Just Wondering

Would you ever own an exotic or endangered animal as a pet?

Do you tend to laze in bed after you wake up or do you get up quickly, ready to meet the day?

How often do you get insomnia?

Good Night

Bob Dylan - I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You (2020)

From the album Rough And Rowdy Ways

dr. π (pi)

♫

enjoy!

❤️

Good Morning

Crossposting

Is anybody else finding crossposting from here to LJ not working again?

Why does it keep happening?

Batwoman, Stargirl, New Roswell, Doom Patrol and More

Well, today is one of dullness and showers. At least we need the rain. I can watch more superhero movies and Tv shows that are currently airing or have aired. Using OnionPlay I have finally watched the Crisis on Infinite Earths Arrowverse crossover episode in the Batwoman series. Now that I can actually watch Batwoman I might try other episodes.
For my guilty pleasure I am watching the DC Comics Stargirl series. Thus is also on OnionPlay as well as Agents of SHIELD.

Stargirl takes up the mantle of her dad, Starman, who was part of the JSA that included The Flash or a pre-Crisis multiple universe version of him.

I see that our ITV 2 has taken up the new version of Roswell called Roswell,New Mexico. Not watched it as I feel that remakes are not as good as originals. See the shit they have done with Charmed for example. So my verdict as yet is undecided.

One really fun show was DC's Doom Patrol on the Amazon Starz site. I enjoyed watching that first season as much as the first season of Watchmen.

OnionPlay also had the Spider-Man Far From Home movie, plus Shazam! and the latest Harley Quinn movie. All good fun and not as serious as some of the others by Marvel or DC. Watched all of them as well as I missed these at the cinema before lockdown. In fact I can say that OnionPlay is much better than Shush.se.


I will post some trailers for the geeks who have not seen these shows.

Book Finds & Tuesday Thoughts

Despite the inclement weather there was an occasion for some serendipity in that a recent book recommendation resulted in a sale. That does not happen often. Anyway, I digress. I was in town this afternoon just perusing and killing time. The main reason was that I needed to post a CD I sold on Discogs. As I walked through East Street to West Street the Cancer Research chazzer was still the only charity shop open and thus I wondered in. I came out with a couple of paperbacks for a pound each of which one could be relevant for tomorrow. Tomorrow is Canada Day.




The Dawkins book was found in a box outside a house with a notice saying "Books please take for free. Nothing lese was that interesting. Dawkins is an adamant promoter of evolution against the non-scientific religious folly or idea of creationism.

This is why , like Dawkins, I frown on creationists with disdain. I really had heated arguments with one LJ religious blinkeredness geezer who was an amazing bibliophile which ended up with him banning me from his journal. Oh well, let them fester their own myopic visions and denial that we evolved from apes.

Anyway, I am enjoying a second bottle of Barefoot Shiraz red vino this evening. I listened to Cypress Hill's excellent Black Sunday CD and one by Nick Drake , and about to listen to some classical. You know by now how eclectic I am.

Angry Antiracist

I just listened to a BBC Radio 4 prog File on 4 about institutionalised racism in our police force against both ethnic and black employees of the met and the Cleveland police forces. Well, this has been going on for years.

With the words ‘I can’t breathe’ reverberating around the world, the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK has put the issue of racial justice at the top of the political agenda. Twenty-one years after the Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence labelled the Metropolitan Police ‘institutionally racist’, File on 4 explores concerns black, Asian and ethnic minority officers still face discrimination in the service.

Police forces in England and Wales are in the middle of an unprecedented recruitment drive, to add 20,000 new officers by March 2023, providing an opportunity to improve diversity. There is work to do, as Home Office figures for 2019, seen for the first time by File on 4, reveal many specialist positions continue to be dominated by white officers. There were only two ethnic minority officers among 184 in the mounted police; 15 out of 734 dog handlers; and 11 among 426 detectives in special investigations teams.

"File on 4 asks whether the way black and Asian officers are currently treated is likely to be a barrier to attracting suitable candidates and if the changes will affect representation at senior ranks, where there are very few ethnic minority officers. The programme reveals data, collected by the National Black Police Association, that ethnic minority officers represent 14% of all officers under misconduct investigation and over 20% of inquiries that had progressed to a misconduct meeting or gross misconduct hearing, despite representing less than 7% of all officers. File on 4 hears from ex police inspector Mark Dias who was put under surveillance illegally by Cleveland Police and found to be the victim of racial discrimination."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgtl

I need some vino to calm me down, hence the red.



Just what I needed..

Classical Gas

Right you lot - I need some calming music to quiescent my anger.

Gabriel Fauré - Requiem : 'In Paradisum'

Arvo Pärt - De Profundis

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ
Tonu Kaljuste, percussion
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

I just love this Estonian and his music.

Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro torna

Nuria Rial (soprano)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata (direction: Christina Pluhar)

John Dowland - Can she excuse my wrongs?

Emma Kirkby soprano
Anthony Rooley lute
Recording: Forde Abbey, Chard, Somerset , September 1988

Thomas Adès - Polaris (2010)

The UK premiere of Thomas Adès's Polaris. The title refers to the North Star

Your conductor h has left the room.
Enjoy.

Wire Magazine numero unos 2019 - 2016

So I decided to give you the top number one release from the critics at the end of each year in the Wire mag from 2010- 2019

2019 - 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real

Cd "I Was Real"

2018 - Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

00:00 My Queen Is Ada Eastman 6:41
06:39 My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark 5:31
12:08 My Queen Is Harriet Tubman 5:40
17:47 My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper 5:07
22:52 My Queen Is Angela Davis 6:35
29:25 My Queen Is Nanny of the Maroons 6:44
36:08 My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa 7:04
43:10 My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu 5:20
48:25 My Queen Is Doreen Lawrence 6:52

2017 - Chino Amobi - PARADISO (full album)

debut album from Chino Amobi, co-founder of NON,
featuring Elysia Crampton, Rabit and others,
experimental / sound-collage / hip-hop / noise / spoken word

released in 2017 on NON Worldwide

tracklist:
0:00 - LAW 1 (THE CITY IN THE SEA)
3:22 - GÆNOVA
5:22 - BLOOD OF THE COVENANT
8:58 - NEGATIVE FIRE (III)
12:49 - THE FAILED SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF FANTASIA
16:05 - BLACKOUT
19:13 - ANTIKEIMENON
23:22 - NKISI (EDIT)
26:12 - EIGENGRAU (CHILDREN OF HELL II)
30:25 - LAW II (DEMOLITION)
31:43 - POLIZEI
35:42 - WHITE MÆTEL
38:42 - WHITE MÆTEL NARRATIVE
41:54 - RADICAL ZERO
43:05 - PARADISO
50:09 - LAW III (ADAM)
52:31 - THE FLOATING WORLD PT.1
54:18 - THE FLOATING WORLD PT.2
56:28 - DIXIE SHRINE
1:01:09 - KOLLAPS
1:05:20 - END (THE CITY IN THE SEA)

2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar

Enjoy

next time 2015 - 2013

Minimalist Moments

... and finally for this evening some of my fave minimalists -

Philip Glass. - Koyaanisqatsi (original version)

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint: I. Fast

Terry Riley - G Song

Michael Nyman - Drowning By Number 2

Enjoy

Good Night