Share Your World Week 48

No I am not ignoring the Thanksgiving week post because I am a Brit, I am leaving until the end of the year to accompany my end of the year summary and reflections post and as such will (hopefully) be a little more audio/visual.   Do you prefer eating foods with nuts or no nuts? …

Something vaguely USA related

I have only celebrated Thanksgiving once  to date. My account can be read here So I  bid

Myth Makers

"Woe to Troy! Woe to Troy!" "Shut up Cassandra it is too late to say whoa to the horse, I've just been given orders to have it bought into the city." Ok so I may not have stuck rigidly to the original text in regards to Virgil's Aeneid and the ranksack of Troy by the …

Dog Days

I have Wynton Marsalis' self titled album playing on the stereo and it is less the post-bop/hard-bop feeling that I have come to expect from Wynton, this having more than a little vibe of Miles' Second Great Quintet circa Miles Smiles and ESP it seems in his early career Wynton spent far less time navel …

My Sixteen Year Old Self

'alf inched from a poster on LJ. If you could give five points of advice to your sixteen year old self, what would they be?   Hmm as a sixteen year old I could of done with a lot, spent most of my time with book in my hand, chatting up glue and sniffing girls …

Share Your World week 46

. Are you a traveler or a homebody?  I would  have to say that I am probably a bit of homeboy traveller in that while I do like going off on my travels I do like to return to old familiar surroundings. I  tend to enjoy going places a few times in order to explore …

Exiles

In response to The Daily Post's writing prompt: "Pleased to Meet You." Pleased to Meet You Write a post in which the protagonists of two different books or movies meet for the first time. How do they react to each other? Do they get along? First there was pain. Sharp searing pain just behind the eyes as …

T’aint Nobodies Business if I Do

No I haven't regenerated into Jimmy Witherspoon or Billie Holiday, nothing as exciting as that it just so happened to be the name of the piece of music playing on the radio as I opened the post. Thanks to the London Jazz Festival the boys and girls at the BBC have started a pop -up …

Share Your World Week 45

Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less. (NOTE:  does not  have to be a sentence.) Well that didn't go as planned... Where do you like to vacation? Vacation- that's American for Holiday isn't it? I wouldn't say I particular favourite place or type of place, also it depends on the nature …

Discover Challenge: Blue Train- John Coltrane

  I guess the main song, which for the purpose of this post I treating as a structure for music which while technically accurate isn't how most people perceive the term, that has always struck with me is Blue Train by John Coltrane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1GrP6thz-k The song in question is the opening and titular track of Coltrane's only …