Alexander Stuart

Dongchuan Red Land, China - +Incredible Planet Earth , Google+ Through some astonishing photographs posted on Google+ - most notably daily by +Incredible Planet Earth - I have been discovering new wonders on this fabulous planet we all share. The photo above of Dongchuan Red Land in a little known area south west of Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province, China, reveals an extraordinary landscape, little visited by tourists. There are more stunning photographs and information about the area on a blog post by Impact Lab , called The Breathtaking Beauty of Lexiaguo, China. Antelope Valley, Arizona - +Incredible Planet Earth , Google+ This photograph of a striking shaft of sunlight in caves in Antelope Valley, Arizona prompted a comment by one friend of "Beam me up, Scotty" - and indeed it does seem as if teleportation might just have occurred, or be about to. Earth's oceans glistening in the sun, as seen from space - +Incredible Planet Earth

I'm on a music video kick right now - and what better late-night listening (or anytime listening) than this sublime jazz track by Miles Davis , It Never Entered My Mind. I have nothing to add to musical perfection...except that co-composer Lorenz Hart was a close family relative of a friend of ours, Jane Hart - and it's hard to imagine that this slow, beautiful track came from a 1940 Broadway musical comedy, Higher and Higher.

While I was searching for the Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash video of Girl From The North Country , I came across this treasure: Dylan and Van "The Man" Morrison performing a lesser known Morrison song, Foreign Window , together, seemingly just for themselves (actually for the cameras of BBC's Arena arts program, One Irish Rover - Van Morrison in Performances ), in Athens during Bob Dylan's 1989 European tour.  (Sources: YouTube and Rolling Stone Videos )

I've been meaning to post this wonderful Bob Dylan / Johnny Cash duet of Girl From The North Country ever since I saw and loved David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. The most memorable sequence in the film involves this beautiful song, and I love this TV performance from 1969 (I believe). Dylan wrote the song following his trip to England in December 1962 , and there is some debate about whom the song is about. The duet with Johnny Cash (which is the version used in Silver Linings Playbook) was recorded in a February 1969 recording session when Dylan was in Nashville to record Nashville Skyline . (Source: Wikipedia )

If you count yourself among one (or several) of the following, then this Saturday night's DISCOSMIC ADVENTURE at DADA in Shanghai is for you: Space Heads, Stargazers, Alien Abductees, Cosmonauts, Disconauts, Moustachioed Moog Fans, Naturists, Homos and Heteros, Disco Dancers, Italo Stallions, French Synth-Freaks, Fake Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists and Women From Mars. Or maybe you just like to DANCE!!!!! Come listen to American Booze DJs and GET DOWN to sounds like this: If that doesn't get your silver moonsuit popping, nothing will! The Space Party blasts off at 10:00pm (22:00 hours) this Saturday, April 27, at DADA, 115 Xingfu Lu Changning, near Fahuazhen Lu - nearest Metro stop: Jiaotong University. 幸福路115号, 近法华镇路 One small step for personkind, one giant leap for dance!