Subject Index: Writing, music and film

4th December 2020

Butterfly Decal

Butterfly Decal on Bandcamp // 5th December 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/12/05/butterfly-decal-now-on-bandcamp/

Butterfly Decal: an introduction // 18th November 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/11/18/butterfly-decal-an-introduction/

Butterfly Decal // Berlin Suite // 1st May 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/05/01/butterfly-decal-berlin-suite/

Butterfly Decal // Berlin Suite EP on YouTube // 10th February 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/10/butterfly-decal-berlin-suite-online/

Butterfly Decal // Berlin Suite EP on Bandcamp // 8th February 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/08/butterfly-decal-berlin-suite-2/

Butterfly Decal // Cupid’s Arrow (demo) // 13th August 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/08/13/butterfly-decal-cupids-arrow-low-fi-demo-version/

Butterfly Decal // Happy Ms Huong (demo) // 11th September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/11/butterfly-decal-happy-ms-huong-demo-version/

Butterfly Decal // Lavender Girl (demo) // 17th November 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/11/17/butterfly-decal-lavender-girl-demo-version/

Butterfly Decal // Miles et Juliette // 22nd April 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/04/22/love-ive-found-you-miles-davis-juliette-greco/

Butterfly Decal // Morning Lotus // 16th January 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/01/16/butterfly-decal-morning-lotus/

Butterfly Decal // Red Ribbon in Long Hair EP // 12th June 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/06/12/butterfly-decal-red-ribbon-in-long-hair-ep/

Butterfly Decal // Red Ribbon in Long Hair EP Part 2 // 5th July 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/07/05/butterfly-decal-red-ribbon-in-long-hair-ep-part-2/

Butter Decal // Roses for Daisy, daisies for Rosie // 1st December 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/12/01/butterfly-decal-roses-for-daisy-daisies-for-rosie-demo-version/

Butterfly Decal // Toulouse Street Blues // 4th March 2024: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2024/03/04/butterfly-decal-toulouse-street-blues/

Butterfly Decal // Waterlilies // 7th January 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/01/07/introducing-kit-harper-ambient-blues-jazzy-jingle-jangle/

Butterfly Decal // When in Rome (demo) // 22nd December 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/12/22/butterfly-decal-when-in-rome/

Jingo Harleyman

Jingo Harleyman // Hari Karachi & the Durango 4 OST announcement // 10th September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/10/coming-soon-jingo-harleyman/

Jingo Harleyman // Hari Karachi & the Durango 4 OST Part 1 // 16th September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/16/jingo-harleyman-hari-karachi-the-durango-4-ost-part-1/

Jingo Harleyman // Hari Karachi & the Durango 4 OST Part 2 // 22nd September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/22/jingo-harleyman-hari-karachi-the-durango-4-ost-part-2/

Jingo Harleyman // Hari Karachi & the Durango 4 OST Part 3 // 26th September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/26/jingo-harleyman-hari-karachi-the-durango-4-ost-part-3/

Jingo Harleyman // Hari Karachi & the Durango 4 OST Part 4 // 2nd October 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/10/02/jingo-harleyman-hari-karachi-the-durango-4-ost-part-4/

Jingo Harleyman on Bandcamp // 2nd December 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/12/02/jingo-harleyman-on-bandcamp-and-its-all-free/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie announcement // 17th February 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/17/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-new-ep/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 1 ‘Pre-credit sequence // 19th April 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/04/19/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-1/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 2 ‘Samaria Girl’ // 25th April 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/04/25/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-2/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 3 ‘Lover’s Phobia’ // 28th April 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/04/28/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-3/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 4 ‘Living in a Korean Film’ // 9th May 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/05/09/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-4/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 5 ‘Christmas every August’ // 10th Mar 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/05/10/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-5/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 6 ‘We are the Cyborgs, but that’s OK’ // 17th May 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/05/17/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-6/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 7 ‘Ice-Cold Angels’ // 18th May 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/05/18/jingo-harleyman-life-in-a-korean-movie-track-no-7/

Jingo Harleyman // Life in a Korean Movie. Track 8 ‘Sassy Girls on the Beach’ //

Seahorse Productions: films and theatre

Ao Tuong (dreams) 2020 // short film // Seahorse Productions 30th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/30/seahorse-productions-ao-tuong-dreams-2020/

Bad Faith 2005 // short film // Seahorse Productions 6th May 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/05/06/seahorse-productions-bad-faith-berlin-germany-2005/

Inferno 2007 // short film // Seahorse Productions 25th May 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/05/24/seahorse-productions-inferno-2007/

L’ Assommoir Perdu Part 1 // Three short Berlin films 1995 // 15th June 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/06/15/l-assommoir-perdu-part-1-berlin-films-1995-1997/

Shadow Sonata 2014 // short film // Seahorse Productions 8th June 2020:https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/06/08/seahorse-productions-shadow-sonata-2014/

Steppenwolf (2008) 2014 // short film // Seahorse Productions 15th May 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/05/15/seahorse-productions-steppenwolf-berlin-2014/

Cinema

The Beatles // solo films and soundtracks, Part 1 // 31st August 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/08/31/the-beatles-solo-cinema-projects-some-not-so-fab-films-part-1/

The Beatles // solo films and soundtracks, Part 2 // 9th September 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/09/the-beatles-solo-cinema-projects-some-not-so-fab-films-part-2/

Jean-Paul Belmondo // R.I.P. // 8th September 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/08/jean-paul-belmondo-r-i-p/

Belmondo & Delon // Qu’est-ce que le cinema ? // 12th July 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/12/quest-ce-que-le-cinema-belmondo-delon/

Close up // Iran 1990 (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami // Cinema // 25th February 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/02/25/pessoa-and-kiarostami-the-disquiet-of-close-up/

The Cranes Are Flying // USSR, 1957 (Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov) // Cinema // 13th June 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/06/13/art-cinema-the-cranes-are-flying-1957-ussr-director-mikhail-kalatozov/

Distracted // UK, 2018 (Dir James Devereaux) // 9th August 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/08/09/f-is-for-fake-d-is-for-distracted-distracted-james-devereaux-2018-uk/

Alexander Dovzhenko Ukrainian Artists #4 // 6th March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/06/ukrainian-artists-4-alexander-dovzhenko/

Makiko Esumi // 5th July 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/05/makiko-esumi-and-maborosi/

Olivia Hussey // R.I.P. // 17th February 2025: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2025/02/17/olivia-hussey-r-i-p/

Korean Cinema

Kim Ki-duk // Korean film director // 2nd February 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/02/kim-ki-duk-1960-2020/

Lee Eun-ju // A Korean Star // 3rd September 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/03/lee-eun-ju-a-korean-star/

Youn Yuh-jung // Congratulations ! // 28th April 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/28/youn-yuh-jung-best-supporting-actress/

Korean Cinema: Shades of a Heart 2019 // 4th February 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/04/korean-cinema-shades-of-a-heart-2019/

Harold Lloyd // Hooray for Harold Lloyd // 28th June 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/06/28/hooray-for-harold-lloyd/

David Lynch // R.I.P. // 19th February 2025: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2025/02/19/david-lynch-r-i-p/

Noirish Project // UK, 2018 (Dir James Devereaux) // 11th July 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/07/11/noirish-project-theatre-literature-pure-cinema/

Peter O’Toole: A legend // 24th December 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/12/24/peter-otoole-a-legend/

Paul Ritter // R.I.P / 2nd January 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/01/02/paul-ritter-r-i-p/

The Painted Bird // Czech Republic 2019 (Dir Vaclav Marhoul) // 29th July 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/29/book-into-film-the-painted-bird/

Star Wars – The power of one // 21st June 2024: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2024/06/21/star-wars-the-real-power-of-one/

Music

1966 Rock Classics // 23rd July 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/07/23/1966-rock-classics-and-some-soul-jazz-and-a-world-cup/

1967 Rock Classics // 1st March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/01/1967-rock-classics-and-some-jazz-country-soul-easy-listening/

1968 Rock Classics // 11th July 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/07/11/1968-rock-classics-post-psychedelic-back-to-basics/

Jazz Music // 29th October 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/10/29/jazz-music/

Jazz // models, fashion and attitude // 5yh May 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/05/05/jazz-models-fashion-and-attitude/

Burt Bacharach tribute // 16th February 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/02/16/burt-bacharach-r-i-p/

Jeff Beck tribute // 12th January 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/01/12/jeff-beck-r-i-p/

Tony Bennett tribute // 8th August 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/08/08/tony-bennett-r-i-p/

David Crosby tribute // 22nd January 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/01/22/david-crosby-r-i-p/

Peter Green tribute // 18th February 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/02/18/peter-green-1946-2020/

Nanci Griffith tribute // 18th August 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/18/nanci-griffith-last-of-the-true-believers/

Math Rock // 16th January 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/01/16/so-what-is-math-rock/

Mike Nesmith tribute // 11th December 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/12/12/mike-nesmith-r-i-p/

Phil Ochs – Happy Birthday // 21st December 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/12/21/phil-ochs-happy-birthday/

Alice Sara Ott: Nightfall CD (Erik satie) // 30th December 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/12/30/alice-sara-ott-nightfall-french-piano-music/

Lee Scott Revelle tribute // 6th August 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/06/lee-scott-revelle-rip/

Andy Rourke Tribute // 19th May 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/05/19/andy-rourke-r-i-p/

Swedish Rock // 4th October 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/10/04/swedish-rock-and-hej-da-to-stella/

Charlie Watts tribute // 30th August 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/30/charlie-watts-r-i-p/

Brian Wilson tribute // 13th June 2025: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2025/06/13/brian-wilson-r-i-p/

Musicians we have recently lost // Dave Greenfield, Lee Konitz, Little Richard, Bill Withers // 16th May 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/05/16/musicians-we-have-recently-lost/

Writing

Greek Myths

Oedipus // The hubris of Oedipus // 16th September 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/16/greek-myths-the-hubris-of-oedipus/

Theseus and the Minotaur// 6th October 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/10/04/young-learners-level-5-welcome-to-athens/

My ‘to read’ list // 29th August 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/29/my-to-read-list/

Chinese fiction // Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories // 24th July 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/07/24/chinese-short-stories-a-recommendation/

Wyndham Lewis ‘Song of the Militant Romance’ excerpt // 25th December 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/12/25/let-me-have-silence-always-that-is-essential/

Fernando Pessoa ‘Book of Disquiet’ // Cinema // 25th February 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/02/25/pessoa-and-kiarostami-the-disquiet-of-close-up/

Poetry for pronunciation // 16th April 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/16/poems-for-pronunciation-practice/

Shakespeare – Famous Quotes // Adult Speaking Class, level 3 // 14th January 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/01/14/famous-shakespeare-quotes/

Ukrainian Artists #3: modern writers // 5th March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/05/ukrainian-artists-3-modern-authors/

Ukrainian Artists #5 Taras Shevchenko // 12th March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/12/ukrainian-artists-5-taras-shevchenko/

Ukrainian Artists #6 Gregory Skovoroda // 14th March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-artists-6-gregory-skovoroda/

Art & Literature

Three poems and some Shakespeare // Auden, Betjeman, Larkin 19th July 2020:

https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/07/19/three-english-poems-and-some-shakespeare/fbclid=IwAR1WoY9acqpt_cOeeoXgFmYOKfJfLl73qtFO1zKJl80Luwaiop9aimgtJbo

Portrait, Landscape, Still Life (Wyndham Lewis, John Constable, Paul Cezanne) // Adult Class, Level 1 // 19th December 2018: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2018/12/19/adult-class-level-1-lessons-1-2/

Art: giving opinion // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: Art // 13th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/13/adult-speaking-class-level-3-art-what-do-you-think/

Art: DaDa & Surrealism // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: Dali, Dada & Surrealism // 23rd April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/23/adult-speaking-class-level-3-dali-dada-and-surrealism/

Art: types of art // Young Learners, level 4 (Dali, Alice in Wonderland) // 16th May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/16/young-learners-level-4-art-for-arts-sake/

Art: Unusual art // Adult Speaking Class ALH 8.2 // 3rd Match 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/03/08/adult-speaking-class-level-2-art-for-arts-sake/

Pieter Bruegel the Elder // Young Learners // 9th January 2023: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2023/01/09/young-learners-time-travellers/

Ukrainian Artists #1: Ivan Marchuk // 3rd March 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/03/ukrainian-artists-1-ivan-marchuk/

Ukrainian Artists #2: Tania D’Avignon // 4th march 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/03/04/ukrainian-artists-2-tania-davignon/

Seahorse Productions: theatre and writing

Takin’ Care of Business: An Elvis Comedy

Act One // 23rd April 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/23/takin-care-of-business/

Act Two // https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/24/takin-care-of-business-act-two/

Act Three // https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/25/taking-care-of-business-act-three/

Waiting Fo(u)r Godard

One-actor play / Royalty-free // Seahorse Productions 5th September 2020:

https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/09/05/waiting-fo-u-r-godard-a-play-for-one-actor-two-laptops/?fbclid=IwAR3Sbi0dIZJSQGZOVB749tNA5YSE_zYzbF2UWwEhQX92IH8gvF3ep5ptvnY

Parables from the Land of the Scorpion

The All-Knowing Parent // 9th November 2022: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/11/09/parables-from-the-land-of-the-scorpion/

Love and chaos

Love and Chaos: A novel set in post-Wende Berlin of a pre-internet world. Set between the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith.

Title page, photo by Ana Svarz // 11th November 2020

Contents // 11th November 2020

Part One

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/11/love-and-chaos-part-1a/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/11/love-and-chaos-part-1b/

Melanie – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/11/7839/

Marina – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/13/love-and-chaos-part-1d-marina-1/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/14/love-and-chaos-part-1e-richard-2/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/14/love-and-chaos-part-1f-chris-2/

Claudia – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/15/love-and-chaos-part-1g-claudia/

Chris – 3 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/16/love-and-chaos-part-1h-chris-3/

Richard – 3 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/17/love-and-chaos-part-1i-richard-3/

The Divine Poet From Florence https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/17/love-and-chaos-part-1j-the-divine-poet-from-florence/

Chris – 4 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/18/love-and-chaos-part-1k-chris-4/

Shoulder – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/19/love-and-chaos-part-1l-shoulder-1/

Steffi – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/20/love-and-chaos-part-1m-steffi-1/

Part Two

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/22/love-and-chaos-part-2a-richard-1/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/23/love-and-chaos-part-2b-chris-1/

The knock on the door https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/24/love-and-chaos-part-2c-the-knock-on-the-door/

Will – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/27/love-and-chaos-part-2d-will-1/

Firefly (prologue): https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/30/love-and-chaos-part-2e-firefly-prologue/

Firefly: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/30/love-and-chaos-part-2f-firefly/

Nuno: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/01/love-and-chaos-part-2g-nuno-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/02/love-and-chaos-part-2h-chris-2/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/03/love-and-chaos-part-2i-richard-2/

Part Three

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/05/love-and-chaos-part-3a-richard-1/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/06/love-and-chaos-part-3b-chris-1/

Kurt C – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/06/love-and-chaos-part-3c-kurt-c-1/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/07/love-and-chaos-part-3d-richard-2/

Hitch – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/09/love-and-chaos-part-3e-hitch-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/13/love-and-chaos-part-3f-chris-2/

Part Four

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/15/love-and-chaos-part-4arichard-1/

Lorelei – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/18/love-and-chaos-part-4b-lorelei-1/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/23/love-and-chaos-part-4c-chris-1/

The Concert of Grotesques: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/28/love-and-chaos-part-4d-the-concert-of-grotesques/

Gabi – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/29/love-and-chaos-part-4e-gabi-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/01/02/love-and-chaos-part-4f-chris-2/

Monika – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/01/09/love-and-chaos-part-4g-monika-1/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/01/12/love-and-chaos-part-4h-richard-2/

Arizona Al – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/01/21/love-and-chaos-part-4i-arizona-al-1/

Part Five

How a coffee break started a new scientific theory https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/02/09/love-and-chaos-part-5a-how-a-coffee-break-started-a-new-scientific-theory/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/03/23/love-and-chaos-part-5b-chris-1/

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/03/29/love-and-chaos-part-5c-richard-1/

Burkhardt – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/02/love-and-chaos-part-5d-burkhard-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/03/love-and-chaos-part-5e-chris-2/

Tommy – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/09/love-and-chaos-part-5f-tommy-1/

Tommy – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/22/love-and-chaos-part-5g-tommy-2/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/04/22/love-and-chaos-part-5h-richard-2/

Chris – 3 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/03/love-and-chaos-part-5i-chris-3/

Sylvester – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/04/love-and-chaos-part-5j-sylvester-1/

Part Six

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/06/love-and-chaos-part-6a-chris-1/

Monika – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/07/love-and-chaos-part-6-b-monika-1/

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/08/love-and-chaos-part-6-c-richard-1/

Three English Portraits – https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/09/love-and-chaos-part-6-d-three-english-portraits/

Arizona Al – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/10/love-and-chaos-part-6-e-arizona-al-1/

Monika – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/11/love-and-chaos-part-6-f-monika-2/

Johan – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/13/love-and-chaos-part-6-g-johan-1/

Descriptions of a Doctor – https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/14/love-and-chaos-part-6-h-descriptions-of-a-doctor/

Jake – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/19/love-and-chaos-part-6-i-jake-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/22/love-and-chaos-part-6-j-chris-2/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/23/love-and-chaos-part-6-k-richard-2/

Daniel – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/25/love-and-chaos-part-6-l-daniel-1/

Part Seven

Stefan – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/26/love-and-chaos-part-7-a-stefan-1/

Daniel – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/28/love-and-chaos-part-7b-daniel-1/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/05/30/love-and-chaos-part-7c-chris-1/

Boris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/01/love-and-chaos-part-7d-boris-1/

Ragno – Prologue https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/02/love-and-chaos-part-7e-ragno-prologue/

Ragno – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/03/love-and-chaos-part-7f-ragno-1/

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/07/love-and-chaos-part-7g-richard-1/

Daniel – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/08/love-and-chaos-part-7h-daniel-2/

Monika – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/08/love-and-chaos-part-7i-monika-1/

Alan – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/11/love-and-chaos-part-7j-alan-1/

Eric – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/12/love-and-chaos-part-7k-eric-1/

Part Eight

Alan – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/14/love-and-chaos-part-8a-alan-1/

Call me Herman https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/16/love-and-chaos-part-8b-call-me-herman/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/17/love-and-chaos-part-8c-chris-1/

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/21/love-and-chaos-part-8d-richard-1/

Julie – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/24/love-and-chaos-part-8e-julie-1/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/06/29/love-and-chaos-part-8f-chris-2/

Daniel – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/02/love-and-chaos-part-8g-daniel-1/

Alan – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/06/love-and-chaos-part-8h-alan-2/

Part Nine

Daniel – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/11/love-and-chaos-part-9a-daniel-1/

Johanna – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/19/love-and-chaos-part-9b-johanna-1/

Sergei – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/26/love-and-chaos-part-9c-sergei-1/

Julie – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/07/30/love-and-chaos-part-9d-julie-1/

Chris – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/07/love-and-chaos-part-9e-chris-1/

Richard – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/08/14/love-and-chaos-part-nine-f-richard-1/

A Christmas Miscellany https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/24/love-and-chaos-part-9-g-a-christmas-miscellany/

Jake – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/27/love-and-chaos-part-nineg-jake-1/

Richard – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/09/30/love-and-chaos-part-9i-richard-2/

Enrique Granados – The Last Romantic https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/10/01/love-and-chaos-part-9j-enrique-granados-the-last-romantic/

Chris – 2 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/10/13/love-and-chaos-part-9k-chris-2/

Part Ten

Vincent – 1 https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2022/09/01/love-chaos-part-tena-vincent-1/

IELTS – Get your motor runnin’: fluency, stress and intonation

15th October 2020

Get Your Motor Runnin' Head Out on the Highway | Donald Trump Meme on ME.ME

Our plan for the next semester is to develop speaking skills – presentation and delivery – as well as, naturally, increasing vocabulary, colocations, phrases, idioms … in short, the whole nine yards.

New idioms

I don’t want to overburden the class with too many idioms, so these are what we’ll be using over this semester. That means using them repeatedly until they become second nature and the students, of whom I am very fond, will have another string to their bow … oh, heck – ANOTHER idiom !

Another string to (your) bow – a new skill or learning experience

bear with me – please wait a very short time (usually spoken as opposed to written)

bit of a sore point – something that makes you sad or angry

down in the dumps – depressed, unhappy, feeling gloomy

hit the ground running – to start something immediately and with all your energy

like a madhouse – a place or area that is crazy, too noisy, too busy etc

run of the mill – ordinary, typical, normal, usual, boring

up in arms – to be very angry about something, to protest strongly

you take your life in your hands – doing something that is extremely dangerous

NOW … your turn … what idioms fits ?

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At breaktimes, all the younglings come pouring out of their classes, screaming their little heads off …

it’s ___________________________________

Students protest against tuition fees - BBC News

Students are unhappy about tuition fees

They are _____________

You still can!': Music teacher champions adult students learning violin

She can speak five languages, do karate and is now learning violin

She has added __________________________

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She thought the novel would be extremely exciting.

Unfortunately, for her, it’s just a ___________________ story.

Street Photography in Austin - Assignment Chicago

Some areas of downtown are no-go areas.

You really _________________________________________ if you go after dark and alone.

Poor Buster is so funny, yet he always looks _______________________

Oh, dear …

This beautiful young lady seems to be upset about something.

https://youtu.be/WS41_-Xjclk

Possibly something the man said is a ______________________ with her ?

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We’re going to have a tremendous success with our new product which we shall be launching in Europe, the US and parts of Asia.

We’re really going to ________________________________

Excuse me, I have to take this call _______________________

Part two:

How would you describe these neighbourhoods ? I want full sentences, as complex as you can make them, bursting with idioms, expressions and Low-Frequency Words. Give your opinions – would you like to go there, or even live there ? Explain your rationale.

Old Manchester pubs and cinemas from the '60s to '90s — Manchester, north-west England

Inmueble en venta - Earls Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 | Knight Frank — Tunbridge Wells, south of London

Birmingham UK Industrial scene | Birmingham uk, Birmingham, Industrial — Birmingham in the British Midlands

Rural Retreats | Wales Cottages — Rural Wales

The Edinburgh festival is cancelled: long live the festival | Scotland | The Times — Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, during the festival

Part three:

Practice making complex sentences, with two clauses at least, from these simple sentences.

Example:

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Johnny always went to the cinema when he was a child.

As a child, Johnny always went to the cinema.

GRAMMAR NOTE – the first word after the supporting clause has to be the subject.

We always played games when we had Mr Tony as our teacher.

He speaks English well although his written work is rather poor.

The Who were formed in west London in the early 1960s. They are a very famous, influential bands despite never having a Number 1 hit single.

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My neighbour only works in a convenience store. She thinks she is a big star. She is constantly taking selfies.

And … to end, let’s start copying some classic movie scenes:

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The lines to copy are from 0:14 – 0.37

Here’s the first of the day, fellas … to old D.H. Lawrence … yyahhhhhhHHHHHHH … NIC, NIC, NIC, ffff, fffff … cccahhhh, indians !

Seahorse Productions: Steppenwolf, Berlin 2014

15th May 2020

Historic photos of City Life of Berlin during the interwar period ...

This film, finished in 2014, was shot in 2008 while I was living in Berlin and I attempted to give it a 1920s feel. It’s based on the famous novel by Hermann Hesse:

Quote HERMANN HESSE – MAGGIE EXPLAINS THE WORLD

The novel, which was published in 1927, is a book within a book … a young man finds a diary written by an older man and it is this diary which forms the bulk of the story. As readers, we are free to choose how much to believe of the ‘diary’; is it all true, all fiction, a combination of truth, half-truths and wishes ?

The book certainly has a surreal quality to it, moving from realistic descriptions to a final sequence which seems to resemble a dream or fantasy.

The main character, Harry Haller, refers to himself as a steppenwolf, that is someone who craves human companionship yet is painfully introverted and uncomfortable around people. This dichotomy is central to the book.

Steppenwolf' Hermann Hesse | Cover: Detail of a painting by… | Flickr — A paperback edition of the novel

For the film, I choose areas of Berlin that were more historic and evocative of the 1920s, as well as selecting some ‘modern’ classical composers who were contemporaneous (Martinu from Czech Republic, Hindemith from Germany), along with W.F. Bach (who is mentioned in the book). The film plays out with a melancholy solo guitar piece by the incredible gypsy-guitarist Django Rheinhardt.

I also used colour filters towards the end of the film, as in some silent classics, indicating that the sequences may or may not be ‘real’ … it is up to the viewer to decide.

The film style was heavily influenced by German expressionist cinema of the inter-war years, directors such as Fritz Lang, G.W. Pabst and mostly F.W. Murnau.

Mr Molnar Levente, a Hungarian actor, was in the highly successful ‘Son of Saul’ film, while Mr Martin O’Shea has appeared with Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy in the Tom Cruise film ‘Valkarie’.

Ms Willow de la Roche gave, I feel, an amazing performance. I’m so sorry it took so long for the film to finally be cut.

Technical details: I shot the film entirely on Super 8, then had to transfer onto a compatible disk for cutting on a Windows-based laptop. At the time I was moving between Berlin, London and Sweden and furthermore, I had to learn computer editing from scratch.

And now:

LIGHTS

CAMERAS

ACTION

The link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPT0X-J2EY