Author: Ciscography

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Brooklyn Charmers: A Fine Dan ‘Tribute Band’…

Steely Dan are one of my favourite bands. Walter and Donald wrote some of the finest music… ever imho.

Here are wonderful covers of two of my favourite Dan tracks, ‘Your Gold Teeth’ and ‘Your Gold Teeth II’, sown together in a great medley. These two tracks demonstrate everything I love about the Dan; the jazz infused, yet totally accessible rock and roll, all with that cutting edge of intellectual idiosyncrasy that exudes wisdom.

This band, ‘Brooklyn Charmers’, is simply amazing. I haven’t seen a better cover of these tracks. Check them out.

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Haiku: ‘No Doubt’

Photo by Dhivakaran S on Pexels.com

Light dispels darkness
Cockroaches scurry away
There’s no doubt or fear

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

What You Imagine, You Create — Meditations in Motion (Reblog)

Photo by Ivan Babydov on Pexels.com “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha We have been having a week of glorious Indian Summer. Golden sun-splashed days gently yield to balmy open-window nights this November. I sat on the deck one recent afternoon and listened to […]

What You Imagine, You Create — Meditations in Motion

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 1 — The Eclectic Light Company (Reblog)

Influenced by the Shoreham landscapes of Samuel Palmer, and his teacher John Nash, here are the eerily empty landscapes of Essex, Sussex Downs, and elsewhere.

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 1 — The Eclectic Light Company

*Paul Nash paintings here.

Astrology Has an Interesting History — Class Warfare Blog (Reblog)

Astrology goes way back so I assume it has a pre-history (going back 6000+ years or so) but there is little we can learn about such beliefs before there were written records of what they were. In any case we can learn two things from this long-standing belief. For one, people looked up and studied […]

Astrology Has an Interesting History — Class Warfare Blog

*Astrology does indeed have a very interesting history — and it has diverged into many differing forms in recent times. Yet, speaking as an astrologer myself, I contend that the philosophy behind it is essentially correct.