coming back to covers (again lol) what i think i really love in jazz is musicians saying, what can i do with ‘autumn leaves’? what’s in it that only i can see, can i show it clear enough that anyone sees it too?

i should see if my local record shop has any cannonball adderley

if i am honest i am no longer interested in what famous maniacs believe, half the time it’s probably for attention anyhow famous maniacs are now none of my business, they can all get in a bin or take up crochet, idc idc

today i was riding around in a car with a driver regaling me with every little thing that crossed his mind the best one was that Downtown Dept Store (rip to a real one) had a system of pneumatic tubes for shunting money, invoices and whatnot i missed witnessing this by a scant 15 years :(

May Day -William Morris

thinking today about how the roles we inhabit become the lens(es) through which we see the world

UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

i have many v serious things on the brain but do not want to type them all out so instead i will tell you that i made 2 (two) xmas carol reference in as many days, viz., yesterday jangling my lanyard keys and saying these are the chains i forged in life

my peonies, cut down to near nothing last summer, are back yes BACK and in rude health (too soon for the flowers but the plant is thriving) you cannot keep a bad bitch down, always bet on peony etc etc etc amen cannot tell you how happy i was to see this

Whenever anyone asks me what my favorite year for music is I always say: this one! The faucet is still open, baby!

tempted to make a list of covers that are v good, covers where the band is having fun, and covers where no one is having any fun

i like this about (the best) covers: someone is looking very closely at a song and saying: actually, this perfectly serviceable metal song is at heart deep funk or, this snarling englishman does not realise he is singing a western ballad

white wedding (billy idol) is a Western song, isn’t it? marty robbins could’ve sung it

found a cover of these boots are made for walking which is pretty pedestrian (lol) but in the last minute (from ‘are you ready boots?’ the guitars dissolve into noise and feedback 😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩

finally updated my phone, everyone’s posts are in colour now amaaaaaaazing

black bean chilli and a grilled cheese

you would have better luck trying to stop a freight train than trying to prevent an italian man of a Certain Age from doing hard physical labour in a garden

cleared the back 40 today my gosh i sure do love ripping things out of the earth

the original is more yearning, this is plain bleak doom top drawer bass tho youtu.be/VFIcDRKCxoU?...

feels like you can hear the bass player ****concentrating**** and i love it yes yes it’s yet another cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Tm...

there is certain kind of (oneself) being wrong which is an underrated pleasure

answering the question: what if??? a marvellous french tomboy took the drums from sylvester’s do you wanna funk and then sang a cover of fire (the crazy world of arthur brown) over the beat youtu.be/QEDDK0XLGfw?...

dee-lite but make it psychedelic youtu.be/Vl1n4QfO1MI?...

i don’t want mother‘s day i don’t want to be grateful i don’t want gifts i want to lie under the bed hissing at anything that comes near, emerging after dark like the ugliest of moths

guirlanda

It's Stephen Lawrence Day. Everyone should familiarise themselves with the way he, Duwayne Brooks and his family were failed by the state. Crooked police, lawyers, press and politician. It's more corrupt than you remember, I promise you that stephenlawrenceday.org

rest well jh prynne, the / mere & lovely centre, of the earth

one of my favourite irrational convictions is that orange is a neutral yes, because i say so

dumb guy’s idea of a smart guy, but everywhere, all at once

sat in a room while a colleague told students to get ai to summarize and compare a list of items for them so that all the leg work is done and they can spend more time making a choice from the summary ‘you’re the first generation who won’t need to do boring leg work’ utterly bankrupt thinking

seen today: tulips! fat as cabbages!

when i walked to work, i saw that people had written a lot of inspirational messages and then in between them someone else had written, ‘lil dick gang’ oh world, i will never stop loving you

this magnolia is a deeper red-purple than any of the others i know and it is my favourite one in all the town she is the last of them to bloom and my heart leapt for joy this morning to see that she has begun

GLORIOSA

i don’t want to be that guy but a whole field of bleak possibilities opened before my eyes

so simple but it will taste fantastic, you can see steam in the photo, marvellous

We have other ways to practice being together on this earth. Interdependence is not weakness. Collaboration is generous and hospitable.

Today's delight is this by @alexanderchee.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

this morning birds sang me awake and into this day it happened, we made it, it’s spring

flowers out in the front garden now: hyacinths (pink and purple) tulips (many colours) (daffodils) visibly growing: alliums, irises (yellow) lavender (she lived!) silent, no report as yet: gladioli

incredible to me how many people think numbers and describing things with them is the most ‘rigorous’ and ‘accurate‘ way of doing anything at all

Shabbat shalom! May light and warmth find you. And may it happen this weekend.

finally registered for the rowing season good job well done nice work to me

a really nice write up of a book coming out soon about peter hujar and paul thek www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

great day to stop romanticising bullshit, including the bullshit that’s killing you

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

honestly i’m weak on crime too

WHAT A COUP it worked 100% will make beef wellington again

who can jd vance be made to visit next

Vance is some kind of harbinger of doom, isn’t he? Visits the pope, who then dies the next day. Tries to influence Hungary’s election, and Orbán loses. He needs to spend more time with Trump.