Senses working overtime #272

1 Roadtrips

I love a good roadtrip.

2 Nostalgia

3 Room in Brooklyn

This
slow 
day
moves
Along the room
I
hear
its
axles
go
A gradual dazzle
upon
the
ceiling
Gives me that
racy
blueishyellow
feeling
As hours
blow
the
wide
way
Down my afternoon.

Anne Carson (2000)

4 Worried about a difficult conversation?

Here's some advice from a former hostage negotiator. Everything you need.

5 Werner Herzog

Overtime: Roy Harper

Senses working overtime # 271

Recently, Jacky and I spent a few days in Wellington. Visits to the regular haunts were must dos:

1 Slow Boat Records

2 Arty Bees Books

3 Unity Books

4 Rough Peel Music

5 DoubleTree by Hilton (where we stayed and can recommend)

Overtime: Selfie time

Senses working overtime #270

1 Loving John

Current reading matter is Loving John - May Pang's book. I've never read it before! Scandalous!! 

She's pretty good at setting the scene.

2 Belief and plans

Steve Jobs on those things is really interesting.

3 Love Poem: Centaur

Nothing approaches a field like me. Hard gallop, hard chest – hooves and mane and flicking tail. My love: I apprehend each flower, each winged body, saturated in a light that burnishes. I would make a burnishing  of you, by which I mean a field in flower, by which i mean, a breaching – my hands making an arrow of themselves, rooting the loosened dirt. I would make for you the barest of sounds, wing against wing, there, at the point of articulation. Love,  I pound the earth for you. I pound the earth.  Donika Kelly (2017)

4 Dylan interview

He has a new album out. That's a big deal when you're nearly 80 and you've a cultural icon for six decades.

5 Solitude

Overtime: She'll be right, Icelandic style.

Senses working overtime #269

1 Lazy

Photo by howling red on Unsplash

This week I'm pulling the lazy card. We've just finished a 12 week term which included unprecedented moments like a Covid-19 Lockdown in NZ. That's starting to fade in the memory, never-the-less, it resulted in a totally knackering term. I'm pretty empty and really tired. The last two weeks especially have been of the smell-of-a-oily-rag variety.

So - laziness abounds in this edition.

2 RIP Milton Glaser

He created/designed a huge number of record covers like the Jan Hammer cover. God bless you Milton.

3 RIP Carl Reiner

4  Anne Lamott

5 Memory

Overtime: Splash mountain's makeover