Good Morning

Thrifty Clothing

The majority of my clothing these days come from thrift stores/charity shops and occasionally from mystery shopping visits that include payment towards nee clothing. For example, today I am wearing Wrangler jeans, a Levi black T-Shirt and a Tommy Hilfiger cardigan ( found for a fiver last week), T.M Lewin socks from a mystery shop to said store, and Sketchers shoes. These items brand new would be quite a bit of money, and the reason I mention this is that I have more charity shop visits this month, so who knows what bargains I might pick up.

This Month in 2015

It is this month in 2015 that the Northern lights closed its doors and all those great DJ nights are now lost in the winds of time.



It was a great period and I have fond memories.

Halloween Funky Night 2014

Another old post for pigshitpoet from 2014/

Another night of DJ-ing at the Northern Lights in Brighton!

So anybody in BRIGHTON is welcome to come along.

JAZZY D'S HALLOWEEN FUNK NIGHT
Northern Lights 6 Little East Street Brighton
from 20:30 onward 29 Oct.




This photo was taken by a punter of the place that night.

This is what I played that night -



Ms Dynamite - Now U Want My Love
Alice Coltrane – Atomic Peace
Tender Leaf – Coast To Coast
Babadu – I Love Music
James Walsh Gypsy Band – I've Got The Feelin'
Buck 65 – The Centaur
Bembeya – Bembeya
Bajka – The Only Religion I Believe
Barbara Moore – Hot Heels
Sohail Rana – Soul Sitar
Masmakhan – Afraid Of Losing You
Marsha Hunt – Hot Rod Poppa
Cher – I Walk On Gilded Splinters
Yusaf Lateef – Love Theme from Spartacus
Cavril Payne – When I Open My eyes
Nina Simone – Ain't Got No ... I've Got Life
Redbone – Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Alice Coltrane – Altruvista
African Revival – Pitch Black
Gil Scott Heron – Spirits
Madvillain – Money Folder
Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters – Chameleon
Herbie Mann – Memphis Underground
Barrett Strong – Money
Wilson Picket – I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Bobby Paris – Night Owl
Etta James – Tell mama
Nina Simone – Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
Syl Johnson – Is It Because I Am Black?
Marlena Shaw – Something Right
The Corsairs – Midnight Hour
Just Brothers – Sliced Tomatoes
Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
The Honey Cone – Want Ads
The Intruders – Check Yourself
The Watts Prophets – Right On
Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
Abbey Lincoln – Africa
Ann Sexton – You've Been Gone Too Long
Ada Moore – The Devil Is A Woman
Al Johnson & Jean Carn – I'm Back For More
Aretha Franklin – Eleanor Rigby
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
D J Rogers – Bail Out
Ella Fitzgerald – Mas Que Nada
Erykah Badu – On And On
James Mason – I Want Your Love
John Coltrane – Equinox
Leo's Sunshine – Give Me The Sunshine
Mary Alice McCall – Wade In The Water
Mark Murphy – On the Red Clay
Jimmy Radcliffe – Long After Tonight Is All Over





Here is one of the tracks -

Babadu - I Love Music

yep, that was a good mix indeed.

Four Grooves For A Monday

Four hot grooves from the Halloween gig 2014.

Barbara Moore - Hot Heels

Cher - I Walk On Gilded Splinters

African Revival – Pitch Black

Mary Alice McCall – Wade In The Water

Enjoy!

I Walk on Gilded Splinters Versions

Apart from the Cher version here are others - the original is by Dr.John

Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

Johnny Jenkins - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

Paul Weller - I Walk on Gilded Splinters

Marsha Hunt - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

and finally

Duane Allman - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

Enjoy.

Book 9 - Zadie Smith "The Autograph Man"

Zadie Smith "The Autograph Man" (Penguin)





Zadie Smith writes in a creative way and is able to put to words thoughts that readers don't realize they ever have until they've read the words for themselves.

The plot was interesting but split into several places. This isn't necessarily a good thing, but in the end, it left a few ends not quite finished. I found that I wasn't at all pleased with the ending relating the main character and the movie star he idolizes throughout the book. I felt there should have been more of a conclusion there than what exists.

I highly enjoyed the book and its descriptive nature, even with the small disappointments that popped in occasionally. A good read but not an essential one.

Just Wondering

Are you a clean or messy person?

In the evening, would you rather play a game, visit a relative, watch a movie, or read?

What motivates you?

Book 10 - Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet "

Rainer Maria Rilke "Letters to a Young Poet " (Penguin Little Black Classics)






Ten letters were written between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet writing to Rilke for advice. Rilke wrote the letters from Paris, Viareggio (near Pisa, Italy, and near where Shelley drowned), Rome, and Sweden. Much if not all of the collected letters discuss the creative process and the writing life. They were written (as the editor's supplementary biographical "chronicle" illustrates) during a time when Rilke was reflecting on his own unproductive spells. Rilke arguably wrote the letters more to himself and to the eternity of future writers as a kind of "credo" than to his particular correspondent, so for those seeking to understand Rilke the exclusion of Kappus' letters is probably inconsequential. Topics include the creative process, irony, the poet's proper indifference to criticism and even feedback, sex (and its closeness to artistic experience), solitude, God, difficulty ("we must always hold to the difficult"), love (loving rightly and wrongly), the difference between the sexes, the future, convention and the poet's anti-conventionalism, repetition, emotions and doubt.

"This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question with a strong and simple 'I must' then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it."

The book can be read in a day and should be read by every aspiring writer in a very quiet place, in solitude.

Good Night