Runaways

Another series I am watching since I had seen the first season and that is Marvels Runaways. Watching the second season on Putlocker.

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Good Morning

Monday Musings

A plenitude of cumulous clouds obscured the sun intermittently today. Cooler than the weekend and thus more mercurial. It is a day for frustrated sunbathing.

And concomitantly  with this, I had to pop into town as I sold a couple of items on eBay- small items - not a great deal of money - but fine for a few beers.

Thus,I am here in Spoons, and being that it is Monday, pints are just £1.99 and thius a few Abott Ales are going down a  treat!

I also received the final payment for the Subways I did for Tern.

I am also getting a small rebate from Prudential - money they owe me due to a miscalculation on the pension I took out with them years back but since transferred it to Aegon. We are not talking three figures but only two with accumulated interest over so many years. I don't know when I will get this nice little surprise but I already confirmed that I was with them and sent the forms off to get the money. Meanwhile, this week until Friday may well be a quiet one, although I have taken on more sandwich shops due on the 4th, I might ask Tern to spread them out more.

I remembered reading a chapter from the recent Philip Larkin biography I read that his dad, Stanley, once lived in Coventry, with Philip attending a local college before the war, before Philip went to Oxford. Now Coventry is only twelve miles from my birthplace in Rugby. The cathedral city got heavily bombed in WW1. The reason I mention this is that Chiara {https://cmcmck.dreamwidth.org/} who used to be here as cmcmck mentioned that Larkin was librarian where she and her husband now live,the town of Wellington in Shropshire. The poet likened his town here to a "hole of toad's turds".

I can think of other towns as turds and funnily enough, Coventry comes high on my list.

So as a mini gathering of your pet hates, which town or city is your "hole of toad's turd"?

Novacene

Whilst it would be great for us to be starbound travellers of the infinite universe we are just too fragile for such extrasolar expeditions.
in fact, if James Lovelock is right, the forthcoming novacene - the rise of AI - will be our grandchildren of space.

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock review — an optimistic outlook from an unusual mind

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/27/novacene-by-james-lovelock-review

Jazz Thing

U know it's a jazz thing
        When that cat Count Basie does his swing
            And here comes Ella -
                                  and oh man, she can sing
                               But then comes the new yodel
                                     From bebop cool to serene modal
                                       And then something so sublime and new
                                          can only be Miles Davis Into The Blue.

It's A Jazz Thing

Jazz cat here on a cool jazz mood -

Bill Evans Trio - Nardis

Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches

Some of the best most emotional complex phrases I have ever heard. Goosebumps every time.

Bill Evans - Peace Piece

Bill Evans's "Peace Piece" is an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" LP in 1958. It is hailed as one of the most beautiful and evocative solo piano improvisations ever recorded.

Sheila Jordan - Hum Drum Blues

Sheila Jordan - Perlie's Swine

Sheila Jordan - vocals ;
Norman Marnell - tenor saxophone ;
Alan Pasqua - piano ;
Cameron Brown - bass ;
Beaver Harris - drums.

Sheila Jordan & Harvie Swartz - The Crossing

Enjoy,

Lee Cameos

Stan Lee had many cameos in the MCU but not so much in the Marvel TV series from what I remember - I may be wrong though. However, he did appear as a chauffeur in thw series Runaways.

Just Wondering ....

If you are in a bad mood, do you prefer to be left alone or have someone to cheer you up?

Do you think you can be best friends with members of the opposite sex and it not involved sex?

What makes you feel accomplished?

Good Night