Best viewed after seeing previous post about this Japanese alpine valley.
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For some people, being dead is only a relative condition; they wreak more than the living do. After their first rigor, they reshape themselves, taking on a flexibility in public discourse.
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We have just lost one of the most consistently rewarding guitarists.
Musically speaking, many “guitar heroes” do not age well; John Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) made some of his finest music after his 65th birthday.
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Hers is likely the slowest, but also the most playful, witty and inventive of all recorded versions of Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – a “jazz standard” with a most unlikely inspiration source.
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A Valley of contradictions. It is “isolated, remote”. You cannot self-drive into it. For much of the year it is snowbound, closed. However, each summer Kamikochi has hundreds of thousands of visitors; most are highly “packaged” daytrippers.
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Its natural beauty, wildlife, cuisine, art and people make Japan a wonderful destination. English-speakers in search of opportunities for amusement and/or bewilderment will also be rewarded – many times, daily – by Japan’s signs, labels and menus.
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Their makers are almost blind. They precisely tune their webs, via which they “see” their “world”, most especially their potential prey, potential mates and potential threats.
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15,000 kilometres from LA there is a different Hollywood. Most West Australians know of its hospital/s and/or its schools. Only a few know its petite bushland.
Comments closedThis “iconic” ballad began life as Music from Beyond the Moon – a 1947 flop. Retitled in 1952, it became famous in 1953, thanks to Frank Sinatra. The “iconic” version was sung in 1963 by Johnny Hartman on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. However, the loveliest version is an instrumental duet, recorded in 1989. One man – not ‘Trane, not Hartman – was common to both recordings.
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