I have just recently been listening to some Ethiopian Jazz. What got me started on it was a Film called Broken Dreams starring Bill Murray. I do like old Bill. He has come a long way since his Ghost-busting days. Life Aquatic (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou) was one my all time favorite films that just grows on you the more you watch it. The first time I saw it i just thought it was weird. But every time I have seen it after that i think it is better and better. Broken Dreams is in a similar vein.

The story centers around the resolutely single Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry (Julie Delpy). Don yet again resigns himself to being alone and left to his own devices. Instead, he is compelled to reflect on his past when he receives by mail a mysterious pink letter. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may now be looking for his father and so begins his adventure into life’s that he could have led

I was drawn to the movie by an interview that was done on the radio. Mulatu Astatke who is shortly coming to London to play some concerts. Mulatu has been termed as the father of Ethiopian Jazz. I am still trying to get his latest recordings. As I suspect many more people will be doing also.

I did manage to find this on Amazon Ethio Jazz, Vol. 1

The last five years we have been hearing a lot from different segments of the music industry about piracy, blandness, mp3. What has the modern age done for the average western adult? It has in a way turned music into trivia. We might not know the names of the bands, but we know the tunes to Beethoven

I saw 2047 by Wong Kar-wai last night and I imagine that it will not be the last time. I watched it again tonight. It really is a great film that explains so much. It is sometimes only through art that we can explain things. I really do recommend it. It helps to have seen

True love

Love, what do you love, how do you describe love, what is true love?
Love can be a great thing or a bad thing.
They say it can make the world go round.
People die for love, but is it worth dying for, as do they know what they have died for.
What did you love, how did you love it and why did you love it. Was it worth it, is it worth it and more importantly will it be worth it.
True love is to respect and honour the truth because the truth is real.
But what is the truth, is it to love your partner as they were your perfect match, is it to love your parents as they bore you and took care of you in life.
Is it to love your children, siblings created from your love. How can this be true love when a day may come and you and your so called loved ones will argue against each other. As they will all stand facing the eternal infinitive torment of hell. Where you will happily sacrifice each other to save your selves from hell. So how can people say they know true love.
You can only love the truth, as true love is the truth.
There

Johnny Cash who dominated music for over 5 decades is one of my great listening pleasures. Even before the nineties began he had dominated music. Many people have a slightly skew idea of who he is and what he does. I had a girlfriend who thought he was John Wayne. In my mind Johnny