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Gris-gris - Voodoo New Orleans Gumbo from Dr John
An Introduction To Gris-gris By Dr John Although I love a lot of his albums, “Gris-gris” by Dr John (Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. <November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019>) is one of the most brilliantly disconcerting albums in my extensive collection.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
Why I Walk
My Health I am extremely lucky. In the past few years, consultants have delivered me some not-good news about my health including possible strokes, heart attacks, cirrhosis of the liver, and liver cancer. Each time I have pointed out that I can walk away from the meeting with this news aware that I have to take better care of myself, which with the NHS in this country is fairly easy for me.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Longevity
Chanukah Yule Christmas
I hear about Good Will To All Men (what about Women) at Christmas, and feel that every day we should give Good Will to All, Humans and Animals, every day. This is a free-form point based on a positive statement for every statement of every Festival.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
In The Lifeboat
This is for the Vocal "Ship of Dreams" Challenge on the 110th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. That’s why I am freezing to death, clinging to what’s left of a table because I cannot really swim, and hoping that I can forget the cold as I watch the Titanic slowly slipping into the watery oblivion of the Atlantic after the iceberg hit. I was even more scared when the first funnel collapsed but it didn’t hit the sea near me, but I am so frightened.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Fiction
The Joy of The Penguin Café
Introducing The Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Simon Jeffes Many years ago I saw a video featuring penguins and loved the music that was used as the soundtrack. The piece was “Beanfields” by The Penguin Café Orchestra, who up to that point I had been totally unaware of.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
A Pride of Lions
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York …
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
My Rules of Engagement With Vocal
Initial Observations on My Vocal Writing I was looking at my figures for posts, reads, and engagement with others. My attitude is that in the model I am in you cannot expect people to just read your posts without any kind of exposure and engagement, although link bombers seem to think that will just happen if they have a title like “How To Make $1000 a day on Medium / Vocal”. Ironically my biggest read Vocal post is the one below which was a sort of clickbait experiment based on the most-read piece on my blog, and has had over a thousand reads.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Journal
Love Is All Around
I heard a couple of songs over the weekend “Love Is All Around” the Troggs cover by Wet Wet Wet used to play out “Four Weddings And A Funeral” and “Everything I Do, I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams from the film “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves”. Yes they are romantic and made me think of someone very important to me, just the feeling I got from them.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
Do Vinyl Records Inspire Original Creation?
About Vinyl Records This piece is going to be an oddity because a couple of songs came to mind that I wanted to share, but there were not enough songs to create a playlist. Below is my history of recorded media that you may find interesting as it has some of my opinions, but I have recently complained that the sole attempt at originality for modern vinyl releases is colored vinyl of picture discs, which while they can be interesting, most of the time that is where it stops.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
Welcome To The Future
Prologue on The Sinking of the Titanic This is for the Vocal "Ship of Dreams" Challenge on the 110th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. This will be observations on the story of building the world's first unsinkable Ocean Liner.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Humans
