A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

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Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch; 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music. He currently lives with his family in County Cork in Ireland.

A Gift from a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music. It was released in the United States in December 1967  

Voyage into the Golden Screen

"In the golden garden, Bird of Peace
Stands the silver girl, The Wild Jewels niece
Paints in pretty colors children's drawings on the wall
Look of doubt I cast you out be gone your ragged call

In the forest thick a trick of light
Makes an image magnet to my sight
Gown of purple velvet enchanted glazed eye
The sound of wings and sparkling rings behold a crimson sky

Tread so light, so not to touch the grass
Breathe the air so slowly as you pass
Silent sudden dewdrop lies unseen until
Eyes to fall to hidden call the power of love and will

Symphonies of seaweed dance and swoon
Surreal celestial shore beneath the moon
See the dark and mighty peaks pierce the cumulus
Violet and mauve they sit power you can sus'

Elvin fingers clutch a deep black cloak of fine damask
Aged rock incarnate lie reveal a bejeweled cask"

[ Donovan Leitch Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]  

Autistic CSU Animal Science Professor Temple Grandin

"Temple Grandin is a 2010 biopic directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, a woman with autism who revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses.

Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons.

Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”"

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The Horse Boy

An intensely personal yet epic spiritual quest, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through the breathtaking steppes of Mongolia in an attempt to find shamanic healing for him.

Watch the full length movie on Hulu via imdb.com

 

Project Moonbase : A Podcast of Exotica

PMB027: Popcorn"We are always alert when cosmic alignments suggest themes for the show. Of late we have found ourselves enjoying that classic Gershon Kingsley tune, Popcorn, and in particular some moustache-twirling interpretations of said tune. We thought it therefore appropriate to devote this week's show to some of these extraordinary arrangements.

As well as all the hot buttery goodness of popcorn, we also have a couple of tracks from Italian library music supremo, Giampiero Boneschi, some Enoch Light, some Bruce Haack re-imagined by Brother Cleve and possibly the first example of chiptune on vinyl (or at least flexi-disc) from all the way back in 1983.

This show also sees the start of an occasional series whereby we drag our listeners one at a time into the Moonbase Experimental Lounge of Music (The M.E.L.M.) and subject them to various auditory and psychological tests. After which they are allowed to dedicate a track on the show to a loved one. This week sees the appearance of that much-loved long time listener, Squig.

MC Zirconium for his part tells us it is the largest of scaly animals, and it has the following nine characteristics. Its head is like a camels, its horns like a deer's, its eyes like a hare's, its ears like a bull's, its neck like an iguana's, its belly like a frog's, its scales like those of a carp, its paws like a tiger's, and its claws like an eagle's. It has nine times nine scales, it being the extreme of a lucky number."

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The Music

1. The Brass Menagerie: Touch Me from The Brass Menagerie Buy on Amazon

 
2. Scharlatan: Popcorn     Watch

 
3. Jonny Trunk: Wife Swapper from Scrap Book Buy on Amazon

 
4. Heaven 17: Key to the World (on C64)     Watch

 
5. Giampiero Boneschi: Moogy Dayz from Moogy Dayz, Vol. 1 Buy on Amazon

 
6. Barking Classics: Popcorn from The Classics Buy on Amazon

 
7. Little Ukulele Monster: Popcorn     Watch

 
8. Brother Cleve: Music 4 Robots from Dimension Mix: A Tribute To Dimension 5 Records Buy on Amazon

 
9. Giampiero Boneschi: Metamorphosis from Metamorphosis & Italian Folk Big Band Buy on Amazon

 
10. Edward Simoni: Popcorn: Edward Simoni from Das Beste Buy on Amazon

 
11. Gershon Kingsley: Pop Corn from Music To Moog By Gershon Kingsley Buy on Amazon

 
12. Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra: Caravan from 100 Jazz Legends Buy on Amazon

 


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What Triggers a Supernova ?

This Chandra image of the Tycho supernova remnant contains new evidence for what triggered the original supernova explosion. Credit: NASA/CXC/Chinese Academy of Sciences/F. Lu et al.

"What makes a star go boom? A new look at Tycho’s supernova remnant by the Chandra X-ray telescope has supplied astronomers with previously unseen evidence for what could trigger specific type of supernova, a Type Ia supernova explosion."

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