Answer for question 3495.

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Midnight In Paris

I must fell asleep well before bedtime as now i am fully awake again. I had been watching a film on DVD and then an episode of Charmed before i fell off to sleep. The DVD was the Woody Allen movie , starring Owen Wilson, called Midnight In Paris. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism.In his post midnight walk he meets his famous idols, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Man Ray,and so on. It is a lovely film interspersed with some fine ld music.

Here is a clip where unbeknownst to him he has slipped into the roaring twenties.

And when he meets the surrealists,

I loved it,

To Be Or Not To Be

Nabbed from daasgrrl

A line in Hamlet

Holly

This one is for thespian15.

Holly Marie Combs planting trees and at home cooking.






What yer cooking? Can i come?

Poem of The Week

Having this lovely book if some of Lord Byron's poems i have selected this short romantic one.





She Walks in Beauty


BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)


She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Sunday Musical Selection - Jazz All The Way 5

Penultimate  installment of rare or rarefied jazz -

Graham Collier Sextet - Down Another Road (1969)

On the Nucleus tip, combining jazz with beat driven groves, this LP works well. The track included here is the title cut with John Marshall on drums.



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More Jazz Radio

My mate Ally Smith is doing his two hour flava of jazz, soul and latin right now  on 1Brighton FM internet radio. 2pm to 4pm. Link here -

http://www.1brightonfm.co.uk/player/

Sunday Musical Selection - Jazz All The Way 6

Those two hours of listening to Ally Smith' selection of grooves always inspires me.
Final installment of the jazz rare stuff - kicking off with some Tubby Hayes -


Tubby Hayes (featuring Roland Kirk) – I See With My Third "I"

Recording with US jazzers he’d never met and who only found out they were making the recording the day before. This Tubby outing does, for me at least show (When you know the background to it) quite how able he was to adapt to new sounds with a confidence and intuitiveness that is as rare as it is great. The track included here is a Roland Kirk penned number titled “I See With My Third I.” Other than Kirk none of the musicians playing on this recording had ever heard the tune before. Not that unusual in jazz terms but staggering to these ears at least.

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Book 34 - David Papineau "Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide"

David Papineau "Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide" (Icon Books)




This is part of the Introducing… series that presents various topics in graphic form. It takes a very complex issue and shows that you do not need to be a great philosopher or have a very deep understanding of the science, to understand why it’s a complex issue and what the fundamental questions we’re dealing with are. Despite being highly approachable, this book is a serious piece of work that gives a great overview of past and current thinking about consciousness, especially from the philosophical perspective. In fact it’s mostly about the philosophy of mind, with particular reference to consciousness, and while it mentions science here and there, that’s really not the main focus: where it mentions the science, this is done to describe potential methodologies with which to address the philosophical questions that have been raised.

A good introduction.

Selective Attention

This is a cool short video clip -

This phenomenon is known as inattentional blindness: Among people counting passes in the white t-shirt team, about 90 per cent – including me, when I first saw this – completely missed the gorilla.The book Introducing Consciousness – dealt with the philosophical issue of how activity in a physical system can lead to something feeling like something and we remain unaware of a lot of what we see. And this is a pretty surprising or striking demonstration that gets that point across.