2019-10-07
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Tropicalia
Time for some tropicalia from Brazil.
Caetano Veloso - Tropicália
Gal Costa - Tuareg
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Enjoy
Caetano Veloso - Tropicália
Gal Costa - Tuareg
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Enjoy
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Tropicalia #2
Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso - Bat Macumba
Gal Costa - Sebastiana
One track I played often at the Northern Lights - got the pub punters dancing anyway - as well as Os Mutantes, and Flora Purim.
Jorge Ben - Take It Easy My Brother Charles
Gal Costa - Sebastiana
One track I played often at the Northern Lights - got the pub punters dancing anyway - as well as Os Mutantes, and Flora Purim.
Jorge Ben - Take It Easy My Brother Charles
In Town
I walked into town to pop to the main post office to despatch my survey from Saturday when I did the exit poll. The majority of my work is online and thus no need to post work off, except for the occasions, like this weekend, when I did an exit survey for a research company.
Whilst in town I will look around the charity shops, but I do not expect to find anything that will grab me.
Meanwhile, I am in Spoons having a pint of Abbot Ale - only £1.99 on Mondays.
Whilst in town I will look around the charity shops, but I do not expect to find anything that will grab me.
Meanwhile, I am in Spoons having a pint of Abbot Ale - only £1.99 on Mondays.
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Just Wondering
Do you have seasonal socks?
Have you had anything pumpkin spice flavoured yet?
Have the trees started to change/leaf out?
Have you had anything pumpkin spice flavoured yet?
Have the trees started to change/leaf out?
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Book 86 - Susan Sontag "On Photography"
Susan Sontag "On Photography" (Penguin Books)
Six meditations on the nature and implications of photography. Each essay pivots engagingly around a provocative theme: the “aesthetic consumerism” exemplified by taking and collecting photographs, the inherent surrealism of photographs, the incurable defensiveness of those who claim photography an art form, photography’s project of beautifying the world, the West as a “culture based on images.” My favorite is the second essay: “America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly,” which traces the metamorphosis of Walt Whitman’s delirious vision of democratic vistas where beauty and ugliness are superseded, through the bland humanism of Edward Steichen and his “Family of Man” exhibit, to Diane Arbus’ clinical freakshow of “assorted monsters and borderline cases.” Being a longtime fan of historic photographs, I greatly enjoy Sontag’s thumbnail assessments of the cavalcade of photographic innovators.
An enlightening and memorable reading experience. No one writes an essay like Sontag. This book should really have the photographs that Sontag discusses included in the book - a big mistake in my mind. Also, another regret is that the book, written in the '70s, does not cover the current state of photography (how we all take pictures and share them on the internet and how that affects our memories and values). However, a very enjoyable read.
Six meditations on the nature and implications of photography. Each essay pivots engagingly around a provocative theme: the “aesthetic consumerism” exemplified by taking and collecting photographs, the inherent surrealism of photographs, the incurable defensiveness of those who claim photography an art form, photography’s project of beautifying the world, the West as a “culture based on images.” My favorite is the second essay: “America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly,” which traces the metamorphosis of Walt Whitman’s delirious vision of democratic vistas where beauty and ugliness are superseded, through the bland humanism of Edward Steichen and his “Family of Man” exhibit, to Diane Arbus’ clinical freakshow of “assorted monsters and borderline cases.” Being a longtime fan of historic photographs, I greatly enjoy Sontag’s thumbnail assessments of the cavalcade of photographic innovators.
An enlightening and memorable reading experience. No one writes an essay like Sontag. This book should really have the photographs that Sontag discusses included in the book - a big mistake in my mind. Also, another regret is that the book, written in the '70s, does not cover the current state of photography (how we all take pictures and share them on the internet and how that affects our memories and values). However, a very enjoyable read.
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Music For The Night People
Jazz for the night people-
Andrew Hill- New Monastery
Personnel
Kenny Dorham, Trumpet
Eric Dolphy, Alto Sax, Flute & Bass Clarinet
Joe Henderson, Tenor Sax
Andrew Hill, Piano
Richard Davis, Bass
Anthony Williams, Drums
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Personnel:
Andrew Hill — piano
Joe Henderson — saxophone
Richard Davis — bass
Roy Haynes — drums
Enjoy.
Andrew Hill- New Monastery
Personnel
Kenny Dorham, Trumpet
Eric Dolphy, Alto Sax, Flute & Bass Clarinet
Joe Henderson, Tenor Sax
Andrew Hill, Piano
Richard Davis, Bass
Anthony Williams, Drums
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Personnel:
Andrew Hill — piano
Joe Henderson — saxophone
Richard Davis — bass
Roy Haynes — drums
Enjoy.