GM announced September 11, 2006 that their Sequel all-wheel drive fuel-cell vehicle will be a Chevrolet. The next-generation hydrogen car was unveiled at the Detroit auto show in 2005 and at that time was called the “GM Sequel;” the redesigned version of the crossover was unveiled by Larry Burns, GM’s vice president in charge of R&D and product planning.
This vehicle can accelerate 0-60 mph in less than ten seconds. Additionally, it provides a high level of control on bumpy terrain, snow, and ice. Increased torque and quicker deceleration when braking are additional benefits of some of the new technologies used in the Sequel.
I've just agreed to 'ghost write' the David Wilson blog for my old school mate, Dave 'Snooks' Wilson. The URL is http://thedavidwilson.blogspot.com/ and although I have a free hand in what I report, I have been given strict boundaries including a must inclusion of Aston Villa at least once a week. As we, along with Phil Finney and Richard (1099) Phillips were the only Villa fans in our year at school, then that shouldn't be too hard.
Thomas Harris wrote the series of books containing Hannibal Lecter between 1981 and 2006.
I saw the 1986 film Manhunter, based on the first book, Red Dragon, in the following year on VHS from my local Video rental store. It was a remarkable film and the darkness of Lecter was quite immense.
Bt the time that The Silence of the Lambs was made in 1991 grabbing awards and glowing reviews, and with good cause too, I had forgotten Brian Cox's dark performance in Manhunter but also because of the differing production and cast, I didn't even realise that the character was the same until I read a review of SOTL in a magazine!
It was 10 years before Lecter re-appeared on film (11 years in print), and the finale to the series (both film and print) Hannibal Rising was a prequel to Red Dragon, showing how he developed his taste for killing.
Lecter has been portrayed by several actors, Brian Cox (Manhunter), Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon). Gaspard Ulliel - (Hannibal Rising) and Aaran Thomas (Hannibal Rising (child))
What I want to know from Mr Harris is this:
What happens AFTER events in "Hannibal"?
How badly is Lecter's hand damaged?
Does Lecter continue his killing spree? If so how?
Does he take on an apprentice who continues his killing spree on his behalf????
Was it my multi-blogged moan that un-locked my new blog http://sequels-and-trilogies.blogspot.com/ ? I know that blogger took the full 20 days to un-lock a blog of a friend of mine. Now his block WAS highly political but there should be no difference. Perhaps it was my genuine threat to move to wordpress?
In late 1963, an offer was made to Eastwood's co-star Eric Fleming on Rawhide to star in an Italian made western, originally to be named The Magnificent Stranger (A Fistful of Dollars) to be directed in a remote region of Spain by a relative unknown at the time, Sergio Leone.
However, the money was not much, and Fleming always set his sights high on Hollywood stardom, and rejected the offer immediately.
A variety of actors, including Charles Bronson, Steve Reeves, Richard Harrison, Frank Wolfe, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Ty Hardin were considered for the main part in the film, and the producers established a list of lesser-known American actors, and asked the aforementioned Richard Harrison for advice.
Harrison had suggested Clint Eastwood, whom he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part".
Despite the trilogy, Endless Enigma, on my featured blog recently, Trilogy by ELP, which itself is very good, my favourite musical trilogy, by far, has to be 10cc's Une Nuit À Paris. They tried, but failed to, eclipse it with Feel the Benefit on Deceptive Bends a few years later. I have reposted the 'Wikipedia' summary, which as always is thorough and precise and copied the track lyrics from the 10cc website (Minestrone.org) and pasted the YouTube track copy at the bottom too. I was privvy to the Original Soundtrack live concert tour and saw this performed live at The Birmingham Odeon in 1975 (twice).
Musically the song can be described as Art or Progressive rock due to its multiple time changes and length. It has often drawn comparisons to the 10cc song Feel The Benefit from their 1977 Deceptive Bends album, which is in a similar style.
In English the title translates as One Night In Paris and the suite is divided into three separate parts;
Part 1 - One Night In Paris
Part 2 - The Same Night In Paris
Part 3 - Later That Same Night In Paris
Unlike some epic Rock songs the parts are easily distinguishable as to when they begin and end.
Lyrically the song tells a tale of a British tourist in ParisFrance. The locals attempt to con the man into buying items such as a Swiss watch and photographs. Eventually the man ends up in the Red Light District and although he feels ripped off sleeps with a prostitute. Due to a series of complications a policeman arrives on the scene and is shot dead.
Mme. Bezier: Bonjour monsieur Paris really welcomes you It's the best room in the house It's forty francs a night, alright.
Touriste: It's crazy, it isn't worth a centime I'll take it!
Mme. Bezier: Merci Monsieur
Offstage Chorus: Rouged lips in the gaslight A great view of the hall That's the way the croissant crumbles after all
Narrator: Paris is only one step away Les girls are out on bail Tres bien there's love for sale
Coquette: Oh my cheri, wish you were mine And I'll show you a wonderful time For the price of a cheap champagne I'll show it you once again
Voice of the Streets: One night in Paris Is like a year in any other place One night in Paris Will wipe the smile off your pretty face One girl in Paris Is like loving every woman One night in Paris One night in Paris One night in Paris May be your last!!!
Part Two: The Same Night in Paris
Hustlers (1 to 5): Is he gonna buy?
1. Offstage: You wanna little culture?
Hustlers: Is he gonna pay?
2. Offstage: Maybe Monsieur is into photographs, Non?
Hustlers: Or is he gonna fall in love The all American way?
3. Offstage: I got a watch wiz a beautiful Swiss movement
Hustlers: Is he gonna buy?
4. Offstage: Oh forget ze watch, I'll show you a good time!
Hustlers: Is he gonna pay?
5. Offstage: Le connoisseur, want something different?
Hustlers: Or is he gonna fall in love The all American way?
Everyone: Oh you know you ain't no Casanova You can't even do the Bossa Nova Or the Tango or the Samba!
Chinese Tarts: Though you are so very charming No you ain't no Casanova
Hustlers: Is he gonna buy? Is he gonna pay? Or is he gonna fall in love The all American way? Sometimes I think he will But then again........................
Voice of the Streets: One night in Paris Is like a year in any other place! One night in Paris Will wipe the smile off your pretty face!
Try a girl in Paris But try one of mine Each night in Paris Each night in Paris Each night in Paris Each night in Paris May be your last!!!
Part Three: Later the same night in Paris
Coquette's Girls: Forty-Two, Quarante-Deux Rue de Saint Jacques All our girls are how you say Good in the sack
Coquette: I was a stripper On the Champs Elysees He was a gendarme In the gendarmerie
Girls: Going Oh La La La Oh La La La La
Coquette: He was a pimp In a black beret But he was an artiste In his own way
Girls: Going Oh La La La Oh La La La La
Coquette: When they raided my club that night They ruined my act with the leather umbrella the Chief de Police got a fright He was up in my boudoir with some other fella
Club Clientelle: It's only routine But I got this feeling It ain't good for business
Narrator: Then the floor cleared A woman screamed to herself
Henri's Lover: Henri...Though you're not the toast of Paris I love you, although you bed and beat me Henri, leave it alone, For the gendarme's just doing his job
Narrator: Paris is only one step away
Chorus: Murder is only one step away
Everyone: Notre Dame is ringing her bells Another gendarme has gone to Hell Notre Dame is ringing her bells Another gendarme has gone to Hell gone to Hell gone to Hell gone to Hell
Whole Cast: One night in Paris Is like a year in any other place One night in Paris Will wipe the smile off your pretty face One girl in Paris Is like loving every woman This night in Paris This night in Paris This night in Paris This night in Paris May be your last!!!
The interior of the original gatefold sleeve features a photomontage showing multiple images of the band in Epping Forest carpeted with autumn leaves.
The band had already released two very carefully performed studio albums, Emerson, Lake and Palmer (1970) and Tarkus (1971), the former being dominated by virtuoso keyboards and drumming; the latter being as bombastic as it was ambitious. Trilogy, their third studio album, increased ELP's worldwide popularity, and included "Hoedown", which was one of their most popular songs when performing live.
Track listing
Side one
"The Endless Enigma Part One" (Emerson/Lake) – 6:37
"Fugue" (Emerson) – 1:57
"The Endless Enigma Part Two" (Emerson/Lake) – 2:00
The Endless Enigma consists of three parts: Endless Enigma Part One, Fugue and Endless Enigma Part Two. Endless Enigma Part One has a 1:36 intro that consists of the Moog, bass drum and Piano. It's very quiet. The song Endless Enigma Part One opens with the sound of a beating heart, an effect created by the bass drum pedal of Palmer's Ludwig Octoplus kit. Notably, this effect was invented by Carl Palmer before it was used on Jethro Tull's A Passion Play (1973). The opening drum solo on the track "The Sheriff" features a slight time-mistake, followed by drummer Carl Palmer responding with the word "shit" which can be heard when listening carefully. The Sheriff ends with a Honkey Tonk type piano solo with Keith playing a honkey tonk piano and Carl playing woodblocks. "Abaddon's Bolero" sounds like a martialized Bolero (in 4/4 rhythm rather than the usual 3/4). A single melody containing multiple modulations within itself is repeated over and over in ever more thickly layered arrangements, starting from a quiet hammond organ making a flute-like sound over a snare drum, and building up to an ear-shattering wall of sound. This aspect may well be a nod to the similar effect in Maurice Ravel's famous Bolero. Abaddon's Bolero is very replete with overdubs. Almost every time another instrument comes in, it's another overdub.
I was born as Robert (Bob) de Bilde. Since the rise in popularity of a childrens cartoon, Bob The Builder, I use an alias (Bill De Dashe), and I am married to Mrs De Dashe and we lived in a Windmill in Old Amsterdam (Yarr). We recently moved to Birmingham, United Kingdom...
The Sequel is a hydrogen fuel cell-powered concept car and sport utility vehicle from General Motors, employing the latest generation of HydroGen3 technology developed by Opel. The Sequel uses a drive-by-wire system. It has a range of 300 miles, and its only emission is water. It debuted at the 2005 North American International Auto Show and was shown at the 75th international car show in Geneva, Switzerland. GM chief and chief executive Rick Wagoner suggested it will be over a decade before it goes into production. 
