This post's title comes from
here:
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Monday, July 02, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
I'm chasing shadows in the gallows
graphic= Billy Childish
the above audio is from The Grateful Dead in 1969. Rolling Stone say it's one of their best ever gigs.
Dream Bowl, Vallejo, California
February 22nd, 1969
That's good enough for me ! I've been in a Dead State of Mind this past hot week . Track two is especially beautiful.February 22nd, 1969
I have been looking into my plans for travel to London for this: event in London in a couple of weeks time (the same weekend Trump comes to town!).
Its at the youth hostel I worked in 1971-1972 in the City of London.Opposite St Paul's .Read about my mispelt youth here:
(I have been in touch with Clive, in the hope of a meetup that weekend?)
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Billy Long-Bongo.
We went to Hebden Bridge Park today
& took these photos of
the shelter where Alice Lonstaff shot the bookies-runner
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Alice Longstaff
"the lost negatives" were only found,developed & printed this year.
Here is a bookies-runner in Hebden Bridge Park (inside the shelter under the canal bridge).1950's
Today we also went to this: exhibition of the photos of Claude Cahun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun
I read this in the literature & laughed out loud...!
Is this why Megan Markel is always smiling?
Here is a bookies-runner in Hebden Bridge Park (inside the shelter under the canal bridge).1950's
Today we also went to this: exhibition of the photos of Claude Cahun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun
I read this in the literature & laughed out loud...!
young fathers on Joolz Holland recently.
I'm chasing shadows in the gallows
Collecting what was stolen from me
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Me and Cath have seen them live twice.Love them to bits.
great punk values.
we last saw them in March this year. here: are my images of the night.
read about this here
Friday, June 22, 2018
the devil's harvest
This week's sepia saturday is themed around "farms"& "agriculture" "harvest"
My dad's family come from the eastern Polish city of Białystok . It is a big (rather primitive) agricultural region.
The first image (a still from a 1990 home movie) is of a conversation i was having with an old family neighbour ( he was a tad drunk himself here!)
He is , telling me a rather gruesome story about how another village local ,in the winter of 1943 got so drunk one night that he tried to stagger home in the dark but ,tripped alone and fell into a well.
After a mass search, he was found drowned the next next morning
. The Devil's Harvest perhaps....?
This second image I took (also in 1990) on the family farm.......
Finally , a home movie I took in 1965. It begins & ends with a few brief shots of my Dad & Mum.Inbetween, my Uncle collecting the honey.
image: me in The Blue Teapot in Mytholmroyd on Wednesday. audio: live Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK; May 14, 2018.Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan.
"Pangaea" (the title of this song) refers to is hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart........
Finally.I was sad to hear that Danny Kirwan died on June 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan
I saw him play live several times.He saw difficult times (eg he ended up homeless & sleeping rough on the streets of London.)
Not a good look.
Here he is in his pomp playing with Fleetwood Mac in Seattle,March 10.1972.
( In the context of this post,forgive the pun. "Oh well" )
The first image (a still from a 1990 home movie) is of a conversation i was having with an old family neighbour ( he was a tad drunk himself here!)
He is , telling me a rather gruesome story about how another village local ,in the winter of 1943 got so drunk one night that he tried to stagger home in the dark but ,tripped alone and fell into a well.
After a mass search, he was found drowned the next next morning
. The Devil's Harvest perhaps....?
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| My Cousin Marak & Uncle Czesek. |
image: me in The Blue Teapot in Mytholmroyd on Wednesday. audio: live Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK; May 14, 2018.Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan.
"Pangaea" (the title of this song) refers to is hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart........
Finally.I was sad to hear that Danny Kirwan died on June 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan
I saw him play live several times.He saw difficult times (eg he ended up homeless & sleeping rough on the streets of London.)
Not a good look.
Here he is in his pomp playing with Fleetwood Mac in Seattle,March 10.1972.
( In the context of this post,forgive the pun. "Oh well" )
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
with Phil & Ken in Halifax
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Halifax18th-June-2018/
In February 1985, British birder David Hunt led a tour around India.
One of the stops was Jim Corbett National Park, in Uttar Pradesh, which has a large tiger population. The park provides an armed guard to each group of visitors, and they’re required to stay on the trails. As his party explored the park, though, Hunt heard an unknown call and walked a short distance off the track. Minutes later there was a scream. When his friends rushed to help, they discovered his mauled body in a clearing nearby.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-bird-in-the-bush-by-stephen-moss-754874.html
In February 1985, British birder David Hunt led a tour around India.
One of the stops was Jim Corbett National Park, in Uttar Pradesh, which has a large tiger population. The park provides an armed guard to each group of visitors, and they’re required to stay on the trails. As his party explored the park, though, Hunt heard an unknown call and walked a short distance off the track. Minutes later there was a scream. When his friends rushed to help, they discovered his mauled body in a clearing nearby.
His friend Bill Oddie wrote:
"When David’s body was recovered, so was his camera. Later on, the slides were developed … The first one is a nice close-up of a Spotted Owlet sitting on a branch … Then he must have heard a noise behind him, or maybe just sensed that he was not alone. Keeping crouched, he turned and saw a tiger pacing to and fro at the edge of the clearing.
"When David’s body was recovered, so was his camera. Later on, the slides were developed … The first one is a nice close-up of a Spotted Owlet sitting on a branch … Then he must have heard a noise behind him, or maybe just sensed that he was not alone. Keeping crouched, he turned and saw a tiger pacing to and fro at the edge of the clearing.
The next slide is of the tiger. It is some way away, walking to the right. On the next picture it is walking to the left. In the next one, it is facing the camera. In the next, it has begun to move forward, still looking straight at the lens.
The next is closer. Then closer. And closer still. The final picture is of a frame-filling shot of the tiger’s head, eyes blazing and teeth exposed in a snarl.
“If David had kept shooting on his motor-drive, the whole thing must have happened in barely ten seconds,” Oddie added. “Crouched behind a camera, looking through the viewfinder and especially when using a telephoto lens, you don’t realise how close your subject has got. Neither, at the time, do you care. All you are focusing on is the picture. Press cameramen in war situations call it ‘camera blindness.’ It has proved fatal before.”
(From Oddie’s Follow That Bird!, quoted in Stephen Moss’ A Bird in the Bush, 2004.) |
| "leaving the stage door": Victoria Theatre, Halifax. |
Friday, June 15, 2018
Saturday, June 09, 2018
happy days
Before seeing Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" in Manchester today, we also saw Cathy's relative
Julie Hesmondhalgh
That was nice, wasnt it...? I talked about Julie here ,previously........
http://everton.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-almighty-sometimes.html
http://everton.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-almighty-sometimes.html
Julie follows this blog !
Imagine....! 
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/June-7-9-2018/ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/31/happy-days-review-maxine-peake-winnie-climate-chaos-beckett?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Thursday, June 07, 2018
at the movie pictures
"Avid photographers celebrate the viewfinder as a means of helping us see the world anew.
But psychology research has shown that under some conditions taking a photo of something actually makes it harder to remember.
One possible reason is that we give less attention to an experience when we know that it will be safely stored in a photograph.
But in a new paper in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Julia Soares and Benjamin Storm from the University of California show that the photo-taker’s memory will suffer whether they expect to keep the photo or not..........." The British Psychological Society
Thursday, May 31, 2018
i blame the hippy at southport station who came up to me & said he knew where I could buy some "cheap grass".......
" Despite all this, I have sympathy for the obsessive photographers........ it’s easy to feel that a memory isn’t evidence enough that something happened. It’s too dreamlike......."
"if life isnt lived through a lens, is it lived at all?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/life-lived-through-lens-photography-instagram-holidays
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/life-lived-through-lens-photography-instagram-holidays
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| Me & Chris on the road through Sheranozy (photo taken by Cathy) |
The French are so full of shit.
The two most famous things about France are "The Guillotine" and The Champs-Elysees,
. right?
Turns out, they were both stolen from the English.
The Guillotine was invented in
Halifax Yorkshire.
The Boulevards of Paris were the brain child of Louis Napoleon who was exiled in Southport in 1838.
He lived near Lord Street , and when he returned to France he remodeled the city to look like that bit of Lancashire!
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/25/guardianleadersTwo further twists for me.
- I was born on Lord Street in Halifax.
- Once, when visting my Dad's birthplace in Eastern Poland my family proudly showed me the village's one & only Historical Landmark.
Sometime, you cant see history?
Friday, May 25, 2018
"You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go for a long time? " Hilary Mantel.
He then blindfolded himself.
He stood perfectly still. Arms outstretched and proceeded to offer hugs to the other grieving people of Manchester.
With a felt pen, he had written on a bit of cardboard:
"I'm a Muslim + I trust you.do you trust me enough for a hug?"
He then stood alone, blindfolded, for over an hour. He was met with hundreds of ,all positive , returns of affection.
A wonderful display of mutual trust.
An example to us all.(I wouldnt ,as a wimp, have had the balls to do that!)
Me & Cath went to look at this on Wednesday afternoon & to lay some flowers in memory of the 22 people ( the majority ,children)who were murdered.
https://www.manchester.anglican.org Cathy turned 60 this week. As well as this visit to Manchester on Wednesday, on Monday we went to Liverpool to see the newly opened John & Yoko Exhibition.http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/exhibitions/double-fantasy/
Here are a few photos of this week.
You can see all these individual images here at https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/
You may view in hi-res: download & share to your hearts content!(You may do this freely, in any manner desired, even without naming the source)
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
live at the deaf institute
One of the videos I took .I'm having problems downloading videos files at present(?) So I,ve had to reduce file size & the quality isn't currently as good as it could be/will be.........anyway......
Thursday night, me & Cath went to Manchester's deaf institute
to see Simone Felice .
It's the third time we have seen him in the past four years. If you don't know his music, one of his songs ( "Radio Song") was featured on the soundtrack of the recent Oscar winning movie "three billboards"...
you can see all the day's photos here: https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Simone-FeliceManchester-Deaf-Institute10-th-May-2018/
I have 3 better videos I will add later once I,ve sorted out my "file-size problems".................
http://www.simonefelice.com/
Thursday night, me & Cath went to Manchester's deaf institute
to see Simone Felice .
It's the third time we have seen him in the past four years. If you don't know his music, one of his songs ( "Radio Song") was featured on the soundtrack of the recent Oscar winning movie "three billboards"...
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| Cath in the downstairs bar. |
I have 3 better videos I will add later once I,ve sorted out my "file-size problems".................
http://www.simonefelice.com/
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
"when I speak to kids I tell them the best kung fu move is to run ,dont fight"~ Benjamin Zephaniah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah
Apologies.i need to catch up with my comments soon......
Lovely sunny weekend in England.
see slideshow below for my photos. Me &
Cathy go to Manchester on Thursday to The Deaf Institute to see Simone Felice. https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/May-Day-Bank-Holiday-weekend2018/
Lovely sunny weekend in England.
see slideshow below for my photos. Me &
Cathy go to Manchester on Thursday to The Deaf Institute to see Simone Felice. https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/May-Day-Bank-Holiday-weekend2018/
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Shall be the maws of kites.........
This week's sepia saturday ,; seems to be around the themes of people;bathing:seaside; sand; etc
Today I visited (for the first time) Hebden Bridge Antiques Centre well worth a general look around.But what especially pleased me was a big buckety -thing selling old/random sepia photography! Hundreds...!
Its very unusual to see this nowadays.50p each .Which I thought "not bad".
it would take me hours to look at them all (must go back next week) but I did find several concerning this week's theme.
Here are two.(no notes on the back)
Today I visited (for the first time) Hebden Bridge Antiques Centre well worth a general look around.But what especially pleased me was a big buckety -thing selling old/random sepia photography! Hundreds...!
Its very unusual to see this nowadays.50p each .Which I thought "not bad".
Here are two.(no notes on the back)
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| the maws of kites (at the seaside!) |
On the subject of seachanges , Me & Cathy voted this morning in the UK Local elections. We voted again for Jeremy Corbyn's socialist Labour Party. In addition, I went out canvassing for the party this evening.Here is Cathy pictured with fellow Party member Rodger.
You, my American visitors,remember the name Jeremy Corbyn .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
Think of him as a scruffy, slightly more radical Bernie Sanders, who rides a bike & grows his own veg...!
He could well be Britain's new Prime Minister within the next 12 months.
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| Cathy with Roger O'Doherty. |
Monday, April 30, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Thursday, April 26, 2018
hall of mirrors
I never knew what she looked like until I found an old 4 inch X 4 inch negative among my Mum's effects after she died in September 4 th 2008. I developed that negative. It was rather disturbed by it at the time.
The woman in black in the prompt-photo isn't identical in the same way...but certainly near enough to comment on ..................
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| My Mum, the year before she died. |
Saturday, April 21, 2018
“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” [Rumi]
The 2nd bloke on the left, in the photo-prompt on this week's sepia saturday , has a jacket similar to mine !
A totally pathetic attempt to link, but the best i can come up with, as I haven't contributed for a few weeks.......forgive me!
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| Me at Leith Docks;aged 10 & fake plastic Marlon Brando jacket! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi Me & Cathy walked along the canal path between Mytholmroyd & Hebden Bridge yesterday.See the full gallery here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Mytholmroyd-Canal-Path-April-20-2018/
Also. We have arranged to go around Manchester next Friday with my Brother Zyg &My Sister-in-Law Jean.
We introduce them to Chetham Library http://library.chethams.com/
& attend a music recital at the Stoller Hall http://stollerhall.com/
So.We go see/look/touch/ Karl Marx's desk
And John Dee's work
And the burn mark of the devil's hoof!
"......Dee lived in Chetham's School - then Christ's College, home to the priests of the Church - and a table from Dee's time there still exists in the Audit Room. It bears evidence of a story which blew up around Dee and eventually put paid to his term as warden. Upon it is a circular burn mark - a mark which, it is said, was made by the hoof of Satan, after Dee summoned him to seek advice and wisdom....." [read more]
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| the burn mark of the 'devil's hoof'! another link to the photo prompt!!!! |
Saturday, April 14, 2018
the projector
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| Mytholmroyd at 1pm today.Watching Mr Corbyn.I'm actually there (behind the big bearded bloke taking a photo....stood next to my mate Nigel) It's just that you cant see me for Corbynmamia!....... |
*Just a couple of days ago peoples momentum
launched their new website*
Friday the 13th ;Simone Felice released his new album.Saturday Me & Cathy booked tickets to see him play at The Deaf Institute in Manchester on May 10th.It's the 3rd time we will have seen him play..... Today I went canvassing for the Labour Party in Mytholmroyd.
Its the first time I have knocked on doors since 1983.
I had got an extra email yesterday saying a "special guest" might appear at Mytholmroyd Community Centre during our Saturday's lunch break .
I wondered if it might be Jeremy Corbyn?
.It turned out I was right (throughout the morning we wondered if he would actually turn up,given the overnight bombing of Syria)
But he did(via Huddersfield) Even though it was short notice & secret 'word of mouth'
The hall was packed. A fine man who will be the next British Prime Minister. He had a few choice words for Mr Trump.
A Video of Jeremy Corbyn entering the building just 200 yards from where we live .
Jeremy Corbyn told us today in Mytholmroyd that Theresa May had rung him late last night to say she was bombing Syria immediately........
"What do think?"She asked him
"What do you think I think?" he replied...........
Ancoats 2015
Hebden Bridge 2014
Sunday, April 08, 2018
Saturday, April 07, 2018
vote labour
My teeth are on the mend........
A massive Shout Out to The Outsiders from Leeds.
Who were the first of the night's 4 acts.
They sang probably the best political song I have ever heard live.
Bravo!
Sunday, April 01, 2018
abscess makes the heart grow fonder.........
Once Brexit comes, we can,finally, make those "Pedostrians" fuck off
yea?
yea?
Thank you Cathy for taking this photo & thank you for your vigilance
.Dont you ever let those bastards grind you down.......you are worth a million of them.
.Dont you ever let those bastards grind you down.......you are worth a million of them.
One of the things I miss most about retirement is not being able to moan at work about being "a bit poorly"
.I was never off-sick.
Instead,I used to find comfort in going into Work and whinging to everybody about what a brave soldier I was.......!
'cant do that no more.
I will have to blog about it instead...you lucky buggers!
This week I seem (i think) to have developed a tooth/gum abcess.I guess i need to do something about that. .......
Anyway. I renewed my Labour Party membership last week.I dropped down to £2 a month as I'm now an O.A.P.
Given all this bollocks against Mr Jeremy Corbyn I must begin to be more active in the local party and join Momentum
By the way Don.Thanks again for the Bob Dylan 'jesus' CD's.
I guess you saw BBC Arena .? It was even better than I had expected it to be Bob Weir & Phil Lesh.Radio City Music Hall, New York: March 3, 2018
A few photos of when me Don & Margaret went to hear/see Bob Weir in Manchester (what year was that? no date on the album) [here:]
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