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Noel Harrison Live Performance in 2008

You should know either all four, or at least one of these names: Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair, Noel Harrison, and The Windmills of Your Mind. I’ve never seen Noel Harrison’s performance of the song, but, hey, he has the one and only website with a lot of videos, both old and recent, are featured. I found a video of him performing The Windmills of Your Mind in Devon in November 2008. Accompanying himself on a guitar, Harrison brings the same depth to the song that had previously won him and Legrand an Oscar for the Best Soundtrack. Incidentally, the song was recently in the charts again.

In January 2009 I spent the much-needed 35GBP on a ticket to Legrand’s concert at the Manchester Bridgewater Hall. I had to make ends meet as a result, but I have never regretted it. The chance to see one of the greatest and prolific composers on the 20th c. was one of a lifetime. According to Harrison, the film producers tracked down his agent and initially offered $30K to record the soundtrack; naturally, the singer agreed. Later in the day the sum turned into the mere $500. Wondering if or not to take the offer, Harrison asked: “Who wrote it, anyway?” “Michel Legrand“, was the answer. Harrison, gobsmacked and honoured, went to the recording studio.

A Place for a Romantic Walk


Bristol 38, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.

I took this photo in Bristol almost a year ago. There’re so many photos on my Flickr, yet I’ve only ever managed to tell about a few of them.

I’m not sure I managed to collect a full impression of Bristol, especially since I had to leave the house early in the morning and would come back no earlier than 8pm. Although April nights are lighter, it’s still far from summer. The rest of the day I was usually indoors. I tried to grab every opportunity to wander around town, and one evening I went towards the cathedral. If you stand at the bottom of the stairs, the cathedral is on your left.

I do, however, remember the feeling of being there. I’d just taken another really photo, and then I saw this staircase with streetlights splitting it in two halves, and my heart melted.

It all depends on a point of view, surely. These stairs and streetlights can feature in just about any story. There is some melancholic or philosophic feel to the picture. But I choose romance. I rarely share this sort of talk, but this is one place I’d love to go to, to sit on the stairs, to hold hands, and to kiss. I will have it in my own time, but if you’re thinking of a romantic place, this may be the one for you.

Bristol Exchange


Bristol 19, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia.

Bristol Exchange , Corn St (Old City)

The country’s only remaining Georgian Exchange. Did you note the two-second hand minutes when there were local times; the black minute hand showed Greenwich Mean Time and the red minute hand was Bristol time! In front are the four nails on which merchants did their transactions, the earliest is c1560, and where the British saying to pay on the nail supposedly derived (by birbeck)

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