Selling Sound Through Colour

When I first listened to music
it was always from recordings.
Nobody ever sang live
for an attentive audience.

I heard what was played
on simple technology-
the radio or the record player,
within the limits of my attention span.

The images the music left me with
were not like films that ran in my head,
At the most there were cliched stills of the stars,
supplied by a red top press more interested in themselves
than what they reported on.

Any images I had were purely from the audio
What I 'saw' came from what I heard and nowhere else,
particularly with songs played and replayed in private.

Now no musician writes so much as a note,
much less records it, and writes a song to fit around it,
without first fixing in their head the video image
that is going to sell the sound  to as many as it will reach
around the world via television and cinema.

It is as if they enjoyed creating mass artificial synesthesia.

Unsticky Bonds

Introverts are said to 'have difficulty'
meeting new people, but that is not how it is.

They will try, and often appear to be successful
-the difficulty comes in maintaining the continuity.

Meetings by chance often works quite easily.
But keeping in touch means working out how they connect,
and being happy in 'reading' other people well.

Put simply, introverts do not easily form firm bonds,
though which to feel secure in their grasp of other people.

Instead they rely on others holding on to them.

Making Amerika Grate (Again....)

This is a letter dictated by The president of The United States of America
 to one of his staff and sent one of the citizens of that esteemed country,
thus proving that literacy is no bar to wealth or power. So everyone
can be as illiterate as they want to be in the pursuit of happiness.  

Entropy

Whatever the sale,
the technique employed that makes
the goods seem appealing
is bound to be more consistent
than the good that are being sold.... 

Whatever Sweetens Us Also Corrupts Us

Sugar manufacturers are like democracies;
both expand human diversity and language.

In democracies the diversity of expression
and life are both manufactured and seen to be good,
particularly when they become overwhelming.

As manufacturers have expanded the numbers
of synthetic sugars so their sources and names
have expanded as well. Which in turn expands
the choice of dysfunctional behaviour
and the vast quantities of illnesses
that human being create in themselves .

The 56 names for sugar....

1-sugar/fructose
2-high fructose corn syrup
3-agave syrup
4-beet sugar
5-blackstrap molasses
6-brown sugar
7-buttered syrup
8-cane juice crystals
9-cane sugar
10-caramel
11-carob syrup
12-castor sugar
13-coconut sugar
14-date sugar
15-demerara sugar
16-evaporated cane juice
17-Florida crystals
18-fruit juice
19-fruit juice concentrate
20-golden sugar
21-golden syrup
22-grape sugar
23-honey
24-icing sugar
25-invert sugar
26-maple syrup
27-molasses
28-Muscovado sugar
29-Panela sugar
30-raw sugar
31-refiners syrup
32-sorghum syrup
33-Sucanat
34-Treacle sugar
35-Turbinado sugar
36-Yellow sugar

These sugars all contain varying amounts of both glucose and fructose.

38-52 is the list of sweeteners which contain glucose, either pure
or combined with sugars other than fructose, e.g. galactose.

38-Barley Malt
39-Brown Rice Syrup
40-Corn Syrup
41-Corn Syrup Solids
42-Dextrin
43-Dextrose
44-Diastatic Malt
45-Ethyl Maltol
46-Glucose
47-Glucose Solids
48-Lactose
49-Malt Syrup
50-Maltodrexin
51-Maltose
52-Rice Syrup

Sugars With Fructose Only

53-Crystaline Fructose
54-Fructose

Other Sugars

55-D Ribose
56-Galactose

The last two are less sweet but sometimes used as sweeteners.

  

Spring Is The Time For Art

'Dark Woods'-Hildegard de Haas (1949) 

Did He Leave His Desk, And Life, Tidy?

Philip Roth famously said 'The road to hell is paved with works in progress'
for how difficult drafts of his work could prove to finish, whilst incomplete.

I hope he left behind no work-in-progress, in his life or in his writing.