TV

last night, and two weeks ago last night, i had a great time in front of the telly...

you see i've got caught in this french TV thing on BBC4 called spiral... i saw the 1st 2, missed the 3rd, and have been catching up on friday nights with episodes 4 & 5 two weeks back & episodes 6 & 7 last night...

it's very good, it's only 8 episodes long and the last one is on tomorrow night...

but also on friday nights on BBC4 they have a little live thing from the 70's, 30 minutes, it was Bill Withers 2 weeks ago which was just fantastic and it was Carole King last night... heaven...

AND they have some kind of biographical musical thing too for an hour... Gil Scott Heron 2 weeks ago which was great... and John Martyn last night which was enormously inspirational...

john martyn who had his leg amputated 3 years ago and who is still out there, performing and writing...

i've had a vinyl copy of solid air for many years now which i love dearly, it was very interesting to see the other albums he made in the 70's and lust after them, i once heard bless the weather whilst on acid up north somewhere but have never possessed it...

also seeing shots if him perform with danny thompson, his echoplex tape delay on a chair in front of him, bantering with danny, who was on the program:

there'd be no point me saying to john... play me a Bb flattened 9th chord - i may as well say play me a dinner plate...

there's an album i'd love to get hold of called live in leeds from '76 or so that had john & danny (1st name terms now) & john stevens on drums... he who set up londonbridgework a couple of decades ago and who wrote the Search & Reflect workshops that i so love to teach...

anyway, i'm writing today from an interesting place within, as i finished the bulk of my admin/marking earlier in the week and then went on a debauched couple of days, it's taken me a bit of recovery time to remember that i was hoping to be creative once that work was out of the way...

my weekly improvisations are going on apace, and i realise that in some ways they are both too frequent and too infrequent... too frequent for the casual observer... too infrequent for me... i want to be improvising and recording the improvisation EVERY DAY... and of course i can do this...

so i feel as though i'm on the brink of some creative whirlwind... i'm preparing myself, thinking of the video projects i want to achieve, the playing/writing work, the singing/harmony work...

oh and one more unrelated thing - (or is it?) -

i woke up last night to dinah upset, couldn't work it out at first but it turns out i'd pulled her pink plastic venus de milo over, along with the mirror behind it and i was violently tugging on a fluffy thing that is pinned to her headboard...

not violent towards her but violent towards her belongings which does freak her out...

so i spent a good 10 minutes soothing her which is no bad thing, mulling over yet another violent sleep thing...

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