Writer's Block: Kiss me, I’m Irish!

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Brother is coming down from Brighton today. My cousin, him and myself will be at the Dover Castle pub tonight to celebrate St. Patrick’s Night. WE will be having some Guinness , an Irish stew and some Irish whisky that Phil has not revealed what it is , until it is presented to us this evening.

I look forward to the revelry ahead.

My tweets

• Fri, 12:07: Two Album Reviews http://t.co/YLcLzI1z
• Fri, 12:21: Don Robertson - Why http://t.co/UAKQ2w89
• Fri, 17:10: Converted some files to another format but still not working
• Fri, 18:03: Another evening of brain stretching with Eggheads and Mastermind
• Fri, 20:52: #ff @grannyandthekid Once read you will want to stay reading
• Fri, 20:52: #ff @CPPete best chilli emporium
• Fri, 20:53: #ff @brightonbulldog Top notch all round egg
• Fri, 20:54: #ff @spotonetwo The only way is not Essex, but Chelsea
• Fri, 20:56: #ff @miss_vivienne panda and penguin lover plus tweets that are perpendicular to the norm
• Fri, 20:57: #ff @DoverCastleInn Top landlord and chef of splendid food

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He Runs The Voodoo Down

Good day for the Irish I presume, as it is St. Patrick’s Day.

This morning received some old in ear headphones from my brother coming42 in the post, together with the excellent Miles Davis CD “Black Beauty, Live At The Fillmore West” (Columbia Legacy).

Most of the tracks are from the Bitches Brew sessions, recorded live in 1970 at the Fillmore West, and hence have transmogrified into glorious improvisations. Searching, looking for another level of communication. Heady cerebral jazz in a new direction, and then summed up by little flurries and spurts from Miles. Brilliant.



Guinness o' clock time in roughly eight hours

max Roach and Abbey Licoln

Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln "Freedom Day", a storming piece of jazz. Probably mentioned this track before, but it is worth mentioning again.

The Happening (2008)

Watched “The Happening” (2008) , a film by M. Night Shyamalan , a good if flawed piece of environmental science fiction.

It was a bit naff in parts , but enjoyable nonetheless. Atmospheric in parts where the mood of the film: is a tantalising, sometimes frustrating parable about the menaces that human beings might face from unexpected quarters, drawing especial attention to "the sound of the breeze and the sight of it ruffling the trees or blowing across the grass, and an image of tension that calls to mind Antonioni's Blowup.

The Happening has also attracted academic attention. Joseph J. Foy, professor of politics and popular culture, describes Shyamalan's film as an expression of "post-environmentalism" in which traditional paradigmatic politics are replaced with a call for the world to "embrace a revolutionary re-evaluation of wealth and prosperity not in terms of monetary net worth or material possessions, but in terms of overall well-being". Foy praises the highly complex narrative in which Shyamalan weaves contemporary environmental challenges with hard science and social theory to create a "nightmarish future that... may advance the type of dialogue that can truly change the cultural conversation".