I'm beginning to embrace this concept but it's taken a long time! Up till now it's been like trying to listen to two records at a time - impossible. Austin Kleon may be on to something though. 5 Photographer Gjon Mili
Great post from Austin Kleon (yes - he put out a great newsletter this week!) about Picasso, Mili and the use of light. Overtime:Speaking of photogrphs and the use of light - some more of Jade and William's wedding photos have dropped. I'm partial to this one:
I love those generic shots (I collect them on my Pinterest Music page). For instance - here's Francois Hardy putting on some early Slayer. Kidding. Probably something cool and French. 2 Marcus! Love you!
That's Marcus Aurelius, not the character from About A Boy! 3 New respect
I have new respect for Mitt Romney. The only Republican Senator with the gumption and integrity to stay true to his convictions*. Shame on the rest of the Trump lapdogs. * “My promise before God to apply impartial justice required that I put my personal feelings and political biases aside,” he said. “Were I to ignore the evidence that has been presented and disregard what I believe my oath and the Constitution demands of me, for the sake of a partisan end, it would, I fear, expose my character to history’s rebuke.” 4 Superbowl Ads I missed this year's game - was at school leading the troops, pity, but in the end the great state of Kansas City (according to Donald Trump -hahahahahahahahahahaha, what an idiot) won the game that played around the adverts. I would have wanted the 49ers to win but the Steelers are my team. Anyway, I enjoyed Dan Rockwell's wrap up of the best Superbowl ads of all time. 5 Ram Dass
Austin Kleon's blog lead me to this interview with Ram Dass who I first met/heard at a seventies music festival in NZ - Nambassa. My memory of the meeting was of a few people (maybe a dozen or so) sitting around Ram Dass (a.k.a. Richard Alpert) in a circle as he spoke to us about eastern philosophies. It was quite a moment! Overtime: Beyond true and false An appropriate article on Buddhist philosophy given my mention of Ram Dass.
I discovered Divisionism via Warren Ellis' newsletter. 2 Poetry corner
from Iceberg
It makes me jump into the fountain. It makes me crack up inside, it really does. You're handsome, but you don't give me anything I can use. Let's have drinks in my room after church. I love you or words to that effect.
Great post on picturing history, rivers and infinity mirrors from Austin Kleon. 5 Brexit is official - what now? Nothing, is pretty much the answer as this excellent article articulates. Overtime: Aldous Harding This track cropped up on Mojo's best of 2019 CD and it fits my mood perfectly today. Enjoy!
My emotions have been all over the shop of late. When the news of Terry Jones's passing broke, TV One news included a clip showing Michael Palin overcome when talking of his friendship with Terry Jones. Got me going too! 2 Look up
Lovely reminder from Austin Kleon (My inbox featured the return of some old favourites this week) 3 Ten types of movie posters
Welcome back James Whatley dude - he featured this wrap up. 4 Winter is coming (Poetry corner) From Moon, January
I saw the afternoon darkly, the gloaming soon after dawn, each day spent before its hand left
its pants pocket. Those long afternoons of summer, the sun barely ducking under the horizon before bobbing up, well,
that was being young. So much to look forward to, the body waiting to angle its desires. Winter, that was another thing.
William Logan (2020) 5 The impression of 'am' (Seth Godin)
I am 41 years old
is a very different statement than
I am a vegan.
In the first case, there’s not a lot you can do about your “am”. It is an accurate description of a state of affairs over which you have no control.
In the second, it simply describes a choice. Anyone who wants to eat a certain way instantly becomes a vegan for as long as they make that choice.
The “am” that we think of as permanent identity might actually be a choice, repeated again and again.
Overtime: Dance like yo' daddy Ashleigh and Adam gave me some CDs during their visit - loving this one on Trainor's Thank You album. Appropriate too, as I joined in the wedding night dance-a-rama.
A few years back, this was a house warming gift from friends Margo Buchanan-Oliver and Clay Bodvin. here it is, proudly on display at Maple Grove. 2 Art 102
Clay has used the vase before. with a mixed media approach to stunning effect. More of his work here. 3 Art 103
Another piece from Clay, starring Margo! 4 Lee Child
Writes a cracking yarn. Blue Moon maintains the hot streak. 5 Purdettes
Jade and William's wedding was a superb event last week. We all met up again afterwards for family time. I love these people!! Left to right - Jesse, Ashleigh, Adam, Keegan, Jade, Samantha, me, Jacky, Asher, William Overtime:
Great to have the newsletter from Warren Ellis popping back into my inbox. As well as the Trees link above, the Batman image comes from that source and it's rather wonderful! 4 Apollo astonaunts took great photos, as well
Earth is a long way away! More here 5 Pocket's best articles of 2019 Overtime: 2019 - a further look back before we hare off into 2020!
Holidays, so I've been enjoying reading in my zen garden or else...
...Sitting here and listening to the bird sounds. 3 Poetry Corner
The Museum
Two lovers went to the museum and wandered the rooms. He saw a painting and stood in front of it for too long. It was a few minutes before she realized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking at a painting. She stood next to him, looking at his face and then the face in the painting. What do you see? she asked. I don't know, he said. He didn't know. She was disappointed, then bored. He was looking at a face and she was looking at her watch. This is where everything changed. There was now a distance between them. He was looking at a face but it might as well have been a cabbage or a sugar beet. Perhaps it was something about yellow near pink. He didn't know how to say it. Years later he still didn't know how to say it, and she was gone.
Richard Siken (2015)
4 Tarzan Of The Apes
Just finished Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Of the Apes. The hard copy version (from Little Red Book Shop). I don't recall ever reading it before and was pleasantly surprised how well it was written. 5 Blue Angel
Now onto this novel. So far, so good. Apart from the central relationship (professor and a promising student), not sure why the cover is an old image - it's set in this century. Gives a false impression. Overtime: Cool jazz Nothing better than some Dave Brubeck on the hot summer's day.
