Jazzy's Midnight Funk Groove

Well as it is that tme of the night where we wind down for the vening and think of sleeping time, a tune to soothe the flustered brow.

A quite funky version of Desiderata by Rosko Recites.

Peace be with you and avoid loud obstreperous people. Enjoy.

Nap Time

Okay, time for bed i think Just been trying to catch up with comments etc, and checking emails. I am a bit frazzled now. Hope to sleep well.

Yesterday's Photos

Slept well last night. It was a good long haul and the couple of beers and  green stuff helped in giving me a decent kip. So for now some phtos from yesterday.



People watching in Mount leasant, Tunbridge Wells,



St. Peters Church Brighton , where i alighted from the 29 bus to walk up Trafalgar Street to the pub.



The outside architecture of Brighton Station taken early evening from Surrey Street.

All taken with the Canon Camera. Today is a Lumix day.

A Scandinavian Morning

I am looking forward to going to The Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton. They tend to run less mainstream films and foreign language films.The one we are going to see is The Keeper Of Lost Causes. The outline of the film is that   chief detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad become involved in a five-year-old case concerning the mystery of politician Merete Lynggaard's disappearance - a journey that takes them deep into the undercurrent of abuse and malice that lurks beneath the polished surface of Scandinavia.

Sounds really good as i am also a fan of Wallander and the original Foreign language The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo series.

So in relation to this, the morning song today is by Swedish artist Anna Ternheim and the vocal theme tune to Wallander, Quiet Night.

Enjoy.

Midday At Bro's Pad

So I had a lovely midday snack with my bro at his pad. We had a very tasty bacon sarnie and a cup of tea. Oliver the cat made a real fuss of me. He is such an affectionate cat.

I was going to go over to Hove but I shall do it tomorrow when I see L. for coffee and then pop over.

Pickings

Meagre pickings at the free bookshop top end of North street in Brighton toady. Picked three books to fill the quotas you are allowed to take.

Took a few more pics of graffiti painted junction boxes and some of my old vinyl buying haunts, such as Across The Tracks , and the Monkey music store just off London Road. I am glad to see the latter store is still open as he has a very good selection of vinyl, including an original copy of Trees "On The Shore" LP from 1970 in minty condition for £180. It is a rare piece of vinyl indeed. great album though.

Anyway, when I get back to Seaford I shall upload all the pictures I took with the Lumix camera. Just a pity it was a cloudy day, unlike the last few days of sunshine.

Not been able  to afford much due to the fact that i had to top up the mobile phone, and i am still awaiting some money from another company which will come in on Monday , but i did buy one book in the backroom of Sandpiper Books in the North Laines.

More details in a follwing post, as this library PC seems to be awfully slow.

Edit - damn PC at library keot skipping or sticking on keys and was very slow.

Junction Boxes

I seem to have gone mad taking more pics of junction boxes around the city of Brighton today.

( Boxes here )

They just seem much more colouful than the standard regualtion green boxes. 

Oliver

Now here is a beautiful boy.





Hello Oliver, aren't you handsome?

A Brighton Travelogue

Apart from junction boxes,I someties take photos of the more artistic graffiti , and  just off Bond Street  i photographed some graffiti.

( Pics here )

The book i found in the backroom at Sandpiper Books for a quid was this one.




I thought this book might be an interesting readl

Book 83 - Paul Bagguley "From Protest to Acquiescence?:

Paul Bagguley "From Protest to Acquiescence?: Political Movements of the Unemployed" (Macmillan)






"Unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Britain during the 1980s, but this did not result in widespread social protest. During the 1930s, in comparison, protest was well organised and widespread. In this book the author sets out to explain why. The book develops a theoretical analysis of the changing relationship between the unemployed and the state and a theory of mobilization and collective action. Using interviews with the unemployed during the 1980s, those who have been involved in attempts to organize the unemployed are compared with those who have been quiescent."

Apart from the precis from Amazon, this is a succinct summation of the problems with organizing the unemployed into a coherent political force. Pertinent now as it was for the dark days of Thatcherism.
 
The first five chapters look at the problem from a theoretical and sociological aspect whilst from the  latter chapters take anecdotal evidence and  rounds up the study in a quantitative approach. What struck me most is that the isolation and lack of money echo the same problems now as they were in the eighties.

Special mention was made of the Brighton Unemployment Centre  which used volunteers from those looking for work  to help run the centre , and to which it gave them a focus other than just sitting at room. I also thought that what we need now is a UWU (or an Unemployed Workers Union).