Aries New Moon – On Not Acting Too Soon my new post on The Polymath site is about not every impulse to act is true timing. The New Moon in Aries, the tension between action and restraint, and why the most accurate beginnings are sometimes the ones that wait. The Aires New Moon is the beginning of the Western Astrology New Year. You can read it on The Polymath site.
My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights #70 – The True Love Edition has a repeat Monday 6 & 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).You can read about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Jane’s Addiction – True Love 02: A 90s new man called Stan – Sushi feat. Adamski 03: Anthony Moore – Earthbound Misfit 04: Black Toska – Three Silver Nails 05: Cosmic Room 99 – E Corp 06: Fernando Triste – Escuro 07: Franz Ferdinand – Audacious 08: Good Sad Happy – Shaded Tree 09: Jonas – Bato À Porta 10: Kingbird – There Were Things That Needed Forgiven 11: Laurie Anderson – Road to Mandalay 12: Primal Scream – Love Insurrection 13: Terry Gross – Sales Pitch 14: The Heavy Heavy – Feel 15: Tindersticks – Always a Stranger 16: Virgem Suta – Amor Ao Avesso 17: Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End
The Park, The Yellow Football and The Brutalist Factory – Field Notes is a note about Early morning walks, being barefoot through the park, a hidden path to an abandoned factory, and an unexpected yellow football moment of play and quiet joy. You can read it at The Polymath.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is now available on mixcloud.
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
, my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site, speaks of how in a restless world, strength often begins with simple acts of attention. A reflection on tending to the people and responsibilities closest to us, and the quiet discipline of noticing what is within reach and can be read here.
The Pisces New Moon and Aries Equinox mark a quiet threshold. The closing of one cycle and the beginning of another as the year turns toward new fire and life. I wrote a brief note on this seasonal change on The Polymath site. It can be read here.
The repeat of my radio show My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #63 – The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition is broadcasted Monday 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title comes from the Soft Cell song of the same name, here on a cover by David Gray. There’s some of my music, along, among others, Franz Schubert, Old Jerusalem, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Bernard Butler. You can read the programme original text here.
Tracklist: 01 – Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang (radio edit) 02 – Old Jerusalem – Red sun over the interstate 03 – Franz Schubert – Erlkönig, (Op. 1, D. 328 – Wer reitet so spät sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) 04 – The Modern Lovers – Dodge Veg o-matic 05 – Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 06 – The Fugs – Bartleby The Scrivener 07 – Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 08 – David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover) 09 – The Beatles – Drive My Car 10 – The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket 11 – Kings of Leon – Going Nowhere (live in Nashville) 12 – Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Passenger (Iggy Pop cover) 13 – The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2011 remaster) 14 – Aaron Copland – Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson poem, sung by Sanford Sylvan) 15 – Little Eve – The Loco-Motion (remaster) 16 – The June Carriers – Pastoral Epigraph
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You read more about the programme here.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
Of Playfulness and Curiosity is my lived reflection on curiosity and playfulness and rediscovering wonder in everyday life. Swinging on playground swings, hugging trees, winding paths, and rediscovering wonder through small acts of attention that awaken perception. It can be read on The Polymath site.