The Last Samurai, 2003 - ★★★

Watched on Monday January 16, 2023.

🛒 Sadly in Merthyr Retail Park

Sunday morning. I don’t usually let our cat sleep next to my desk - the shed hair becomes an annoyance 🙄

This morning she persisted, probably because nobody else is up and the bedroom doors are shut. I gave up trying to discourage her. Won’t be for long though 🐈 💤

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Blount (63), The Animals (14), Raffaele Grimaldi (8), Anna Friederike Potengowski (1) & Anna Friederike Potengowski & Georg Wieland Wagner (1) via tweekly.fm

Finished reading: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza edited by John Daido Loori 📚

Finished reading: Ten Poems about Music: The Blue Album introduced by Cerys Matthews 📚

Additional fact from the book 🙂🎵 :

John Cage’s composition As Slow as Possible began being played in St Burchardi’s Church, Germany in 2001 and is scheduled to end in the year 2640.

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Jake Thackray (55), Fontaines D.C. (49), Slow Club (18), PJ Harvey (14) & Georges Brassens (13) via tweekly.fm

Bar 44, Clifton, Bristol. Excellent tapas 🍷

Location check in 🗺 — The Quadrant, Clifton. Tribute 🍺

🔎 Zoom in

Traffic delays and rainbows 🌈

🛣️ Motorwaying to Bristol to pick up my daughter and have a late lunch in Clifton.

🛠 Tinkering with web design (again) 🕸️

Finished reading: On Connection by Kae Tempest 📚

Grey and rainy day in Aberdare ☔️

🍞 Preparing bread