Nigel Wallis

Oh my. I think I may have to start a band just so it can be called Yugoslav Pandemic Nightmare.

It's Gonna Rain also well worth a listen.

As well as Radigue's Occam XIII, there's Berio's Sequenza XII, Kurtàg's Játékok piece for solo bassoon and Isang Yun's Monolog - any of these should be a challenge.

You're not wrong: it's Occam XIII.

Scared and increasing courting of the Reform vote. Hugely disappointing to see.

I had the pleasure of having dinner with her once, many years ago. Delightful company.

*cough* Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Elegantly done, I thought: open to multiple interpretations.

A space where the brain should be, and a judge's wig.

goddamit

Phew :)

Poutine gets 👏👏👏
Not sure what a Double-Double is, but if I need yoga lessons, let me know.

Somewhere I have a book called A Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words. Not sure who gets the most entries but there are a *lot* from Pynchon.

May I be an honorary Canadian, purely in that respect?

TIL there is another musician named Yoko Ono, and finding a CD-R of her solo piano recordings in a local charity shop was less exciting than I imagined.

Well, he's right in a way, and it's hardly a compliment.

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

YouTube video by PAK Media BBC 1980s Submarine documentary Part1 Perisher

Just watched it - excellent documentary. Have you seen this one? Will tick a lot of boxes for water, confined spaces, and depths rather than heights.
youtu.be/I1LF2I3fTbY?...

😳😁

A Western Conifer Seed Bug, it seems. Thanks to those identifying it.

It looks that way, doesn't it? Thank you.

I think you're right - cheers.

An insect sitting on top of a radiator grille. The insect is approx 2cm long, has long antennae and possibly white bands on its lower abdomen/thorax/whatever the correct term is. No pincers visible.

A brief visitor to the flat last night. Any UK entomologists or nature lovers know what this is? Apologies for the terrible picture. About 2 cm long.

Not so much "sounds like", I fear.

Was in a local and increasingly "happening" restaurant years ago when Madonna & entourage rocked up, to be told restaurant was full. Cue much outrage, "don't you know who this is?", etc - admittedly from the entourage. The owner (👏): "What do you want me to do, throw someone else out?"

There are worse things to do. I still wince at thinking the Cocteau Twins' male vocalist wasn't a patch on Elizabeth Fraser, before realising I'd been playing Victorialand at 33 rpm for a month, rather than 45 rpm 😬

Fine bit of more gentle piano from Strayhorn on Smada though.

Cover of the book Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz by Lisa Saltzman. The cover shows an image of Kiefer's painting Sulamith from 1983.

Morning Mr BBB,
It's this one for me at the moment - not the most uplifting one I must admit.

After Trump's demise*, Miller vs. Vance is going to be interesting.

*no he hasn't, not yet

Holy shit, is no one else old enough to remember Gimme Shelter?