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01/21/22 -- Vol. 40, No. 30, Whole Number 2207

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Topics:
Bond Songs (Part 8) (CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE
("Another Way to Die"), SKYFALL, SPECTRE
("Writing's on the Wall"), NO TIME TO DIE)
(comments by Mark R. Leeper)
NO TIME TO DIE (film review by Mark R. Leeper
and Evelyn C. Leeper)
51 by Patrick O'Leary (book review by Joe Karpierz)
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET (film review
by Gregory Frederick)
Bibles (letter of comment by Paul Dormer)
DON'T LOOK UP and THE EXPANSE(letter of comment
by John Purcell)
This Week's Reading (BLACK WATER, "Enoch Soames")
(book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)

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TOPIC: Bond Songs (Part 8) (CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE,
SKYFALL, SPECTRE ("Writing's on the Wall"), NO TIME TO DIE)
(comments by Mark R. Leeper)

I have been taking a nostalgic walk through the lyrics of James
Bond films, poking a little fun at the title songs. This will
cover the final five, or the "Daniel Craig Quintet". I am going
to give CASINO ROYALE a break. I am going to let it get by with
only one jibe. My one complaint is that I associate only one
melody and no lyrics. I associate this film with "The Nutcracker
Suite". Pardon the vulgarity.

And the last four:

QUANTUM OF SOLACE ("'Another Way to Die")

In the film this song started with a psychedelic montage
of melodies, reminiscent of AUSTIN POWERS.

Another blinger with the slick trigger finger for Her Majesty
Another one, with the golden tongue, poisoning your fantasy
Another bill from a killer turned a thrill into a tragedy

A door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust
Is just another way to die

Just what we needed.

Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one
That will never see the sunshine
Another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother in the nick
of time
Another dirty money heaven-sent honey turning on a dime

Well, a door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust
Is just another way to die

Is just another (hey!)
Is just another
You got to d-d-die!

Is just another (tell 'em, baby)
Woah!

Another girl with her finger on the world
Singing to ya what you wanna hear
Another gun thrown down and surrendered
Took away your fear
Hey!
Another man that stands right behind you looking in the mirror

Makes me yearn for the GOLDFINGER days.

Well, a door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Oh, someone that you think that you can trust
Is just another way to die

Is just another, is just another
Is just another way
Shoot 'em up, bang, bang
Hey! Hey! (Is just another)
Yeah! Yeah!
Is just another, is just another
Is just another, just another
It's just another way! Just another)
Bang, bang, bang, bang

But this is tiny compared to the deaths from corona-virus.
I am not joking because it is no laughing matter.

SKYFALL

This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the Earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again
For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue, I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen

Isn't that what is called "kidnapping"?

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At Skyfall
At Skyfall
Skyfall is where we start
A thousand miles and poles apart

I seem to remember that Bond drove it in just a few hours.

Where worlds collide and days are dark
You may have my number, you can take my name
But you'll never have my heart

Let the sky fall (let the sky fall)
When it crumbles (when it crumbles)
We will stand tall (we will stand tall)

Face it all together.

Let the sky fall (let the sky fall)

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.

When it crumbles (when it crumbles)
We will stand tall (we will stand tall)
Face it all together
At Skyfall

If the sky is falling you are in big trouble no matter
who is facing it.

Where you go, I go
What you see, I see

One of you is redundant.

I know I'd never be me
Without the security
Keeping me from harm
Put your hand in my hand
And we'll stand

Let the sky fall (let the sky fall)
When it crumbles (when it crumbles)

We will stand tall (we will stand tall)
Face it all together
Let the sky fall (let the sky fall)
When it crumbles (when it crumbles)
We will stand tall (we will stand tall)
Face it all together
At Skyfall

Let the sky fall
We'll stand tall
At Skyfall
Ooh

SPECTRE ("Writing's on the Wall")

The writing's on the wall. Craig does one more Bond film
and he's out.

I've been here before
But always hit the floor

Let's see. That would be with George Lazenby.

I've spent a lifetime running
And I always get away
But with you I'm feeling something
That makes me want to stay

That would be for something like $30,000,000.

I'm prepared for this
I never shoot to miss
But I feel like a storm is coming
If I'm gonna make it through the day
Then there's no more use in running
This is something I got to face

If I risk it all
Could you break my fall?
How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here, I'm suffocating
I want to feel love run through my blood
Tell me, is this where I give it all up?
For you I have to risk it all
'Cause the writing's on the wal

A million shards of glass
That haunt me from my past
As the stars begin to gather
And the light begins to fade
When all hope begins to shatter
Know that I won't be afraid

If I risk it all
Could you break my fall?
How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here, I'm suffocating
I want to feel love run through my blood
Tell me, is this where I give it all up?
For you I have to risk it all
'Cause the writing's on the wall
The writing's on the wall

And my salary is on the ceiling

How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here, I'm suffocating
I want to feel love run through my blood
Tell me is this where I give it all up?
How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here I'm suffocating
I want to feel love, run through my blood
Tell me, is this where I give it all up?
For you I have to risk it all
'Cause the writing's on the wall

Just so the signature is on the check.

NO TIME TO DIE

I should've known
I'd leave alone
Just goes to show
That the blood you bleed
Is just the blood you owe

We were a pair
But I saw you there
Too much to bear
You were my life
But life is far away from fair

Was I stupid to love you?
Was I reckless to help?
Was it obvious to everybody else

That I'd fallen for a lie?
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die

I let it burn
You're no longer my concern
Faces from my past return
Another lesson yet to learn

That I'd fallen for a lie
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry
There's just no time to die

No time to die
No time to die

Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
Now you'll never see me cry

There's just no time to die

Have you tried a good time management course?

[-mrl]

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TOPIC: NO TIME TO DIE (film review by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn
C. Leeper)

The latest Bond film, NO TIME TO DIE, is also the longest, clocking
in at 165 minutes, and what have they one with the extra time?
They padded out the film with incoherent machine gun fights full of
sound and fury, and fights in general. There is also more of
Bond's personal life, but not as much as they could have used, and
there is a discussion of the philosophy of being a James Bond or a
Blofeld. And the Russian accents seem to come from the Ensign
Chekov Institute of Languages. But for once the villain's
super-weapon is not something Bond or anyone else has ever faced
before. It isn't simply a rocket aimed at Washington or a decoder;
it is something whose very existence is science fiction and beyond
the power of existing science (though the idea seems to hearken
back to Nathaniel Hawthorne).

On 1/23/22 9:15 AM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
> TOPIC: Bibles (letter of comment by Paul Dormer)
>
> In response to Jim Susky's comments on Bibles in the 01/14/22 issue
> of the MT VOID, Paul Dormer writes:
>
> [Jim Susky writes,] "Anyway, the NIV New Testament was then newly
> published. Mr. Combs recommended it, and I got a copy. The
> difference between 1603 KJV and 1976 NIV was striking. Plain
> English--a blessed relief." [-gmg]
>
> I wonder how that compares with the New English Bible, which came
> out in the Sixties. [-pd]

My go-to Bible is the New Jerusalem Bible. It's in readable modern
English, and it includes books which the Catholics accept but the
Protestants don't.

I'm an atheist, so I don't have a doctrinal preference among Bibles. The
book is on my shelf for research or curiosity.

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

In article <memo.20220123152539.8348A@pauldormer.cix.co.uk>,
Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <714191d4-d765-4e31-8fff-3eeb8af9e169n@googlegroups.com>,
>evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com () wrote:
>
>> You wish to be in the reading-room just as it will be
>> on the afternoon of June 3, 1997?
>
>I have a memory of a BBC radio programme back in 1997 where someone went
>to the British Museum on that date to see if Soames appeared. (He
>didn't.)

Different universe, obviously.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:14 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote:

> In article <ssjsrj$48d$1@dont-email.me>, garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com
> (Gary McGath) wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm an atheist, so I don't have a doctrinal preference among Bibles.
> > The book is on my shelf for research or curiosity.
>
> Same here. I think the copy I have was a special offer from the Book of
> the Month Club in the eighties.

Feh, shudda nicked one from a hotel (do the Gideons still supply them?).

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.