Good morning

Sunday Grooving

Music to blow away the shit -


McCoy Tyner - Blues On The Corner

McCoy Tyner (Piano)
Ron Carter (Bass)
Elvin Jones (Drums)
Joe Henderson (Tenor Saxophone)

Muggsy Spanier - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

Henry "Red" Allen - Ain't She Sweet

Composer, Lyricist: Milton Ager
Trombone: J.J. Higginbotham
Clarinet: Buster Bailey
Tenor Saxophone: Coleman Hawkins
Piano: Marty Napoleon
Guitar: Everett Barksdale
Bass: Lloyd Trotman
Drums: Cozy Cole

Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke up This Morning

Enjoy

Sunday Grooving #2

Ain't nothing but the blues to eff this shit -

John Lee Hooker - Hard Times

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis - Bank Robbery

John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis performing "Bank Robbery", track from "The Hot Spot" Soundtrack Album, released in 1990.

* John Lee Hooker: guitar, vocals
* Miles Davis: trumpet
* Taj Mahal: guitar, backing vocals
* Roy Rogers: guitar
* Tim Drummond: bass
* Earl Palmer: drums
* Bradford Ellis: piano

Led Zeppelin - Sick Again

Enjoy/

Shit !

Snagged from mrdreamjeans.

Birthday Greetings

Birthday greetings go to mrdreamjeans today.

Despite all this worrying shit around I hope you have a great day.

Binge Watch

I have been doing some binge-watching via Prime and BBC iPlayer recently.

I caught up with five episodes of Only Connect on BBC.

Watched a series called Primeval New World on Prime. !3 episodes that lasted one season. based on the old ITV Primaeval this Canadain production was just not as good as the Brit original. Mind you, the Brit original was marginally better but not much. It was eye candy. The idea of time portals randomly opening up to the dinosaur age is a good one but the storytelling floundered in the end.

Then there was this weird film called Midsommar. A 2019 film which is a folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter. It follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival that occurs once every 90 years and find themselves in the clutches of a pagan cult. Anyway, it was okay and apparently got very good critical reviews. I beg to differ.

The best series at the moment IMNHO has to be Pickard, followed by Supergirl and Thre Flash.

Apart from that, I have been engrossed in music and reading.

Some trailers of said drama -

Primeval New World - 2013

Original ITV Version -

On the whole, the first two seasons  of the original version was good. 

Book 25 - Neil Gaiman "Norse Mythology"

Neil Gaiman "Norse Mythology" (Bloomsbury)




In Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman retells the Norse stories about the forming of the world, the creation of Yggdrasil and the Nine Worlds, how Odin lost his eye, how the gods got their treasures, Loki's children, Thor's journey to the land of the giants, the death of Balder, Ragnarok, and more. Gaiman previously adapted the Norse stories in some of his other works, like American Gods and The Sandman comics, but here he tells the stories in their own setting. Like any storyteller, he's updated the language a bit, except where older vernacular adds weight and focuses on certain elements over others, but the major points of the stories hold true. Gaiman's update demonstrates why these stories remain relevant and continue to enthral us. Fans of Thor, Odin, and Loki will find plenty to enjoy and younger readers wanting to know more about the characters they read about in comics or see in movies, much like Gaiman first learned of Thor from Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's stories, will learn to love the original tales from this retelling. Based on his previous work, Gaiman appears to have been working toward this for a while and he doesn't disappoint.

Just Wondering

How do you think you will cope with self-isolation?

Did you ever have a toy that terrified you?

A Harry Potter question -

Would you rather have a Marauder's Map or a Cloak of Invisibility?

For the non-Harry Potter's among us...

What TV show from your childhood do you really miss?