We Are Oceanic

Humpback Whales. If you were in that boat, you would spend the rest of your life knowing just how pointless it is to walk the planet fearing what might come next or worrying about the day ahead. 

Beautiful monsters.  

Being away last weekend means I missed out on posting the latest Burn Baby, Burn playlist - volume ten! Who would have thought! If it's becoming part of your week, here the link for those of you playing at Apple Music... and because some of you are missing it on Spotify, I appear to still have some free version of the account, so here is Burn Baby, Burn over there - I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Knock yourself out!

Over at the Big Bear Rescue t-shirt project, there's still a good 20 days or so to go before the limited editions are withdrawn from sale - if you were ever intending to buy a shirt there, now would be a good time. Another eleven shirts in the bank means we all get jolted up a notch to superior printing free of charge - so if you placed an order, now is a great time to shake some of your friends into action as well and get a better product for very little effort. 

This past weekend away also put some fantastic artists in the bank as we go along. I'm working on how to play it best but I am not displeased with the direction it's taken... not at all.

More tomorrow... lots to tell and I'm finally catching up with myself here. 

The Weekend Supplement

Friday! Burn Baby, Burn IV is up and Ready To Rumble... and while you tune in, there's a whole load of other great swag to be found in the world. Let's do it:

I have no idea what this is, but I thought I would post it here anyway. Honest I don't.

I picked this up earlier in the week:

...and it's quite fantastic. Nice cover too. If you like (and know your) noir, Blood Count is up there with the greats and that's not something I'd say lightly every day of the week. Reggie is a new name on me though and there are eight previous books in this series that features Artie Cohen too. That should take me to the end of the year. I'll stick that in the win column.

Ummm. Check the hell out of this from Reignwolf:

In other things to get excited about, sometime in the last week, Jack White released this album of acoustic recordings. 

Meanwhile, Roadies finally turned up on Amazon Video this week. I had abandoned TV for the foreseeable future but I've been looking forward to this for months - so you'll forgive me if I Go Dark for a few hours at a time while I plough through it. 

I also found this. I'm not big on YouTube and how it delivers content, but perhaps if it was all like this, I could be converted quite easily. This is a great book review of Roberto Bolano's 2666 by a damn talented reviewer. That aside, if you fancy yourself a reading challenge that reaps rewards beyond what you should get for the price of a paperback, knock yourself out. If you fancy a slightly slimmer challenge, check out The Savage Detectives instead. 

Then I made an appointment for a new tattoo. Big thing. More on that some other time. Have a beautiful weekend lovely people. Time to write.

Burn Baby, Burn 2

This week's edition of Burn Baby, Burn can be found here or if you're one of those who prefer to see the real link:

https://open.spotify.com/user/hangman49/playlist/1Z7m7rrfzPTmCFYYlEQTKw

When I started putting it together I was in something of a classic mood but that soon dissolved into nothing more than a bunch of songs I like driving to. Do we care?

If the music's good, no. We don't care at all.

Burn Baby, Burn

It's a shame to let a great logo go to waste, so I dug out this little puppy and figured I would do something useful with it. 

More to the point, it's even more of a shame to leave my immaculate taste in music abandoned at the roadside so I'm starting out 'reasonably' with a Burn Baby, Burn which is Spotify playlist you can find here, but who knows where things will find themselves in the future. There's much to be explored still and being as nobody else can do it the way I want it done, I'll just do it myself. 

Plus, I can't work without music and today I am working. There are no losers in this scenario.

Yeah... I'm feeling like that today.