February 2012
8 posts
January 2012
5 posts
Grimm Reading (click on title) →
Perhaps ‘Tragic Life Stories’ should be filed under ‘Grimm’.
At least ‘The Frog Princess’ (on the left of the shelf) seemed to be something a little lighter to begin with, but it starts out describing a life in Grimsby - believe it or not.
A nice photo (sadly not mine)!
December 2011
9 posts
November 2011
6 posts
to do without doing.
Tomorrow I will practise Wu wei - but it is such hard work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzFhpR9Y0w&feature=... →
Jackie Leven - a soulful storyteller, I’m sure would have been delighted, and maybe amused to know that he made it into the pages of the Daily Telegraph.
His thumb on the over the neck and with non standard tunings, his guitar playing looked ridiculously simple if not amateurish but it certainly didn’t sound that way.
Jackie was a folk music shaman whilst appearing unassuming and...
October 2011
14 posts
Shonen Knife at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto... →
Thanks Matzohball77!
Nice Shonen Knife stuff at LjerkDiamondHeart’s channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/LjerkDiamondHeart
senri no michi - Kazuma Obara article →
Kazuma’s work featured in Photography Monthly Nov 2011
Time for a pic-a-nic snap Boo-Boo? →
Never sure about the idea of brightly coloured cameras . They are maybe OK for photographing family/loved ones, but a little too conspicuous otherwise.
Now a tasteful brown one, different from ubiqitous black or cosmic sprinkle dust silver and quite subtle, especially in woods, and pared down to the bear essentials.
I wonder in which country it was designed??
Limited Express (has gone?) →
Nice photo of Yukari on website. An amazing and strong image which says it all!
Strange co-incidence?
Sitting in an almost empty pub which had sold all of its guest beer the previous evening, a cover version (one of many?) of Hallelujah! came on the ‘jukebox’. The following day somewhere near www.rockinchina.com I found this link, somewhat by accident?
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/bl-chinese.html
Humble, humourous, respectful, and nicely put too. Maybe a small illumination rather...