Good Night

The Jazzy D Post Midnight Groove

Good evening .. it is now the bewitching hour - so let this DJ slide you easily into a midnight groove -

Stina Nordenstam - I'll Be Cryin' For You

Hanne Hukkelberg - Do Not As I Do

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Turn The Pages

Lau Nau - Valolle

Värttinä & Hector Zazou - Annukka Suaren Neito

Hector Zazou & Björk - Vísur Vatnsenda Rósu

Mari Boine - Gula Gula

Mari Boine - Goaskinviellja / Eagle Brother (Oslo Opera House, 2009)

Notice the theme - all from the northern countries of the aurora borrelias.


Enjoy.

The Jazzy D Post Midnight Groove #2

As we head towards winter some more northerly climes musically speaking -

Arve Henriksen & Elektronik Meditation - Opening Image

Terje Rypdal - If Mountains Could Sing

Supersilent - 14.5

Islaja - Rohkaisulaulu

Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar

Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - The Facts Of Life

Enjoy.

Good Morning!

Book 82 - Amin Maalouf "On Identity"

Amin Maalouf "On Identity" (The Harvill Press)




I did not think I took enough time before to explore the notion of identity and how simple and complex it can be. But that changed after reading this book. Amin Maalouf succeeds in this remarkable attempt to study and in some ways simplify the notion of identity while underlining that there is no major identity, but, on the contrary, it is our multiple affiliations that define our identity. It also demonstrates how certain identity problems cause major problems ranging, sometimes, to ethnic massacres.

Starting from a trivial question that has often been asked, Amin Maalouf wonders about the notion of identity, the passions it arouses, its deadly drifts. Why is it so difficult to freely assume one's various affiliations? Why at the end of this century must self-assertion so often be accompanied by the negation of others? Will our societies be indefinitely subject to tension, to the outbursts of violence, for the sole reason that the people who live side by side do not all have the same religion, the same skin colour, the same culture of origin? Is there a law of nature or a law of history that condemns men to kill each other in the name of their identity?

t is because he refuses this fatality that he has chosen an answer and a way forward in multiculturalism a book of wisdom and lucidity, of anxiety but also of hope.

The Friday Five

1) If you had to drink one thing for the rest of your life, what would you pick?

2) What is the first thing you drink in the morning?

3) What do you drink with your lunch? dinner?

4) What is your favourite mixed drink (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? Give the recipe.

5) What drink brings back a special memory for you?

Good Night