Good Night

Just Wondering

Have you ever sleepwalked?

Can you build a house of cards?

What's your favourite perfume/scent?

Crisis On Infinite Earths

The Arrowverse crossover is going to be HUGE!!!!! TomWellling is back as Clark Kent aka Superman as well!!

Trailers

Good Morning

Two For The Morning

One Canadian and one Argentinian.

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of Love

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 -- July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneónist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles.

Enjoy

Chilled Out Sunday

A day of relaxing.
       In fact, I just awoke from a snooze
              After having some delicious filling pepperoni pizza.
                    The rest of this chilled out zone has been filled with listening to the
                                                                                                            radio or music.
                                                   A smidgen of reading so far
                                        After finishing off my reports for yesterday.
                                                 I completed five visits
                                                                  in
                                                        Sittingbourne,
                                                          Maidstone,
                                                            Chatham,
                                                          and Gillingham.


                              So yes,
                                           A chilling out day.

A Sunday Music Smorgasbord

A mixed bag of music for a quiet Sunday -


Ralph Vaughan Williams- Tired

Bass Jason Hardy sings the song - Tired - from "Four Last Songs" by Ralph Vaughan Williams in a live recital performance.

Paul Giavanni - Corn Rigs

( More music here )

Enjoy.

Summer (The First Time)

I try not to repeat myself but with coming42 posting this recently reminded me when I posted the song here. In my opinion, the best ever pop song. So I make no excuses for posting it again -

Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time)

Btw ,dear readers, you should check my bro's site here as he has many sixties tunes which are not necessarily my kind of stuff and needs the comments I think.Goto coming42.

Missing

I love Tracy Thorn -

Everything But The Girl - Missing

(Todd Terry Club Edit)

The remix was one of fave DJ spins!

Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)

Thanks to realbesamemucho.

Jazz and Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)

Jazz And Floyd presents the highlights of the creators of The Wall (Pink Floyd) in imaginative and warm versions that combine the elegant sophistication of jazz with the top New York clubs.

Book 78 - Geoff Dyer "But Beautiful"

Geoff Dyer "But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz" (Canongate)





Geoff Dyer's writing is gripping, heartfelt, and all too believable. Which is pretty much all that matters given the subject matter - imagined portraits of the equally troubled and gifted musicians he portrays - Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, and Art Pepper. I finished each chapter with an indelible impression of the soul of each of these men.

It matters not if you do or don't know the music of each artist covered, though you may want to refer to the select discography at the back. Dyer bases each vignette on known histories, conversations, photographs, newspaper clippings, all of which he references in the appendix. Interweaved between each story is the very appealing construction of an imagined Duke Ellington on the road between gigs, alone with his driver Harry, as he crosses the American night.

Following the main part of the book is an extended essay on the artistic course and ongoing direction of jazz music which I found a satisfying accompaniment to the earlier chapters. Recommended for all, and a must for anybody with a love of Jazz.

Book 79 - Philip Fernbach & Steven Sloman - The Knowledge Illusion

Philip Fernbach & Steven Sloman - The Knowledge Illusion (Pan Books)




This is a reasonably good book about how people over-estimate their personal knowledge and how their reliance on the knowledge of other people easily goes unnoticed. It also discusses how people's opinions can sway in many different directions unless or until they are moored by feelings of social belonging. The author's present a number of studies in cognitive science which support their theses.

These discussions are in fact a bit too numerous and the book is a bit too long. The author's platitudinous argument that "thought is for action" is embarrassingly shallow, and the chapters on personal and collective intelligence testing could also well have been omitted. The book also jumps from one example to the next a bit more hastily than I would have liked.

But overall this is still a good book which offers its readers many new perspectives on everyday knowledge, scientific knowledge and political knowledge. Thoughtful persons can probably chart the limits of their own knowledge even without the explicit instruction provided by this book, but it may be harder for them to notice how much they rely on socially conditioned knowledge.

Old Grooves #2

Been listening to some classic old big band and hot jazz -

Cab Calloway - Are You Hep To The Jive?

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - Fireworks (1928)

Enjoy.