Bring it on Home
Yee Haa! I've been waiting for Martin Scorsese's Blues series to appear on BBC4 for a good many months. Over the weekend I received my newsletter from the Beeb's flagship arts channel informing me that it's on its way.Produced as seven films all directed by such diverse aficionados as Mike Figgis, Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Wim Wenders, hopefully the concept will match Ken Burns' masterful 'Story of Jazz', although the reviews I've read so far do highlight the overall fragmented result of so many differing approaches. Nonetheless we'll wait and see and make our own minds up. Critics have rarely tuned into the same wavelength as I. Although, on many occasions, the critics were probably more au fait with what was class and what was not. I await the 15th April with delicious anticipation: Howling Wolf, Muddy, BB, the various Messrs Johnson - Robert, Blind Willie and the rest, Bessie, Fats, Jelly Roll, Skip, Lightnin' and company.
Now this IS what the BBC is all about.
Are City going to survive this season? I'm beginning to get extremely worried now. Listening to the radio commentary on Sunday, it was painfully obvious that too many members of the squad seem to think that they are 'too good to go down'. Well, there's many a team languishing in the lower divisions because of that attitude. Teams that once graced the top divisions (and even Europe) before falling. Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday, QPR, Derby County, West Ham and the rest. On Easter Saturday we play Wolves at home. Wolves have not won away this season. I've got a profoundly uneasy feeling about it.
Just over a year ago when I started this blog, George Dubya was starting his 'war on terror' in Iraq. At the time I made the point (like many others) that it would all end in tears for the Bush dynasty. Problems with the Shi'ites, possibly resulting civil disobedience on a massive scale and evolving into a full blown civil war were, in my opinion, a distinct possiblity. Can George turn it round? I doubt it. It's election year and good ol' Dubya has to play each card with both eyes on the domestic every time he makes a decision abroad. It's gonna be an interesting year.
It must be nice for George though. I mean, with his 'hotline to God', he'll already know who gonna win in November. Surely?
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