there, all conspired so vigorously to try and suppress Mr Tommy Robinson - they all claimed it was because of his 'hate speech' against Muslims and migrants.

In fact Robinson, whilst indeed being a vociferous critic of many Muslims, has as many personal friends who are Muslim!! And this is not to say he is not anti-Islam, because I think he is.

No. Tommy Robinson's big 'crime' was that he was the investigative reporter who exposed the underage sex ring that involved various members of Parliament over many decades and many senior police as well. And his second big crime is that he is without doubt an agent of those who are setting about to take apart the media networks who are, or at least were, in place to promote via the mainstream media, the 'Deep State' and globalist agenda that we have all become quite familiar with in recent years.

You can see that the 'big fight' is now on for young and old, as they say!

Collecting Things That BECOME Valuable Later

Quick note first: I had to go back and edit a few things in the last article - somehow, things were being altered from the original text during the upload; very weird...

Anyhow.

A point was raised in one of the private forums - people were sort of complaining that we all tend to miss out on 'collecting' that one thing that becomes a valuable 'thing' later on. I had been talking about how Chateau Angelus wine went up from thirty dollars a bottle maybe just even five years ago to its current price of around five hundred dollars.

This is from a Bordeaux wine industry function

Well one of the key factors that economists sometimes talk about but for everyone else it is completely counter-intuitive - is supply; it's not really rarity as such that drives prices up, it's how much genuine authentic demand you can procure from an actual marketplace and such things need an adequate supply of the 'thing' otherwise people just get frustrated and soon the demand dries up as a result. Even when you are talking about pure rarity and not intrinsic function or aesthetic appeal, in fact communication about the knowledge of the 'thing' in question must be extensive - super wealthy people like it to be known that they have acquired something worth a ton of money. When you are talking about secret Swiss collectors having or hording some stolen thing or virtually 'sacred' piece of art or whatever, this is something different - there the item does not have marketable valuable as such so owning it won't itself add to your own financial wealth.

So if you let's say for example, take the case of a big German industrial house 'getting behind' some French wine or other, then, they will 'arrange' for the market to move via highly specialized marketing and planting of reviews by experts, and even actually adding to the production standards and quality through increasing of their investment dollar into the product. You can imagine a hypothetical instance of a lesser-known French wine brand, that some major investment powerhouse pushed hard into the nascent China luxury and high net worth consumer market - with the effect that examples of the wine you might have collected rose in market price.

The Palais Garnier in Paris, which is a 'mysterious place...'

Bordeaux and Burgundies and Champagnes are not the only wines made in France of a very high standard. The Savoy wines (Savoie wine) are a case in point - but you will hardly ever see them talked about as things you want to collect because they might go up in value one day... But why not? Some of the greatest wines in the world are Savoy wines. In terms of classical economic theory though, they are not made in as great a supply as the Grand Cru wines of the South and West of France, AND ARE ALL ANNUALLY BOUGHT UP ENTIRELY AND DRUNK BY THE LOCALS THEMSELVES.

Which is not to say you will be unable to buy a bottle and have it shipped to you anywhere in the world.

But no one in the world of 'wine experts' expects these wines to go up in value and so why should you ever 'collect' them?

Big industrial houses have not shown any interest in investing in the Savoy wine region. So much so that these bottles have some of the most pathetically designed labels you will ever find anywhere!

Now...

This is not one of the bad-looking labels; I hate those labels
so much I didn't even post a pic here!

...Now, but now, hear me now: the greatest wine in the history of the world of all time, which was known by a particular name, was the Falernian - this is a legendary wine, from a legendary vineyard in Italy - and in fact one particular ancient vineyard's product has a mythical status, and was even in its day regarded as the best wine of all: and this was from the vineyard of a man called Faustus. It wasn't a red wine but neither was it exactly a white one either...

Falernian wine was regarded by some Romans as literally being the wine invented by the god Bacchus (Dionysus). And that would have been in Persia that he made that wine...

Now. See, there is today a rare wine from Savoy in North-Eastern France, known as 'Persan,' and it is quite rare. Savoy wines can be red but mostly they are white wines and there are also rose-colored wines as well.

Persan is called that because its grape was originally thought to be from Persia. 

The best versions of Persan wine are an incredible color, neither exactly white nor rose or red but kind of pinkish-orange. They are not expensive at all.

So when you set about to 'collect' something, you must decided whether you are having it because of its intrinsic worth to you or to experts or people who already love the thing - or whether you can perceive there will or might be some input by big players who will alter the monetary dynamics that pertain to the product or 'thing.'

Persan wine can and will last in the bottle, oh, um, under the right circumstances for thousands of years.

What color is this?

A god is a god is a god, you know, and the teaching is, that once having come into contact with a god, or anything that has had contact with the divine being, you will yourself never be abandoned by Heaven.

But there is a great barrier and a small doorway between Heaven and the Earth, which may not be passed except by the admittance of sentinels of god and of Heaven as such, depending on however you define Heaven and 'god' but it amounts to the same thing - the Absolute Judge of what is good is God Himself; and the absolute judge of good wine is equivalently God Himself too and no other. Al Hakim ul Muksit - the Absolute Judge. Look this up in the Koran and you will see these names attached to the god of wine... And this is a great mystery of course since commonly speaking Muslims consider alcohol unlawful and there is no specific 'god of wine' as far as they commonly think but it is in the Koran in a place few notice. Thereby is the doorway and the bridge to the impassable barrier between the mortal and the immortal Heaven; on one side the ignorant must remain and die, and on the other side, is knowledge and Life.

Ah but we want money primarily not knowledge nor yet Life. LOL - the rest of the great mythologies relate this account of one 'Midas' who asked Bacchus the God of Wine for money AND wine and Life, and so it is possible to have it all even according to the mythologies themselves. 

One of the most fascinating things is to step into, a place that you suspect could be 'mysterious ground' so to speak - and, knowing the mythologies you spend some time considering what to ask for.

What Happened To The Human Race?

Don't know, dudes. Has the global internet revealed something about humans we didn't want to hear...? 

The internet will give you the impression - admittedly this is from those who are active two-way users, and assuming it is a given that YouTube and so on manipulates who is being seen widely on account of their algorithms determining search results and other dynamic data points - that the human race is kilted towards the degenerating passive retrograde. Even the megalithic totalitarian 'leaders' like Stalin or Lee Kwan Yew are always seeking to assert this stance they claim to believe in which is openly scornful of the elevated oddity, the obscure intellectual; they simply detest the sort of mind that stands outside of their own predetermined 'sensible' box/boxes. 

Walther sniper gun

Recently it has become increasingly and pointedly clear to me that even those public figures upon whose ideas you can rely about certain specific things, are totally lost as soon as they are outside of their shell of comfortable ideas, and also, that they all (it is virtually all as far as I can tell) have fixations, obsessive ideas that give them prejudicial views on matters about which they are, to put it bluntly, simply ignorant in terms of available facts.

I find myself watching many lecturers and thinkers I do like, perhaps because they have set themselves the task of providing the internet social culture and their audience with 'performance art' : ) each and every day, expose their own weaknesses of thinking.

It is possible to utterly cherry-pick all of this stuff: you can take the good things about which these identities are at minimum pretty fair witnesses with actual and real experience, and just place to the side all of the utter rubbish they also put out there. ...But it does leave me with a certain uncomfortable feeling about the minds of human beings in general - they all pride themselves on 'common sense' and on good powers of discriminating between fantasy or deluded thinking, but this is not a true reflection of what they all are. And I say all.

A speculation I entertain is that those who have the drive and energy to push themselves out there, into the mass public view, are drawing too much out of themselves and the compensating effect is that their actual logical brains function as robots or automatons and not as authentic sentient beings for large passages of time.

The overall vision of the whole world, perhaps even a 'Cosmos' breadth of scope of seeing things, seems missing - people will fall into a regional attitude, or fixations about the Universally-applicable lessons of one particular location's 'truths,' and seem completely blind to the otherwise perfectly obvious hard facts of what happens right next door as it were.

Thomas Sheridan recently produced a short series of YouTube articles about his visit to Sri Lanka, from where he brought back a small figurine of 'Kali' and then he just groaned that it had been badly smashed when it went through customs in Dubai... Well, it is common practice for almost all the Muslim personnel there to literally deliberately smash small idols - and they are known to do it regardless that some naiive traveler is simply passing through there. Sheridan is a widely-acknowledged expert on some aspects of British folk religions and what is termed Irish paganism, and he is a very fact-based, logical thinker on those subjects. 

Oh wait a minute though, what I really wanted to tell you
is that Hardy Amies designed the clothes in this film...

I'm not picking on him but I am using him as a less hot-button example of the kind of thing. He's a very easy-to-watch, logical speaker. ...You see, if you use him, for example, as the peak expression of say, Western folkloric 'magical' thinking - you know, Arthur Pendragon/Merlin/knights of the round table; all this kind of thing - at some point he will most certainly let you down if you're after confirmation that 'magic,' as in actual real defy physics and science magic, is real... He will rapidly turn into a conformist, post-modern conservative.

Now, here I will tell you something you're not going to like - you know that famous scene in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey in which it seems that the pen is floating in the air, that no one can 'work out' how he's doing it? Well... the pen is floating in the air, you see.

And that's why 'no one can work out how he's doing it.' Because they will not bring into the frame, that what it looks like, is what it is.

Incredible Secrets Of England Few Know

You go to visit the long list of small upscale (as the Americans say; 'upmarket' for the rest of us...) bars and cocktail lounges in London Town today and sooner or later you will fall across the 'Tea Room Below Bun House.'

This is a modest-area lounge with access to the Chinese Restaurant special menu upstairs. It very very clearly makes some play of 'secrets' in the body text of its marketing materials...

Tea Room Below Bun House:
'we serve tea, only tea.' Snigger snigger a la 'Blade Runner'
- 'we do eyes, only eyes.'
 Or is that ice, 'cause it was pretty cold where he was, from memory. 

Billed ostensibly as 'just' vending tea only, other things may be available behind the counter.

For all the world both the upstairs main restaurant, as well as the underground 'tea room' have the feel of something Oriental and specifically Cantonese, Chinese.

Oh oh oh but there is so much going on here beneath the superficial eye.

...And I must suddenly slip into more of a tale of ancient days, rather than say what is going on - suffice though, to briefly indicate that MI5 would throw up if they knew...

I shall now begin recounting about the Duke of York - around the middle of the Eighteenth Century (he was the second son of George III, as you know) - who had some arrangements with a certain 'Greenwood' of the overseas trading agents of Cox and King. Cox and King established themselves in India and were a key conduit of 'financial business' between the King's Regiment and the East India Company. I won't go into details about how things were undertaken - you can probably read a decent enough account of these things on the internet with a little research. King's is today regarded as the oldest travel agents still operating in the (modern) world. 

And this is Charles GEORGE Gordon - took over
from FREDERICK Townsend Ward in the Shanghai Chinese Army

The 'Tea Room Below Bun House' has a theme of a lot of luminous green lighting combined with plush velour banquettes and those old school Shanghai wicker and rosewood chairs.

There have been many 'Eden Cafes' and 'King's Bars' all through India, East Asia, and the Far East and they all have this same theme and lighting - in particular the lighting is subdued, in fact virtually black-like-nighttime. But the food and beverages are sensational - worthy of the high aristocracy, indeed. Is that the darkness and the glowing green neon lights making me 'wink wink...'

Yes it must be.

Anyway - Townsend Ward married a Chinese aristocrat, Yang Chang-Mei.

And you don't need to know any of these things, really. Because they are of no account in today's world in which, what is it - the European Commission, and the 'globalist elite' and so on - well they run everything, don't they.