Experiencing my children and grandchildren growing up. Walks by the sea or in The Lakes, (the place of my birth). A pint or 2 of Black Sheep or Thwaites Bitter (unfortunately only available 'up North') So A glass, or 2, of fine red wine.
Music:
tHE eLECTRIC sOFT pARADE'S new one 'NO Need to be DownHearted' is Brilliant!! Dublex Inc..Eight Ears. (forgot how good this is!!).....THE SONS of BEACHES, Bloc Party, any quality Ambient music,
TUNNG, Radiohead, SARAH McLACHLAN, Baaba Maal,Paul Simon, BOB DYLAN,lots of different World and Ethnic Music,WOMAD Music Festival, most stuff my son,Oscar (OZKA) records,dZihan & Kamien, Bonobo,Husky Rescue, The Crystal Method, Van(The Man)Morrison( Astral Weeks is always a great album to go back to),JOE COCKER, Anthony and the Johnstones, Boards of Canada. Tosca, Jan Garbarek, Bugge Wesseltoft, UNABOMBERS, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Joanna Newsom, JOAN ARMATRADING, Talking Heads, Pat Metheny, Last summer I rediscovered Donovan. All Those weird Icelandic bands.I must listen to the first Groove Armada again! Their new one's Good Too! Mustn't forget the genius, Mozart, Rachmaninov's Vespers. Oh! and of course Ivor Cutler...and another (How could I forget!!) FRANK ZAPPA...
Movies:
Just watched 'Apocalypse Now' for the first time since it's release it's a great film!...Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.....Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix.... all featuring the fantastic Dominique Pinon........ Cool Hand Luke....Fargo....The Films of Werner Herzog. Especially the ones with Klaus Kinski.
Television:
Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The last Celebrity Big Brother (though I don't like to admit it!), Late Night Poker (I found out it wasn't a porn channel and got hooked!!), American Football, Match of the Day, most cookery programmes especially Masterchef, Documentaries
Books:
Whilst in the Lakes I've been reading Hunter Davies: Wainwright the Biography...
A Course In Miracles,
Anything by Marianne Williamson,
Deepak Chopra and
Wayne W Dyer.Oh!and John Carey and Caroline Myss....
The Six O'Clock Bus,...The Pictorial Guides to the Lake District, and all the work of A Wainwright........Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan...................................................
...........................Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.............
Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love
and being a Lover.......
The way of our Prophets is the way of Truth....
If you want to live, die in Love;
Die in Love if you want to remain alive......
Rumi was born in Wakhsh (Tajikstan) in 1207
Heroes:
My Children: (Of whom I'm so proud) Sarah, Duffy and Oscar.
Anyone who has faced their deepest fears and triumphed.
All who stand for Truth, Justice and peace for all.............A.Wainwright Author of 'The Pictorial Guides to the Lake District' and many other guide books. (A rather odd and sad character!)
And sometimes Myself!
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