A chat with my neighbor about blogs brought into sharp relief my laziness and absence from my own. It's been fully a month since the last post. Shameful stuff, that is.
So, here are some thoughts on some viewing and listening you may find useful.
I've recently discovered Newton Faulkner's music and have really been enjoying it. I'll take a quick moment here to plug amazon.com's DRM-free music offerings. The downloads are high bit-rate and reasonably priced. The music, well, taste is highly subjective there, so I'd recommend giving the disc a preview (which amazon and other sites offer) or hitting youtube. He bases his tunes on acoustic guitar, and the result (IMO) is brilliant. It's pretty smooth and up-beat listening.
Anika Moa is a Kiwi musician, and I've been really enjoying here music as well. She has a wonderful singing voice, at once delicate and powerful. She has a few albums out now, and they are all really good, covering a variety of emotion and subject matter. New Zealand has many strong offerings in the music department, and Anika is (or should be) at the top of that list.
Planet Earth is a 5 disc documentary nature series from the BBC narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and in a word, it's brilliant. The cinematography is breathtaking, moving the viewer through some of the planet's most remote and imposing landscapes, beautifully capturing the changing seasons. It makes this ever-shrinking planet feel like a big place again, and re-instills that sense of wonder that one tends to lose journeying into adulthood. This is beautiful and really should be on everyones watch list.
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