0602:
: : Days and nights hearing sometimes seeing thunder and lightning
and an almost constant wind. Lightning, in winter, around Pender Island.
Very strange. Finally provoked to scour the stacks and find the appropriate
artwork to capture the experience. Feats Don't Fail Me Now is an old
favourite; the first Little Feat album I purchased I believe. Aztec
Camera's Knife came to me via a fortunate encounter in a thrift store
- a lovely album. Francoise Hardy I first heard of when I became infatuated
with the movie Gran Prix. Funnily enough I never saw the entire movie
until recently. But in my early teens I read all about the race car
filming sequences in Popular Mechanics and also read the novel,which
included B/W stills from the movie. And so I encountered Francoise
Hardy, the embodiment of '60s EuroCool. And now I've finally heard
her voice, her first claim to fame. Some of the tunes, on this her
first LP, sound fresh and vital today. And Francoise Hardy still records
today. Of all these albums The Lion in Winter I'm least familar with.
The image of Katherine Hepburn is enough for me to place this on the
mantle of fame.
And
below a host of oranges, heralding the approach of warmer days....
