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)

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 #124

1 Canada O Canada Eh

Great travelogue through Canadian landscapes and some Jesse Rowbotham standard photos along the way. All that gave me a vicarious thrill this week.

2 The Defenders

Our next bingefestathon after The Blacklist! Details are here.

3 These fake shadows are pretty cool

so here are some more.

4 The fade out




5 Dolly Dagger

Well, not exactly, but this is a sweet story about Jimi Hendrix and a note he wrote a girl 50 years ago, when she was a foxy (19 year old) lady. 

Overtime: Favourites
Age 14, 24 and 30. Find out how they figure in your favourites in this cool article from the folks at medium.

Senses working overtime #80

1 Less is more

Three's a crowd

Apparently, having less friends is  a good thing. A worthwhile p.o.v. if you ask me. This article looks at the correlation between Facebook use and loneliness.

2 Wild life

A great spread - the top wild life photos of 2016.

3 Mara Wilson

Who? The star of Matilda! That's who. This is about her, and it's great!

4 Jimi
In Moebius (s)trip style. Whoa!!




5 Apple

I'll need to find this book somewhere. In the meantime - this excerpt gets the apple juices flowing nicely.

Overtime
Please please please...fanvid to one of my favourite Smiths' songs

Senses working overtime #19

1 Star Wars theme park
OMG - hot flushes going overtime with this news. How cool will this be? Can I live there??

2 Robert Frost
I enjoyed thinking anew about Robert Frost's famous The Road Not Taken poem thanks to this article.

3 Deep Blue
Try this as an opening paragraph to a great article on whether machines will ever replace teachers: 

In the spring of 1997 in New York City, IBM’s chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, took on Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a rematch of their 1996 match. In the sixth and decisive game of the match, Deep Blue unexpectedly sacrificed his knight and pulled Kasparov into a trap. Less than twenty moves into the game, Kasparov was forced to resign. 

It was a watershed moment. A machine had outsmarted the world’s greatest chess player.

4 Magazine covers
Who doesn't love an article that traces the development in magazine covers for some iconic mags? What I thought! Check out this and for the record I'm a Star Wars fan who doesn't approve of that GQ spread.

5 Earth
Ever wondered why 'Earth' is called 'Earth'? Me too. Here's the answer.

Overtime
This Jimi Hendrix clip turned up on Walrus Gumboot and I was there in the zone baby!