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Geoffrey Armes new music

Geoffrey’s newest CD, “Anima 91” contain songs and instrumentals he recorded in the 1980’s and 1990’s. With the music there is accompanying art in the Geoffrey has composed pieces about loved ones and world travels The songs are both intimate and organic, with the keyboard action the lasting effect on many of them. ‘Snow Country’ is the exception, as Thomas FitzPatrick lends guitar help. The instrumentals sometimes are weighed by the dullness of old drumbeats and the cut/paste of some sounds.    ‘Gong Li’ name-checks the famed Asian actress, seeing her in the beginning of the song as a truly desireable woman, then later as the element of fire amidst Geoffrey’s light meditation on the other 3 basic elments of air, water and earth.  Don’t blink while hearing his zen parable that introduces the song and CD ”All moments are components/A series of reactions/In an opening world”.  “Snow Country” as does “Gong Li” both shine from its sense of realism in word and music design. I liken the subject’s description of place within Tokyo 1991 in “Snow Country” to the oft-repeated phrase ‘no man is an island’, Geoffrey truly in his zen state of no-man here. Many more surprises follow.   Of equal weight are the uncredited drawings lending yet more dimension of word and color to Geoffrey’s songwriters’ palette. All of the drawings are Geoffrey’s and were done in the 1980s and 90s as well.  Top pick of the 12 tracks is ‘Kathleen’. Only blemish are the  drums that just thud….and doesn’t quite liven up the song, but otherwise a very good 2-verse tune. Also there’s the accompanying scrapbook picture awash in blue-green and black writing in German and English:  “I was fooled (x4)/Two to know/Two to show/Two to throw it away” and “There are so many trees in  Berlin”.  Much to explore in lyric, audio and visual from the multi-instrumentalist Bristol UK native (verified as such by the inclusion of a pic of an old passport)
www.geoffreyarmes.com

Tiger vs Rocco

Another biorhythmic mismatch, folks. Like you need another reason to believe Tiger will win today’s 18 hole playoff.
Rocco  12-17-1962 has all 3 cycles straddling critical days and pointing downward.   In fact, he’s on an emotional/physical double critical day…and it just gets worse.
Tiger 12-30-75  is not much better…but he’s on a totally mental high….  emotional is positive but barely. Physically, he’s on a critical day too…also turning negative.
Looks like Rocco’s got more baggage than Tiger, who should win the playoff handily.

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Saturday viewing

Viewing in a few minutes on MNN, the local public-access cable TV show:
Media Funhouse, hosted by some fast-talking wisecracking host, who finds VHS and DVDs of rather various stuff and talks about them, not endorsing them.    Everything from high art to low trash :)   Sundays 1am www.mnn.org on canale 57

Yummy pics of Stella’s Attic, eh? She loves them too…and I hope to get a CD out of the deal.  Good dose of 70’s rock stylings that punctuated my trip to Trash Bar…tho I was really there for a favorite band, The Boroughs. I successfully recorded the audio of that show, tho I got in about 10 minutes late. I take the B44 in from around the area it begins on the other side of Brooklyn..and it ran into delays. But upon missing just 2 songs, it was a great show. Consequently I did not get good pics from that gig.   www.stellasattic.com   www.theboroughs.com

Earlier this week, Sharon (my younger sister) and I played tourist and went to Ellis Island..saw everything in 3 hours. Most interesteing and depressing was an old wood-paneled wheelchair. It just got to me. Maybe the fear stems from my fear of being constrained in some way.