Saturday, February 22, 2020

Consider Crossing James Morrison’s Jazz across the Bridge

consider crossing

by Allen M. Weber
The Waters

the bay bridge
at dawn you can
clear your breath
from the car window
behold the deadrise
impossibly white
scoured by half a sun
          become for a moment
          the ruddy oysterman
          when you come up empty
          drunk on salty spray
          console the cormorants
          in the Guineamen tongue
          grasp the slippery
          heart pine of his tongs
          a blunt December
          ache in your hands
          a flickering fear
          of the sea
back in your lane
nearer now the eastern shore
where pleasure boats
still sleep at their piers
sip your bitter
coffee with Yo Yo Ma
playing Mozart on the radio

Vivid, detailed and evocative reverie of crossing over one life to another. Each line and image builds and moves the poem forward to a neatly perfect ending. --R.T. Castleberry
 Dyno Nobel Poems IBPC


Sydney's Twilight at Taronga Is Back for Another Summer  ...

James Morrison Big Band - Hair and Hattons -  Twilight at Taronga


How Twilight At Taronga is supporting bushfire-affected animals through live music
Twlight At Taronga / by Maclay Heriot

Kim and Glen with Pinot noir and Wynn ... By The Lodge


How Twilight At Taronga is supporting bushfire-affected animals through live music


A big movie for these times …



From DJ Mike 2600, a YouTube series called Songs That Sound The Same.
My hit series of DJ videos exploring pairs of songs that aren’t direct covers or rip-offs, but have similar melodies, riffs, or chord progressions and just fit together nicely.
Each video is about a minute long and features him playfully mixing two or more songs together that sound very similar. Here’s one of the early episodes, featuring Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly & the Family Stone and Misunderstanding by Genesis


Monday musings on Australian literature: Musician’s memoirs


 

Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn” - Los Angeles Review of Books


Russia’s Dr. Seuss

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Whitney Houston hologram concert tour set to begin.

I’m still holding out to see Elvis Presley’s Coat at the New Jersey Civic Coliseum.