A quick (free jazz) link as I sit in the Paris Cat thinking philosophically of vitamin F
and the combo plays French style in D major reminding me of Django
and last night’s Tarantino blood-fest of that character
– the Spirit of Jazz –
free associate to the Boosh
and not much sense in the half dark…
We’re drinking gin beside new acquaintances
(describing themselves as friends without benefits)
who get told off obliquely for inane chatting
It goes straight over their heads as
they talk of that comment not being directed at them
because who would mind their harmless natter…
(On stage) Three men with glasses
and one with Andy Capp cap
playing luring violin …
Magical sounds not coinciding /
with movement of bow /
sometimes yes sometimes no /
hard to track flow /
of notes, fingers, bow /
Waltzing between the Wars.
(Portraits) Meditative: calm peace combined with concentration.
Peaceful smiles in the eyes behind glasses.
As the violin sings with eyes closed smile,
then stands back: legs cross at ankle, fist on hip, soft round
gentle profile under peaked flat cap.
Lower lip sucks in as violin under chin and plays again.
– Double bass player shaped like a double bass –
(I wonder if I can write without looking at the page)
(writing unreadable)
Slippery grey pants and a paunch
hung however-the-fuck
– think Serge Gainsborough –
and you realise there’s no need to clean up your act. VITAMIN F.
by HK MacLeod
the concept of vitamin F (espoused by D. Saulwick, TCM practitioner & member of my BaGua circle): the oft overlooked yet most important of the essential vitamins. the F stands for fun
reading poetry in bed 