the letter J on this 2nd birthday of my blog

ok, tagged by ganching, 10 J's about me:

July 12th is my birthday.

I don't like Jelly. It's a textural thing. Much of the foods that i don't like have Jellylike textures. I'm a fussy eater.

I'm fond of Jazz music and my piano playing style is very much informed by Jazz even though you wouldn't really call me a Jazz pianist.

I enjoy a good Joke. In fact i often enjoy bad Jokes. I was reminded recently about a long, long Joke about the Nobel Peace Prize that i must tell again sometime soon.

i live in london england and through most of the month of may i had to where a Jumper because it was unseasonably cold. it was as though we had our april in may... climate change...

i got hit by a car recently and this has led me to change my Journey to work to avoid the highbury roundabout. i love the Journey, and i love finding different routes to make my Journey better.

I'm also fond of the beach of the thames that is created at lowtide and on which Jetsam can be found, washed up. Technically Jetsam is cargo that has been lost overboard and then found on the beach but i'm loosely including the mad variety of stuff that is thrown into the thames and then ends up on that tidal beach.

i like some Japanese writers, in particular the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami whose book of short stories after the quake i bought twice by accident and who wrote the story that the film tony takatani is based which i think i've missed now in london cinema's. i'm also reading a book by another Japanese writer called i am a cat (can't remember the writers name) and i've read at least one good book by kazuo ishiguro and two good books by banana yoshimoto (both Japanese)

I'm interested in Just intonation. It's one of the intonations that were used about 400 years ago before equal temperament came to dominate the way musical instruments are tuned. In brief, Just intonation is based on the harmonic series and gives a pure sound that resonates with the note that your instrument is tuned to, (Just C is the most common kind of Just intonation), and when you play in that key it all sounds great, but if you play in other keys it sounds wrong. with equal temperament many of the notes are shifted very slightly, away from the pure resonating notes so that they are in a regular system that allows you to play in whatever key you like. You never hear Just intonation these days. (i find this hard to teach, it's even harder to write in a blog, this is someone elses explanation)

i enjoy a good Jape, such as on saturday when me & spski were walking down axminster road and we saw these two garden chairs that someone was chucking out. we took them for our garden and had to roll them home which was great fun, it was also quite hard and it proved to be most sociable as almost everyone we passed was visibly amused and a few people remarked on it to us, their centre of gravity is not quite in the middle (like bowles) and it was quite challenging keeping them travelling in a straight line. they are now in our back garden but i'm keen one day to get find a space big enough to play bowles with them, you'd need a jack and you could only have 2 players but it would be funny.

that's all 10, and lastly, exactly a year ago this blog turned 1 year old with the interview game, the questions then were also supplied by ganching... my birthday meme tagger... thankyou x