Senses working overtime #475

1  The feeling this week

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

2 Listening: Rory Gallagher - Check Shirt Wizard (Live in '77)

3 Watching: Euros 2024 

Sadly, Germany dispatched Scotland easily enough this morning NZ time. Be interesting to see how England shape up. They always promise a lot but don't deliver the trophy (speaking of the men's game here).

4 Reading: Richard Osman's The Last Devil To Die

5 Listening:  Rory Gallagher - Top Priority

Yes - more Rory!! My favourite studio album by him, from 1979. Influenced by the punk sound of the late seventies, Rory wipes the floor with them. Try At The Depot, and see if I'm not right.

Overtime: 

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Senses working overtime #333

1 An accidental collection - Haruki Murakami

This shirt is from the Ventura Surf Shop, in Ventura County, an affluent surfing mecca near Santa Barbara. It sounds pretty nice, but will going there really improve your life? That much I can’t say.

2 The best cover letter ever - read by Benedict Cumberbatch

3 Refusal to mourn 

In lieu of
flowers, send
him back.

Andrea Cohen (2021)

4 Kickback City - Rory Gallagher

I've been a fan of Rory's for a long long time. My lovely cousin Christine in the UK gave me this for my birthday this week. It's a triple CD pack - a pulp fiction/crime noir novella by Ian Rankin and 2 CDs of Rory (a compilation of studio tracks, and one live CD). It's a pretty cool idea - Rory's favourite writing genre and his music.

5 Something's missing - John Mayer

Something great about this song from his Heavier Things album. It's been on repeat in the Purdmobile this week.

Overtime: The last word

Malaysian politician Tunku Abdul Rahman on patience:

"Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit."

Source: Leaders of New Nations (via James Clear)