Summertime

It is the summer solstice , although as i look out of my window it appeared dull and tawdry. So to cheer it up a bit here is classic Gershwin tune. It seemed to have worked too, the sun just briefly emerged from the vaporous clouds.

Miles Davis - Summertime

Enjoy.

Girl With A Pearl Earring

This one is for thespian15 some of the best scenes from Girl With A Pearl Earring starring Scarlet Johannson.

Enjoy.

Joseph Schwantner

More modern classical music for this Sunday -

Joseph Schwantner - Concerto for Percussion

Movement 1: Con Forza

Movement 2 - Misterioso

Movement 3: Ritmico con brio

Joseph Clyde Schwantner (born March 22, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002.

Schwantner is prolific, with many works to his credit. His style is colouristic and eclectic, drawing on such diverse elements as French impressionism, African drumming, and minimalism.

Poem Of The Week

Triumph XV: Vetala
by Shweta Narayan


 


Each night I pick another hollow face,
another accent; tell another tale
to try to show myself. Each night I fail
and slip between your fingers to that place,
my tree beneath all sound, my scattered parts
of seemings, stories, splinters. I belong
outside, between. I tell the truth all wrong —
a shifter, knowing only shifter’s arts.
This hiding’s all I’m good at. How to show
— to be — the mask you want. I pass, I pass;
the price is growing thin, unseen, as glass,
so hands slide through my cobweb bones. I go —
to haunt this corpse-ground. Waiting, trapped, for you,
I hope that next night’s story will get through.


Shweta Narayan was born in India, has lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Scotland, and California, and feels kinship with shapeshifters and other liminal beings. Their short fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of places, including Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, and We See a Different Frontier.

Listening To .....

Another day of listening to music, doing some reading and other stuff. Mixed bag of music and included the following -

Joseph Schwankner - Concerto For Percussion
O'Rang - Herd Of Instinct
Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
Ludger Brummer - Lizard Point / Thrill
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Leonard Cohen - I;m Your Man

Bed early tonight as i will be off quite early to Brighton tomorrow.

Pics of Riley

A couple of recent pics of that gentle giant, Riley. Handsome boy!