The Saturday Sublimation
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jazzy_daveThis morning been listening to some CD's I have had for a long while such as the Crumb compiled “Hot Women” and “Ethiopiques 5 , Tigrigna Music” (Buda Musique). The former from old 78's of the twenties and thirties whilst the latter music is from Ethiopia in the seventies.
Read the first chapter of the Peter Guralnik book “Sweet Soul Music” and some of Jack Kerouac's “The Subterraneans” , another on my list of books in the challenge for this year. An autobiographical tour de force of a love affair written in a stream of consciousness stye.
I must admit this the anti Dawkins rhetoric is untenable, and that this gentle Darwinian scientist is more right the evils of religion than anyone else. He remains an agnostic, rather than a total atheist, and that intelligent design is totally a non scientific view of the world and the universe. My socialist leanings veer towards the side of atheism. I still haven't read his book “The God Delusion” which is on my list of books in the fifty book challenge.
It has been another fine day here, with me out sitting in the garden early afternoon catching up with the news in the newspapers, and seeing that the Tory government is trying to fuck up education again with their dogma. Privatized companies running schools had lower results than state run schools, proving that Gove and his cronies are going down the wrong highway.
Listened to more music this evening , “Zanzibara 2” (Buda Musique) , sixties and seventies taarab music from the Swahili coastline of Kenya , and particularly Mombasa, followed by David Shea's “Shock Corridor” (a tribute to the Sam Fuller movie of the same name) using samplers, turntables, electric and acoustic instruments to convey a cinematic flux which plays inside and outside of its film source.
This was followed by John Zorn's “Filmworlks Vol. One” (Tzadik), a smorgasbord feast of different styles clashing together.
Well there hasn't been much on the television. Saturday TV is usually pretty dire without a Dr.Who or a Merlin.
Read the first chapter of the Peter Guralnik book “Sweet Soul Music” and some of Jack Kerouac's “The Subterraneans” , another on my list of books in the challenge for this year. An autobiographical tour de force of a love affair written in a stream of consciousness stye.
I must admit this the anti Dawkins rhetoric is untenable, and that this gentle Darwinian scientist is more right the evils of religion than anyone else. He remains an agnostic, rather than a total atheist, and that intelligent design is totally a non scientific view of the world and the universe. My socialist leanings veer towards the side of atheism. I still haven't read his book “The God Delusion” which is on my list of books in the fifty book challenge.
It has been another fine day here, with me out sitting in the garden early afternoon catching up with the news in the newspapers, and seeing that the Tory government is trying to fuck up education again with their dogma. Privatized companies running schools had lower results than state run schools, proving that Gove and his cronies are going down the wrong highway.
Listened to more music this evening , “Zanzibara 2” (Buda Musique) , sixties and seventies taarab music from the Swahili coastline of Kenya , and particularly Mombasa, followed by David Shea's “Shock Corridor” (a tribute to the Sam Fuller movie of the same name) using samplers, turntables, electric and acoustic instruments to convey a cinematic flux which plays inside and outside of its film source.
This was followed by John Zorn's “Filmworlks Vol. One” (Tzadik), a smorgasbord feast of different styles clashing together.
Well there hasn't been much on the television. Saturday TV is usually pretty dire without a Dr.Who or a Merlin.
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