Senses working overtime #364

1 Movie sequels - the best of.

2 Poetry corner

from Incantation of the First Order Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby.  No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars  will diminish the fear or save you from waking  into the same day you dreamed of leaving— mockingbird on back order, morning bells stuck on snooze—so you might as well   get up and at it, pestilence be damned.  Rita Dove (2021)

3 Pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on

Recognise him?

4 Vinyl

Well, it never went away from my life - but it's back. Big time!

5 Speaking of which...try this from American Beauty.

Overtime: The value of nature

Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on the value of nature:

"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."

Source: As quoted in "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole in Who is the Chairman of This Meeting?: A Collection of Essays

(Courtesy James Clear)

Senses working overtime #363

1 Celebration time

New mum in 1957

April 23rd, 1930 - Dulcie Mary Adsett was born. She would have been 92 this year . 

She is never far from my thoughts. Love you always and forever, mum.

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Late 1970s. Ramelton Road.

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1960s. Korma Avenue.

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1970s. Taupo holiday.

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Wedding day 1953 with her brother Mel 
giving away the bride to GNP.

Overtime: 

Early 1950s - working at Lewis Eady's. Handsome young beau - Graham Purdy, photographer.

Senses working overtime #362

1 Olena Zelenska

'Ukraine girls really knock me out' - Paul McCartney (1968)

This week's selections come from my saves to Pocket. A very handy way of saving articles to read later. Well - later has arrived!

2 Musicians who are poets

3 Hollywood blondes

4 The jokes that have endured for 1,000 years

5 Books that can change lives

Overtime: Why we listen to music with lyrics we can't understand.

Senses working overtime #361

1 A Terrible Kindness

I'm the first in our family to get a dose of covid-19. This week my senses have been assaulted but are standing firm. My sense of taste and smell are still there - maybe a tad diminished but hanging in there.

This week's episode of JFTT is about the other ones that are carrying me through.

First up - A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe. I wouldn't have found this without a recommendation from a good buddy. It's superbly written and has transported me back in time and place to England in the late 50's and 60's.

I've managed to read it a few chapters at a time in my more lucid moments along with...

2 No Way Back - Andrew Gross

This is for when I don't want to think too much. Nowhere near as well written as A terrible Kindness, but good to get lost in and nod off to. A colleague at school lent this to me.

3 Formula 1: Drive to Survive

Another colleague clued me to this. It's noisy, brash, sweary and addictive viewing (and I am NOT a petrol head at all).

 

Again - great for when no thinking is required.

Have been binge viewing - now halfway through season 3.

4 I Call Your Name

A great playlist on Spotify that two buddies and I put together recently.

5 Knowing men - Holly Haworth

Finally in this edition, before the overtime that is, coming out of covid-ville, I read this essay about men by a woman which ends up being more about women. Just saying.

Overtime: 

Senses working overtime #360

1 Abandoned Italian churches

(Courtesy Swissmiss)

2 Psychologist and author Adam Grant on criticism:

"Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce.

Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own."

(Courtesy James Clear)

3 Poetry corner

from Songs of Unreason The fly on the window is not a distant crow in the sky. We’re forced into these decisions. People are forever marrying the wrong people and the children of the world suffer. Their dreams hang in the skies out of reach.   Jim Harrison (2012)

4 The dangerous tour (Ukraine rock star takes it to the front line)

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, 46, the lead singer of Okean Elzy and perhaps Ukraine’s biggest star, was supposed to be preparing to play the band’s latest album to packed venues across the world from April. But then...

5 That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake.

Fake fake fake.

Overtime: The best books about Hollywood