Hans Rosling

" ... resist blaming any one individual or group of individuals for anything. Because the problem is that when we identify the bad guy, we are done thinking. And it's almost always more complicated than that. It's almost always about multiple interacting causes—a system. If you really want to change the world, you have to understand how it actually works and forget about punching anyone in the face."

WILD BREEDS WILD

Wild breeds wild –
you bring something in from the woods,
and soon enough, your home’s not yours.
P!ant a little honeysuckle
and the birds will come… They’ll come
with their mulberry trees and thistles.
They’ll build nests and attract foxes
and hawks, raccoons and opossum…
you lose control… you lose control…

And isn’t it the same with us… Isn’t it
the same with kisses and with skin…
we set something loose in each other…
We plant a little honeysuckle bruise
in our peaceful souls and the birds come…
They come on our hands and on our lips…
we lose control… we lose control.
It’s a deep thing… a promise, a warning…
wild breeds wild..
- Peregrine @ YourEyesBlazeOut

 

MIAMI VICE

Back in the '80s and I was Garde Manger at the Hyatt all the salad ladies would come in the morning after Miami Vice and we would talk about the show and what music they had played.
"They play rock and roll" Geraldine would say.
And sure enough Miami Vice set a style for using contemporary music in a television show.
I think it is so great to find that this grand young lady Kate Bush, at the age of 63, now has a number one hit with "Running Up That Hill" more than 40 years after the song was released due to its exposure on "Stranger Things". Perhaps someone somewhere will use "Sensual World" someday.
I thank you Miami Vice.

The Sensual World

Mmh, yes
Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? Mmh, yes

And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words, just one kiss, then another

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes
I said, mmh, yes
But not yet, mmh, yes
Mmh, yes
Mmh, yes

FACTS

 

"America the beautiful is today America the irritable, where road rage, unruly airline passengers and political violence — a protective fence surrounds the court — reveal a nation of short fuses and long-simmering resentments. Intelligent people disagree about how, or even whether, the facts of contemporary civic culture should influence how the Constitution, including the first 10 amendments, should be construed. But as a founder (John Adams) insisted, facts are stubborn things."
George Will

BAD ASS QUEEN OF THE DAY

Isabella, She-Wolf of France. Married the King of England at the age of 12, exiled to Denmark where she raised an army to invade the country she was queen of and overthrow her husband and father of her four children, King Edward the Second.
Here she is trying not to look pissed.