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Some times it is easy to forget that Beatles' manager Brian Epstein with his company NEMS promoted and put on other bands and their concerts . . . . . . . .
Charlize Theron, Shola Ama, Billy Bragg and football! (well almost, I say almost, exclusively Chelsea. The team not the execrable posh boys n gals reality TV show, I use the term loosely. . . . ) the blog by my ex-colleague and dear pal is always worth a visit. If you like your football blogs this is definitely for you . . . . . . . intelligent, knowledgable and funny (yes, I have read it!) and I know nothing about football beyond games in the park, being called in for tea by your mum and jumpers for goalposts . . . . . . . . .
Check it out here . . . . .
Bob Dylan returns with his now legendary Theme Time Radio Hour with a one off episode devoted to Whiskey so a glorified advert for his own presumably but it won't be any the worse for that. The cruelest irony for bloggers is that the man who first made the entire 101 episode series (count 'em this will be the 102nd not as some folk say the 101st as there was a missing episode The Kiss which stood as the 101st and this will thus make it 102), available to us in the UK and elsewhere was a Canadian recovering alcoholic who is much missed from the blogospheres (it's a word! It's a place . . . no really!) Wherever he is we wish him well and, notoriously prickly and intolerant of idiots, he was also a fine musician himself so I hope he is playing and singing in his Canadian home and enjoying himself immensely.
Still cruel irony notwithstanding its bound sure to be brilliant . . . . . . . . . . . SiriusXM’s Deep Tracks (Ch. 27) as a limited-run pop-up channel on this Monday, September 21 at 12pm ET
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger. Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”
Timothy Leary
OH MY ACTUAL GOODNESS!!!! Look what we dug up todayIt’s the biggest spud I’ve ever seen!!! And looks like a deep sea fish!!!
weighs 1602gms/3.8lbs. Our St George have done brilliant this year, such a beautiful colour, and so huge! How’s your spuds come up???
David Hockney, Paper pools, 1980.
“In the late 1970s, David Hockney began experimenting with the unconventional paper pulp medium in an attempt to capture the subtle hues of shimmering light on water.
Paper Pools is a book chronicling a very specific moment in Hockney’s creative process, a short period in 1978 when on route to California from England, he made a de-tour to Tyler Graphics studios in upstate New York, to visit friend and previous collaborator Kenneth Tyler. Here he was introduced to a new medium, the paper pulp process. This involved dyeing wet pulped rags, which were applied in various ways to recently-created and still wet paper, until they were finally fully pressed and dried; there were opportunities for the artist to manipulate the application of colour at all stages. The result was a cross between paper-making, print-making and painting.”
And we start the day with a brace of Anoushka Shankar concert including the wonderful highlight of the BBC Promenade Concerts this year albeit under the extreme conditions of lockdown. Thanks to the Hermetic Garage. . . . . . . and as a bonus a festival from Germany in 2016 which is worth a listen also and both are staggering quality.
Note: I had been trying to find her work on the wonderful TV series 'A Suitable Boy' the BBC's dramatisation of the Vikram Seth novel with music amongst others by the wonderful actor/composer Namit Daas who starred as the man who wins the heroine's heart at the end. Wonderful stuff and I will post if I can find it
https://thehermeticgarage.blogspot.com
Another gem from Big O again today and this is a real treat for Tom Waits fans. Whilst it has had some gentle work done on the quality and speed by the time we are at the later trcackls it is a joy frankly and I have heard worse official live concerts . Really worth the download for an nice early set from the Maestro!
Go on Tango til you Sore!
(just ignore the tirade of filth that is the comments section - when are you going to do something about that guys over in Singapore?)
