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Gianna Nannini: un'esplosione rock
Capostipite del rock italiano al femminile, nonché per anni unica rockeuse nostrana da esportazione, musicista eclettica forgiata da sette anni di studi al Conservatorio, Gianna Nannini ha attraversato quarantanni di canzoni conquistando più generazioni di fan e riuscendo a restare a galla senza mai snaturare il suo stile, pur evolutosi negli anni dal rock irruento e dalle produzioni internazionali degli esordi verso un cantautorato altrettanto sanguigno, ma molto più morbido e accessibile.
Gianna Nannini: a rock explosion
Founder of Italian rock for women, as well as for years the only local export rockeuse, eclectic musician forged from seven years of study at the Conservatory, Gianna Nannini has gone through forty years of songs conquering more fans than she managed to stay afloat without ever distorting the old style, although evolved over the years from the impetuous rock and the international productions of the beginning towards an equally sanguine songwriting, but much softer and more accessible.
Vedi com’è facile perdere il cielo con l’eternità.
(Indimenticabile) - Gianna Nannini: un'esplosione rock
Capostipite del rock italiano al femminile, nonché per anni unica rockeuse nostrana da esportazione, musicista eclettica forgiata da sette anni di studi al Conservatorio, Gianna Nannini ha attraversato quarantanni di canzoni conquistando più generazioni di fan e riuscendo a restare a galla senza mai snaturare il suo stile, pur evolutosi negli anni dal rock irruento e dalle produzioni internazionali degli esordi verso un cantautorato altrettanto sanguigno, ma molto più morbido e accessibile.
See how easy it is to lose heaven with eternity.
(Unforgettable)
Gianna Nannini: a rock explosion
Founder of Italian rock for women, as well as for years the only local export rockeuse, eclectic musician forged from seven years of study at the Conservatory, Gianna Nannini has gone through forty years of songs conquering more fans than she managed to stay afloat without ever distorting the old style, although evolved over the years from the impetuous rock and the international productions of the beginning towards an equally sanguine songwriting, but much softer and more accessible.
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My tribute to Bill Withers who died March 30th, 2020.
“The hardest thing in songwriting is to be simple and yet profound. And Bill seemed to understand, intrinsically and instinctively, how to do that,” -Sting
there’s a vacancy, next to me
a place bare for entry
carefully, kept empty
a warmth void presently
come to me, poetry
the words lost in sanity
expressed delicately
some sort of potency
built, a ready construct
a house to share the abstract
some sort of comfort, filled absence
the shape takes form in fractures
Astute music lovers will recognise the title as a line from Jim Croce's magnificent song, "Time in a Bottle". It is 50 years since Jim's moment in time came to an end in a fiery plane crash on September 20, 1973. Fifty years! The news of Jim's death made a big impression on me, because it seemed such a loss of a truly rare songwriting talent.
In this original video released just months before Jim's death he holds his beloved son and swings him around joyfully. Time is short. These moments are priceless. But we hardly know them as such at the time. The lyrics in that context are heartbreakingly beautiful and true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95g2Fi1aJDs
So what does this have to do with my picture? Well I hope you can see that I have processed it for atmosphere (like an old faded slide). All we have here is a kind of nostalgic moment and we are alone. A moment frozen in time. But what's around the corner of the lighthouse? Does that small view of the sea remind us that we are on a voyage across time? And like that beautiful scene at the end of The Lord of the Rings, does sailing into the West eventually bring us to fairer shores? We hope so.
No matter how much we try to bottle time, the reality is our sands of time are running out. But imagine for just a moment if in fact every single moment in time is not only being bottled, but preserved for all Eternity. Wouldn't that be special?
Poeta-autore di testi tra i più belli e suggestivi della canzone d’autore italiana. Si è sempre lasciato ispirare dalla produzione poetica europea del Novecento.
Le sue canzoni di valore ricchissime di metafore mi hanno fatto sognare da più di quarant’anni.
Un piccolo mio omaggio a Francesco.
Guarda qui ------->> www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK033zIdW00
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Poet-author of some of the most beautiful and suggestive texts of Italian songwriting. He has always been inspired by the European poetic production of the twentieth century.
His valuable songs full of metaphors have made me dream for more than forty years.
A small homage to Francesco.
Look here ------- >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK033zIdW00
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On those challenging days when a smile is elusive, photography has the power to transport me to a state of happiness and tranquility. It's where I find my peace.
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Written by the legendary songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the iconic 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is an enduring pop classic. Its optimistic lyrics convey a message of resilience, highlighting the protagonist's realization that happiness is imminent despite current troubles.
The single, performed by B. J. Thomas, soared to No. 1 in the United States, Canada, and Norway, and reached No. 38 in the UK. Notably, it held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1970, becoming the first American No. 1 hit of the new decade. The song's success was further cemented when it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, contributing to Bacharach's win for Best Original Score for the film.
(Nikon Z8, Nikon 100-400/5.6 + TC 1.4, @ 470 mm, 1/320 @ f/11, ISO 200, edited to taste)
Among his songwriting credits are "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which became hits for other artists. Kristofferson was also a member of the country music supergroup the Highwaymen. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
the back seat, lines that meet
I hang behind your ghost heat
I reach, towards fades dreams
a lie I’ve told, now on repeat
places, our sense of presence
lonely is the naked tenement
detachments, replaced sentiments
objects once warm lay barren
and I stare, at the back of your chair
remember how you kept your hair
a touch too late now, to regret
the things that I had left unsaid
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their leftist songwriting. The group members have been persecuted by the Turkish government for many years, they have been arrested and jailed again and again and even tortured.
I took this picture during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna. A short time before Turkish Police had burst Grup Yorum vocalist Selma Altın's ears "by hitting on both of her ears with their hands" and had broken violinist Dilan Balcı's fingers.
bianet.org/english/print/140960-police-tortures-left-wing...
Grup Yorum members Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government". The day after Ibrahim Gökçek's death the myrmidons of the Turkish terrorist regime raided the funeral using teargas, arrested mourners and seized his coffin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_Yorum
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/lonely-death-of-gru...
Ian Kevin Curtis (born on July 15, 1956 – died 41 years ago, on 18 May 18, 1980) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the band Joy Division and recorded two albums with the group: Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980). Curtis was known for his bass-baritone voice, dance style and songwriting typically filled with imagery of desolation, emptiness and alienation.
Curtis suffered from epilepsy and depression and died by suicide on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour and shortly before the release of Closer.
Despite their short career, Joy Division have exerted a wide-reaching influence. (they) "became the first band in the post-punk movement by ... emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the '80s".
In 2002, NME named "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as the greatest single of all time, while Rolling Stone, in 2004 and 2011, named it one of the 500 best songs ever.
Tim Booth, from James says that it is "One of the best love songs I’ve ever heard"
― Plato
My husband is getting better each and every day. Amen! Slow and steady wins the race. I am trying to get back to feeling normal after the month of stress and it is not easy. I am sure all of you know that feeling to some degree. Sometimes I think it is more exhausting worrying about the ones I love than myself. I pour my heart into my loved ones and often times I am told I forget completely about my health and my own well being. Bad habit? I don't think so. When I invest myself in the needs of others, my pains seem to disappear. Try it. :)
365: the 2022 Edition 70/365
the process is so delicate; too much brain, and it becomes to rigid, too much heart and it misses structure; letting go but not too much ... and patience .... staying with it like with a child, until it becomes mature enough to carry on by itself...
I was about to turn it into a square but then felt that the left side would form a good counterweight to the busy right side.
“Almost Summer, West Alberta,
Blue-tinged Rockies, Chaba Imne* water.
“He was born in the summer of his 75th year,
Coming home to a place he'd never been before.
He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again.
You might say he found a key for every door …
Rocky Mountain High …”
—with apologies (twice) to John Denver, and to his collaborators, the singer-songwriting duo Country Roads.
*First Nations name, Beaver Lake.
Much-photographed Spirit Island, now presenting as “Spirit Peninsula” due to low water in Maligne Lake. Felt cold at 1670m above sea level and 53ºN latitude that day, just before Solstice. Explore no.103
"All You Need Is Love" is a famous song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to the songwriting partnership of Lennon/McCartney. It was first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link, on June 25, 1967. The song's message emphasizes the importance of love and unity as a fundamental force that can bring people together.
I did a little mix with some bokeh! Don`t know what is bokeh ?
Certainly! "Bokeh" (pronounced boh-keh) is a term in photography that refers to the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image. This effect is produced by a lens and is distinct from a simple blurry background; bokeh characterizes how pleasing and aesthetic the blurred points of light appear.
Key aspects of bokeh photography include:
Aesthetic Quality: Not all blur is considered bokeh. The term specifically describes the pleasing or aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus blur. This might mean soft circles of light or a smooth, creamy background that doesn't distract from the main subject.
Aperture: Large apertures (small f-number, e.g., f/1.4 or f/1.8) produce a shallower depth of field, leading to more pronounced bokeh. This is why lenses with large maximum apertures are often prized for their bokeh-rendering capabilities.
Lens Construction: The shape and quality of the bokeh are influenced by the construction of the lens, particularly the design and number of aperture blades. A lens with more rounded aperture blades will typically produce rounder, softer bokeh.
Types of Bokeh: Different lenses produce different types of bokeh. Some might produce circular bokeh, while others might produce more hexagonal bokeh, based on the shape of the aperture blades.
Subject Distance: The distance between the camera, the subject, and the background can affect the appearance of bokeh. Generally, having your subject closer to the camera and farther from the background will produce a more pronounced bokeh effect.
Background and Light: Bokeh is particularly noticeable when there are points of light in the background. This can be natural light filtering through leaves, city lights, or any other light sources in the background.
Bokeh is often sought after in portraits, where a creamy, blurred background can help the subject stand out. However, the quality and appearance of bokeh can be subjective; what one person finds appealing, another might not.
In the broader context of photography, bokeh is just one tool in a photographer's toolkit, and its use should be dictated by the desired mood, story, or effect the photographer wants to convey.
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Drummer for Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s.
City of Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA.
11 October 2025.
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▶ Oakhurst Porchfest:
Since 2015, "a grassroots community music festival where front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day."
📷 More photos: here.
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🎶 Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s:
"Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the wilds of Wisconsin, Mandi Strachota is the product of southern roots and Midwest know-how, a potent mix of practicality and soulful dreaming. Mandi has become a fixture on the Atlanta scene, taking her music nationwide in 2019. She is known for her soulful vocals, but is a multi-instrumentalist who is quickly becoming known for her songwriting [...] embracing R&B, gospel, and soul, [...and] dabbling in jazz and blues, with a touch of grit and country sway."
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🎉 Commendation:
On 26 November 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in the Weekly Snapshot with Flickr Social.
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Saxophonist for Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s.
City of Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA.
11 October 2025.
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▶ Oakhurst Porchfest:
Since 2015, "a grassroots community music festival where front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day."
📷 More photos: here.
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▶ Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s:
"Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the wilds of Wisconsin, Mandi Strachota is the product of southern roots and Midwest know-how, a potent mix of practicality and soulful dreaming. Mandi has become a fixture on the Atlanta scene, taking her music nationwide in 2019. She is known for her soulful vocals, but is a multi-instrumentalist who is quickly becoming known for her songwriting [...] embracing R&B, gospel, and soul, [...and] dabbling in jazz and blues, with a touch of grit and country sway."
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"Guitar and Pen" - a song by The Who about songwriting and creative input, from the album ""Who Are You" (1978).
"Macro Mondays" contribution "Lockdown Song":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9EdWnSX-c
I've been spending many, many lockdown evenings reading a 1500-page biography about this fascinating and unique rock band. During this time, "Who Are You" has become my favourite Who album. - 20 years ago I didn't like it very much. Now I find the songs and their lyrics very fascinating. And many lines from "Guitar and Pen" remind me what's missing during these lockdown days: inspirational, creative moments that happen between human beings. A Zoom conference can definitely not provide or replace that.
Width of the objects (pen and Marshall mini amp) in focus: 6,1x6,1 cm.
(A.Schacht Edixa-Travenar-A 1:2,8/50mm @ f/11)
He is kissing John Lennon.
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song credited to Lennon–McCartney that appears on the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennon started production of the song, and then Paul McCartney contributed to it in a songwriting session.
Have you seen an image of Pelé hugging some famous in the streets? It is the "Pele Beijoqueiro", a series of lambe-lambs by the artist Luis Bueno, 35, from São Paulo, present in walls and walls of several cities in Brazil.
Pele's Lambe-licks
Bueno has already put Pelé next to the Mona Lisa, of Leonardo da Vinci; characters from the "Star Wars" franchise; the painter Salvador Dalí and even the singer David Bowie, the biggest assembly of the series.
The lamb-lambes, artistic technique of assembly and collage, were inspired by a photo of Pelé embracing Muhammad Ali in 1977, in the United States.
"I fell in love with the image, which brought this gesture of affection and affection of a great symbol of Brazil that is Pelé. Immediately I realized that I could reconstruct the image and enjoy the gesture of the kiss, replacing Muhammad with other people," said Bueno , in an interview with Batanga.
The works are produced in stages. The artist took the photo and started a digital painting process that took months to get ready. Then it is scaled, separated into several parts for printing and cut manually. "Many pieces in the series are hand-painted too, which would be a fourth step," he says.
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Pelé passed away yesterday in São Paulo, at the age of 82.
Rest in peace, King Pele.
December 29, 2022.
Like a first love,
The one and only true love
Wasn't it written all over my face, yeah
I loved you like you loved me
Like something that can never be Replaced...
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Taking By : Me
SongWrite By : Selena Gomez
© All rights reserved to Đεmδlίёђ .
I've been looking around awhile
For someone like you
And I knew when I saw you smile
No one else would do
Oh baby, I've been looking for you
Maybe, you've been looking too
Baby, now no one else will do
Except you..
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their leftist songwriting. The group members have been persecuted by the Turkish government for many years, they have been arrested and jailed again and again and even tortured. But the band "remains popular and their albums continue to sell well in Turkey and internationally."
Here you can see a picture I took during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna.
But the latest news I heard about Grup Yorum aren't exactly good: two of their members recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government":
Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek
The day after Ibrahim Gökçek's death the myrmidons of the Turkish terrorist regime raided the funeral using teargas, arrested mourners and seized his coffin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_Yorum
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/lonely-death-of-gru...
Why should I care to find my song?
Why should you care to find yours?
Don’t we vibrate in an Ocean of Sound?
Does the dream of reaching ourselves
To finally know who we are
To finally know where we are going
Delight an Answer in limitless queries?
Don’t our bodies soak in possibility
Within the larger symphony of stars and galaxies
Beyond all mathematical perplexity?
Will our shallow throated emissions
Penetrate the shells still dividing us?
From nowhere and everywhere
This paradoxical quest holds the Tune
We are each an aspect of its vital Harmony
We find our journey waiting and singing to us
To invoke a much deeper throated response
Until we feel ourselves to be Home
© Ganga Fondan, 2010
The quest to find Truth showers its songs upon my life and it is the only way I know to find meaning. We each have a connection to the Poetry of Life. Immersed in this we are invincible. My Blog
7DWF Saturday: Landscape
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Yes I'm Changing (Tame Impala)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI60jMIDQ0U
There is another future waiting there for you
I saw it different, I must admit
I caught a glimpse, I'm going after it
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Yes I'm changing, can't stop it now
And even if I wanted I wouldn't know how
Another version of myself I think I found, at last
And I can't always hide away
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Quoted from SongFacts:
Personal transition is a major theme flowing through frontman Kevin Parker's songwriting on the Currents album. He explained to Uncut magazine: "That was precipitated by what I found myself singing about. I usually just follow my instincts when I start writing and then I will notice a theme emerging. I tried to amplify that so I can make a cohesive album, one that has a message and story."
"And yeah, this theme of this personal transition and moving on really went together with the music. I wanted to explore this idea of feeling like you're turning into the kind of person you thought you'd never become or starting to appreciate things you've never done it before," he continued. "You set these rules and standards, then one day you feel like you want to embrace other things, and the only way to do that is to abandon your previous self."
Parker added that this was the song where he felt it all started to cohere, stating "'Yes, I'm Changing' was the first time I managed to string together the right words to bring home what I'm trying to say."
Wonderful songwriting by Keith Richards.
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"...always in the same room" (James Taylor)
A little over ten years ago, I lost my interest in photography. Or so I thought.
Only a couple of years before that, I had begun writing songs, but with the demise of my thirteen-year marriage, songwriting took up a major chunk of my creative psyche. I wrote songs on the way to work, at work, on the way home from work, in the car, in my head... anywhere I had a free moment to think, it seemed, songs invaded my headspace.
I purchased my Martin guitar a few months before I moved out of my house. It was a present to myself as way of making up for all the years I'd pretty much denied myself many personal possessions. I'd owned a 12-string guitar which my wife had picked up from a friend of hers for $70 as an anniversary gift. It served me pretty well for a number of years, despite its rather high action. But to improve as a guitar player, I needed a better guitar. I'd always wanted a Martin, so over to Elderly Instruments I went. My choice came down to either a 30-year old D-21 or a brand new D-1R. I chose the latter.
Hour after hour I would play some days, either learning someone else's songs or writing and rehearsing my own. I met many local (and a few not-so-local) musicians during my first year after moving out of the house, so I was often invited to jams and song circles. Never wanting to be without something new to play on these occasions, I tried to write as often as possible. Mostly, I wrote about myself... taking some aspect of my life and turning it into song. Divorce is pretty fertile ground for songwriting, as you might imagine, so I did lots of plowing of that field. It's only natural to do lots of processing after such a life-altering event, so I did most of my processing in songs.
A couple of wonderful yet short-lived relationships provided more song material and for several years, I attended a songwriting retreat; I began writing songs that didn't necessarily involve me thematically, although I'm always in there someplace, I suppose.
For the last year or so, I haven't done a lot of writing, other than for my blog, which until recently, has even been forsaken for my resurgent interest in photography thanks to flickr. Every now and then, however, a song comes to me — whether to celebrate a friend's birthday, or in response to emotions I might read in a photograph. I write almost as if it's my duty, sometimes, whether that means giving voice to something I — or someone else — might be feeling.
EDIT: I've re-recorded my most recent song (complete with train whistle in the background) and posted it at my blog.
Here's my tribute to the very great
Mr. Dylan, who has just come out with yet
another album in his astounding career. It's
called "Modern Times," evoking the spirit of Chaplin -
which is appropriate - as I wrote myself in the introduction
to the interview I conducted with Bob - (and which
is in my book "Songwriters On Songwriting,
Expanded Edition") (It's also in a new book of
Dylan interviews edited by my pal Jonathan Cott,
who I have never met)> To quote myself,
"In person, as others have noted, he is
Chaplinesque. His body is smaller and his
head bigger than one might expect,
giving the effect of a kid wearing
a Bob Dylan mask. He possesses one
of the world's most striking faces;
while certain stars might seem surprisingly
normal and unimpressive in the flesh,
Dylan is perhaps more startling to
confront than one might expect. Seeing those
eyes, and that nose, it's clear that it could be
no one else than he,
and to sit at a table with him
and face those iconic features is
no less impressive than
suddenly finding yourself
face to face with William Shakespeare.
It's a face we associate with
an enormous, timeless body of work,
work that has changed the world.
But it's not the kind of face one
expects to encounter in everyday life."
Mr. Dylan is a Gemini, so the twin faces
here suits his dual nature. His songs are
sad and funny, beautiful and brutal,
full of love and outrage, life and death,
clarity and abstraction.
His press rep at the time insisted I
omit some of the things Dylan said to
me from my interview. One of the best,
which I am happy to share with you here,
is when he mentioned the song "People,"
and sang, in that inimitable Dylan style,
"People who need people are the
luckiest people in the world..." And then
he looked at me
earnestly,
and asked, "Do you think
people who need people
are REALLY the luckiest people
in the world?" He's a man who thinks
a lot about the meaning of songs.
Which is why his
mean so much.
I've taken his photo before, too - he is
often standing outside of a nearby
7-11 convenience store, where he holds
open the door for people, and tacitly requests
hand-outs. He is always well-dressed, which he
told me is the result of shopping at a great
thrift store nearby, where I also shop, called
Out of the Closet, which donates its
earnings to AIDS research.
Last time I saw Paul I was at a shoe-store
with my son, and he came in, passing out
leaflets for a Mexican restaurant. Said, "Got to
make a living." Told him I had good photos of
him, and he told me to make him a print, if
I could, and leave them with Maria at the
shoe-store, a corpulent Latina whom he
identified as "the mother of my child."
On this day,
which was brutally hot,
Paul was cool, somehow, in this
jacket and tie,
and talking to a very sweaty
postwoman, who refused his
suggestion to pose for me. He was
as warm as ever, and full of smiles,
happy for me that I had a new camera,
and very interested in how it worked.
Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s, performing at...
City of Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA.
11 October 2025.
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▶ Oakhurst Porchfest:
Since 2015, "a grassroots community music festival where front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day."
📷 More photos: here.
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▶ Mandi Strachota:
"Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the wilds of Wisconsin, Mandi Strachota is the product of southern roots and Midwest know-how, a potent mix of practicality and soulful dreaming. Mandi has become a fixture on the Atlanta scene, taking her music nationwide in 2019. She is known for her soulful vocals, but is a multi-instrumentalist who is quickly becoming known for her songwriting [...] embracing R&B, gospel, and soul, [...and] dabbling in jazz and blues, with a touch of grit and country sway."
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Lumix G Vario 100-300/F4.0-5.6.
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Heading back to tent in the early hours. End of the road festival, September 2017.
In the late summer of 2005 Simon Taffe decided that he wanted to start a festival. A music obsessive and festival-goer, Simon dreamed about booking the bands he loved and presenting them at the sort of festival that he’d like to attend.
The first year, 2006, was a creative triumph, but a financial disaster. The team held its nerve and soldiered on with generous help from several friends and volunteers.
Today, End of The Road remains true to its initial dream: to book the bands that they love and present them in a way that respects the music and the audience. End Of The Road is not about any particular style of music. Rather it evolves depending on what excites them each year, but great songwriting has always been valued.
End Of The Road has a unique atmosphere, relaxed and friendly but serious about music. The beautiful pleasure gardens at Larmer Tree form an ideal place to create a woodland wonderland, strewn with art installations and decorated spaces.
There is a musical edge to almost everything on site with the literary and film programmes being rich in musically-related material.
There are no VIP areas or big name sponsors and you’ll often find musicians wandering about the site and watching other bands’ shows. Sometimes spontaneous performances result.
Live if you want to live,
That's what we got to give,
Got to have a good vibe!
Bob Marley.
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim, blending mostly reggae, ska and rocksteady in his compositions. Starting out in 1963 with the group the Wailers, he forged a distinctive songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with audiences worldwide. The Wailers would go on to release some of the earliest reggae records with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. Source Wikipedia.
New album cover from "Pleasurado!" (September 2007). Photo credit: Wade Kalinowsky. Layout and design: Jeff Kibbey and Patsy Dubois
Even While She Sleeps with Me
Naw, we’re postapocafluent; she just dances to enhance her narciphelia
She wanders pharmatopia and ponders paraphoric polyphrenia
The lines around her eyes say I’m not quite the daring acromantic erobat I used to be
The graceful way she ages is so awesurrelegrageous it’s not fair
I marvel at her noirveau eronautics and diloxymethophrenia
And egorotic, shegorotic, chronic chemonautic omniphelia
The softness in her eyes says I’m not quite the handsome erochanting hedocrat I used to be
The way she elegantly ages is so awesophisticageous it’s not fair
We sleep in matricholy postapocafluent forniplacency
She dreams of all her other lovers even while she sleeps with me
She still craves mystieranger; she’s still prey for sinistrangers at Sadisco
She concinchually wenches out for avantdrogytrois with machophistos
The distance in her eyes says I’m not quite the cliterati pleasurado that I used to be
The way she smolders as she ages is so awesurrelegrageous it’s not fair
We sleep in mascocholy postapocalatent fantaplacency
She dreams of all her other lovers even while she sleeps with me
She’s still postapocaphoric; she still smolders with unholy autophelia
And egomantic, shegomantic, frantic hedotantric panaphrenia
The lines around her eyes say I’m not quite the eroteric esorotic used to be
The way she never seems to age is so damn irriliciousitagious it’s not fair
We sleep in menocholy postapeakalyptic nouveauplacency
She dreams of all her other lovers
All those other lovers
It’s not fair
We sleep in sedacholy postapocosceptic narcoplacency
She dreams of all her other lovers
All those other younger lovers
She dreams of all her other lovers
Even while she sleeps with me
Day 146 - 365/2023 - A Never-Ending Journey
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The origin of the expression ‘pig in a poke’ comes from the 1500s, when a “poke” was a sack, and merchants would sell piglets in pokes, often sight unseen. When an unsuspecting buyer got his poke home and went to release the piglet, a chicken, duck, goose, or some other animal less valuable than a pig would come out of the bundle instead. The advice being given is “don’t buy anything until you have seen it.”
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Monthly Theme #05 / A Collection of Pigs
This little pig came from "Down Under"
and was sent to me by a songwriting friend.
'Citizens Kazoo Orchestra ' They were making a far from peaceful protest against Camdens proposal to make busking illegal unless you buy a license. Busking without a licence will be £1000 fine !!!It was led by renowned songwriting troubadour Johnny Walker . Totally agree with their cause , anybody else that wants to keep freedom for busking on the streets of Camden you can sign their petition here - www.keepstreetslive.com
Alaine Laughton (born September 21, 1978), known by her first name, is a Jamaican American reggae singer and songwriter. She was born in New Jersey, but moved to Jamaica at the age of three.
Singer/songwriter Alaine possesses a sweet voice, songwriting skills that show a depth of experiences and a smile that could brighten any day.
Benicàssim (Spain)
Virginia Street
Lise is a holistic vocal practitioner who tutors in voice work, singing, songwriting and performance skills and works all around Scotland
A music video for a track I recorded with Michelle Dilling. It's one of the main tracks we have recorded. I recorded the guitar and Michelle wrote the lyrics and sang on the track. Feel free to comment and share. Here are some links to my Pond5 page and Michelle's poetry page -
www.facebook.com/Michelle-Dill-spoken-word-poetry-2535723... Stock footage used to make the video.