Senses working overtime #407

1 A brief history of pancakes

2 Crosby Stills Nash and Young - David Browne

Kev sent me a copy of this to read - nothing in there was a revelation but great to be reconnected with the twisted CSNY machinations and I still don't get why Young and Nash became so pissed off with Crosby at the end - wasn't like they didn't know him by then, right?! 

It also inevitably took me back to their music - of which I am mildly obsessed. Surprised me how good American Dream was, although it gets a bad press. Worth a revisit!

3 What rewatching old TV shows tells us about ourselves

4 What is a snack, really?

5 How coffee (caffeine) really affects our bodies

Overtime: Still Raining, Still Dreaming - Jimi Hendrix

A good track to listen to while it persistently comes down in the Hawke's Bay of New Zealand.

Senses working overtime #389

1 What happens when AI creates visuals for iconic song lyrics like Mr Blue Sky

2 Coffee vs Tea - the healthiest option is...

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

3 Chess gets hipper, even a little rock and roll

4 Brown noise explained

5  Paul Newman's memoir - how it came out years after he passed away.

Overtime: Knowledge

Wisława Szymborska, poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature:

"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

Source: The Poet and the World via James Clear

Senses working overtime #324

1 Nitch

Joni Mitchell // "Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth...we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side...and we become attracted to fluff... But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing."

2 Marvel villains ranked by, erm, hotness

3 Five words that will open doors for you

4 Black Widow

I was looking forward to this pre pandemic. Not sure now, after reading this.

5 Coffee - the invisible addiction

Coffee houses have been around awhile

Apparently, "Something like 90% of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children (commonly in the form of fizzy drinks)."

Overtime: Believing is seeing 

They say that seeing is believing.

But it might be more true that believing leads to seeing.

It’s often easier to discover the truth if we believe it’s there in the first place.

(Seth Godin)

Senses working overtime #319

1 Supporting England

2 The benefits of coffee

3 I'm so tired

Photo by Kate Stone Matheson on Unsplash

Sleep is important.

4 June Sunset - Sarojini Naidu

Here shall my heart find its haven of calm,
By rush-fringed rivers and rain-fed streams
That glimmer thro' meadows of lily and palm.
Here shall my soul find its true repose
Under a sunset sky of dreams
Diaphanous, amber and rose.
The air is aglow with the glint and whirl
Of swift wild wings in their homeward flight,
Sapphire, emerald, topaz, and pearl.
Afloat in the evening light.

A brown quail cries from the tamarisk bushes,
A bulbul calls from the cassia-plume,
And thro' the wet earth the gentian pushes
Her spikes of silvery bloom.
Where'er the foot of the bright shower passes
Fragrant and fresh delights unfold;
The wild fawns feed on the scented grasses,
Wild bees on the cactus-gold.

An ox-cart stumbles upon the rocks,
And a wistful music pursues the breeze
From a shepherd's pipe as he gathers his flocks
Under the pipal-trees.
And a young Banjara driving her cattle
Lifts up her voice as she glitters by
In an ancient ballad of love and battle
Set to the beat of a mystic tune,
And the faint stars gleam in the eastern sky
To herald a rising moon.

5 Two-Gun Kid

This pin-up is crazy good!

Overtime: The Water Is Wide - Dylan and Baez

Sublime. I listened to this version from The Rolling Thunder Revue tour three times on repeat each day this week!

It doesn't need any visuals - it does it all.