Eloy - Ocean - 01 - Poseidon's Creation I'm not that excited about them, but this one is definitely worth it!
 
Tal Farlow_Yardbird Suite

Tal Farlow - from "The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow"
1957 (Verve)

#jazzlegends
 
We should all learn from those who are (much) more aware than we are. How to write a song that isn’t just a list of clichés: it talks about Major Tom, astronaut and the solitary pioneer of the space race, alone like Yuri Gagarin. You begin the song with the voice of ground control. Use the countdown as an integral part of the song that prepares a visionary instrumental interlude, dividing the song in two and symbolizing the launch of the spacecraft. Ground control congratulates for the success, cuts to a commercial break, and orders Major Tom to leave the capsule. You hear from Major Tom only after one minute and fifty-three seconds; the first two lines are obvious, the whole world is listening to you and expects a hero’s speech, but then something happens to you, the music becomes quieter and more reflective as you communicate that you feel overwhelmed by a sense of total helplessness and insignificance. You decide to let yourself drift. You have one last loving thought for your wife. Then you turn off the radio and disappear into space and mystery.

From space, you return as Ziggy Stardust. You shoot this video years later, when you've already decided to kill Ziggy and do nothing to hide your annoyance toward your own creations. Ziggy will never return. But in 1980, in "Ashes To Ashes," you reveal the fate of Major Tom: he’s alive, he’s old, he’s trapped in space, and he’s a junkie. He is your portrait of Dorian Gray, which you let drift into the void when you freed yourself from your addictions in the late seventies.

Major Tom appears one last time: like a skull in an astronaut’s space suit in the "Blackstar" video. He’s on an alien planet, adorned with jewels, and is the object of a magical cult, while the rest of the skeleton still floats in space. Major Tom is dead, and his death announces yours, coming just a few days later. You began writing this cycle when you were twenty-two years old and finished it on the very day of your death.
#umbertopalazzo David Bowie – Space Oddity (Official Video)
 
Ingrandisci questa immagine
 
Alberto Sordi: "Il marchese del Grillo" - Io so' io... e voi non siete un cazzo! My "Monicelli review" continues. With perhaps the most popular and "overexposed" classic of his filmography, the one that even the pot where I cook my lunch knows. She likes it, even.
 
 
writing a review #zot and having more comments about music than others. Max Gazzè - Una Musica Può Fare
 
Roger Waters - Sea Shell and Stone This is an old piece, but I believe that if Water were currently with Pink Floyd, perhaps an album with the chemistry of the old companions could have been born. Certainly, nothing revolutionary, without fireworks, far from the idea of a Supergroup, maybe simple like the English countryside, but in my imagination listenable only in my imagination of someone who deemed them magical before the transoceanic release of The Dark Side……. Simple stuff that they definitely still know how to do.
 
Dedicated to the forgetful @[Cialtronius] since you hate me, just to spite you, I love you... my old friend! XD

Johnny Hallyday - Que je t'aime
 
8½ - "Perché non sa voler bene"

Federico Fellini (1 of 5)
"8½" - 1963

#35mm
 
Dot Hacker - Mindwalk (N°3) HD

These youngsters deserve it. Among the best (if not the best) discovery of 2018.
 
Leonard Cohen The Stranger Song One of my favorites by Leonardo.