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So I shall be posting some  music from this



and I will be reading this for a good few days.

Just Wondering

Have ever been good with fractions as a student?

How about word problems?

Were you a fussy eater as a kid? And now?

Post Midnight Jazz

From the virtual Wire Office Ambience

Mccoy Tyner & Lee Morgan - Mode To John

Mccoy Tyner & Lee Morgan - The High Priest

Lee Morgan, Trumpet
Julian Priester, Trombone
James Spaulding, Alto Sax And Flute
Bennie Maupin, Tenor Sax
Bob Northern, French Horn
Howard Johnson, Tuba
Mccoy Tyner, Piano
Herbie Lewis, Bass
Joe Chambers, Drums

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 1, 1967

Good Morning

Thursday Thoughts

Well, the morning was dull and then it improved with some sunshine and now we are back to dull. After the glorious week, this week is a bit of a turd.

I posted three items sold on eBay - long queue at the post office too as they are limiting people within the branch.

I ordered that McCoy Tyner CD as I found a cheap copy at Discogs.

I am fed up with all the negative news so I have retuned the radio to music channels.

Drinking some fine cider as I type.

Another book has been read.

Not much else to report.

Diamanda Galas - Litanies

Diamanda Galas is featured in the current Wire.

Diamanda Galas - Wild Women With Steak-Knives (The Homicidal Love Song For Solo Screen)

The lyrics are inherited from "Les litanies de Satan" from French poet Charles Baudelaire, in "Les fleurs du mal" (tr.Flowers of Evil) ; it was a banned poem in the 19th century. Baudelaire was put on trial and condemned for this poem. The verses reads : "O toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges (...) O Satan prends pitié de ma longue misère !" (tr. O you, the most knowing and beautiful Angel...O Satan have mercy of my long misery !"

The poem is a renunciation of religion and Catholicism in particular. It includes a blasphemous inversion of the Kyrie Eleison and the Glory Be, parts of the Catholic Mass, or it substitutes Satan for Mary and liturgy directed towards her. Swinburne called it the key to Les Fleurs du mal. The poet empathises with Satan, who has also experienced injustice and can have pity for those who are outcasts. But for political reasons, Baudelaire had to preface the poem with a note explaining he had no personal allegiance with Satan. Even so, Les Fleurs du mal led to him and his publishers being fined for "insult to public decency".

The poem is an inspiration to Satanists to this day.

Good Night