Paul Myszor

One of the great debut albums. Winter is gorgeous.

Kyiv.
I love this pulse of life,
this scent of books.
Yes, we’re living through a very hard winter,
but we will get through it.

A third rate composer who has written the same ostinato piece hundreds of times.

Montezuma bird today Costa Rica

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

Love Arvo Pärt, especially the Te Deum. It's 28 minutes which wouldn't work on vinyl without a massive loss of sound quality and spiltting the continous piece would spoil the flow.

Give me CDs anyday (heresy I know, and the tangibility of vinyl is appealing but it's um, mostly a marketing thing)

YouTube video by arthouse garden The Color of Pomegranates (1969) - Sergei Parajanov

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Here's the book that inspired the song...

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654), Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Oil on panel, 12¾ x 9⅝ in (32.3 x 24.6 cm). Estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000. Offered in Old Masters on 4 February 2026

In an early, rare self-portrait, Artemisia Gentileschi appears as one of history's most courageous women
by Paige K. Bradley for Christie's
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Nepholyly

The ambivalent sadness on receiving a FB birthday notification from an account of a person who has died - the reminder reminds us of their life and that they somehow live on in the cloud. And, someday, someone should delete their account.

Nepholyly: Greek nephos,cloud; lype, sadness.

Thoughtful and intelligent with nods to The Illiad, the archetypal story of the return home. Great episodes: Timeless, Relativity, Living Witness, The Thaw, Latent Image, Blink of an Eye, and so many more...

Kyiv.
Electricity is back.
I thought we wouldn’t see it for a few days after the night attack.

Glory to Ukrainian engineers.

It's a very unsettling quote. I understand the message but then I like certainty at some level but if it were always certain...

The chapter is subtitled "The domestication of hunch" which is a thought provoking idea know itself...

-23 Celsius. Just so the rest of the world knows what you're talking about...

AI interprets the lyrics...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin - The left hand of darkness
died on this day, 2018

#BookSky
#UrsulaKLeGuin

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next"

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Would this apply to an MP becoming an independent?

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The jangly twangy synths of the 80s changed radically in the 90s, extending into new palettes. This album, along with Bowie's Outside masterpiece show a maturing of electronics, sometimes into darker textures.

Check too the contemporary electo-acoustics of Hania Rani and Anna þorvaldsdóttir.

Now totally absorbed in Hania Rani's latest piano concerto.

Back in the day, me and my droogs would like in a dark room listening to this. We were the proggy nerds at school but this is now big with GenZ. It's trippy stuff but really well composed, great textures. Yes, DSOTM is seminal but this one has a special place in the Floyd canon.

YouTube video by MilesDavisVEVO Miles Davis - Shhh / Peaceful (Official Audio)

#AllThatJazz

Miles Davis | In A Silent Way

Made the mistake of falling asleep after dinner, so I'm now awake in the small hours.

But how many better records are there with a whisky, earphones, and the rest of the house snoring away?

#NowPlaying #NP
#MusicSky #JazzSky

Can't express how much I love this one - spacious and spine tingling. Look who's playing with Davis: Zawinal, Shorter, Holland et al. The groove continues on the first four weather report albums.

Kyiv is under attack.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.

I want the world to know what russia does.

For the first time in history, the state of Virginia has a female Governor and right after being sworn in today Governor Abigail Spanberger’s first official act was to end cooperation between ICE-Gestapo and Virginia State Police. More of this. 💙👊👏

María Corina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump.

“Power is the rock on which truth founders. It will always find willing enforcers: no one ever lost money by telling billionaires what they want to hear. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.”
- George Monbiot