In the pocket Thought I'd catch up on my last five additions to Pocket for this edition on Jewels For The Thirsty. 1 The pursuit of happiness is pointless
Overtime: Bluesleep Adam has a new album out as Bluesleep called You've Haunted Me - beautiful and eery trip hop - with some offbeat beats and an urban feel at times. Fav tracks: 1986, Nightingale. Do yerself a favour and catch up on your Bluesleep via Spotify
This is plain weird, but The New Yorker does a good job giving the big picture to this copyright conundrum. 2 Performances that save or ruin a film I don't disagree (shock horror). How 'bout you? Check out the list here. 3 Hue and cry Twelve cool words that are survivors by dint of embedding themselves in phrases. 4 Luke
Interesting views on the changed Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (yes, that J G-L - the actor). 5 Nu Orlns!!!!!
OMG - what an end to a play-off game. The New Orleans Saints, with 14 seconds to go, looked like winning it, easily. Then they blew it. Big time. Here's the NY times on the whole sorry mess. Overtime Benjamin Franklin
You could do a lot worse than following old Ben Kenobi's advice. Seriously dude - check it out!
Her speech to the Golden Globe award celebration deserves to be read by everyone with an interest in how humanity develops from this point onward. You need to read this! 2 Anticipation
I enjoyed this run down (get it?) of the movies we can expect in 2018. Ant Man vs The Wasp looks like a must see already! And then there's Han Solo. Fingers crossed. 3 Aussie birds of fire! Ha - from the only in Australia bureau - birds that carry fire sticks to get their prey! 4 360 of Seattle Cool time lapse panorama of the Seattle skyline over three years. 5 Wabi Sabi I like this idea Extra Texture: Family of the Year (again) Another spin for this great song!
1 RIP Jim Baikie Alerted to this by Warren Ellis' weekly newsletter - to quote the great man: Noting with sadness the passing of Jim Baikie, a master of comics...Unique storyteller, a supernatural instinct with his marks, scratches and smudges assembling in the eye into something with weight and texture and breath.
2 Best of 2017 - we move to adverts of the year! Great summary courtesy of Adweek 3 Oh dear...everything must go...
The New York Times on the death of bookstore chains. 4 This is your dream year! Nice reminder to go for it in 2018!! 5 More best ofs - photographs More here. Extra Texture: I can't think of a better way to start a new year than with Zuni. There is something about her and her version of Build that I never tire of (and apologies for nearly ending that sentence with a preposition, but this bracketed bit saved the day, sort of).
