Good morning Mastodonians! It's Friday! And another beautiful cool morning...there was actually FROST in some spots in the mountains! The boss is working from home, I've got some easy duties to deal with, so it should be a non-annoying day. And hopefully I can slip out early.
Often, we want everything to match, to look the same, to be part of a set that goes together.
But it is so much easier, and can be just as beautiful, when things don't match, don't look all the same -- when each piece, though it shares characteristics with others, does not look like an exact copy of the rest.
Good morning Mastodonians! Whew, I've had a crazy morning already...it's raining, getting windy, and I had to go supervise the setup of porta-johns at the Roadeo course first thing. Still waiting to hear from the tent people. Thankfully it's to be clear tomorrow, so we'll have a good day to run buses through our course.
Well, started the day with a 10k (10.63km to be precise) which was fantabulosa!!
I'm always a bit self conscious when it comes to sharing my running times...mainly because I've had to dial back pace, or else face long spells Injured, and now I run like a tortoise through peanut butter. However today was the best I've felt running for a long time....Hopefully my days writing will be as smooth and enjoyable. #run#running#Malta#FridayFeeling#Motivation#writers#writingcommunity
Puerto Rican music is a blend of salsa, reggaeton and the country's own bomba style. Here's a Tiny Desk concert from El Laberinto del Coco, a collective of 14 singers and musicians, led by Hector "Coco" Barez. "Barez's vision is to dig deep into the African roots of call-and-response with four vocalists and four horn players to remind us throughout its performance of the power of bomba to create community," writes producer Felix Contreras, who is the co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino.
NPR's Tiny Desk studio had never hosted a hardcore punk band ... until Soul Glo. Here's the four-piece's 15-minute set to send you into the weekend, described by NPR producer and fan Lars Gotrich thus: "Hardcore and punk are vital not only in how I understand the world but also challenge myself; it's music that feels first, then screams. Soul Glo crystalizes its anger and anxiety — about trauma, anti-Blackness, mortality, survival — with a pummeling prism of classic hardcore speed, psychedelic noise, sludgy riffs and a spitfire vocalist with exasperated-but-exhilarating run-ons, who finds moments to step back and bounce like an emcee would."
…going about my day and New Order's "Ruined In a Day" comes on, and I have an odd moment of reckoning with the song and my attempt at completing my projects… historically.
It's that time* again... week 14 of the sparkly rainbow dancers welcoming the weekend with a wee boogie. Have a good one!
strictly speaking 3.20pm is probably a bit early, but I've done everything I need to do and it's very hot, and that's good enough for me to declare the weekend open