Just some ideas: A day early

But I was sitting here and so I thought, I might as well. You don't have to read it earlier than Sunday dear Reader. :-)

Anyhow: this has been a horribly hot week here in my part of Germany and I am definitely NOT heatprove.
So, the songs, that I already had, about the heat, are still valid. Although, I think, I only had one of them on, so I put on the other one now. I don't own it. It might bore you to read that all the time, but I can hardly put on the mantle of creatorship for something, I didn't create. So I don't. Here goes:

There is a nice version sung by Miss Monroe, from the film "There's no Business, like Showbusiness" But somehow the version I found was a bit grizzling in the pixels. And this is really nice enough...

As I said, we had a heatwave and this always means, that my feet swell to about double their size. So I wear shoes with laces, that I can widen. But if this goes on, I have to buy these kind of shoes a size larger. Just so I won't have to go to work barefoot or in flipflops. That is generally frouned upon in an office and generally rightly so, but in this heat? There should be exemptions. Though: I do not like to walk in FlipFlops, but some people do and can and should be allowed to.

Other than that: not only did I finish the second act of "The Crucible" I finally got around to read the story of the real happenings in Salem in the 17th Century Massachussetts (sorry, if I wrote that wrong, not on purpose). Anyway, I did know, that it really happened, I just didn't know, that Arthur Miller stayed so near the truth.Some things he eliminated and some (mainly the ages) he changed, but most of the characters he kept. It is a shocker and more shocking than the truth of the story is, that this can practically happen every day, everywhere to everyone. Well, maybe minus the hangings, I hope, but the "witchunt" of people.

Even more frightening to me personally is, that I cannot be sure, that I wouldn't be a witchhunter. Now, unencumbered but such happenings, I would say: no way! But if I thought my life or that of the ones I loved depended on it? I couldn't say. I really couldn't say, but I say it right away: I wouldn't want to try it out.

So, apart from reading The Crucible I finished the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux and I am currently listening - again - to "The little Beachstreet Bakery" by Jenny Colgan. I like her style.

Yesterday I started "The black Country" by Alex Grecian. It is good and it is about the work of Scotland Yard in its beginning in the late 19th Century. But it started with a girl finding an eye and it started with "The American" who had a gash in his cheek, that showed his teeth. Won't describe it further.

On my e-reader I am also reading "Locavore - U.S.A." which is about people to try and make their grocery shopping more local. That is interesting and it is, what I try, but not always manage to do. Anyway, it is a nice book and when I don't want to read about crimes in the 17th or 19th centtury I gladly turn to economic adventures in the 21st Century.

Oh and I have been watching a lot of clips from X-Factor (several different countries), and "you name the county" go talent. I watched again Susan Boyles first audition, but there was one by a then 13year old girl, Carly Rose Sonnenclar on X-Factor America, who then got sponsored or whatevere it is called, by Britney Spears and I thought then and think now, that Britney Spears did a great job. It was a bit as if she wanted to show, how it can be done. She didn't turn the girl around, She asked hard work of her and she tickeled out the best and she showed, that she herself really is a pro. Also I had the feeling, that she found some sort of piece in this. She got a girl on first place by her mentoring (that was the word) and showed, that she is more than her child and teen clips, but a talented, hard working woman.

She should do more of here quiet songs, like "Sometimes I'm sad..." Maybe even Jazz or Blues or Soul? I don't know, but I think, that she is much more, than what she was made to be.

So, to honour that, I shall try to find a clip of Miss Sonnenclar, after Britney Spears mentored her.

As always, I don't own that clip!

O.k., she does not look like 13, but she does not sound like it either. Below another clip of hers, the original audition, that clip I don't own either...