Good Night

New Heaters

I must have slept well last night.After uploading some albums to the hard drive i put the laptop into random playback mode , went to bed, and fell asleep within ten minutes.

This morning the lads arein replacing the old stirage heaters with new Quantum storage heaters which are meant to be more efficient and use less energy.

These heaters are heavy with bricks in them but it is a wonder to watch the guys deal woth them efficiently.

I have no plans to go anywhere today and at the monet the weather is dull and overcast. .

New Heaters 2

So this is the new style of heater.Modern, sleek and computerized. Has internal clock even when switched off,resets to when the clocks go back or forward, and can be set in many ways, including holiday mode when you arw away.

Wire Charts

As a  reader of Wire magazine this archive of the top sounds betweeen 1992 - 1999 is a vital resoutce.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/jackintwat/the_wire_magazine_rewind__1992_1999_/1/

And this one of the specialist charts from the magazine -

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/jackintwat/the_wire_specialist_charts__1999_2012___and_so_on____/

Book 31 - Joan Didion "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

Joan Didion "Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays" (Farrar,Straus and Giroux)




Another paperback passed on from my brother. He must have had a small collection of her writings as this is the third dispatch from him. Whatever his reasons and i guess that one of them is that i am fascinated by the sixties,its history and culture as well as the radical movements that were established in the period. Also,some of the best new music and jazz came in the sixties.

So, there was a certain time in America, or the world, when the zeitgeist was slightly ahead of its time, when no one was really aware of what was happening until long after it had already happened. At such a time, fiction takes a backseat to journalism, especially sardonic, closely observed journalism, the kind that is both all about the voice of the journalist but which, once that voice is locked down, suddenly becomes all about whatever that voice is talking about.

In the mid-sixties, Joan Didion definitely had one of those voices. Whether she was writing about John Wayne, or Comrade Laski, or the waifs fluttering through San Francisco who know nothing and are desperate to keep it that way with meth or acid or pot or whatever — Joan Didion described America to itself. For good or bad.

What i love about these essays is that she writes in such a wonderfully precise way. Her prose takes your breath away with it’s descriptive beauty. Regardless of the subject matter, it's so easy to get lost in her words. She tells each person's story without condemning or praising their belief system.

Perhaps the best collection of essays in her ouvre that i have read.

Black Lightning

Just watched the finale to Black Lightning.I have really enjoyed this superhero series and especially the fantastic music used as background.

Such as theses souland funk classics -

Earth Wind And Fire - Shining Star

Sly and The Family Stone - family Affair

And less well known tunes such as -

Tyrone Davis - In The Mood