Post Midnight Jazz

Been a bit heavy on the music posts of late, so a slight different tack with the return of the post midnight groove. I have already posted a classical composition by Terje Rypdal, but he is also a damn fine jazz guitarist, so here is one called Air.

Enjoy.

The Never Ending Problem of Late Pay

i worked out where that other money came from. It was my last exit poll visit at Aldi in Hythe for one of my companies. For some reason i had totally forgotten about it. However i still have not received the other money from the R company and their sister company L seems to be late now.

I also, last week, realized that a job i did way back in the final week of February for the Bensons bed shop visit. I phoned the research company with the revelation that they had sent a cheque a few days later form the day i did the shop. So they are raising a new cheque on their next pay run this coming Thursday. At least this Horsham based company apologized quite profusely and do seem to be on top of it. Okay it is only a tenner but it is the principle that matters.

It has been raining, April showers no less, but now it is bright and i am on my way to Canterbury - i just need some Ebay or Discog sales to tidy me over the weelend as i have already dug deep into that which came yesterday, with paying half towards the water bill and the electricity key meter.

Oh well,maybe Monday will bring a surprise.

Something Blue

At least i looked cool going around Canterbury with my blue socks,blue Reebok blouson and blue Abercrombie and Fitch T shirt.

Saturday Music Selection

A mixed bag of musical selections today starting with errie number -

John Harle - Silemcium

Also from John Harle is this tune How Should I My True Love Know?

This is based on Ophelia's song in Act IV Scene 1 in Shakespeare's Hamlet.form the Terror and Magnificence album., and the countertenor is William Purefoy.

Next up Perotin and O Maria Virginei , sung by the Hilliard Ensemble.

Having gone through Buffy episodes in Sesaon 3 & 4 again here is a vomposers piece with a vampire theme -

Olga Neuwirth - Vampurotheone Parts 1 & 2

Xampires an integral part of myth and folklore and have been immortalized in great literature (see Goethe's "Bride of Corinth") and on screen (Polanski's Dance of the Vampires). Although ,Vampyroteuthis infernalis is a type of squid, so in a sense the music is not about vampires. But it does sound something that could be apt for a Buffyverse.


Enjoy!

Poem Of The Week

Discovering some of the American poets such as Emily Dickinson , here is one by Walt Whitman.

On the Beach at Night Alone
Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892


On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of the future.

A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.

Ayer

Interesting radio programme on Radio 4 today about the philosopher A.J Ayer, who developed logical positivism. (BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4)

In 1988, a year before his death, he gave a lecture at the Conway Hall in which he set out his notion of existence. By this time, 'Freddie' Ayer was one of the UK's most prominent public intellectuals, with regular television and radio appearances, discussing the moral issues of the day.

Ayer's former student at Oxford, philosopher AC Grayling, remembers the tutor that became his friend. He explores the man of contradictions - the atheist who almost recanted after a near-death incident; the deep thinker with a weakness for mistresses and Tottenham Hotspur. What was his contribution to philosophy? How did it inform the way he lived his life? What, if anything, can we learn from Freddie's view on the big question? That being , the meaning of life. Although i would guess , along with Douglas Adams, that it might be 42.