Senses working overtime #429

1 The feeling during this week

2 Watching: FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Refreshing to see some camaraderie between USA and Netherland players.

3 Reading: RIP Randy Meisner

Randy - far left

4 Listening: Mission: Impossible Themes

5 Reading:

As It Was The bullfrogs guard me from the noise of modern life the stars fool me into thinking they always look the same. Jonathan Greene (2015)

Overtime: How I felt at the end of the week

Senses working overtime #428

1 How I'm feeling this week 

(From reading: Five of the world's most remarkable treks)

2 Reading/watching: I was an extra on Oasis' strangest music video

 

Great video (for Acquiesce) and story on being an extra in the video.

3 Reading: Hollywood's high stakes strike

4 Reading:  How much do band names matter?

5 Reading: Where have all the Disney villains gone? 

Overtime:  

Ars Poetica Because I know Now: how it feels To sip that small space Between becoming And being found. Camonghne Felix (2022)

Senses working overtime #427

1 How I felt this week

2 Reading: Lionel Messi 

How Lionel deals with anxiety. Excellent article.

3 Reading: Marianne Faithfull - memories, dreams and reflections

I finished Loud in New Plymouth and needed something to get me through until I got home, so I picked this up from the little secondhand bookshop by the library. Pretty sure I read it years ago but it's a dim recollection and I'm enjoying her prose style all over again.

4 Listening: Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina

We stopped off at the secondhand shop in Turakina on the way home from New Plymouth and I found a copy of this in good condition for $10. 

5 Reading:

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts In December I watch movies about ghosts with a woman I call mama though she is not my mother, only a woman who is kind, this all I require. We take breaks to lean against each other on the porch, her sucking smoke from between her fingers, exhaling its skirling; each mouthful dissipating, becoming something like air. My breath’s a less impressive phantom, fleeting silver in the cold light. Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead, their metaphysics, as if we were experts by osmosis, a certain knowledge absorbed. I say I think our ghosts become us, or at least reside in our dark like tenants we haven’t the heart to kick out. She says, though she hasn’t quite figured it out yet, there are rules: not all of us get to be ghosts. Leila Chatti (2018)

Overtime:  

Senses working overtime #426

1 How I felt this week

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

2a Reading: Rock Roadie by James 'Tappy' Wright

2b Reading: Loud by Tana Douglas

A yin yang approach - a male and female version of being a roadie. Loud is much better written and much more interesting btw.

3 Watching: Tour de France Unchained (Netflix)

4 Listening: Jimi Hendrix Los Angeles Forum April 26 1969

After a four star review in Mojo, I bought a vinyl copy from JB hi Fi last week - it deserves to be played LOUD. It's a monster!

5 Reading/Listening: Patti Smith remembering Jim Morrison

Overtime:  

Love Comes Quietly Love comes quietly, finally, drops about me, on me, in the old ways. What did I know thinking myself able to go alone all the way. Robert Creeley (1960)