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Good Night
Dec. 27th, 2021 12:02 am
I know, big aw factor here.
Dec. 27th, 2021
I know, big aw factor here.
A Reminder
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I have to unscreen every "like" button and it is annoying.
Thank you.
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Jazzy's Prog Monday #1
Dec. 27th, 2021 01:08 pmA couple of prog rock glories -
Focus - Sylvia / Hocus Pocus - Live at BBC TV Old Grey Whistle Test 1972 (Remastered)
The Groundhogs - Cherry Red (2003 Remastered Version)
enjoy!
Focus - Sylvia / Hocus Pocus - Live at BBC TV Old Grey Whistle Test 1972 (Remastered)
The Groundhogs - Cherry Red (2003 Remastered Version)
enjoy!
Jazzy's Prog Monday #2
Dec. 27th, 2021 01:21 pmTwo more prog heavy stuff from the seventies -
Hawkwind - Magnu (1975)
Wishbone Ash - Phoenix
ENJOY
Hawkwind - Magnu (1975)
Wishbone Ash - Phoenix
ENJOY
Monday Musings
Dec. 27th, 2021 06:27 pmI did find today a little frustrating due to the fact of the wet weather we have been having lately.
At one instantaneous moment today, I felt overwhelmed by boredom, and that rarely happens to me, so despite the weather, I had to pop out to my local store. In fact, a couple of ciders made me feel quite calm and collected afterwards. We all can get stir crazy if we do not go outside on a regular basis. Of course, there are some professions where this is impossible, such as being in a submarine or in a shuttle in outer space.
Another factor that has irked me is the fact that due to Xmas Day and Boxing Day being on a Saturday and Sunday we now have two public holidays – today and tomorrow, and that means I have no bus routes to town or towards Maidstone and Sittingbourne due to no services on public holidays. Wednesday will be the first normal day again.
Anyway, today I had the curry I was going to have on Xmas day. It matured in the slow cooker for a day and all the juices macerated into this smooth and very hot spicy flavour. Boy, it had a kick to it! Thank goodness I had cold cider on hand.
Today I watched a documentary on the history and making of West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. I am not into musicals as such but this one is a particular classic in my opinion.
I have been catching up with the Christmas University Challenge which has the elder alumni rather than the students. Anyway, I did as well as the majority of the alumni and even better in places and particularly on the music questions. I felt immensely proud of my broad knowledge gained over many years.
At one instantaneous moment today, I felt overwhelmed by boredom, and that rarely happens to me, so despite the weather, I had to pop out to my local store. In fact, a couple of ciders made me feel quite calm and collected afterwards. We all can get stir crazy if we do not go outside on a regular basis. Of course, there are some professions where this is impossible, such as being in a submarine or in a shuttle in outer space.
Another factor that has irked me is the fact that due to Xmas Day and Boxing Day being on a Saturday and Sunday we now have two public holidays – today and tomorrow, and that means I have no bus routes to town or towards Maidstone and Sittingbourne due to no services on public holidays. Wednesday will be the first normal day again.
Anyway, today I had the curry I was going to have on Xmas day. It matured in the slow cooker for a day and all the juices macerated into this smooth and very hot spicy flavour. Boy, it had a kick to it! Thank goodness I had cold cider on hand.
Today I watched a documentary on the history and making of West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. I am not into musicals as such but this one is a particular classic in my opinion.
I have been catching up with the Christmas University Challenge which has the elder alumni rather than the students. Anyway, I did as well as the majority of the alumni and even better in places and particularly on the music questions. I felt immensely proud of my broad knowledge gained over many years.
Eric Hobsbawm "Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Time Warner UK)
"The past is another country, but it has left its mark on those who once lived there," writes noted historian Hobsbawm in this memoir. Known for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hobsbawm examines this material from a far more intimate perspective and details his personal and intellectual life from his birth into a Jewish family in 1917 to the present. Weaving insightful material into a broader historical tapestry, he moves gracefully from his parents' troubled marriage to his early Communist political work in Berlin in 1933, and his family's flight to England with the rise of Hitler. At university, he became one of the "Cambridge Reds" and professionally was known as a "Marxist historian" - but, he comments, "historical understanding is what I am after, not agreement, approval or sympathy." Hobsbawm writes as easily about his love of jazz as about the complicated problems the Cambridge-based Historians' Group of the Communist Party had with the encroaching hard line of the Soviet government. While Hobsbawm's life is fascinating, it is his pungent observations on today's world that bring a sharp contemporary edge to his life and memoir. He has sharp things to say about Zionism, and of contemporary America, he writes, "the US empire does not know what it wants or can do with its power... It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it." This important work augments the life's work of one of the last century's most important historians.
Hobsbawm's career as a public intellectual has been defined by his celebrated histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 [1994], for example) and by his unflinching Marxism. His autobiography delineates his uncommon trajectory through the twentieth century: birth in Alexandria, childhood as a Jew in Austria and Hitler's Berlin, intellectual maturation in Cambridge, and a multinational academic career to follow. It's an interesting life, to be sure, but more interesting is his perspective on his communist past and academic life. Hobsbawm's retrospective musings are nostalgic yet honest about the shortcomings of international socialism; they reveal the gently conflicted perspective of one whose political vision hasn't come to fruition, yet who has enjoyed a fruitful life regardless. And yet, within his lived narrative, his praise of jazz and France and certain academic peers, Hobsbawm's discussion of the emerging "global village" suggests a new appeal to socialism and hope for the future.
"The past is another country, but it has left its mark on those who once lived there," writes noted historian Hobsbawm in this memoir. Known for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hobsbawm examines this material from a far more intimate perspective and details his personal and intellectual life from his birth into a Jewish family in 1917 to the present. Weaving insightful material into a broader historical tapestry, he moves gracefully from his parents' troubled marriage to his early Communist political work in Berlin in 1933, and his family's flight to England with the rise of Hitler. At university, he became one of the "Cambridge Reds" and professionally was known as a "Marxist historian" - but, he comments, "historical understanding is what I am after, not agreement, approval or sympathy." Hobsbawm writes as easily about his love of jazz as about the complicated problems the Cambridge-based Historians' Group of the Communist Party had with the encroaching hard line of the Soviet government. While Hobsbawm's life is fascinating, it is his pungent observations on today's world that bring a sharp contemporary edge to his life and memoir. He has sharp things to say about Zionism, and of contemporary America, he writes, "the US empire does not know what it wants or can do with its power... It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it." This important work augments the life's work of one of the last century's most important historians.
Hobsbawm's career as a public intellectual has been defined by his celebrated histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 [1994], for example) and by his unflinching Marxism. His autobiography delineates his uncommon trajectory through the twentieth century: birth in Alexandria, childhood as a Jew in Austria and Hitler's Berlin, intellectual maturation in Cambridge, and a multinational academic career to follow. It's an interesting life, to be sure, but more interesting is his perspective on his communist past and academic life. Hobsbawm's retrospective musings are nostalgic yet honest about the shortcomings of international socialism; they reveal the gently conflicted perspective of one whose political vision hasn't come to fruition, yet who has enjoyed a fruitful life regardless. And yet, within his lived narrative, his praise of jazz and France and certain academic peers, Hobsbawm's discussion of the emerging "global village" suggests a new appeal to socialism and hope for the future.
Eric Hobsbawm "Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (Time Warner UK)
"The past is another country, but it has left its mark on those who once lived there," writes noted historian Hobsbawm in this memoir. Known for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hobsbawm examines this material from a far more intimate perspective and details his personal and intellectual life from his birth into a Jewish family in 1917 to the present. Weaving insightful material into a broader historical tapestry, he moves gracefully from his parents' troubled marriage to his early Communist political work in Berlin in 1933, and his family's flight to England with the rise of Hitler. At university, he became one of the "Cambridge Reds" and professionally was known as a "Marxist historian" - but, he comments, "historical understanding is what I am after, not agreement, approval or sympathy." Hobsbawm writes as easily about his love of jazz as about the complicated problems the Cambridge-based Historians' Group of the Communist Party had with the encroaching hard line of the Soviet government. While Hobsbawm's life is fascinating, it is his pungent observations on today's world that bring a sharp contemporary edge to his life and memoir. He has sharp things to say about Zionism, and of contemporary America, he writes, "the US empire does not know what it wants or can do with its power... It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it." This important work augments the life's work of one of the last century's most important historians.
Hobsbawm's career as a public intellectual has been defined by his celebrated histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 [1994], for example) and by his unflinching Marxism. His autobiography delineates his uncommon trajectory through the twentieth century: birth in Alexandria, childhood as a Jew in Austria and Hitler's Berlin, intellectual maturation in Cambridge, and a multinational academic career to follow. It's an interesting life, to be sure, but more interesting is his perspective on his communist past and academic life. Hobsbawm's retrospective musings are nostalgic yet honest about the shortcomings of international socialism; they reveal the gently conflicted perspective of one whose political vision hasn't come to fruition, yet who has enjoyed a fruitful life regardless. And yet, within his lived narrative, his praise of jazz and France and certain academic peers, Hobsbawm's discussion of the emerging "global village" suggests a new appeal to socialism and hope for the future.
"The past is another country, but it has left its mark on those who once lived there," writes noted historian Hobsbawm in this memoir. Known for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hobsbawm examines this material from a far more intimate perspective and details his personal and intellectual life from his birth into a Jewish family in 1917 to the present. Weaving insightful material into a broader historical tapestry, he moves gracefully from his parents' troubled marriage to his early Communist political work in Berlin in 1933, and his family's flight to England with the rise of Hitler. At university, he became one of the "Cambridge Reds" and professionally was known as a "Marxist historian" - but, he comments, "historical understanding is what I am after, not agreement, approval or sympathy." Hobsbawm writes as easily about his love of jazz as about the complicated problems the Cambridge-based Historians' Group of the Communist Party had with the encroaching hard line of the Soviet government. While Hobsbawm's life is fascinating, it is his pungent observations on today's world that bring a sharp contemporary edge to his life and memoir. He has sharp things to say about Zionism, and of contemporary America, he writes, "the US empire does not know what it wants or can do with its power... It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it." This important work augments the life's work of one of the last century's most important historians.
Hobsbawm's career as a public intellectual has been defined by his celebrated histories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 [1994], for example) and by his unflinching Marxism. His autobiography delineates his uncommon trajectory through the twentieth century: birth in Alexandria, childhood as a Jew in Austria and Hitler's Berlin, intellectual maturation in Cambridge, and a multinational academic career to follow. It's an interesting life, to be sure, but more interesting is his perspective on his communist past and academic life. Hobsbawm's retrospective musings are nostalgic yet honest about the shortcomings of international socialism; they reveal the gently conflicted perspective of one whose political vision hasn't come to fruition, yet who has enjoyed a fruitful life regardless. And yet, within his lived narrative, his praise of jazz and France and certain academic peers, Hobsbawm's discussion of the emerging "global village" suggests a new appeal to socialism and hope for the future.
Peter Kropotkin "Anarchist Communism " (Penguin Great Ideas)
In Anarchist Communism: Everywhere You Will Find that the Wealth of the Wealthy Springs from the Poverty of the Poor, Peter Kropotkin writes, “We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger” (pgs. 12-13). Kropotkin continues, “It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance, and to enter into possession of it” (pg. 34). In his titular essay, Kropotkin argues the folly of individualism, explaining how various institutions already demonstrate the ability to work for the common good, including inclusive rail lines, museums, libraries, and even the field of science – though he describes science in the sense of late-nineteenth-century scientific discovery prior to that practiced by modern industrial capitalists and their global corporations.
This Penguin “Great Ideas” edition of Kropotkin’s work is a nice, inexpensive way to get a hardcopy of his work for scholarly analysis or use in the classroom. It is worthy of study by those re-examining the current socioeconomic systems in the West that exist to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals but should be read alongside other political works to place it in context and realize that no one text will furnish all the answers.
In Anarchist Communism: Everywhere You Will Find that the Wealth of the Wealthy Springs from the Poverty of the Poor, Peter Kropotkin writes, “We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger” (pgs. 12-13). Kropotkin continues, “It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance, and to enter into possession of it” (pg. 34). In his titular essay, Kropotkin argues the folly of individualism, explaining how various institutions already demonstrate the ability to work for the common good, including inclusive rail lines, museums, libraries, and even the field of science – though he describes science in the sense of late-nineteenth-century scientific discovery prior to that practiced by modern industrial capitalists and their global corporations.
This Penguin “Great Ideas” edition of Kropotkin’s work is a nice, inexpensive way to get a hardcopy of his work for scholarly analysis or use in the classroom. It is worthy of study by those re-examining the current socioeconomic systems in the West that exist to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals but should be read alongside other political works to place it in context and realize that no one text will furnish all the answers.
span style="font-size: large;">Peter Kropotkin "Anarchist Communism " (Penguin Great Ideas)
In Anarchist Communism: Everywhere You Will Find that the Wealth of the Wealthy Springs from the Poverty of the Poor, Peter Kropotkin writes, “We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger” (pgs. 12-13). Kropotkin continues, “It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance, and to enter into possession of it” (pg. 34). In his titular essay, Kropotkin argues the folly of individualism, explaining how various institutions already demonstrate the ability to work for the common good, including inclusive rail lines, museums, libraries, and even the field of science – though he describes science in the sense of late-nineteenth-century scientific discovery prior to that practiced by modern industrial capitalists and their global corporations.
This Penguin “Great Ideas” edition of Kropotkin’s work is a nice, inexpensive way to get a hardcopy of his work for scholarly analysis or use in the classroom. It is worthy of study by those re-examining the current socioeconomic systems in the West that exist to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals but should be read alongside other political works to place it in context and realize that no one text will furnish all the answers.
In Anarchist Communism: Everywhere You Will Find that the Wealth of the Wealthy Springs from the Poverty of the Poor, Peter Kropotkin writes, “We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger” (pgs. 12-13). Kropotkin continues, “It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance, and to enter into possession of it” (pg. 34). In his titular essay, Kropotkin argues the folly of individualism, explaining how various institutions already demonstrate the ability to work for the common good, including inclusive rail lines, museums, libraries, and even the field of science – though he describes science in the sense of late-nineteenth-century scientific discovery prior to that practiced by modern industrial capitalists and their global corporations.
This Penguin “Great Ideas” edition of Kropotkin’s work is a nice, inexpensive way to get a hardcopy of his work for scholarly analysis or use in the classroom. It is worthy of study by those re-examining the current socioeconomic systems in the West that exist to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals but should be read alongside other political works to place it in context and realize that no one text will furnish all the answers.
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