Post Midnight Music from Jazzy D #10

Ambient electronique somnambulism to divergent drum n bass.

Sine - What's On Your Mind?

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Book 21 - Robert Lane Greene "You Are What You Speak"

Robert Lane Greene "You Are What You Speak : Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity (Delacorte Press)





The subtitle of this book is: “Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity.” That is actually a pretty good summary of this book, which is a series of essays emphasizing linguists’ (including the author) views of language and some of the issues surrounding it.

I once heard a lecturer at university summer school many years ago (during my Open University days) when i say that the best kind of learning is learning about one’s self. If that’s true, You Are What You Speak provides the best kind of learning. An example: In my reviews, I can be quick to criticize professional writers who make silly mistakes in print when they should know better. I cringe every time I see “who” used when “whom” is correct (but seeing such mistakes doesn’t ruin my day). Reading Robert Lane Greene’s book has liberated me from being overly concerned about grammar. Even if the distinction between who and whom goes away, that’s just the way language has always evolved. Unless we want English to become a dead language, it will change and the world will go on spinning and orbiting around the sun. So, I’m going to lighten up and find something else to worry about.

I love the author’s writing style, his informed view of the politics of language, and all that he gives readers to think about. I got much more from You Are What You Speak than I could have expected or even imagined.

I also like that the author takes on some very popular writers on language including Lynne Truss (of Eats, Shoots & Leaves fame) in the chapter “A Brief History of Sticklers,” and Bill Bryson (who wrote The Mother Tongue) in the chapter “Babel and the Damage Done.” And he chides the English teachers who preached about not splitting infinitives or ending a sentence with a preposition as if those were really rules of English grammar. Shame on them!

More on Charmed

The reboot or continuation of Charmed does seem likely according to other reports -

Shannen Doherty Talks Potential Charmed Reboot



http://www.wetpaint.com/shannen-doherty-potential-charmed-reboot-movie-1413314/

‘Charmed’: Is A Reboot Series In The Works? Alyssa Milano’s Not Opposed To It

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/09/03/charmed-reboot-series-alyssa-milano-shannen-doherty-reunion/

Art Man

You Are an Artist

You are a creator of sorts, but you are also a reframer and remixer. You see art everywhere. You are a great appreciator of traditional beauty, but you also appreciate art that's a bit more obscure. You love things that are different, even if they are an acquired taste. You don't think of art as purely hedonic. You like to see the world from a new perspective, and art gives you that - even if that perspective is your own.

Deep Down, Who Are You?

Blogthings: 100's of Fun, Free Quizzes!

Maybe i should buy some oils ,easel and canvas.  Yet it is spot on when it comes to the musical aspect  of art. Nabbed from spikesgirl58.

Music Listening Day

Well , it looks like the CD/DVD player of the laptop has given up the ghost now that it will not even play CD's - but thanks to my purchase of an external one a couple of months back from Amazon, it is not a problem.



So at the moment i ma listening to "The Best Of Bob Lind", a CD i found in one of my charity shop forays. Twenty five tracks including "Elusive Butterfly" but for some reason not "Cool Summer" which is my total fave by him and on the Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp) double CD compilation , "The Trip".

My fave from this compilation is Unlock The Door -

Meanwhile if you find a copy of The Trip nab it as it is a fine collection of tunes and obscure items too.




It contains the track by Bob Lind called "Cool Summer".

Saturday Music Selection - Mixed and Stirred

Some meanderings around genres of music

( Music here )

Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist, who came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating a range of non-jazz genres. He studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago co-majoring in piano and flute, along with composition. He studied piano with Gail Quillman and composition with Stella Roberts (1899-1988). He has had a music career for over forty years as both a leader and as a composer.

Threadgill, aside from being a remarkable alto saxophone player, is one of the most imaginative of jazz composers today. He seems to be deliberately challenging the audience: Threadgill was one of the founding members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a Chicago group that was free-form, you might say, in its philosophy and approach. Peter Watrous of the New York Times described Threadgill as "perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation." Recent concerts in Chicago have led the local critics to speak of him as a revolutionary figure, altering the manner in which jazz itself is going.

( Some of his music )

Plus an interview -

And if you have an hour to spare there is this -

A Conversation with Henry Threadgill

Enjoy.

Saturday Music Selection 2 - Disco

Been watching episodes of Charmed from Season 2 and this great EBTG track came up in the episode called Awakened towards the end in Piper's club p3.

Everything But The Girl - Five Fathoms

So here is some more disco grooves -

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