Singalong now...'I never felt better in my li-i-fe' - thanks Mark...
As I explained elsewhere, it's not that I feel great, but the Winter blues are alleviated somewhat by the appearance in The Cave of Iceland's luxury all-butter mince pies, which can only be bought in December because to have them sooner would risk over-familiarity with their delicious pastry and fruity filling to the point where, come Xmas, they would be taken for granted...rendered almost meaningless and on the day that the mince pie become meaningless, well, an existential crisis is born!
Speaking of existence and the meaning of life, I recently watched Julien Temple's The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, in which Wilko ponders such things, as you would when diagnosed with an inoperable (supposedly) cancer. Temple includes his trademark film clips of both real life and cinematic, all blending in perfectly with the content. Wilko's literary knowledge is also used to great effect. It's a wonderful film. I saw Dr Feelgood at Friars in 1975. Their energy and attitude marked them out as something very different from either the standard Pub Rock outfit or, obviously, Prog noodling. Unbeknownst to us, we were watching the seeds of a fierce new world being sown; to be reaped by Rotten and co a year later.
From (the meaning of) Life, the Universe and Everything to the musical world's greatest cosmic voyager. An album of previously unreleased Sun Ra is due on December 16th. Prophet was recorded in a single day in August 1986 and features Him playing the Prophet VS synthesizer, a new instrument at the time. Not that Ra needed new technology to present advanced messages from the outer limits of imagination and sound - he was travelling the spaceways decades ago. Here's a taster from the album, complete with appropriately spaced-out visuals...
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