Senses working overtime #469

1 Back to the frenetic fast-paced work environment

Apologies if that's headache inducing - but...

2 Watching: Monk

I love whodunnits and this is the perfect show to watch after it was back to the five day rinse and repeat work cycle. We're on to season 2.

3 Listening: Bill Evans - How My Heart Sings!

Nothing better to calm the nerves before Monk

4 Reading: Scattershot - Bernie Taupin

After a promising start, I'm finding this hard going. He tries too hard to impress and the name-dropping is just sad after a while. Working week has meant little time to read it but I'll persevere.

5 Reading: Books Don't Sell - Seth Godin

Overtime: Morning habits

I love reading Thomas Oppong's Postanly Weekly articles. This one on early morning habits is terrific.

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 #376

1 Taller benches

10 benches in Copenhagen have been raised by 1 metre and set up in prominent areas of the city. A copper plate on each bench reads:

“Flooding will become part of our everyday life
unless we start doing something about our climate.
According to the latest UN Climate Report sea-levels are expected to rise with up to 1 meter before 2100 if the global warming continues.”

2 Boris

Excellent piece from the Beeb Beeb Ceeb.

3  The Best Sites and Apps to Track Your Books, Movies, Music, and Video Games

Keeping track of all the media you're into: There are apps for that.

4 Marvel movies ranked worst to best

5 Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere.

Overtime: The Bill Evans Album

Introducing Destination: Records, a new blog to house my album reviews. The Bill Evans' album is the latest MNAC selection (from Lewis this week) which will appear soon on the blog. It's brilliant!