Senses working overtime #414

1 Jacky Purdy

This week we are celebrating her latest birthday so here are some of my favourite JFP images from recent times

2 Tips on taking pictures with your phone

3 Elliot Smith's teenage band

4 Listening: Bill Evan's Sunday at The Village Vanguard

5 Reading: Ginger Baker's Hellraiser

Along with continuing to read Martin Chuzzlewit, I am cruising through Ginger's autobiography. I could do without all of the drug paraphenalia but when he talks about the music he's onto a winner.

Overtime: 

“To gain your own voice,
forget about having it heard.
Become a saint of
your own province
and your own consciousness.”

– Allen Ginsberg

Senses working overtime #219

1 Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

He's been all over my week this week! Mojo magazine had a cover story in the June issue (above); I watched the Scorsese doco on Netflix; played Hard Rain and the Live 1975 albums, and generally had a Bob-a-thon.

Only fitting then that I share five things about those experiences this week.

So enjoy, a time tunnel back to 1975/1976!

2 Marty's Bob Dylan documentary


3 Bob and Joan 

Joan is a straight shooter but her Dylan dress up is a hoot!

4 Joni and Bob and Roger
Coyote (with Bob on guitar and Roger McGuinn at Gordon Lightfoot's home) is a stand out from the Scorsese movie. The song is about the tour, according to Roger!


 
5 Allen and Bob
This scene at Jack Kerouac's graveside in Lowell is also weird. What is Dylan thinking as Allen reads the Jack excerpt?




Overtime: The River is Wide - a traditional song that Bob and Joan make theirs for everymore!

Senses working overtime #118

1 Seinfeld: The Movie
Oh yeah baby!!!! I wish. It's a 'parody' (even though it's not technically a parody), a sham if you will but wouldn't it be great. It would be real and magnificent! Check out the 'trailer'.



2 Allen Ginsberg
Some 2000 plus audio cassettes have been released from his archive and are now streaming. OMG. Great piece about that and access to the list.

3 Icons for Africa
Ai curumba - check out these icons - thanks to James Whately for the link. Just what this one is...

4 Bridge of sighs

Five stunning examples of human engineering. And we can't get something going for the Manawatu Gorge!

5 Warren Ellis

I read Gun Machine this week. Wonderful piece of sustained writing with a genuinely exciting ending. Hurrah!!

Extra extra read all about it

My youngest daughter just announced her engagement. These beautiful toilet paper wedding dresses may be the go!