R.I.P Sam Rivers

A great jazzman passed away this week, Sam Rivers, whose 60's albums on Blue Note were at the forefront of the avant garde.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/12/sam_rivers_obituary.php

R.I..P. Sam Rivers

A great jazzman passed away this week, Sam Rivers, whose 60's albums on Blue Note were at the forefront of the avant garde.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/12/sam_rivers_obituary.php

History Repeating ..

It is funny how history mirrors rather than repeats events in the past. With the release of documents pertaining to the eighties it is interesting to note that the riots in June mirror similar riots back in 1981. Between April 10 and 12 riots broke out in Brixton followed by further riots in July in London, Moss Side,Southall, Toxteth and Wood Green.

As in 2011, the Arab world was tense when US planes shot down two Libyan fighters in the Gulf of Sidra, and closer to home, relations with France was fractious with the French president at the time wanting a chair in the Cabinet room.

Unemployment was at its highest then as it is now , although, so far this time round it has yet to peak.

It reminds me of a soul song that says what comes around goes around.

History Repeating ..

It is funny how history mirrors rather than repeats events in the past. With the release of documents pertaining to the eighties it is interesting to note that the riots in June mirror similar riots back in 1981. Between April 10 and 12 riots broke out in Brixton followed by further riots in July in London, Moss Side,Southall, Toxteth and Wood Green.

As in 2011, the Arab world was tense when US planes shot down two Libyan fighters in the Gulf of Sidra, and closer to home, relations with France was fractious with the French president at the time wanting a chair in the Cabinet room.

Unemployment was at its highest then as it is now , although, so far this time round it has yet to peak.

It reminds me of a soul song that says what comes around goes around.

Jasper

Jasper seems to love books or at least nuzzling up to them.

Fifty Book Challenge 2012

These are the  books I will hopefully get to read for the 50 Book Challenge for 2012





John Gray – Enlightenment's Wake
Elmore Leonard - 52 Pickup
Camilla Gibb - Sweetness In The Belly
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom Of The Opera
John Buchan – The 39 Steps
Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man And The Sea
Primo Levi – The Periodic Table
Daphne du Maurier - The Doll and Other Stories
Herbert Read - The Philosophy of Modern Art
Roy Porter – Enlightenment
Sarah Dunant , Roy Porter - The Age of Anxiety
John Le Carre - The Looking Glass War
Alexei Sayle - Mister Roberts

William Gibson - Virtual Light
Sarah Waters – Fingersmith
Bernard Williams – Descartes
Paul Davies - The Cosmic Blueprint
Sarah Bakewell - How To Live, A Life Of Montaigne
Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
David Lodge - Thinks
Steig Larsson – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
F David Peat – Superstrings
Derek Wilson - Peter The Great
Stewart Brown - Elsewhere
P.D James - The Black Tower
Iris Murdoch - The Italian Girl

James Joyce – Dubliners
Margaret Attwood – Lady Oracle
John LeCarre - The Russia House
Russell Hoban - Angelica Lost and Found
Maupassant – Selected Short Stories
Jiri Weil -Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
Margaret Atwood - Moral Disorder
David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
Benjamin Wilkomirski - Fragments
David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
Margaret Atwood - The Tent
John D. Barrow - The Book Of Universes

Digby Fairweather - Notes From A Jazz Life
Cormac McCarthy – On The Road
Antonio Negri – Time For Revolution
Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Peter Robinson - Before The Poison
Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Bernard Schlink - The Reader
Jack Kerouac - The Subterraneans
John Le Carre - A Murder Of Quality
Terry Southern - Flash and Filigree

Arundhati Roy – The God Of Small Things
Eldridge Cleaver – Soul On Ice
Daisy Hay – Young Romantics
Julian Barnes – The Sense Of An Ending
Sebastian Faulks – Human Traces
Graham Swift - Shuttlecock
Ian Buchanan - Deleuze and The Contemporary World
Anita Brookner – Soundings
Inverna Lockpez - Cuba, My Revolution
Bruce Chatwin - The Song Lines
Milan Kundera - Immortality
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow Of The Wind
Peter Ackroyd - Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem



As the new year progress I will inform which ones I have read so far and how I am progressing.

The 50 Book Challenge 2012

These are the 50 books I will hopefully get to read for the 50 Book Challenge for 2012

John Gray – Enlightenments Wake
Michel Foucault – The Order of Things
Anton Chekhov – Five Plays
John Buchan – The 39 Steps
Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man And The Sea
Primo Levi – The Periodic Table
Alan Partridge – I Partridge
Alistair Cooke – Letter From America
Roy Porter – Enlightenment
Maureen Walker – 1700 Scenes From London Life

John Lair – The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Sarah Waters – Fingersmith
Bernard Williams – Descartes
Nicholas Royle – Quilt
Richard Mattheson – I Am Legend
Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
Margaret Attwood – Body Harm
Steig Larsson – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Margarte Attwood – The Robber Bride
F David Peat – Superstrings

James Joyce – Dubliners
Margaret Attwood – Lady Oracle
Sarah Dunant & Roy Porter – Age of Anxiety
Alex Bellos – Alex Adventures in Numberland
Maupassant – Selected Short Stories
William Burroughs -Soft Machine
George Smoot – Wrinkles In Time
David Mitchell – Ghostwritten
Brian Cox – Why Does E=MC Squared
Arthur Schopenhauer – Essays and Aphorisms

Tony Benn – Free At Last
Tony Benn – Free Radicals
Cormac McCarthy – On The Road
Antonio Negri – Time For Revolution
Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Slavoj Zizek – Enjoy Your Symptoms
Douglas Adams – The Hitch Hikers Guisde To The Universe
Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Margaret Attwood – The Year Of The Flood

Arundhati Roy – The God Of Small Things
Eldridge Cleaver – Soul On Ice
Daisy Hay – Young Romantics
Julian Barnes – The Sense Of An Ending
Sebastian Faulks – Human Traces
Edward Said – Orientalism
Antonio Gramsci – The Modern Prince and Other Writings
Herbert Marcuse – One Dimensional Man
Anita Brookner – Soundings
Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion

As the new year progress I will inform which ones I have read so far and how I am progressing.

.. ,. and so as Another Year Draws To Its End

Beforee the rush I better say it now -


HAPPY NEW YEAR