Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Another cold wintry day. There was some sunshine but it has disappeared behind the threatening malignancy of the clouds.

There is no reason for me to venture out and I am awaiting a package to arrive.

Last night I finished the first season of the eighties drama The Beiderbecke Affair starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn on Britbox. I loved the series when it first came out in 1985 as it features James Bolam as a woodwork teacher who is into jazz music.

Geordie Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) teaches woodwork, enjoys football and is passionate about jazz. Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) is interested in neither football nor jazz but teaches English and wants to help save the planet, standing in a local election as "your Conservation candidate". After Jill left her husband, her colleague Trevor began giving her lifts to school and from there a relationship blossomed. They have an easy-going relationship where half the words seem to be left unspoken but the viewer is never in any doubt as to the subtext.

The Beiderbecke Affair — set in Leeds in 1985 — is a character-led drama with a plot that initially appears rather unclear, moving as it does from one seemingly unrelated event to another. These events—and the characters involved with them—are eventually shown to be interconnected.

It all unravels to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke. The theme song of the series uses the actual Bix Beiderbecke instrumental "Crying All Day" by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra released in 1927 on Okeh Records and re-released in 1941 as part of the "Hot Jazz Classic" series on Columbia Records.

Theme tune



Sometimes I know how he feels -



It is a great series and I recommend the whole trilogy.

Back in the Buffyverse -

TPN's Buffy Guide - "Shadow" Season 5 Ep. 8



I love these analyses by TPN.

Talking of Scottish geezers I noticed that the actor, Iain De Caestecker, better known as Fitz in Marvels Agents of SHIELD, had a fairly major role in the recent political drama Roadkill on BBC 1. I totally recommend Roadkill if you love machiavellian political intrigue and shenanigans.




AoS s7 Fitz Is Back




Fitz & Simmons Have a Baby and the Team Reunites




That moment was so sweet - I welled up in that episode.
I really miss this series now.

Roadkill: Episode 1 Scene



Oh yes, chocolate_frapp it stars Hugh Laurie.

Enjoy.

His Dark Materials: Season 2 | Official Trailer | HBO




On BBC TV ad iPlayer tomorrow!

Well, what a great ending to the last season of Agents of SHIELD. This was one of my favourite seasons and I loved the bittersweet ending. The idea of using the quantum realm was fascinating and complex. I will definitely miss this TV series.

I loved the new empathic disposition of Agent May. Well done all.

Yeah, I have been routing for Agent Sousa since he joined the team and that eventual .. well .. SPOILER ALERT .. if you have not seen the latest episode.

Sousa Is Always There for Daisy



I guess it had to happen. YAY!!

An overcast morning. I also have a feeling town will be busy with the pubs reopening as well as the hairdressers. Thus I will probably leave the second Faversham post checking job till next week. The reason is that it is Preston Street which has both Spoons and two micro pubs and the Shepherd Neame pub at the top near the station plus two other pubs. Yep, five pubs in one road.

So, I have been catching up with Roswell New Mexico , and primarily so since my brother mentioned it and he is hooked on it. On the whole I still prefer the original but I like the twist that Liz is Mexican and that the background is the toxic politics of dRump and the xenophobic barrier of that wall between Mexico and the USA. I am warming to this new series.

I have a couple of items to post so I shall do that at the local shop.

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.

Yes!! I finally watched the first three episodes of Agents of SHIELD Season 7. I found anew site were I can watch the current series for free. That site is OnionPlay. It is more stable than shush.se. Thank goodness.

I am loving this last season so far. Sad to know it will be the last.

I look forward to episode 4.

It has been another gloriously sunny day. No clouds in the sky and excellent sunbathing weather. I did a few hours of that, drinking beer and listening to the radio.
I popped into town to get some provisions and did a mystery shop as well. I have four of these to do relating to COVID 19 safety rules for one of my European research companies worth twenty euros.



The garden looks really lovely and bucolic this time of the year.



Other residents enjoying the sun.

Lunch was a cheese and ham sarnie and my dinner a few minutes ago was two boneless salmon steaks chopped with caramelized slices of onion on a bed of Mexican rice.



Last night on Amazon Prime I watched a documentary on the making of Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd/. It was fascinating. An album that is still a classic.

Watching Season 3 of Fringe. Probably the best season so far. The idea of a parallel Earth and universes colliding are mindbogglingly developed here. I gave forgotten how good that series was!!

Well, the forecast for the week ahead is simply sunning sun all the way.