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Just wondering whether anyone has an opinion about "Revolutionary Road",Sam Mendes’s new film.I thought that "Road To Perdition" was superb, one of the best I have ever seen and that music!
Five books which I always keep near to hand and on which my whole punting philosophy is based. They are listed in order of preference.
Van Der Wheil – The Golden Years,
Van Der Wheil – Systematic Betting.
Patrick Kilgallon -Bigger Profits From Handicap Races
Patrick Kilgallon – How To Beat The Handicapper
Clive Holt – Be A Successful Punter ((The later edition, published in 1988).Reet Hard wrote
Don’t let me deter you, though my own mind was made up about Eddie and his knowledge at an early stage in his postings.
Agreed but he could be very entertaining.
THE HALF MOON SHOWS
A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS
The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness
Ready and poised to wax or wane;
A fire of pale desire in incompleteness,
Tending to pleasure or to pain:-
Lo, while we gaze she rolleth on in fleetness
To perfect loss or perfect gain.
Half bitterness we know, we know half sweetness;
This world is all on wax, on wane:
When shall completeness round time’s incompleteness,
Fulfilling joy, fulfilling pain?-
Lo, while we ask, life rolleth on in fleetness
To finished loss or finished gain.
By Christina RossettiWell done with Captain Americo, KJ. I’ve only just seen your post but I thought about you tipping it earlier this month when watching the race this afternoon. He really had the opposition for breakfast, didn’t he!
Ken,
Yes, you’re right about how this stable can suddenly hit form. I backed Pigeon Island on this day last year which augurs well for your theory that they could be about to strike form.George J Wrote
I
think the biggest problem with VDW is the tendency of those who haven’t studied it at all (judging by their comments) to offer trenchant comments about it
I have to agree with this statement. Like many others I had long been alternately beguiled and frustrated while trying to understand what VDW was putting across. What changed my approach were contributions posted on the thread started by Mtoto. Lee and Crock, among others, made me realise that in order to gain any insight it would be necessary to obtain some of the relevant form books. Up to that point I had (naively) been labouring under the misapprehension that I would eventually gain understanding merely by reading the VDW literature over and over!
Over the last six months I have obtained a fair few of the old form books and I have done a fair amount of research on the horses VDW mentions. Now I am not going to start claiming to have discovered any “missing link” but I do understand more clearly why VDW was so emphatic about some of his selections.
Guess who I was thinking about last night for the first time in two decades?
Focus.
I never thought when I joined the Racing Forum that I would ever be contributing to a thread like this, I just didn’t think progressive rock would ever crop up for discussion but so many memories are being re-awakened by everyone.
I remember using a pub in my late teens/early twenties which was famous for its incredible jukebox. The first time I ever went in there, Hocus-Pocus was playing. I didn’t know who it was at the time but it was one of those never-to-be-forgotten moments of musical revelation.. It was immediately followed by “House Of The King” and I wondered why I had never heard this Tull track!Maxilon 5 wrote
Anyone like Tull?
Yes, Max, I’ve long been a fan. Ian Anderson – another master of perceptive, whimsical observation of the way we lived in the seventies and after. Their Christmas gigs were always a joy to watch. I think that they improved as the years went by and I particularly enjoyed Minstrel In The Gallery and Heavy Horses.
My brother was a Rush fan , I didn’t really go for them myself.
Thinking back to that time it is striking just how much talent there was, much of it receiving scant recognition. I remember on one occasion listening to Bob Harris’s Radio One Show which ( I think) aired twice a week at 10.00 pm. He featured a guitar band known as “Home”. They had, to my ear, a very original sound. I had never heard of them up to that time and I was living a busy life with not a lot of time to spare or I would have sought out their recorded material.
To touch on the subject of album sleeves ( weren’t some of them amazing) I would have to say that my all-time favourite was the Hipgnosis sleeve for “Elegy” by The Nice. Followed by Ummagumma (Pink Floyd)
