Friday, January 22, 2010

Soldier of Love album: behind the scenes

Sophie Muller's video documentary has been moved from the Epic site to Sony's. View it here.



SS

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

World premiere of Soldier of Love single



Sade released the first single off the upcoming album today. I woke up to this day feeling the same excitement as when Lovers Rock was released in 2000. 'Soldier of Love' does not disappoint. It has a very current hip-hop sound laced with the band's laidback funky vibes. Sade the band has evolved musically yet this still manages to sound like a classic Sade song. Cool! And of course the lyrics penned by the Lady herself are elegantly simple yet powerfully emotive. This song may just be my favourite Sade song of all time.


SS

Saturday, November 28, 2009

The Elemental Dignities Compendium

I recently had the pleasure of conversing with a knowledgeable professional Tarot reader. He is Douglas Gibb of Perth(UK) and he has his own website - Tarot Eon. He has a cache of thought-provoking articles there and his Elemental Dignities Compendium is just superb. It is based on the Golden Dawn method of assessing the Elemental Dignity of the cards in paired and triad forms. Doug expands this approach by offering his assessment of the dynamics in each possible combination. For a total of 40 combinations!

This Compendium is a wonderful online Tarot resource IMO and Douglas gets my gratitude for helping me deepen my understanding of the GD Elemental Dignities system. It is an effective way to interpret non-positional spreads.

SS

Friday, November 27, 2009

New Sade album in 2010




















Yesssss! After nearly ten years, the Queen of Cool Sade is gracing us with a new studio album, her sixth. Woo hoo! I can't wait to pop it into my hifi and hear the new Sade sounds pour out from my ATC speakers.

The release date is Feb 8 2010, just before Valentine's Day. Fantastic timing!

Love you Sade. :)

SS

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I broke my ring!















Dropped it on the floor. It was very precious to me.

SSigh

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Welcome to The SSlocum Chronicles

Hi Wammers (and non-wammers)

I intend this to be just a simple supplementary component to my involvement in a british forum HiFiWigwam. It will be used as a holding dock for quirky or risque pieces* which I deem inappropriate on the actual forum. As such, the activity on here will move at an idyllic pace.

Thanks for dropping by.

SS


* I like that the bloody Wigwam moderators can't do any hackjobs on me here