Jay

I SAW A JAY today. They are supposed to be incredibly shy birds, but mine was sat on railings about two yards or so away. When it flew off it landed barely ten feet's distance on the grass and started pulling at some worm or something... whatever jays eat.

They do look peculiar birds... I always thought God must have designed them during his teabreak... "well I'll take a magpie and make it dun coloured, except for a peach bit... o! and bright blue!"

The blue-all-over jay you see bottom right must be an American bird, because you don't get jays like that here...

THE PAGE TURNER
la tourneuse de pages...

I SAW THIS last night. A very prim-looking girl goes to a lovely country house to act as maid-cum nanny to a buttoned-up family. Simmering passions evolve. Soon she is turning pages for the concert-pianist lady of the house... I don't get the end of the story, but the lead-up's very good...

You can read a review better than I could ever give by clicking here...

Michael Jackson: Captain Eo/ etc

CAPTAIN EO ~ this is the 15 minute film Michael Jackson got paid $15 million to make in 1984. And it ran and ran at Disneyland's 3D "theaters" for 20 years...





This is interesting:



Michael Jackson Molly Meldron interview. This is something Michael Jackson did around 1988 to boost flagging ticket sales in Australia...



I don't see what this is part 2 of... even MORE clips of Michael jogging around in military-type jackets..? This is the type of hyperbole used to advertise Michael Jackson's shows in the 1980s and 1990s... and it's so EXCITING!!!

A New Leaf...

YES I'VE TURNED A NEW LEAF, A NEW PAGE I'm moving on. I don't even know why except it'll make it easier to travel when I'm hugely successful in the not-too-distant future (I tell myself). I've lost enough years to "researching" this book of mine. Now I want to write it and get the hell out of the "research" stage and concentrate on something else. I suppose I could talk cow's crap and say I know all the wonderful things the world is full of; but I don't ~ not really. I could parrot some of them out, but I feel none of that wonderfulness at all. As I said the other day, I realized at some point in time past that, as they say, end-stage addicts tend to fall into thirds: one third die, another third carry on using until they die, the last third get clean and live. And I know, and have known for a long time, that I belong to this last third. And so I just have to make it. And no arguments ~ OK!!?!

Here's some beautiful pixx of the autumn...

Canada:



USA:



Finland (I always wanted to go there...)



Nothing autumnal would be complete without this song, yet again...
Watch this vid for lots of lovely "fall colors" ...