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The Difference Between Action and Contact, my new post at The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site – approaches the difference between action and contact in men’s lives. How constant doing can replace presence with self and others, and how real connection requires staying internally present even within action. You can read it at The Listening Room HQ site.
Why Sessions at The Listening Room HQ Matter. Reading can open a door, but insight needs a place to live. The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – sessions offer men a rare space to speak freely and discover clarity through deep, attentive listening. You can book a session at: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/p/sessions.html
Hi with doors by Cissné. Have a nice afternoon.
Hi and Happy Sunday with Brighton by Tom Joseph.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #98 – The Of Summer & Football edition is broadcasted Monday 15 and 22 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Summer is around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2026 World Cup is on. The Of Summer & Football edition has nineteen songs and one instrumental that speak of both. The Summer songs aren’t all necessarily season specific.
The Wedding Present’s Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft of from their album George Best, Manchester United’s (in)famous right winger
Billy Bragg’s God’s Footballer is about
Peter Knowles a forward of
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., better known as Wolves.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John – Summer Nights classic from the film Greece is a perfect Summer evening dancing song. Along with the surfy Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy.
The Smiths’ Golden Lights is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single, and in itself as little to do with Summer.
New Order’s World In Motionand Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds’s Three Lions where written with England’s National team in mind, while
Belle and Sebastian’s It Only Takes One Lion is their 2026 song for Scotland National team.
As usual on the Summer and Winter programme there’s a cover of The Mamas & the Papas do’ California Dreamin’, this time by José Feliciano.
Tracklist:
01 – Tom Joseph – Brighton
02 – New Order – World In Motion
03 – Frank Rabeyrolles – Bossa In My Heart
04 – The Wedding Present – Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
05: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Under A Cat
06: The Fall – Kicker Conspiracy
07: National Death Industry – The End Of All The Things We Do
08: Belle and Sebastian – It Only Takes One Lion
09: Calvin Harris – Summer
10: Animal Collective – Goalkeeper
11: Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us Now
12: The Smiths – Golden Lights
12: Waaves – King Of The Beachaaa
14: Rod Stewart – Touchline
15: Duane Eddy – Peter Gunn
16: Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three Lions
17: John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Summer Nights
18: Billy Bragg – God’s Footballer
19: Weezer – Island In The Sun
20: José Feliciano – California Dreamin’
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud / | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
Good morning with Dollar Bill by Jack White. Have a nice weekend.
Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain, my new post at The Polymath, is not an ordinary astrology post.
It starts with real every day life things, a song – The Irish Goodbye by Bernard Butler – conversations, a exhibition – Sentimento Monocromático (Monocromatic Feeling) by Gustavo Sanches de Castro, a poem – Na Spailpíní Fánacha (The Wandering Spailpín) read by Ian Duhig – a radio show – RTE Arena 100 – to arrive to what, for me, endures.
There’s pigeons, swings, sliders, ice creams, conversations too. You can read the full post here.
We have a photo gallery of Gustavo Sanches de Castro interesting and though and feelings challenging Sentimento Monocromático (Monocromatic Feeling) exhibition on Mondo’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine/
Sentimento Monocromático is on display at Alameda Art Spot, in Porto, during June. 50% of the processeds from the exhibition go to APPDA-Norte (Portuguese Association for Developmental Disorders and Autism).
Painting 1: Jogo de Família (Family Game)
Painting 2: Folhas soltas de um diário (Loose pages from a diary)
photos: © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Gustavo Hochman; edited by Milena Katzman for Mondo Bizarre Magazine.
As usual, Wave-Gotik-Treffen was captured through the lens of Gustavo Hochman this year supported by image editor Milena Katzman.
Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival. It also includes Punk, Rivethead, Romanticism, Steampunk, Victoriana and other alternative and subcultures.
Gustavo Hochman, our photographer, was the only photographer allowed in a fashion show in a medieval castle.
We also photographed Covenant and She Past Away, the two main bands present at Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026. Covenant on Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 – photolog 1 and She Past Away on Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 – photolog 2
Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 – photolog 1
Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2026 – photolog 2
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Bonnie Prince Billy’s I See A Darkness covered by Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti. Have a nice day.
Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is my new post at The Polymath site.
After more than twenty years away from ocean swimming, I returned to swim in the Atlantic. Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is a very personal thing, and post, to mr. Sea swimming, bodily memory, presence, the North Atlantic coast of Porto, Foz, rediscovering a relationship that had never truly disappeared. You can read it here.
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