Did your Sunday go by as fast as mine?
We turned the clocks back an hour, but the darkness came too quickly as the sun set roughly around 4:30 today. I won’t give in and be SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) - I can’t afford to with so many wonderful events this weekend and coming this fall. For example, I caught up with some wonderful humans for a retro menu luncheon courtesy of The June Cork Pub in Dover, NH, using favorites from the former Coat of Arms Pub in Portsmouth, NH. While the food wasn’t as delicious as it was at The Coat of Arms, it played second fiddle to catching up with old friends.
And last night was a wonderful display of community and music in North Berwick, Maine, for the Seacoast Last Waltz Band. It was a fundraiser for The Continuum Arts Collective, a nonprofit that provides Maine & New Hampshire student artists and musicians with the materials, instruction, and experiences they need to flourish as creators. It was great to see so many smiling faces and spend the night with friends new and old, while enjoying some great music and food.
It’s Film Season!
I don’t get to the theatre to see movies that much, but I should go more often. I recently saw One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Benicio del Toro, Chase Infiniti, and many more. I loved it and will not spoil it for anyone who has yet to see it… Before that, I saw the wonderful documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, the speedy and well filmed F1 with Brad Pitt, and the latest Naked Gun goofiness starring Liam Neeson, a project developed by Seth McFarlane.
Next on my list? Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White from The Bear. It’s not a biopic, but focuses on about two years in Springsteen’s life and the 1982 album, Nebraska, which is my favorite album of his.
What’s on your film list?
How often do you go to the theatre?
Music on YouTube
I cleaned up my YouTube channel recently and added a new playlist full of lesser-known jazz releases that I found after reading the latest We Jazz magazine. The playlist features such artists as Harold McKinney, Shamek Farrah, David Murray, Hiroshi Suzuki, and more. If you’re not familiar with We Jazz, they’re a well-run Finnish jazz label and publisher.
The latest issue is called Thembi for Pharaoh Sanders. It features great articles all about Pharaoh Sanders, a ‘discoholic’ column by Mats Gustafsson, tons of album reviews, live reviews, a photo essay, and more. You can subscribe on their website or through Force Exposure, a Massachusetts-based music distributor.
Click the image above, or click here, to listen to the playlist and subscribe to my YouTube channel while you’re there.
Thanks again for reading. - JB