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It all started with the 1939 worlds Fair with its theme of ‘the world of tomorrow’ The Fair’s influence on science fiction (and sci-fi parody), industrial, commercial, and urban design, and marketing resonates into the present. I‘ve always been fascinated by the the concept and I absolutely love the graphic representation of it that permeated the 40s and especially the 50s. I have several books and magazines from the period which explore this. Here is an example, probably my favourite cover. The Home of tomorrow!

Elliptic Waterfall from The Unrealist

For those that are not aware, watch this video by Wings Of Pegasus, Fil (top guy), regarding what this (so called) government are planning to do with data-harvesting, for AI...You could end up with having all your content/recordings etc, that you thought was protected by copyright, 'legally' stolen...Even if you know, it's worth passing this message on to friends and associates, who may not. I don't make political videos. BUT this affects ME, and is NONSENSICAL.

Yesterday, (21st April,) was our Silver Wedding Anniversary, an event we had originally planned to celebrate by having a party for family, friends and the Nelsonica team. Obviously, the Coronavirus lockdown has put paid to that idea, as has the very sad passing of my mother which overshadows our mood at the moment. To 'put the tin lid on it' as they say, I suffered a nasty fall yesterday, twisting my ankle and receiving cuts, gashes and sprains to various body parts. My ankle is currently swollen and painful and I can't walk without intense discomfort so it looks like I'm housebound for more reasons than the social distancing required by the lockdown. I was also meant to travel to Wakefield to deal with the sorting out and clearing of my mother's home but that will now have to wait a few days until I get my mobility back. Feeling fed up and depressed but Emiko continues to be my shining light. Her love and care for my well being never ceases to astonish me. Why she would love such a muggins as me is beyond comprehension, but I love her dearly and am deeply grateful that she shares her life with me. We've known each other and had a deep relationship longer than the 25 years of our actual marriage, but it's lovely to reach the Silver Wedding marker. I'm nothing without her. PHOTO'S OF BILL AND EMIKO NELSON BY MARTIN BOSTOCK.

This will be a download only item released prior to ‘My Private Cosmos'. Details to follow soon…stay tuned!

Enjoy tonight ,good folks. You are in the presence of a master of his craft. Wish I could be there.

There will be a better day coming.

Does this thread already exist??? Outland (1981) Official Trailer - Sean Connery, Peter Boyle Sci-Fi Movie HD The near future

Who is on your list of great bassists? Who is criminally overlooked? I’ll start with Andy West.

Here are a few playlists that I created for the Dreamsville Community. I hope that these bring a smile to your ears. Best of Dreamsville (Q-Mix) 1. Jaguar Girl - Van of Monks Confessions of Young Moderns Volume Three: Music is Lethal 2. Come Closer - Mick Wilson's Bloonoise Dreamsville Dances: Lucky 7's 7.2 3. Budapest (Discokingz Remix) - International Industries Dreamsville Dances: Lucky 7's 7.3 4. Going Out With Girls Is Fun - The Architect Sketch Dreamsville Dances: Lucky 7's 7.2 5. Dance of the Scantily Clad Zombies - Denzil Duck and Friends All Hallow's Eve 6. Long Live The New Flesh - The Eisenhower’s Dreamsville Summer 7. The Birds and The Bees - Stuttering Monks St. Valentine's Day Massacre Volume 1: Strange Worlds Collide 8. Strange Girl (Sing Mix 2) - Brooksie St. Valentine's Day Massacre Volume 1: Strange Worlds Collide 9. Lucky Spinner (Slots Mix) - The Stasi Dreamsville Dances: Lucky 7's 7.1 10. Superstar (Anita Berber) - Electric Angels Dreamsville's Oracle 11. Alien Technology Reverse Engineered - Planet Andy Technology (Dreamsville Goes All Techy) 12. That's It - The Penguins Dreamsville Dances: Lucky 7's 7.1 13. Springtime Shuffle - Brooksie & Talent Spring Forward (Bonus Track) 14. Bill & Hank Live in Reverbland - Major Snagg Summer Festival (A Dreamsville Project) 15. Love Beams - Planet Andy Dreamsville Unplugged 15th April 2007 16. Spinning Jenny - Brooksie Dreamsville Summer 17. In Your Dreams (Angelic Mix) - The Architect Sketch Dreamtime for Dreamsville 18. Sunlit Harbour - Cinematique Dreamsville Summer 19. Variations on Themes of Bill & Be-Bop - Brooksie featuring Worra The Return of Birthday Bill 20. Sleepy Town - Eric Wenner Confessions of Young Moderns Volume Three: Music is Lethal

Mark M's Razor: "Of two competing non- or unverifiable theories, the more astonishing theory is to be preferred." "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough." --Niels Bohr Above is prefatory to the following assertion: "The waking state as you think of it is a specialized extension of the dream state... "The waking state, then, has its source in the dream state..." --Seth/Jane Roberts, Session 898, _Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment_, Vol. 1

When blowing through an empty 33.8 fl oz (1.05 qt) 1 litre of Tejava Original Black Tea bottle the note heard is C.

A thread for statistics. Just because…

To counter the exclusionist Kings of Cool thread, let's hear it for the ladies - starting with the weird and wonderful Aubrey Plaza.

The Griffiths - Part 1 of 2 The Griffiths story starts with Bill’s 4x great grandfather Job Griffiths who in the 1841 census lives in Chorlton upon Medlock, a suburb of Manchester close to the city centre, now largely part of the campus of the University. The address is Tebbutt’s Court, Booth Street which is just off what is now Oxford Road. His occupation is shown as ‘Gardener’ and at the same address are his son Enoch Griffiths and two female servants called Ann Green and Ann Griffiths. We also learn that Job wasn’t born in the county of Lancashire. Unfortunately the 1851 census for the area was water damaged and is largely unreadable so depriving us of a valuable source of information. He died before the 1861 census. Internet sourced family trees link Job Griffiths to the town of Oswestry in Shropshire and a marriage to a Sarah Powell in the town in 1811. They also credit the couple with six children in total. Jane b.1811 in Treflach near Oswestry, John b.1813 in Treflach near Oswestry, the remaining children born in Manchester are Jemima b.1815, Mary b.1818, Enoch b.1824 and Kezzia b.1829. If this is correct it would mean the family made the move to Manchester around the year 1814. Jane Griffiths married Joseph Leatherbarrow in 1828. Jemima Griffiths married Thomas Craven in 1835 but died of ‘Consumption’ (Tuberculosis) in 1836. Kezzia Griffiths died of ‘Fever in the Brain’ in 1833 aged 4. Other records for Job Griffiths suggest he may have lived in Salford and Hulme before living in Chorlton. Rate books of the time show him renting houses in Jenkinson St. , Ormond St. and Booth St. between 1825 and 1858, all in a small area near ‘The Grapes’ public house. There are also two entries in local trade directories, the first from 1841 gives just his name and an address of 12 Tebbutts Court, Chorlton, but the second from 1850 describes him as a ‘Well Sinker’ of 6 Tebbutt’s Row, Jenkinson St. Chorlton. Job Griffiths died from ‘Dropsy (Edema - a build up of body fluid) and Consumption’ and was buried in a communal grave in Chorlton on 3rd July 1858 aged 72. There is a possible cemetery record for his wife Sarah Griffiths (nee Powell) from 1837, who also died from ‘consumption’ aged 52, which would explain her absence from the 1841 census and the 2 servants. Bills 3x great grandfather Enoch Griffiths 20, a ‘Gardener’ married Elizabeth Oates 26 in Manchester in 1844. Elizabeth Oates was born in Hensall Yorkshire in 1818 and baptised at Kellington. In the 1841 census she’s living in nearby Whitley with her mother Esther (nee Atkinson) and her mother’s second husband John Richardson an Agricultural Labourer, her father Thomas Oates (also a labourer) having died in 1829. On the marriage record she’s living in Cornbrook, Hulme next door to Chorlton. Unfortunately the marriage only lasted 3 years as Enoch Griffiths died of ‘Decline’ (a gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties) in Chorlton and was buried on 17th January 1847 aged 24. The marriage produced two children Edwin Arthur Griffiths b.1845 in Chorlton and Sarah Griffiths b.1847 in Wakefield. There is a crossed out Wakefield baptism record for an Edwin Griffiths born in Manchester from 1845 which perhaps indicates that they initially made the move over the Pennines just after Edwin’s birth and then returned to Manchester when Enoch became ill. In the 1851 census Bill’s now widowed 3x great grandmother Elizabeth Griffiths (nee Oates) 33, a ‘Washerwoman’ , is living in Thornes Wakefield with son Edwin Arthur Griffiths 6 and daughter Sarah Griffiths 4. Next door to the Griffiths live Edward Cannon a ‘Gardener‘, his wife Harriet and their 6 children. Edward Cannon was born in the village of Dent near Kendal, Cumbria. In December 1854 Elizabeth Griffiths (nee Oates) 36 marries now widower (his wife died 6 months earlier) Edward Cannon 40, at St. John’s church in Wakefield. The marriage doesn’t seem to have succeeded as by the 1861 census they are living at separate addresses and remained so in subsequent censuses. In the 1861 census Elizabeth Griffiths (now Cannon) 43 lives on Ossett Road, Wakefield, occupation ‘Laundress’ with son Edwin Arthur Griffiths 15 and daughter Sarah Griffiths 14 both employed as ‘Worsted Factory Hands‘. Husband Edward Cannon, an ‘Agricultural Labourer’, lives in Thornes Village with 4 of his sons from his previous marriage. In 1865 Sarah Griffiths dies aged 18 and is buried on the 22nd of March at St. Paul’s Church, Alverthorpe. In the 1871 census Elizabeth Griffiths (now Cannon) 53 lives alone on Ossett Road, Wakefield, (near to the Victoria Hotel), occupation ‘Laundress‘. Husband Edward Cannon 57, a ‘Captain of a Vessel’, lives in Thornes Common with a housekeeper and 2 of his sons. In the 1881 census Elizabeth Griffiths (now Cannon) 63 lives alone on Ossett Road, Wakefield, occupation ‘Laundress‘. Husband Edward Cannon a ‘Labourer in a Soap Works’ lives alone at Thornes Common. In the 1891 census Elizabeth Griffiths (now Cannon) 72 now widowed (second husband Edward Cannon died in 1890), lives with another widow at no. 8 Marsland’s Almshouses, Primrose Hill, Wakefield, she has no occupation. In the 1901 census Elizabeth Griffiths (now Cannon) 82 lives alone at no. 8 Paddock Almshouses, Primrose Hill, Wakefield, ‘on charity‘. She died in the Wakefield Workhouse Infirmary in 1906 aged 87 and is buried at Sugar Lane cemetery.

During a public lecture at Cornell University in 1994, Carl Sagan presented the image to the audience and shared his reflections on the deeper meaning behind the idea of the Pale Blue Dot: "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known". Masterminded by Carl Sagan, the final photograph of Earth, the 'Pale Blue Dot', taken by Voyager 1, some 3.7 billion miles away from our planet...the very concept is mind blowing...After it nearly didn't happen at all (the photograph), what a wonderful idea and achievement of Sagan's, to convince NASA to turn Voyager's camera around to take this one last photograph of Earth...a truly amazing image.

Remember, just one. Such as: Ted Zeppelin, Robert Plan B, Prance. You get the idea… .

Ticket from my first ever Be Bop Deluxe gig. Can you remember yours?...

The child is not me and I've forgotten the how and where regarding this photo'.

New comment from Bill Nelson on his Facebook page: 'I know this is said often, but my generation was so fortunate, so privileged, to grow up in an age when some of the greatest creative, cultural shifts in art and society were taking place. We were so lucky. Now we endure, in our twilight years, the dumbing down of virtually everything, a new dark age where Americans vote for an ignorant bigot and the world descends into hatred , warmongering and chaos. Such sad times. But things will change, a new voice will arise, a new direction will come, and a new generation, not yet born , will pick up the torch and shift the balance back to a better direction. It will take time, but it will happen. Keep the faith!' (https://www.facebook.com/bill.nelson.54943600) I always appreciate it when Bill takes the time to comment on wider (political/social) issues. Several years ago, I think he called it exactly right on Brexit, Boris Johnson, Trump, Liz Truss, etc. And before that (2010) he predicted correctly on the coalition between David Cameron's Conservatives and Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrat's. At the time nobody knew how that would turn out - some were optimistic, others pessimistic. To Paraphrase Bill's comments from back then, he said he thought they (Cameron and Clegg) would end up being universally reviled. Pretty good prediction (long before Brexit and David Cameron's role in it were known)! McLuhan (or Ezra Pound - I can't remember which, perhaps both) once said artists were "antennae of the race", early alarm systems. And we see great artists such as Bill as ahead of their time in many ways. (Btw, he recommended David Lynch's Eraserhead long before Lynch was well known, and he recommended Robert Anton Wilson way before Wilson established his reputation as important counterculture author, etc... there are many examples like this that I can think of, where his early recommendations of something turned out to be gold). Good to see most of the comments on FB in positive agreement with Bill on his remarks. Another day, another ray of hope!