Some Random Thoughts
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jazzy_daveI am looking forward to my next gig under my nom de guerre Jazzy D on Wednesday night as I have a number of tunes that I have re-discovered or not realised I had when I played them from the external hard drive over the weekend.
I was reading a book the other day about the Cuban revolution, and what I did not know, and is not so well known outside of the country , is that since the turn of the 20th century there has been a sizeable Chinese community. Chinese immigration to Cuba started in the middle of the nineteenth century. That is one factoid that was new to me.
You know it is becoming autumnal when the nights draw in and you have to turn on the lights at earlier times in the evening. I have noticed that the last couple of days have felt chillier, although the forecast is for one last bout of heatwave for the next few days.
I think my brain must have been floating in space last night as I tried to answer some of the questions in University Challenge and attempted the connections in Only Connect. I found myself floundering , and as it dawned on me today, that disengagement gave me a very good night's sleep. I am usually sharp as a pin and apart from getting the Gladstone answer right, and the science ones, my mind must have drifted into a sea of tranquillity.
A Facebook colleague was gushing praise over the portrayal of Cilla Black in the three part dramatization of her life by actor Sheridan Smith on the ITV channel. He has not heard of her before. Well, Barry, she first came to my notice years ago in the BBC 3 comedy Two Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. As well as being on TV she is an excellent theatre actor and a wonderful singer. Not only that, but she played Lucy Miller in the Big Finish audio dramas alongside Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, and for awhile was the travelling companion of the Meddling Monk, as revealed at the end of the Book Of Kells episode.
Last night, after thinking about the Monk's nom de guerre, Thelonios, I played some music by the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, followed by some early thirties blues from Blind Willie McTell. Listening to Monk is getting to be a kind of habit (pun intended).
I was reading a book the other day about the Cuban revolution, and what I did not know, and is not so well known outside of the country , is that since the turn of the 20th century there has been a sizeable Chinese community. Chinese immigration to Cuba started in the middle of the nineteenth century. That is one factoid that was new to me.
You know it is becoming autumnal when the nights draw in and you have to turn on the lights at earlier times in the evening. I have noticed that the last couple of days have felt chillier, although the forecast is for one last bout of heatwave for the next few days.
I think my brain must have been floating in space last night as I tried to answer some of the questions in University Challenge and attempted the connections in Only Connect. I found myself floundering , and as it dawned on me today, that disengagement gave me a very good night's sleep. I am usually sharp as a pin and apart from getting the Gladstone answer right, and the science ones, my mind must have drifted into a sea of tranquillity.
A Facebook colleague was gushing praise over the portrayal of Cilla Black in the three part dramatization of her life by actor Sheridan Smith on the ITV channel. He has not heard of her before. Well, Barry, she first came to my notice years ago in the BBC 3 comedy Two Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. As well as being on TV she is an excellent theatre actor and a wonderful singer. Not only that, but she played Lucy Miller in the Big Finish audio dramas alongside Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor, and for awhile was the travelling companion of the Meddling Monk, as revealed at the end of the Book Of Kells episode.
Last night, after thinking about the Monk's nom de guerre, Thelonios, I played some music by the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, followed by some early thirties blues from Blind Willie McTell. Listening to Monk is getting to be a kind of habit (pun intended).
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