Senses working overtime #599

1 Final week of Roctober

The view on my commute this week

2 Listening: XTC - Skylarking

Ballet for a Rainy Day has been on repeat.

3 Construction: Shade sails

Labour Weekend always means putting the shade sails over the zen garden. A third sail was erected this time.

4 Viewing: Keeping Faith

We've watched seasons 1, 2 and have one episode to go in season 3.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Waifs & Strays

The three amigos' latest playlist concentrates on the more obscure songs found on B sides or deep album cuts.

Overtime: Ally Carter

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Senses working overtime #598

1 Roctober's third week

Photo by Anna King on Unsplash

2 Visited: JB Hi Fi (Hastings)

Their 20% off deal during this long weekend was a great chance to pick up a cheaper copy of the newly reconditioned/ augmented Rubber Soul (I opted for the double vinyl album version, So, $80 as opposed to $115).

3 Listening: Van Morrison - Remembering Now

A joyous experience - try Down to Joy.

4 (Still) Reading: Anne Tyler - Back When We Were Grownups

5 Doing: Long weekend chores

Spring cleaning Maple Grove. Putting up the sails over the zen garden. Catching up on some reading.

Overtime: Byron Pulsifer

A lot of people seeking new beginnings have never finished with the past.

Senses working overtime #597

1 Rocktober's second week

Photo by Redd Francisco on Unsplash

2 Watching: Keeping Faith

3 Reading: Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler

4 Listening: The Doobie Brothers debut album

5 Listening: John Dawson Winter III

Raised on Rock sums me up!

 

Overtime: Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Senses working overtime #596

1 Back in Taranaki

From Waverley onwards, this sunset accompanied our journey back to the 'Naki for family reasons.

2 Listening: Osibisa - Woyaya

Survival is a good example of their afro-jazz-funk sound.

3 Watching: Keeping Faith

4 Revelation: David Warren Brubeck

While checking out info on a new record purchase (Brubeck on Campus - $4 from The Little Red Bookshop) I noticed his middle name was the same as my first name. My dad was a big fan in the fifties and it's too much of a coincidence. Eery.

5 Listening: Brubeck on Campus

Take the 'A' Train is a nice place to start (the album is a compilation of two early albums - Jazz Goes to College from 1954 and Jazz Goes to Junior College from the year of my birth - 1957).

Overtime: Robyn Hitchcock on Paul McCartney's Days We Left Behind (a song on Macca's latest album)

He captures the paradox of a past which you can never escape or return to. Paul for once sounds like the old man he must physically be now, beneath his eternally youthful rocking carapace. I love it.

Senses working overtime #595

1 Feeling this week:

Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash

2 Vinyl week!

Welcome to the party, pal (Vinyl Vault)

A trip to New Plymouth via Whanganui, plus buying local meant I visited three dedicated record shops this week: Vinyl Countdown (New Plymouth); Vinyl Room (Whanganui); and Vinyl Vault Plus (Waipukurau).

3 Listening: The Sound of Dinah Lee (1965)

Picked up a mint copy at Vinyl Vault Plus this week for $25, Happy birthday to me!

4 Reading: Mojo magazine #392

5 Watched: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga on Netflix and Mad Max: Fury Road on a DVD

Overtime: Doris Day

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Senses working over time #594

1 Last week of Term 3

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

2 Listening: WTWMC - Copy that

3 Watching: I Will Find You

4 Reading: Mojo Magazine #391

5 Listening: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories)

Overtime: Did I mention that it's now a two week break before we launch into the final term of the year?

Senses working overtime #593

1 The feeling this week:

Photo by Tim Johnson on Unsplash

2 Reading: Songs from the Shaky Isles (A short history of popular music in New Zealand) - Gareth Shute

I picked this up from the sale bin outside Paper Plus in Waipukurau this week. I'm already engrossed in the origins of music in New Zealand.

3 Not reading: The Virginian - Owen Wister

I've decided to shelve this novel 150 pages in. I wasn't looking forward to reading it and started reading other books instead of it, hence the decision to stop. Maybe I'll come back to it in the future.

4 Watched: The first three Terminator films

All of the scary speculation about AI's future vs the benefits it brings to humanity meant we watched the first three Terminator movies this week. I suggest the boffins at Open AI and Anthropic do the same, as news reports of a potential US/China conflict in the Middle East thanks to AI surfaced. 

5 Listening: Hemi Hemingway's album Wings of Desire

This was Kevy's choice for the week. My review is here.

Overtime: André Gide (in 1925)

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.