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Alien landscape 🇬🇷

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Alien landscape

Currently reading: Magritte by Alex Danchev 📚

Finished reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚

Good morning from Rhodes ☕️

Location check in — Lambis Studios, Lindos, Rhodes 🇬🇷
🗺 Map of area

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🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin (22 plays)
The Cure (16)
Broadcast (15)
Liv Greene (15)
Paul Simon (14)

Succisa pratensis, also known as devil’s-bit or devil’s-bit scabious, is a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family.

Literally hundreds of these flowers in our garden at the moment. Never noticed them before.

Favourite Museums

After a recent trip to Brussels I’ve been thinking of museums I’ve visited. My top five at the moment, in no particular order, are:

• Ca’ Rezzonico, the Museum of 18th century Venice
• Keats-Shelley House, Rome
• Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon
• Acropolis Museum, Athens
• Magritte Museum, Brussels

Alone - The Cure

Alone

On Thursday 26th September 2024 The Cure released the single Alone 🎵

Birds fall from the sky, broken voices call us home and youthful dreams are dashed against the transience of life in the band’s first new song in 16 years

(from 🔗 The Guardian)

The lyrics of the song “seem to be based on Dregs, an 1899 work by the Decadent poet Ernest Dowson”.

Alone on Apple Music
Official video on YouTube

The Cure - Alone (Lyrics)

This is the end
Of every song that we sing
The fire burned out to ash
And the stars
Grown dim with tears

Cold and afraid
The ghosts of all that we’ve been
We toast with bitter dregs
To our emptiness

And the birds
Falling out of our skies
And the words
Falling out of our minds
And here is to love
To all the love
Falling out of our lives

Hopes and dreams are gone
The end of every song

And it all stops
We were always sure
That we would never change
And it all stops
We were always sure
That we would stay the same
But it all stops
And we close our eyes
To sleep To dream
A boy and girl
Who dream the world is nothing
But a dream…

Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament
To call us home

This is the end
Of every song we sing
Alone

Ernest Dowson - Dregs

The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof,
(This is the end of every song man sings!)
The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain,
Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain;
And health and hope have gone the way of love
Into the drear oblivion of lost things.
Ghosts go along with us until the end;
This was a mistress, this, perhaps, a friend.
With pale, indifferent eyes, we sit and wait
For the dropt curtain and the closing gate:
This is the end of all the songs man sings.

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Just been given 3.5kg of green tomatoes. Think I’ll be making green tomato chutney tomorrow 🍅

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, 2024 - ★★★

Watched on Tuesday September 24, 2024.

Location check in 🗺 — Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd. Sampling their Otley beers: Boss, Retrograde and Hop Angeles 🍺

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