Senses working overtime #161

1 London bound

Photo by David Dibert on Unsplash

My wife and I (plus Jerry our dog) will be living in London from August onwards as I've accepted a new job. I love London. To help celebrate check out that photo!

2 Fascinating hats!
If you live on Planet Earth you were aware of the royal weeding, er, wedding, last week. 

Here is my contribution (hey - I loved it. And yes, I may have got something in my eye at some point okay!)




3 Wow reality - what a concept

Another JFTT item on Robin Williams - a piece looking at the new biography is great for the photos alone!

4 Brain Pickings - on music

Maria Popova (great name) writes the Brain Pickings blog. Here she compiles some great writing from some great minds (including Anaïs Nin above) on the power of music.

5 Poetry corner

Curaçao

I think I am going to love it here

I ask the man in the telegraph office
the way to the bank
He locks the door and walks with me
insisting he needs the exercise

When I ask the lady at my hotel desk
what bus to take to the beach
she gets me a lift with her beautiful sister
who is just driving by in a sports job

And already I have thought of something
I want to ask the sister

Earle Birney (1966)

Overtime: You Never Can Tell

I'm digging The Immortal Jukebox blog and its unhurried unravelling style. It's run by a fellow baby boomer hepcat with the improbable name - Thom Hickey. 

In that link above, he takes on Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell. Fabulous!

And that's us - been an awesome week. Wherever this blogpost finds you I hope you experienced some highs this week. If not - despair not, next week is just around the corner.

Senses working overtime #160

1 Luke's reaction to Han's death

Great piece about a deleted scene from The Last Jedi (my co favourite Star Wars film Of All Time!

2 Poetry corner

At Night the Salmon Move

At night the salmon move
out from the river and into town.
They avoid places with names
like Foster's Freeze, A&W, Smiley's,
but swim close to the tract
homes on Wright Avenue where sometimes
in the early morning hours
you can hear them trying doorknobs
or bumping against Cable TV lines.
We wait up for them.
We leave our back windows open
and call out when we hear a splash.
Mornings are a disappointment.

Raymond Carver (1976)

3 More Star Wars: Solo

My expectations are not that high - I'm not a fan of 'young blah blah' stories (Indiana Jones, Butch and Sundance, Sherlock Holmes etc etc and so on) but this piece has piqued my interest levels somewhat.

4 Warren Ellis
Love his newsletters but he's gone dark for a spell to work on some ideas in his fevered brain. So here's a great picture of the great man to tide us over:

5 Robin Williams

After Margo, this gaze at Robin's last days is even more poignant. Once I started reading this I couldn't stop. Very sad ending!

Overtime: Seth Godin...

...on genius