Teaser Tuesday - Nov 27

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

At the same time as I 'played' with what it meant to be Rachel (the experiments with clothing, make-up, voice, bodily movement) I felt like I was becoming more myself. In the midst of the creation, the theatre and the play, I was becoming a solid person rather than a set of masks.

From Rachel Mann's Dazzling Darkness her story of finding herself - I was at the book launch referred to in the link and hope to be able to post a little more of a review once the reading is complete.

Mutterings - Nov 25

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Statement :: Programming
2. Process :: Due
3. Monday :: Happy
4. Certain :: Sure
5. Reflection :: dans l'Eau (Reflets dans l'Eau is a Debussy piano work)
6. Ours :: Theirs
7. Components :: Pluggable
8. Engagement :: Ring
9. Learn :: Teach
10. Products :: Line

Teaser Tuesday - Nov 20

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Only a day late!

He had gone into every late or early public-house where there was a light (they were not a few at that time, the road being then much frequented by drovers), and had got down to talk to the turnpike-keepers. I had heard him ordering drink, and clinking money, and making himself agreeable and merry everywhere; but whenever he took his seat upon the box again, his face resumed its watchful steady look, and he always said to the driver in the same business tone, 'Get on, my lad!'

In search of someone... I'm getting to the final straight of Dickens Bleak House!

Mutterings - Nov 18

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. 32 :: feet/second squared
2. Ignore :: Snub
3. Wet :: Suit
4. Apartment :: Luxury
5. Translate :: Bishop
6. YouTube :: Movie
7. Stifle :: Burp
8. Plus :: Point
9. Thanks! :: for the Memory
10. Fiction :: Lies

Teaser Tuesday - Nov 13

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Alicia strides to the piano and begins the B minor Sonata. A shock wave wobbles through the room as the piano rings out, abruptly massive-toned. The American boy sits forward, chin on hands, watching her every move.

Adding another sentence to lead more than musicians in! Another teaser from our book group book of the month - Jessica Duchen's Alicia's Gift - the other teaser came two weeks ago, for me, a second read - an easy read after a few more involved novels!
And here's Gilels playing that movement:


I think the very start needs something less than a massive tone!

Mutterings - Nov 11

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Crunch :: Credit
2. Resourceful :: Guide
3. Experience :: Teacher
4. One hour :: Lesson
5. Happening :: Occurrence
6. Mushroom :: Magic
7. Humid :: Damp
8. Mini :: Cooper
9. Earth shattering :: Crash
10. Mistake :: Slip

Mutterings - Nov 4

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Throne :: Game of..
2. Adorable :: Kitten
3. Corner :: House
4. Others :: Care (for)
5. Chilling :: Fridge
6. Spied :: I
7. Limitless :: Space
8. Passion :: Anger
9. Hugely :: Valued
10. Devious :: Snake

Revenge!

The last film at Silkscreen was Susanne Bier's In a Better World, here's the trailer:

As the introducer said the Danish title is revenge and that's probably a better title as it is a study of revenge and bullying and the effect of violence on both sides. Very powerful and thought provoking with its two stories running alongside each other of family and school tensions and those in an African refugee camp. Not a comfortable watch but well worth it!

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 30

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

She is the music and the music is her. The piano is an extension of her. As she plays the sustained unaccompanied start of the slow movement, the mesmerised atmosphere deepens.

I felt it needed the extra sentence! This is a re-read of our book group book of next month (jumping the gun slightly!) - Jessica Duchen's Alicia's Gift a study of the stress of young musical genius - I last read it back in 2008 - and that's the Ravel piano concerto she's playing and on cue my music player's random play facility provides the music! And here it is:

Mutterings - Oct 28

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Crying :: Game
2. Reluctant :: Unwilling
3. Decade :: Last
4. Mustache :: Beard
5. Water :: Feature
6. March :: April
7. Stripes :: Stars (and)
8. Friendship :: Committment
9. Weirdo :: Oddball
10. Contacts :: Lenses

Mutterings - Oct 21

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Authorize :: (d) Version (& licensed)
2. Plunge :: Dive
3. Work :: Opus
4. Throttle :: Accelerator (& victim)
5. Drill :: Bit
6. Toot :: Horn
7. Conference :: Audio
8. Hodgepodge :: Mish-mash
9. Bumble :: Mr (Oliver Twist!)
10. Scandalous! :: Horrifying!

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 16

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

He had lostseveral of his regular columns due to missed deadlines. Other papers were fearful of publishing his articles after receiving anonymous threats.

A final teaser from Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind - it's our book group's book of the month - I borrowed the book from the library but I'm considering buying (or from a real bookshop...) as a re-read - having just finished it. Wheels within wheels and such a journey!

Mutterings - Oct 14

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Textile :: Skip (for recycling)
2. Ginger :: root (and hair!)
3. Strength :: courage
4. Keeping :: well
5. Beard :: Hair
6. Pregorative :: Rights
7. Closing :: Speech
8. Podium :: Lectern
9. Rationale :: Logic
10. Secondary :: School

Islamey

Balakirev's Islamey (arr Zhyltsov)

..on an acccordion (h/t Kip W on rmcr). Apart from the hair-raisingly fast parts I thought the arrangement was especially effective in the slow atmospheric parts of the work.

Teaser Tuesday - October 9

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

He must go immediately to the Boquería market to buy twenty duros' worth of boiled chickpeas and take them without delay to Police Headquarters (in a taxi if necessary) - or he must prepare to present his balls to him on a plate. Would you like me to repeat it?

Getting rid of the naive policman set to follow you in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind (again from the book group's book of the month).

Church at Bourg Trégastel

Church at Bourg Trégastel, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

The intention for the last day was to take a boat around the Sept Îles unfortunately the tides meant there were no boats that day from Trégastel. If you're doing this walk look ahead the tides may be better from one of the earlier stops. Instead we walked to the Vallée des Traouïero a rocky wooded area inland and then walked along the coast in the afternoon. Both evenings we spent at Trégastel we ate out at local restaurants by the port watching the sun set. Unfortunately in Bourg we just missed a concert by the church fitters but we spotted a poster

Mutterings - Oct 7

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Exorcise :: Evil
2. Theory :: Gravitational
3. Possible :: Art of the
4. 1600 :: Pennsylvania Ave (& Bernstein)
5. Feeling :: Emotion
6. Excuse :: Any
7. Mortality :: Death
8. Trivial :: Pursuit
9. Pupil :: Eye
10. Challenge :: Risk

Blind Long Jumping

So this is how a world might
become small, coming down
to a clap, a beat, a voice
calling you on.

She’s heard it growing for years,
exploring where it goes, learning
its lead. Now she knows it well
enough. Who cares what has been
lost or found; there is only the beat
of hands clapping, a private rhythm
everyone understands .

If there was nothing else, it would
still be enough. She has faith.
She has it all. The silence, the breath,
the sound. She steps, she runs,
she leaps into dark, into light.
Into orbit at last.
(London Paralympics 2012 - Rachel Mann)

No doubt you've all seen this already - but having mentioned it at the quiet day, David Runcorn was talking about the trust and intensity of blind long jumping where the jumper uses a helper who stands in the track clapping while the watchers keep very quiet and the helper flings themself out of the way at the last minute! Let me quote it here - that quiet day was a fortnight ago now! - if you enjoy the poem keep a close eye on Rachel Mann's blog from which I've pasted it!

That link to David Runcorn's pages was tricky to find - there's lots of dead links to mac.com... let's hope citing it will improve its chances in google! My photos from the queit day at Cliff college are here.

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 2

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

She kissed me shyly, and I planted a couple of noisy kisses on each cheek. She laughed. In her eyes I could see she was waiting for me to ask her about Clara, but I had decided not to.

A bonus sentence as the second is so short! From Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 'The Shadow of the Wind' our book group's current book for the month. A story of attempted book burning..

Incendies

It's a little time ago now but the first showing of Macclesfield silk screen's 2012-2013 season was Denis Villeneuve's Incendies

Incendies Trailer HD by eOneFilms
Here's a review a film telling of a family caught up in civil war in a Lebanon like country, told partially in flashback partially as the children discover the history of their mother. Raw and emotionally gruelling but strongly recommended! At the quiet day we attended the weekend after, somone was saying from a reading of Lucy Winkett's Our Sound is our Wound that for humans singing may have predated speech this, for me gave an added edge to the character of 'The Woman who Sings' in the film.