Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Well, despite what the forecast said, Monday turned out to be another sunny day after the first hour of torrential rain. So perhaps the rest of the week will not be as bad. It is quite a lot cooler and feeling quite autumnal now.

At around ten Monday evening I di feel tired and went to bed. I have just woken up from that sleep hence the reason for writing now.

I have already watched the first two episodes of Foundation and I must say I am impressed.

Dinner was cheesy pasta, that is pasta twirls with a rich tomato, onion, and garlic sauce and then topped with flaked mature Cheddar cheese. Simple and yummy.

I forgot to do my regular Monday at The Movies post. Run out of ideas but it will be back next Monday.

Watched my Monday night quiz shows and did fairly well. Only Connect is the real toughie though as straight learned knowledge from University Challange and Mastermind are ones I excel at, rather than the lateral qualities that are required for Only Connect.

Hre is a recent example of Only Connect -



Enjoy or not.

I was going to pose this teaser tomorrow but thought I let you mull it overnight instead.
So, the question is -

Why might you find it a little tedious to watch Elvis's second movie in Hawaii, Murakami's sixth novel and the Damned's second single?

Again no googling.
Hopefully, you will find this easier (giggles).
Answer on Monday

Back with the mindboggling brain teaser - just the one as it will require some lateral thinking.

Where, apart from a zoo, might you expect to find a gorilla with a newspaper, a crab having a tea party, a camel and a cobra changing gear, and a dragon eating a meal?

No googling.
Good luck.

Answer at the weekend.

Forgot to do a Monday one so here is another brain twisting teaser.

Which point of the compass might be indicated by the film-maker Paul Martin (inspired by Graham Greene), a team in Essex with a single-letter chant, and a province that was the birthplace of the Castros?

No googling. Answers tomorrow evening or Saturday.

Here are another three songs with a connection -







So,what is the connection?

These three pieces of music are connected -

Georges Delerue -  Anne of the Thousand Days Overture



The Cure - ????? Sometimes



Pink Floyd track



So what is the connection?

(I wonder if my bro  coming42 will get it?)

Yes, another couple to get your lateral thinking brains going.

How would you size up compromising photos in 1946, a ransom demand in 1998, and sleight of hand on the stock market in 2015?

Take a mythical ship, load it with goods, and send it first to a city in North Dakota, and then to a city in Florida, slowly. The connection?

No googling. Answer on Sunday.

The question posed was this -

In whose world might a pathetic cuckoo attend a funeral march in a tempest, and join a passionate hunt by moonlight in spring?

I was looking for a composer - Beethoven and the question contain the nicknames of eight of his sonatas, all but one of them for piano.

Piano sonata no.8 is the Pathetique; no.25 is the Cuckoo; no.12 is the Funeral March and no.17 the Tempest. No.23 is the Appassionata, no.18 the Hunt and no.14 the Moonlight. And the odd one out is the final one, Spring, which is the name of his violin sonata No.5 in F major.

And here is one of those exquisite sonatas.

Beethoven - Sonata No. 23, Op. 57, "Appassionata"





Piano: William Kempff
Date of Performance: January 23, 1996

So here is another of my fiendish brain teaser - no googling, please.

In whose world might a pathetic cuckoo attend a funeral march in a tempest, and join a passionate hunt by moonlight in spring?

Answer tomorrow.

1/ The link is that all these people are named "Vans" in the middle -

Vincent van Gogh - only sold one painting in his lifetime.
Ludwig van Beethoven - only wrote one opera which was Fidelio.
Martin Van Buren - the eighth US president from 1837 to 1841.
Edwin van der Sar - a Dutch footballer who is a goalie and scored only one goal in his lifetime. He played for Ajax, moved to Italian club Juventus, and then to the Uk, first for Fulham and then to Manchester United. He scored a penalty for Ajax to complete an 8–1 victory over De Graafschap in the 1997–98 season.

2/ This was about breeds of cats: the 'King of Beasts' is of course the lion, the greatest cat of them all, and he has much smaller cousins all distinguished by the epithet 'rex' or Latin for King. The California rex, Devon rex, Cornish rex, German rex and Selkirk rex are all popular breeds of the domestic cat.