Watching 'The Yellow Submarine' this evening with the girls - part of their IB A2 Media Option homework - I notice that John Lennon metamorphoses from the Frankenstein monster after drinking a potion. So, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein plus Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - I really should look into conceptual continuities in my teaching syllabus.
Lara goes for George Harrison. Emma likes Ringo Starr ("he's funny"). Not bad.
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Album reviews:
Jarvis Cocker's new one - disappointing (sadly). We really & truly wanted to like it.
Virgil Thomson's 3rd Symphony - Charles Ives plus seasonings of Varese & Stravinsky. Worth a second listen.
'Grotesque' by The Fall - puts Jarvis into perspective. Ear rinse material.
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Idly thinking about The New York poets as coffee selections. Who would be a cappucino? A macchiato? A latte?
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This morning lying in bed with a sense of perfect equilibrium: the light through the curtains, bird song outside in the street, the girls chattering upstairs, synchronic movement of the interior and exterior planets.
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BBC4's re-run of Nigel Finch's documentary on the Chelsea Hotel - a particular favourite ever since we saw it back in Bristol in the flat on Redland Road. It's that last sequence of the roller skater disappearing into the night wearing a cloak of coloured stars which seems to bring it all together.
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(* A: Phylis Stein - who else?)
1 comment:
Very fond of the short but fun post about the Yellow Submarine. It looks like your Jonesettes have already acquired a good taste, perhaps they'll bring Beatlemania back into their generation!
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