You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades

One of my friends posted this on Facebook the other day and I had to share it with you. It's an epic example in what can  happen when you get bored with a friend in a kitchen  -
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

Making Music Improves Your Health - Fact!

Photographs by Amsterdam photographer Ananda Serne

From children to students to OAP’s music is a consistant part of our life. Not only does it give us pleasure but it helps keep us happy and healthy. Buckets of research has gone into uncovering direct links between making music and enhancing your well-being.

Get Healthy! – Making music improves your health. Evidence from around the globe has proved that playing a musical instrument can:

# Help Asthma sufferers reduce their symptoms

# Relieve stress and increase well-being

# Build muscle strength and aid recovery

# Enhance the function of the immune system


Get Back! – Making music keeps you younger. An increasing amount of research shows that for older people making music can delay the signs of ageing and help with the symptoms of some degenerative diseases. Making music, particularly within a group setting, can:

# Help decrease anxiety, loneliness and depression

# Improve self-esteem

# Help improve memory

# Give a general sense of well-being

Believe it or not, playing an instrument that you have to blow into burns a significant amount of calories. So your hour a day practicing will improve your health and give your lungs a workout

FAMILY

I came across this stunning new book FAMILY at my local bookstore, Waterstone's, the other day. I instantly thought how some of you would sacrafice a weeks worth of coffee in exchange for this beautifully shot book.










I love Familys' celebration for freindship and how for some their strong bonds develop into becoming a family unit. For many years, Lauren Dukoff has been photographing close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, and each other, as well as a range of other musical influences. FAMILY is a collection of Dukoff's striking portraits and candid images of Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Bat for Lashes, Feathers, Espers, Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces.

A Sizzling Breakfast

" Cooking breakfast this morning in Puyicard, Provence where I am writing for a few days...." tells Lenny to all of his Twitter fans