Matthew

I hear you, V-8 tastes terrible!

I'm reading Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland tonight, such a great poem! Can you imagine what Hopkins thought when this poem was rejected by a fellow Jesuit? Didn't think it was good enough for some Jesuit journal. Just the opening stanza alone shows the wondrous creativity of Hopkins. Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

Thought Forms by Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater. Read about this reprint in Dangerous Minds and it is fascinating. A Theosophical work from 1905, and it revolves around the question: what do invisible realities look like? Has fifty-three illustrations and it is a wonderful book to ponder over.

Ray Price: The Essential Ray Price 1951 - 1962. A confident singer, I'm amazed every time I listen to this.

David: I've been listening to Strum and Thrum while driving around, and it's great! Right now, I'm going through videos of the Sadistic Mika Band, wild and creative.

Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day

Duerme by Tito Puente. This has such a nice, smooth, easy swing to it, a great dance number.

Tito Puente: Mucho Puente

Pre-pandemic, I had to drive all over the West, and on Sunday mornings, going through small towns that had an AM radio station, I'd hear some very.... interesting sermons.

On The Road With St. Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. by James K. A. Smith.

I always loved Astoria - Portrait of the Artist, thought it was a high quality album.

Buck Privates

For what it's worth Dan, I have similar symptoms (though my public speaking it still there, which is good since that's basically my job!), and last week underwent an Dementia test, and fully passed. To say I'm relived is an understatement! My father had Dementia (the violent kind), my maternal uncle has it, and I'm very concerned about the present and future -- I'm 62. It can seem to us that we're losing it, but sometimes we're the worst judge of these things. Praying for the best for you.

Derek Webb: Stockholm Syndrome - Live in Texas

I haven't read most of the listed books / writers either, especially the Israeli one's, they're a blank to me. I'll be buying this one in the next couple of weeks, hopefully, there will a Kindle sale and I can snatch it for $2.99. Thanks.

Velvet Crush: Teenage Symphonies to God

How are you finding this? The table of contents looks fascinating.

Roman Holliday: Cookin' On The Roof. Love it! I'm getting my haircut tomorrow, not enough frosted tips...

Tommy Tutone S/T. His debut, not the one with "The Telephone Song". I think it's a very good album, gets a solid 7 from the Matt-O-Meter.

Bram Tchaikovsky: Strange Man Changed Man. I love all the albums.

Dr. John: Duke Elegant

What your wine preference reveals about your personality

Polo Grounds: July 5, 1963

Very envious that you saw the Polo Grounds. I read a lot of baseball history, especially growing up, and I also thought "how foreign those stadiums back east are." Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, et. al., they were so different than the modern world, I loved it whenever I could see a picture of them (this was way back in the pre-computer Stone Age), always blank-and-white, always mysterious. I still love to look at pictures of them.