Senses working overtime #600

1 Celebration time #1: 600 posts!

2 Reading: Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

3 Watching: Doc Martin - Season 10 on Netflix

4 Celebration time #2: Democrat victory in the mid-terms

Praise the Lord! America rediscovers its spine.

5 Listening: Yes - Keys to Ascension 1 and 2

Two sprawling double CDs that sees the classic lineup (Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Alan White), finally get it together in March 1996 in San Luis Obispo. Plus, some studio tracks that showed they still had it going on in 1996.

Try lead off song, Siberian Khatru.

Overtime: Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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?