Judith Sill

Last two tracks of the night - from Judie Sill,from her first and second lbum -

Judee Sill - Jesus Was a Cross Maker

The follow up album is on the current Wire office Ambience -


Judee Sill - The Kiss

Sill was openly bisexual and had relationships with both men and women.
Her romance with singer-songwriter J. D. Souther inspired her song "Jesus Was a Cross Maker".
After a series of car accidents and failed surgery for a painful back injury, Sill struggled with drug addiction and dropped out of the music scene.She died, aged 35, of a drug overdose, or "acute cocaine and codeine intoxication," on November 23, 1979, at her apartment on Morrison Street in North Hollywood. The Los Angeles coroner ruled her death a suicide, taking into account a note found near her body, but some who knew her have contended that the note, which reportedly contained "a meditation on rapture, the hereafter, and the innate mystery of life", was not a suicide note but rather a diary entry or song concept.
Another great voice and singer-songwriter that shall be missed.

The Pop Group

Thanks to pigshitpoet for reminding me of this post-punk band, The Pop Group, another Wire mag fave.

The Pop Group - Thief of fire

The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

Nick Cave on The Pop Group (1999)

Lazing in The GH

Another sunny morning if a little cooler at first.Think it will be warmer a bit later but as i am currently in Spoons (the Golden Hope) drinking coffee i cannot be sure. I had their traditional breakfast today.

And as i am on Amazon Prime i am listening to Judee Sill's second album "Heart Food", a service where you can stream the music before you buy the CD or not. Like i sasi, i have had this album before back in the nineties. She recorded this album in 1973 and it still sounds so good.

I have also bought a copy of the Guardian newspaper, as i have a voucher to purchase it at half price every day till Sunday 25th June. Its Sunday equivalent is The Observer

Looking at this weather again -i doubt it will be warmer as it has just clouded over.Bang goes the sunbathing.

Epiphanies

Interesting link to Resonance FM and Meg Wood's look at Epiphanies - the last page in Wire magazine.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/adventures-in-sound-and-music-wire-400-special-meg-woof-looks-back-through-the-wire-s-epip

During this edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, Meg Woof read and played music from some of the Epiphanies essays contributed by artists and writers over the years. The show took place on 18 May and featured tracks from Boredoms, Cecil Taylor, John Fahey and more.




Fugazi
“Do You Like Me?”
from Red Medicine
(Dischord)

The Voices Of East Harlem
Right On Be Free
from Right On Be Free
(Elektra)

Boredoms
“(Circle)”
from Vision Creation Newsun
(AKA)

Cecil Taylor
“Pemmican”
from Garden
(HatHut)

John Fahey
The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party
from The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions
(Takoma)

Martin Denny
“Quiet Village”
from Exotica
(Liberty)

The Marvelettes
“Hunter Gets Captured By The Game”
from The Marvelettes
(Motown)

Saint Etienne
“Nothing Can Stop Us Now”
from Foxbase Alpha
(Warner Brothers)

Scritti Politti
“Skank Bloc Bologna”
from Skank Bloc Bologna
(St Pancras)

Robert Wyatt
“The Age Of Self”
from Old Rottenhat
(Rough Trade)

Ray Charles
“Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying”
from The Genius Of Ray Charles
(Atlantic)

Monday Music Selection - Allsorts

Another selection of genres -

Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna

( More music here )

Enjoy.

Book 33 - James Baldwin "Blues For Mister Charlie"

James Baldwin "Blues For Mister Charlie :A Play"




Inspired by the case of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, this is a dramatic look at southern small-town race relations at the mid-century point. As a play, though, it doesn't capture the usual power of Baldwin's prose. I don't think a reading can do it justice especially with the many characters on stage. Now,if only i could see a staged version of the play,then i would go back to re-read this paperback.

Book 34 - Dan Falk "Universe On A T Shirt"

Dan Falk "Universe On A T Shirt" (Penguin Canada)





I was rather disappointed with this book assuming that it would be at the cutting edge of what we know about the universe or at least speculate on it.As such, it is mostly a rehash of the history of science, from Galileo to Bohr.However, it does include a few dozen pages on current efforts such as string theory but there is not enough meat on this to get the intellectual juices excited. I was hoping it to be better, and hence you cannot always judge a book by its cover.

Merlin

The afternoon was mostly a milky white blandness with a hazy sunshine barely breaking through.I listened to some music, mostly jazz based from Herbie Hancock, Bill Lawrence to Michael Garrick. After having a battered cod meal with jacket potato and garlic bread i then watched some episodes of Charmed on DVD.

I also did some reading, with just two chapters left on the current paperback on Thomas Cromwell.

Now folks, that black cat that i befriended is still hanging around the Quays. Only now he prefers being in the offices as he gets fed there and much fuss over him. He has now been given the name of Merlin, having first sneaking into our cluster called Merlin House.

At least the cat is not going hungry. Loves the attention though!