Angelique Kidjo: Summertime

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Something cool for the warmer weather. . .

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Sitting-out area maintenance

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Thursday

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Cargo handling pier

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Sunday

Wallace Stevens: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

"I do not know which to prefer, | The beauty of inflections | Or the beauty of innuendos, | The blackbird whistling | Or just after."

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Vagrant umbrella

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Market cat

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Finally, sunshine and warmth (28C at 4pm this afternoon)

Parov Stelar: Chambermaid Swing

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

This weekend? Some electro-swing goodness. . .

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Six leaves

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Waterfront

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Waterfront

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Passer-by

Slaughterhouse-Five: ‘So it goes’

Private First Class Kurt Vonnegut, Jr:

His infantry unit had been smashed by Panzer divisions in the Ardennes; his unmarked POW train attacked by the RAF; miraculously, he and a handful of fellow prisoners escaped incineration by American and British bombers. “Their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden – possibly the world’s most beautiful city”, Vonnegut wrote. “But not me.”

So it goes

And here's the letter Vonnegut wrote to his family in May 1945 from the Le Havre POW Repatriation Camp, France, in which he informs them of his capture and survival: Letters of Note

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Sunday

Demdike Stare: Kommunion

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Some mighty fine | ambient | electronic | dark | deep chord | drone | industrial stuff:

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Restaurant

Cultural icons in their own words

Here's a collection of links to audio and video clips featuring artists, musicians, writers and thinkers including:

Guillaume Apollinaire, Albert Einstein, W H Auden, Bela Bartok, Samuel Beckett, Dalai Lama, T S Eliot, Victor Frankl, Frank Gehry, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Billie Holiday, Carl Jung, David Lynch, Georgia O'Keefe, Marshall McLuhan, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, Michael Pollan, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, Andy Warhol, Muddy Waters, Malcolm X

and others: open culture

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Filipina

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Waterfront

Carolina Chocolate Drops: Memphis Shakedown

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Meet the Jimi Hendrix of the kazoo. . .

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The Other Side

Waiting area, David Trench Rehabilitation Centre, Sai Ying Pun

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A life aquatic