Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Monday I left Seaford to go back to Kent to see my cousin, and with a slight heavy heart,  left GC after a week of helping out, and soaking up her moods. I am a sponge that stays calm and chilled out no matter what is thrown at me.

Anyway, as I am only traversing between two verdant and pastoral settings , the difference in scenery is fairly homologous.

On my way back I managed to complete two mystery shops and the final two in Canterbury yesterday.



This was taken in Mercery Lane in Canterbury as i walked towards  my favourite pub.This route also takes you up to the Cathedral as well.

In Maidstone I popped into the Muggleton Inn to have a pint of Marstons Old Empire Ale (5.7% ABV).

When I got back to base yesterday afternoon Tim was holding his right arm. I asked what happened, and he said that two wasps had come into the kitchen and he tried to swat them with a kitchen towel, missing them and whacked his hand on the kitchen sink taps. He obviously has cracked his knuckles , and having only 41p on him, could not get to an A&E department to get it fixed, so I gave him money this morning to go and get it done!

So this morning whilst he is at Sittingbourne Hospital, I am listening to a CD I bought in Seaford for a quid at the bric a brac place where the Cinque Ports pub is – Franz Liszt “Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies” (Philips Duo).



I think I should get a load more classical CDs from that shop at a quid each ,as I can put them on Play Trade, and the post is a lot cheaper than sending a paperback. Higher profit margin as well.

Whilst in Canterbury Monday I visited my favourite pub there, the Bell and Crown, and had a pint of Hopdaemon Green Demon (5.0 % ABV) , after I done my two mystery shop visits. From Waterstones I picked up a Doris Lessing novel “The Grass Is Singing” for 99p as part of the Times Contemporary Literature offer.

Next week isthe offer is  a  J.G Ballard novel.

Cousin has just got back from Sittingbourne, and his hand and arm are strapped up, like a one-armed bandit. .He may have  to go back to them on Friday to check its progress and to see if it needs a plaster cast. I reckon he will be ribbed about if he goes up the pub tonight. Well I did tell him to knuckle down , but not literally!!



He also allowed to me to continue playing the classical CD on the music system. He must be feeling it! LOL!

I made lunch. Gammon steak egg and potato wedges. The wedges were cut from fresh white potatoes which were boiled, cooled down ,and cut into wedge shapes , then fried in olive oil with a hint of paprika.

Last night i watched on DVD the classic "Three Colours Blue" (1993)  starring actress Juliette Binoche. A beautiful, poignant and irrisistable film, superbly directed by Kryzstof Kieslowski.

According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.  Set in Paris, it depicts Julie, a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, Julie attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.
(Wikipedia)

The plot -

Julie, wife of the famous composer Patrice de Courcy, must cope with the death of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in the hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdose, but cannot swallow the pills. After being released from the hospital, Julie closes up the house she lived in with her family and takes an apartment in Paris without telling anyone, or keeping any clothing or objects from her old life, except for a chandelier of blue beads that presumably belonged to her daughter.

For the remainder of the film, Julie disassociates herself from all past memories and distances herself from former friendships, as can be derived from a conversation she has with her mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and believes Julie is her own sister Marie-France. She also destroys the score for her late husband's last commissioned, though unfinished, work: a piece celebrating European unity, following the end of the cold war. Snatches of the music haunt her throughout the film.

She reluctantly befriends an exotic dancer who is having an affair with one of the neighbours and helps her when she needs moral support. Despite her desire to live anonymously and alone, life in Paris forces Julie to confront elements of her past that she would rather not face, including Olivier, a friend of the couple, also a composer and former assistant of Patrice's at the conservatoryy, who is in love with her, and the fact that she is suspected to be the true author of her late husband's music. Olivier appears in a TV interview announcing that he shall try to complete Patrice's commission, and Julie also discovers that her late husband was having an affair.

While both trying to stop Olivier from completing the score and finding out who her husband's mistress was, she becomes more engaged despite her own efforts not to be. She tracks down Sandrine, Patrice's mistress, and finds out that she is carrying his child; Julie arranges for her to have her husband's house and recognition of his paternity for the child. This provokes her to begin a relationship with Olivier, and to resurrect her late husband's last composition, which has been changing according to her notes on Olivier's work. Olivier decides not to incorporate the changes suggested by Julie, stating that this piece is now his music and has ceased to be Patrice's. He says that she must either accept his composition with all its roughness or she must allow people to know the truth about her composition. She agrees on the grounds that the truth about her husband's music would not be revealed as her own work.

In the final sequence, the Unity of Europe piece is played (which features chorus and a solo soprano singing Saint Paul's 1 Corinthians 13 epistole (in Greek)  and images are seen of all the people Julie has affected by her actions. The final image is of Julie, crying - the first time she does so in the film.

(Wikipedia)