Minds Music Monday – Someone Somewhere In Summertime
This video. That is all.
Month: June 2020
The Final Flick-through
The final look through my hoard of Virginia Turbett prints. UPDATE: I’m now speaking from the future! It’s September, 2023 and I am painstakingly updating this blog. Deleting BIG video files but uploading them to YouTube before deletion. So, now that means this post has one big original video, which I have just uploaded to…
Kerrsday Photo Change – Kensington Gardens/Peter Pan Statue Set
A change of display in the snap frames for Kerrsday.
Local Lockdown Discoveries
Today was a wander up to a different part of Maryhill, walking up from the other side of Ruchill Park through Ruchill itself. I love getting to know my local patch.
Pete Still Photography – Simple Minds 1982 London Gig Photo Set
A few other fans in the groups I am on mentioned this set of photos being sold on eBay. A photographer named Pete Still is selling a set of 30 photos that he took during a gig at the Lyceum Theatre in London on December 8th, 1982. I’m not sure what kind of kit he…
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Jim’s June Playlist – The Reaction
The response to June’s “Discs and Doughnuts” follows. I suppose Computer Love is more “accessible” than earlier Kraftwerk. More lyrics, more harmonies. I guess “warmer”. It’s more dancey too, I suppose. It has a rhythm though…that kind of minimalist repetitive cycle which gets quite hypnotic…not as, I dunno “colourful” as it was on Autobahn. I…
Fan Folllies
That Folllies performance of Factory back in 1980? It was such a great inspiration for a spate of art. I think I just got mesmerised by the way Jim performed in that clip. I’m always in awe of the young Jim. Just…that self-belief he possessed is…intoxicating. Silly, because I find myself both wanting to be…
Jim’s June Playlist
Do I go through the pretence of responding? Lol. Dream of the old “discs and doughnuts” idea? Well, the doughnuts are back on, that’s for sure. Oh, to sit and listen to these with him and then discuss them over a pistachio and hibiscus signature… Let’s give a thought-out response in due course. And I…
Minds Music Monday – Celebrate
Today feels like it is going to be a toughy – so…I shall try and count my blessings and not get tired. https://youtu.be/fjzhhTt-rBU I will never stop wishing to be that rag doll.