Better Than Friday - 338
Good evening friends, how're ya?
Editing the review for Douglas J. Penick's "Winter Light" - Will post this weekend.
Hope all is well with you, thank you so much for your continued support.
Book to read: Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samuai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Paid Link)
Remembered this one this morning. Heard about it all my life, but never read it.
It's about time.Turn this one up on headphones.
There are few bands I would truly love to see before I die.
Underworld is one of them. Karl Hyde (dancing guy) is 68. Rick Smith is 66.
This completely reinforces Penick's point in Winter Light, my next review.
Yeah - we get old, and die.
But holy shit, the things you can still do in old age...John Waters at Amoeba records recommending Rowland S. Howard
Well that is fucking cool. Rowland S. Howard has been a favorite of mine for years.Stravinsky's definition of music
Love that after giving his definition, he proceeds to quote Schopenhauer.
Stravinsky makes a cameo in Winter Light.
The Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny
Came across this great 80s track this week. Modern music needs more sax.
Coincidentally, Rowland S. Howard a track of a similar name - "(I Know) A Girl Called Johnny".
Comments (4)
Thanks for the link to this old Waterboys video, Cliff. Astonishing, what a huge treasure the web can be. We used to hear this song quite a lot back in the days. I remember that well, because together with Mike Scott came the Scottish British wave known as “New Romantics” with geniuses like Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) and Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout). For me, the two best albums of this wave still are “High Land, Hard Rain” (Aztec) and “Steve McQueen” (Prefab). And not to forget The Blue Nile, Deacon Blue, Felt, the early Lloyd Cole…Man, I'm beginning to revel.
My pleasure! Yeah in terms of discovering music, it's astounding. Haven't heard either of the fellows you mentioned, I'll definitely check them out, thanks for the recommendations!
Clifford, I already love and respect you. But the fact that you linked this classic interview of Stravinsky by Robert Craft takes my admiration of you to the next level! I always thought Robert Craft in this interview looks like a young Shostakovich. I love both Russian literature and Russian music. I know you didn’t like Crime and Punishment, but maybe you should revisit it sometime in a different translation. Hope you’re doing great. ✌️
Thanks very much Jeff! You're right the resemblance is striking. Yeah it didn't hit me as hard as I'd hoped. Maybe I'll revisit Crime and Punishment one day. I'll probably do The Brothers K or Demons first though. Doing fine thanks, wishing you the same!