Lunch with Coltrane
Just watched again the DVD of David Cronenberg's film adaptation of the William Borough’s novel “Naked Lunch”, which contains a fantastic soundtrack by Howard Shore and the saxophone of Ornette Coleman. Totally weird , a dark distillation of the novel's theme which gets closer to the essence than any straight adaptation.
Earlier , I downloaded more avant garde music from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon via Wolf Fifth , this time it was Kayn, Nono - Cybernetics III, Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente - 1970 - ( DGG 2543 006).
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Yesterday, I picked up some more charity shop books from a Sue Ryder outlet. Got four for a fiver, including another Margaret Attwood book , “The Robber Bride” (Virago) plus Daphne Du Maurier's “Jamaica Inn” (Virago).. Cousin has not heard of that charity chain.
In an earlier post I mentioned two shops in Rainham, Kent as being charity shops but both of them, except for the Sense one, are just normal second hand dealers. The Bookmark is certainly not a charity shop. This shop has over 40,000 reasonably priced books at your fingertips. Wide range of both fiction and non-fiction. Very Good History, Travel, Biography, Children’s and study sections, plus great jazz while you browse.
Talking of jazz, whilst cousin was fast asleep this afternoon I managed to play the complete “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane. One of the finest jazz albums ever!
Earlier , I downloaded more avant garde music from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon via Wolf Fifth , this time it was Kayn, Nono - Cybernetics III, Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente - 1970 - ( DGG 2543 006).
http://wolffifth.blogspot.com/search/label/Deutsche%20Grammophon
Yesterday, I picked up some more charity shop books from a Sue Ryder outlet. Got four for a fiver, including another Margaret Attwood book , “The Robber Bride” (Virago) plus Daphne Du Maurier's “Jamaica Inn” (Virago).. Cousin has not heard of that charity chain.
In an earlier post I mentioned two shops in Rainham, Kent as being charity shops but both of them, except for the Sense one, are just normal second hand dealers. The Bookmark is certainly not a charity shop. This shop has over 40,000 reasonably priced books at your fingertips. Wide range of both fiction and non-fiction. Very Good History, Travel, Biography, Children’s and study sections, plus great jazz while you browse.
Talking of jazz, whilst cousin was fast asleep this afternoon I managed to play the complete “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane. One of the finest jazz albums ever!