Senses working overtime #449

1 Activity this week (painting window sills)

Photo by Joris Berthelot on Unsplash

2 Reading: The Boys - Ron and Clint Howard

3 Reading: The Lone Star Ranger - Zane Grey

4 Listening: Fighter Command from Gathering Speed - Big Big Train

5 Writing: Goo Goo G'Joob posts

Having re-organised my collection into straight alphabetical order I've been feverishly writing mini reviews for my music blog. Each time I have a rule that I need to listen to the record before I write about it.

 

Overtime: Maya Angelou on finding your family:

"Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

Senses working overtime #174

1 Egypt Station

Our Paulie has a new album out on September 7. I've just finished the Mojo article about it and read the review. Sounds fab!! Two thumbs up. Can't wait!

I'm also digging the artwork - based on a painting done by Macca.

2 Poetry corner returns!

from Ars Poetica

I say I want to save the world but really
I want to write poems all day
I want to rise, write poems, go to sleep,
Write poems in my sleep
Make my dreams poems
Make my body a poem with beautiful clothes
I want my face to be a poem

Dorothea Lasky (2010)

3 Three Jeff Bezos questions to use for hiring talent

4 The Fugitive

I'm a fan. I watched it again recently in a hotel room. It stands up (even though I know it backwards. Why is that? The answer may be here).

5 Kant

Great piece on Immanuel Kant who was...well, read the article!

Overtime
For your listening pleasure this week - The Transit of Venus Across the Sun by Big Big Train has been on high rotation on Radio Wozza.

Senses working overtime #166

1 The Black Monday Murders

As featured on Warren Ellis' newsletter. This is a page from The Black Monday Murders comic by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker and Michael Garland. 

Extraordinary image - the light giving the finger must have been deliberate, the table that looks like a sinister beetle is very cool and the figures presented at the desk and doorway are intriguing.

2 Mexico!!

Great feel good story - how the Mexicans are thanking South Korea for their World Cup miracle against the world champions!

3 Big Big Train
Brand new from the wonderful Big Big Train:




4 Poetry Corner

In Time The night the world was going to end when we heard those explosions not far away and the loudspeakers telling us about the vast fires on the backwater consuming undisclosed remnants and warning us over and over to stay indoors and make no signals you stood at the open window the light of one candle back in the room we put on high boots to be ready for wherever we might have to go and we got out the oysters and sat at the small table feeding them to each other first with the fork then from our mouths to each other until there were none and we stood up and started to dance without music slowly we danced around and around in circles and after a while we hummed when the world was about to end all those years all those nights ago W.S. Merwin (2001)

5 The Moon
I find the moon endlessly fascinating. 1969 left a deep impression on me. 

Feast yer eyes on these newly released high resolution images:

Overtime: Hi-Revving Tongues
I 've just bought a new compilation of New Zealand's Hi-Revving Tongues. Now billed as Nu Zild's first psychedelic band from the late sixties.

They had a big hit, also in '69, with a cover of Rain and Tears but I prefer this guitar and organ fueled masterpiece from two years earlier.

Oh, okay then. Here's their cool cover hit as well...

Senses working overtime #138

1 The first review is in...

...and it's a very positive one!

 2 John Wick, a celebration

Coincidentally, I re-watched this and Chapter 2 over two nights this week. This appreciation of Keanu Reeves hits the right tone.

3 Do the evolution baby
Movie trailers are how they have evolved.

4 Netflix
Some great stats here on how the world watches via Netflix, like: the highest global re-watch record was set by an American who streamed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 365 times in 2017. 

They tell some interesting stories about the evolution of watching stuff.

5 The last word on Star Wars: The Last Jedi for this edition

Excellent primer - what you need to know BEFORE you go and see Episode 8.

Overtime: Merry Christmas by Big Big Train

Senses working overtime #107

1 Wonder

I have a file in my brain labelled 'Wonder'. It's a miscellany of images, memories, books, poems, films, sounds. Wondrous-ness is very much a valued commodity in my brain. So I enjoyed reading this piece about how wonder works.

2 Stunning interactive mini-sites

My colleague, Greg Semmens, at Woodford House, would love this one from the creative BBC people.

3 Big Big Train
I'm a big big fan of Big Big Train - take a listen to their brand new song, and you will be too.




4 Marvel movies ranked
I'm a sucker for these kind of lists. Here are the 15 Marvel movies (so far), ranked from worst to best. 

5 Star Wars
Interesting analysis of the Rogue One and Force Awakens screenplays. I know, but this guy delivers his messages well and loves Star Wars as a thing, so...hang in there.




Overtime
1 Hari Georgeson and Slowhand play Taxman. Sharp!



2 Macca on one of my fav Beatle solo albums - Ram.



3 Blade Runner 2049