Post Midnight Selection

Another post-midnight selection.

Rob St John and Pete Harvey - Surface Tension

Rob played: guitars, tube organ, analogue synth, piano, sonifications and made field recordings with binaural mics, hydrophones and contact mics
Pete played: cello and

Richard Skelton - Of the Sea

We Lost The Sea - A Gallant Gentleman

Do Make Say Think - Herstory of Glory

ENJOY

Fabio Frizzi - Virus

Good Morning

Sunny Sunday

Well, what a lovely sunny gorgeous day it has been on this long weekend Sunday. Blue skies and sunny warm weather. So I had to take advantage of it and be outside soaking up the rays of the sun. And since tomorrow will be a crappy cold rainy day it would have been sacrilegious not to be outside enjoying the sunshine.

Lunch was a simple pasta dish with chicken and cheese and some fiery peppers and chillis.

I did some reading outside as well as listening to some music, including Mozart's Requiem. I also had the classic Brit drink called Snakebite - and for the uninitiated Snakebite is a classic British pub drink. A 50/50 mix of hard cider and lager - a rather controversial drink that headbangers and skinheads use to enjoy.

Put it this way, it quickly gets you inebriated!

Right, time for some Chopin which I might fall asleep to.

A New Social Media Button

Now here's a thought. Whilst most social media sites have a "like" button isn't it about time they had a "Fuck Off" button!

Makes perfect sense to me!

Answers To The Weekend Brain Teasers

Here are the answers to my questions -

How might you size up compromising photos in 1946, a ransom demand in 1998 and sleight of hand on the stock market in 2015?


The size they have in common is Big - because they all refer to movie titles which are The Big something. Compromising photographs are central to the plot of the Bogart movie The Big Sleep, made in 1946. A ransom demand in a movie of 1998 might lead you to the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski. And a 2015 film uncovering decidedly risky dealings on the stock market was The Big Short.

Take a mythical ship, load it with goods, and send it first to a city in North Dakota, and then to a city in Florida, slowly. The connection?

The mythical ship is the Argo, loading it with goods is cargo, that North Dakota city is Fargo and the city in Florida is Largo. Largo is also the classical music term for "Slowly".

Answers To The Just Wondering

Do you know what these five books have in common: The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and The Great Gatsby?

Most of you got this right without realizing it - these are the five most assigned books for reading in high school.

Do you know what all these items have in common: Mechanical clocks, roulette, and Munster cheese?

Circular yes, but all of these were, apparently, developed by monks!


Do you know what these cities have in common: Pittsburgh, PA, Tucson AZ, Cincinnati, OH, Albuquerque, NM, Culpeper, VA and Asheville, NC?

These are the five most misspelt US city names.

My hats off to everyone who gave this a whirl!