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Further down the same path.....

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And that is not the end of that thread...Irish artist Louise Barrett offers a different take On An Overgrown Path in oils.

Another thread...

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Threads - Brad Mehldau led to Nick Cave, and now the title of this blog leads to a graphic art discovery. American artist John Jacobsen created On an Overgrown Path from acryllic and collage on wood in 1993. And if you think that looks like Bill Clinton's face on the orange woman on the right you are right - it is a cardboard cut-out saved from election day in 1992, which seems kind of appropriate.

The library's worth........

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Even the most misfitting child Who's chanced upon the library's worth Sits with the genius of the Earth And turns the key to the whole world By Ted Hughes from his poem 'Hear it again'

A troubled cure ... for a troubled mind

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Nick Drake 1948 - 1974 Time has told me You're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. Lyrics from Time Has Told Me on Nick's first album Five Leaves Left Nick Drake resources On An Overgrown Path include * A Skin Too Few * I am a camera - St Tropez * Monteverdi in Cambridge * Smile why it has been * And as part of the Nick Drake thread read Patrick Humphries' book Nick Drake - the biography , and Darker than the Deepest Sea by Trevor Dann - both highly recommended.

A turd world country?

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- there are 200,000 dogs in Paris - each day they leave ten tons of excrement behind them - each year six hundred Parisians break a limb slipping on dog turds - the city of Paris uses sixty green motorcrottes that streak through the streets trying to vacuum up the turds. The cost of these to the tax payer is £5million a year From Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow

The perfect thread

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Here is an example of what On An Overgrown Path is all about. Bought the new Brad Mehldau solo CD Live in Tokyo , and very good it is too. Two of the tracks are improvisations on tunes by Nick Drake - who is Nick Drake I asked?A brilliant English song writer and folk/rock singer who sadly died at an early age in 1974 leaving behind just three albums. In a neat piece of synchronicity a 'Greatest Hits' type compilation called Treasury has just been released, but grab hold of Pink Moon if you can, it is one of the more wonderful destinations that this overgrown path will lead you to.

Revenge on the car.....

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The press was full of pictures of the destruction caused by a flash flood in the Cornish village of Boscastle. Thank goodness no one died, but a lot of cars did. Strikes me that this is divine intervention. Until we stop screwing up the environment there will be an increasing number of these storms which will precisely target and destroy the real cause of so many our problems - cars. Mini typhoons following the M25 orbital motorway next? Or will we see a final immolation scene with a giant flood wiping all the cars off the face of the earth? - or have I been listening to too much Wagner?