Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Another program from the recent past I am binge-watching is ITV's Primeval on Britbox. There were two seasons of it and it is all about temporal anomalies leading to Earth's prehistoric past. Yep, dinosaurs and such like bleeding through these time portals into modern Britain. Fun stuff.

Primeval is a British science-fiction drama television program produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... documentary series, Primeval follows a team of scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across the United Kingdom through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present, as well as trying to stop the end of the world.
(Wiki)

Well, the weather was at it its best late afternoon again. Most of the day was cool, windy, and overcast. I felt a bit overcast this morning. A deep funk you could say. Not improved by two others unfollowing me. Oh, fuck why I ask?

Perhaps reposting that rather wayward conspiracy theory article from pigshitpoet this morning was not the best idea. But why should we censure and sneer alternative views I ask - Wacky or not? As li=og as views are not offensive and demeaning to other people, then fine.

Oh well, perhaps I have too many friends on my LJ list as I must admit time always constrains me from commenting on all their posts.

I have noticed two series have restarted again and I have watched both of them in their second series I think - specifically Stargirl and DC's Titans.

I have now reached the Colin Baker seasons of Doctor Who, and yes, the quality is getting lower as we proceed to the final ones of the old series with Sylvester McCoy.

Mary from number 27 has given me ten paperbacks to sort through and sell or keep as she no longer needs them. Most of them are crime novels which are not my fave genre. One I will keep as it is on the lyrics of Bob Marley and what each song means.

And of course the TPN latest Buffy review -

TPN's Buffy Guide - " Into The Woods" Season 5 Ep. 10



So when will TPN do the next one? Well, I hope we do not have to wait too long.

A couple of baddies or mischievous people depending on which way you see them. Loki started last week and I saw the first episode over the weekend and enjoyed it .. I look forward to the next in the six-episode season. Then last night, also on OnionPlay, I watched the Disney film Cruella..

It started slowly but I soon got into it and found it very enjoyable and I was definitely rooting for Cruella towards the end. Baddies maybe, but mischievous and wayward. Indeed!!

Another clip from the "Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister" series.

I wonder are all bankers just as thick?


You're a Banker | Yes, Minister



LOL!!!!!!!!!

Finished -

WandaVision
The Expanse Season 5
Resident Alien

Still watching -
Superman And Lois
Supergirl
The Flash
Black Lightning
Charmed
The Falcon And the Winter Soldier

Oh and thespian15 's  current Movie quiz quote was dead easy -  back on that farm in Smallville.

Another new MCU TV series just started and I watched it just now. The first episode is quite good and looks interesting dealing with the effects of the Snap and the five years that half the world population disappeared due to Thanos and the snapback of some of those that were lost returning.
So, six months after being handed the mantle of Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Sam Wilson teams up with Bucky Barnes in a worldwide adventure that tests their abilities and their patience.

Trailer -



Another good series to watch. I watch on OnionPlay anyway so I don't have to pay for it from Disney +.

I was listening to the radio this morning and learned more about International Women's Day due tomorrow. BBC Radio 3 is devoted to women composers and artists on Monday for the whole day.

I slept in for a while this morning after having a mid-period of nighttime watching. I caught up with Alien Resident and Episode 9 of WandaVision. This is the last episode of the mini-series and I enjoyed it thoroughly. For those who have not seen this series, it is set three weeks after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and with her powers, she sets up a whole family with Vision alive again in this town that has been captured in a kind of bubble universe she has created. But that is all I will say about it. No spoilers. However, just two things to note at the end of the series - Skrulls (that race was first seen in the Captian Marvel film) and Darkhold (that book of dark magic first seen in Agents of SHIELD).

Also, The Flash is back. The first episode of the new season was watched during the week. Quite a few of these series had to be curtailed due to COVID of course. So next to wait for is the next season of Supergirl.

Disney has now taken all Phase 4 of the MCU but I will not be using Disney as long as I can watch on OnionPlay. I look forward to the Loki TV series. I am not certain if it is the same actor that played him in the Marvel films.

Anyway, I have reading to catch up now.

More snow fell today and again we have a thicker covering of the damn stuff. Now the sun is out shing through my window.

Anyway, so here I am at home listening through the back catalogue of my collection.
Today I have played - so far -

Alban Berg / Arnold Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony / Concerto (Teldec)
Mark Anthony Turnage - On All Fours (NMC)
Glenn Gould - The Art of Glenn Gould (Sony)
Galina Ustvolskaya / Dmitri Shostakovich - Octet / Piano Quintet (Chandos)
Alfred Schnittke - Concerto Grosso (Deutsche Grammophon)

I had a period of buying mostly modern classical albums back in the nineties as all these here come to form that period before 1995.

I watched another sci-fi series - well the first three episodes - of Resident Al ien on Onion Play. Dark, humourous and quirky.

This is the trailer for it -

Well, so far the weekend has been a damp squib. Rained in the morning and a musty misty dank afternoon.
Most of the day has been spent either listening to BBC Radio 3, playing some CDs and reading books and articles and any combination of them. I did watch a strange Scandinavian film called "Venus" via Prime as well.

Beyond that, I have been going methodically through old classic Doctor Who series via Britbix. I have done all the available ones right up to the Peter Davidson incarnation. The one which they had to use some animation due to a TV employee strike was Shada written by the one and only Douglas Adams of Hitchhikers fame. It meant that only some of the recorded broadcast was available and due to the strike the rest of the filming got scrapped. However, the script was intact so they used some animation to fill in the gaps.

This video explains it all -



Douglas Adams' legendary half-finished Doctor Who adventure, Shada was never completed but what actually happened? Ahead of the abandoned classic being brought to life as a brand-new animation, we explain why Shada was never originally completed.

So I watched this version on Britbox and it turned out to be very good with all that Adams wit brought to Hitchhikers Guide.

Lunch was chilli beef with pilau rice. Washed down with a Guinness porter.