Senses working overtime #433

1 The feeling...

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2 Reading: Anatomy of 55 More Songs - Marc Myers

3 Listening: Greg Mendez - Greg Mendez

4 Reading: Why do I remember embarrassing things I’ve said or done in the past and feel ashamed all over again?

5 Reading: Why fidgeting is good for you

Overtime: 

from Twin Peaks I'm sadly just pure instinct in a jean jacket A guess in a red dress I only have time for coffee But do you Have time For me Dorothea Lasky (2018)

Senses working overtime #432

1 The feeling this week...

2 Listening: Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

3 Reading: Nick Hornby's Just Like You (it's excellent)

4 Listening: Pink Frost by The Chills

I picked up this and two other Chills singles in great condition with their original picture sleeves for $1.50 each in a second hand shop in Woodville today. Score!!

5 Reading: The two weirdest years in music

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from Year of the Rat The hot thud from light to laptop screen to window glass. An irritation set in loops. I asked myself what did I love. I loved to make time go away. Bridget Talone

Senses working overtime #431

1 The feeling this week

2 Listening: The Album Years 

I'm not usually a podcast guy but this one from Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness who together make up No-Man, is terrific. 

Each episode centres on a specific year and they discuss a selection of albums from that year.

I'm still reading Wilson's Limited Edition Of One - it's one of those books you don't want to finish!

3 Watching: FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

We're at the quarter final stage now. Without participation from the USA.

The seismic reverberations of that USA/ Sweden game will be felt for a long while.

Come on Sweden!! Amanda Ilestedt has been immense so far. Blackstenius and Hurtig have also made a big impact. Yes, they all play for Arsenal F.C.

4 Listening: my favourite album by The Band - Northern Lights-Southern Cross

5 R.I.P. Robbie Roberston

Overtime: Writer Jeanette Winterson on the process of life:

“We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra pounds you’re carrying, or to your thinning hair, or to your loss of appetite, loss of love. We are always looking for solutions, but actually what we are engaged in is a process throughout life during which you never get it right. You have to keep being open, you have to keep moving forward. You have to keep finding out who you are and how you are changing, and only that makes life tolerable.”

Senses working overtime #430

1 At the start of the week...

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2 Reading: Steven Wilson's Limited Edition Of One

And it's excellent! So is this explanation of the genesis of the book via YouTube.

3 Watching: Steven Wilson - What's in my bag

Adam put me onto this YouTube collection from Amoeba Records. Love it!!

4 The 100 best movies of the past ten decades!

Great list from Time's Stephanie Zacharek

5 Listening: The Jayhawks' Madman from Rainy Day Music.

Overtime: At the end of the week...

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Senses working overtime #429

1 The feeling during this week

2 Watching: FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Refreshing to see some camaraderie between USA and Netherland players.

3 Reading: RIP Randy Meisner

Randy - far left

4 Listening: Mission: Impossible Themes

5 Reading:

As It Was The bullfrogs guard me from the noise of modern life the stars fool me into thinking they always look the same. Jonathan Greene (2015)

Overtime: How I felt at the end of the week

Senses working overtime #428

1 How I'm feeling this week 

(From reading: Five of the world's most remarkable treks)

2 Reading/watching: I was an extra on Oasis' strangest music video

 

Great video (for Acquiesce) and story on being an extra in the video.

3 Reading: Hollywood's high stakes strike

4 Reading:  How much do band names matter?

5 Reading: Where have all the Disney villains gone? 

Overtime:  

Ars Poetica Because I know Now: how it feels To sip that small space Between becoming And being found. Camonghne Felix (2022)

Senses working overtime #427

1 How I felt this week

2 Reading: Lionel Messi 

How Lionel deals with anxiety. Excellent article.

3 Reading: Marianne Faithfull - memories, dreams and reflections

I finished Loud in New Plymouth and needed something to get me through until I got home, so I picked this up from the little secondhand bookshop by the library. Pretty sure I read it years ago but it's a dim recollection and I'm enjoying her prose style all over again.

4 Listening: Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina

We stopped off at the secondhand shop in Turakina on the way home from New Plymouth and I found a copy of this in good condition for $10. 

5 Reading:

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts In December I watch movies about ghosts with a woman I call mama though she is not my mother, only a woman who is kind, this all I require. We take breaks to lean against each other on the porch, her sucking smoke from between her fingers, exhaling its skirling; each mouthful dissipating, becoming something like air. My breath’s a less impressive phantom, fleeting silver in the cold light. Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead, their metaphysics, as if we were experts by osmosis, a certain knowledge absorbed. I say I think our ghosts become us, or at least reside in our dark like tenants we haven’t the heart to kick out. She says, though she hasn’t quite figured it out yet, there are rules: not all of us get to be ghosts. Leila Chatti (2018)

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