"Rita".....from class 1 to class 4 within 48 hours...and then to class 5...
As I wrote in my issue on Mother Earth, I described the increase in ferocity within short time for hurricanes and see what happened to hurricane Rita. The only thing that can make things worse, that it turns into a Tornado F-5, one of the future problems too...The Gulf of Mexico is almost a complete circle and when the hurricane gets enough push from the warm layers and starts turning and twisting, one might end up with the mentioned tornado F-5 (the worst class..)...let's hope it doesn't....And now the oilplatforms are in severe danger too....hope Mr.Bush finally realises that it's getting worse....and that the former record of 20 storms a year has been broken with the introduction of 2 new ones....and the story will continue....
Creating that deep sensation of feeling blue......a review
This time something Scandinavian......for a while ago I saw a program on STV1 (Swedish TV channel 1) ; a kind of livin' room and everybody talking english(UR-educational channel) and there was she, Nina Kinert, lovely little lady, talking about longing, feelings, feeling blue and she sang a beautiful song that really broke my heart.....Finding her music on record was almost impossible, but today I finally could put mu hands on her first album: Heartbraketown (when she broke my heart I didn't know anything at all about her....)At the same time I discovered that she will issue a new album "Let there be love" on october 26th...and of course I pre-ordered it...Her style is simple, a real groovy mix of "feeling blue", Joan Baez, Coleman Hawkins and a fabulous bassplayer....and great lyrics...it fits really in this time of year, autumn, rain, falling yellow leaves, the clouds hurrying towards winter...the wind blowing your sorrows away...really cool...Take a trip to your local music-store......the label is Sony...and yes, she sings in English...
By the way....getting used to "new" music....
The person who started all this, was my daughter (in law) Marjolijn....she had asked me for a melody that was "so coooool and nice", and I finally found it...music from a band called "Magic System", originated from Algeria, but mainly peforming in France and Spain. Together with them on that record was performing Muhamed Lamine, probably only known in the Arabic African countries. Some of my cyberfriends now almost forced me to have " a listening look" into this arabic kind-a-music and so I did....And slowly I started to learn to listen to the for me still "unacceptable" music and I started to like it.....So my cyberfriends from the Far-East gave me other contacts to their music and I decided to try to collect them, both for me and maybe my grandkids, to let them listen to music older than our civilisation, played from one generation to another....and maybe they appreciate it....and will broaden their view in this, their world...I have now music from Marocco to Nepal and via China to Old-Japan and from there to Alaska, real Indian music (The Dance of the Wolf a.o....) to music of the old Inca people and so to South Africa for music of the Bosjesmannen....increasingly adapting my ears and understanding for this beautiful sound of "far away" civilisations, that are ours....Thank you Marjolijn.....
Macca's latest and I hope last album.......
Really, Sir Paul McCartney, this must be your last!! "Chaos & Creation in the Backyard" creates a lot of chaos in our heads, it's a confusing mix of old melodies put into a new jacket.....you think, this will be "Maxwells Silver Hammer" and then comes a new song....unbelievable for us old Beatles-fans....it's utterly chaos because his voice starts to get "old", the great velvet-like voice of the best ballad singer in my life-time has some severe problems to get right to the correct tone and level of the song....and that's bad...I know he's long passed his fifties now, but...really, let him be at peace and maybe he can use his talents in writing music for other talented singers (why not create songs for Norah Jones??)...the only song that hit home with me was "English Tea" with " Too much rain" in second spot...but strangely enough: the album is a kind of creation for him again.....he's using a lot of tones and combination of tones which sounds "almost false" at first, but when you hear the song once again, it sounds really like a new challenge to your ears...although I have the faint feeling that these songs are made "In the Backyard" on his Saturday-off.....As you can conclude: Chaos, contradictions, some new type of music-creation?????????
