Author: John Silby

Donald, how would you know?

John Silby

Harrison Ford was at Sydney Opera House yesterday, attending a fan event promoting his new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

While in Sydney, Ford took a shot at Donald Trump.

The New York Times reported last week that Trump had said that he enjoyed movies with heroic presidents — singling out Air Force One, the 1997 films in which Ford plays a president who has to fight off a group of Russian terrorists when they hijack the presidential plane.

“My favourite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “He stood up for America.”

When asked by Channel Ten’s Angela Bishop what he thought of Trump’s remarks, Ford replied: “It’s a movie.”

“Donald, it was a movie,” he continued, while looking into the camera and shaking his head. “It’s not like this in real life, but how would you know?”

Source: The Age

Guitar virtuoso

John Silby

This short video turned up on an art blog that I follow. Three things struck me – the catchy tune, the pretty amazing playing from a lady who doesn’t even seem to realise she is talented, and the comments from rebloggers.

Comments included (copied exactly as they were posted):

“She just shat all over every guitar player in the top 40 with a bent guitar that’s not even tuned correctly (and missing its top e string)”

“Oh my goodness. Wow. Ive never seen something so amazing. Who is this woman?”

“That. Was. Fire”

“I don’t know music, so I don’t understand what I’m looking at (though I do like it), but I just showed this to my husband, and his jaw hit the floor.”

“Lovely slide bits, by the way …”

I wasn’t able to find out where the video originated.