Senses working overtime #316

1 Thomas Drambo's trolls

A friend's blog alerted me to these great troll sculptures, built in a variety of countries. Thanks Annette.

2 TV Friends and real adult friendships

3 The famous pick their fav Dylan song 

His Bobness has had his 80th birthday doncha know.

4 Tour of the moon

This is mesmerising!

5 How to overcome fear

Overtime: Downhill serenity

Senses working overtime #166

1 The Black Monday Murders

As featured on Warren Ellis' newsletter. This is a page from The Black Monday Murders comic by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker and Michael Garland. 

Extraordinary image - the light giving the finger must have been deliberate, the table that looks like a sinister beetle is very cool and the figures presented at the desk and doorway are intriguing.

2 Mexico!!

Great feel good story - how the Mexicans are thanking South Korea for their World Cup miracle against the world champions!

3 Big Big Train
Brand new from the wonderful Big Big Train:




4 Poetry Corner

In Time The night the world was going to end when we heard those explosions not far away and the loudspeakers telling us about the vast fires on the backwater consuming undisclosed remnants and warning us over and over to stay indoors and make no signals you stood at the open window the light of one candle back in the room we put on high boots to be ready for wherever we might have to go and we got out the oysters and sat at the small table feeding them to each other first with the fork then from our mouths to each other until there were none and we stood up and started to dance without music slowly we danced around and around in circles and after a while we hummed when the world was about to end all those years all those nights ago W.S. Merwin (2001)

5 The Moon
I find the moon endlessly fascinating. 1969 left a deep impression on me. 

Feast yer eyes on these newly released high resolution images:

Overtime: Hi-Revving Tongues
I 've just bought a new compilation of New Zealand's Hi-Revving Tongues. Now billed as Nu Zild's first psychedelic band from the late sixties.

They had a big hit, also in '69, with a cover of Rain and Tears but I prefer this guitar and organ fueled masterpiece from two years earlier.

Oh, okay then. Here's their cool cover hit as well...