Daily Musings with JP Hummingbird

A morning epiphany episode. Lengthy rant on the nature of truth seeking and true friendship… followed by a rendition of Dirty Old Town by the Pogues. Thanks for your love and support.

Welcome back for another episode of Daily Musings with JPH. Today’s topics: more findings on the Non-parent vs Parent theory, a re-reading of Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño (JP’s favourite author), and towards the end an introduction to a theory called Give & Take. There are two songs in there somewhere also: one written by Bob Dylan and the other by JP Hummingbird. Godspeed, friend & foe!

La primavera is upon us here in the Hamptons paradise studios. We’re celebrating with a little Wordsworth and songs from JP Hummingbird and L.Cohen. Enjoy, subscribe and share. Love love love!

Good morning world. Welcome, welcome. Enjoy, subscribe, share.

Creative energies are flowing as the storm abates. A new episode drop for you and yours. Featuring songs by Nick Cave & Tom Waits and poetry from Robert Fernandez & Humberto Ak’Abal.

JP is back to talk about the trials and tribulations of a mood swing life. Featuring songs by BobDylan and The National.

Welcome back, back to blank, blank spaces, black holes who knows? Mellow Sunday morning ramblings. Poetry by Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu… a song written by the great Bruce Springsteen. Love and laughter, sadness and joy, vi voglio bene xx

Welcome to a Sunday morning homespun episode. Featuring poetry by Rachel Mennies and Nirmal Verma and a song by Justin Vernon. Fare thee well x

This week we join Matsuo Basho on a walk through Edo-period Japan before visiting Nick Cave to hear from his redhand files, issue #295. Then we head off to the streets of Philadelphia to hear a Springsteen classic. Fare thee well, you and yours.

JP Hummingbird has ventured North to recover and recharge and dine and laugh with old friends, lifetime legends. There’s poetry by Angela Jackson and songs by Bobby D and Nick Cave. Fare thee well xx

Welcome to the misadventures of Don Hummingbird - back from a summer hiatus to jump on some thought trains, discuss a poem by Raymond Antrobus, and sprinkle a bit of Springsteen and a Hummingbird classic on the autumnal Sunday morning dew. Salute! I miei amici.

Re-emerging like water lilies blooming from the murky Midlands canal ways. Welcome to the wandering thought clouds of JP Hummingbird. Discussing and reciting works of Art by NJ Stallard, Sian Heder, Chris Isaac and the iconic Elvis Presley. Fare thee well folks. All lOvE and lashings of AccePTanCE.

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Buongiorno Tutti. Recoding from Palermo on a beautiful spring day after a two day Easter Festa con la mia famiglia Siciliana. La vita è bella! Feat. Poetry by Yuki Tanaka & a song of L.Cohen’s, naturalmente. Vi voglio bene xx

Emotional episode… Songs by Richard Ashcroft & JP Hummingbird. Poetry by Laura Villareal & Ari Wolff. Dedicated to the one & only DTC - “There is no time but for the truth.”

This week we’re falling in and out of love, falling in and out of ourselves and gathering all the moments we can muster through these green eyes… featuring a song of Ryan Adams & poetry from Patrick McGuiness & our superhero Nick Cave. Fare thee well friends, foes, enemies & lovers.

A deep dive into rivers of thoughts surging through unfolding layers of life. Inspired by truth nuggets from Sam Harris, L.Payne & T.VonNewman and the incredible adventures of Nouria Newman, one of the stars of this year’s BANFF Film festival. Poetry of Orihon & a song of the Master, L.Cohen. Enjoy. & fare thee well, my friends xx

Musings on a London come down, freedom & privacy, songs from Leonard Cohen & Poetry from Pascale Petit & Ian Humpherys. Salute x

A tame Kerouacian adventure through the golden streets of London Town, the big smoke, the golden retriever… a brief dalliance with the musings of Nick Cave & sweet recollections of lives past in India & beyond. Love love love x

Sunday morning musings passing through Himalayan mountains and India and Napoli and of course the humble canals of Wolverhampton, England. Warning! This is a No-News podcast! Fare thee well friends.

Sunday morning musings on Statues, trophies, books, Marlon Brando, through the eyes of Truman Capote, Cohen Lyrics, Gabor wisdom & the grand mosaic of thought patterns that form under the pale winter sky. Fare thee well, my friends.

Musings on Freedom, books, birdlife, the good life & a Cohen song to wrap up today’s meander down the thought canal ways…

Join JP Hummingbird as his thoughts coalesce under the beautiful Northern sky. & don’t worry, you can sit back & relax as this is a no-news podcast. Fare thee well, friends.

Welcome back to the thought trains that pass through on random Sunday morning in the heart of middle England. Featuring a few songs from the great L.Cohen and musings from the lesser spotted JP Hummingbird. Be kind, unwind. Sharing is caring. Big love x

Sunday afternoon musings from a secret location in the heart of Northern Warwickshire.

Autumnal musings from the Juliette Balcony on a bright Sunday morning “among the garbage and the flowers.” #L.Cohen #TomWaits #NickCave #jphummingbird #Nuerodiversity. Be kind, unwind. Stay beautiful x

Autumnal musings sat at the kitchen table with the ghosts of Cohen, Kerouac and Old Grandpa Jack. Fare thee well.

Sunday morning, skeleton tree… haiku, song and poetry. Be kind, unwind. Hope you’re basking in beauty. Big Love. Sincerely, JP Hummingbird

Podcasting from Birmingham in the heart of the Heath. Topics ranging from The trials of Odysseus to the profound mysteries of words and meaning. We’re accompanied by the brilliance of Nick Cave & Leonard Cohen. Listen, Love, Lean into life. Love, JP

Song, poetry and melancholy musings. Fare thee well.

A beautiful day to reflect on the recurring triangles that project from places unseen and turn the world around. There is a new segment called ‘Letters Of Note’ and a flurry of songs towards the end themed around requited and unrequited love. Fare thee well kind souls, past present and future.

We’re in the heart of Warwickshire breaking the fast with Povey Powell and Leslie Nope discussing love, poetry and bog life. Fare thee well my peeps.

Giddy reflections this morning after a fun night with friends, family and football. Leonard & Dylan are also in the mix between sips of Earl Grey Rooibos joy. Fare thee well, my friends.  

Dear World,  Today's pocast is a pirate radio cast on the move. An experiment, so to speak. Apologies for the reduced audio quality and abrupt start. Hope you enjoy and your day is, indeed, filled with mini pitta pockets of joy. Love & peace & chips & gravy. fare thee well. 

Early morning poetry & song dedicated to the moon moon, the everqueen of the sky. Apologies in advance for the sudden ending of this one. Suffice to say love always & fare thee well. 

Sunday morning with Walt, Baisao, Leonard and Waits... fare thee well, mes amis. 

Observations from the Juliette, songs and thougts and Hiakus!! Enjoy and fare thee well x 

Early morning pitta-bread-patta over scrambled eggs and Lavazza. Poems from Lorca, Thomas, Kerouac & Bolaño. Fare thee well, mes amis xx

Sweet sweet life & poetry & song. Featuring Patrick Kavanagh, P.Larkin, L.Cohen and good old Jack Kerouac. Along with the Redhouse Collective - Magic souls. Hope all is well in your corner of the World. Fare thee well. Anon... 

Back on the microphone, shaking off the ring-rust after an extended hiatus. There's poetry from JP's favourite author Roberto Bolaño and a brief Haiku appearance from Basho, one of our favourite Japanese Zen wanderers. There's also a poem freshly penned and a song to finish from JP Hummingbird.  Fare thee well out there in the deep deep blue.  Stay soulful & keep doing you. 

Join me on a journey through the smoke rings of my mind… poetry and lyrics session featuring the musings of Robert Plant, Bob Dylan, JP Hummingbird and the mercurial late great Frederico Garcia Lorca. Enjoy, subscribe, be kind & fare thee well.

Sunday morning sermon with the Rev. Hummingbird:  I.  Skeleton tree Points skyward — helpless.  ll. Black spire punctures the sky — silent echo. Today we check in with Basho, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Nick Cave & Springsteen and, of course, our dear friend the Old Tea Seller, Basaō.  Be good to yourself.  PS. remeber to subscribe and be kind and write a haiku or two. 

A clear bright winter's foggy-headed Sunday morning session.   

JP's spirits are bouyed by the beautiful light of the November sun, the glorius winter sun, Lucian Fraud's favourite sun that casts the best Portrait light.  This episode Features:  Poetry from:  Baisaō, The Old Tea Seller (Transalated by Norman Waddell) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Translated by Simon Armitage) Notes on the Sonnets (Luke Kennard) Songs from: Nick Cave   JP Hummingbird Fare thee well, world. This morning is amazing and so are you. 

Back from the operating theatre with poetry, song and meandering thought trains that keep rumbling through the green fields, past great victorian wharehouses, through clouds and fallen leaves...   

'Unrequited Love' special. Enjoy. Share. Bare. Be content. Fall in & Out of Love again & again & again...

There is an upswing in the air as life returns with a late summer surge:  10:00 - Notes on the Sonnets, inspired by Luke Kennard  25:00 - Tales from the Red Hand Files with Nick Cave  40:00 - Long Black Veil, inspired by The Band and Lefty Frizzell I hope there is levity in the air whereever you may be. Fare thee well old friends and new. PG

The summer's end is near: we're talking NickCave, We No who U R & the Red Hand File: Was Bukowski a jerk? There is an appearance from our favourite french Prose-Poet, Charles Baudelaire, as he revels in the darkness of 'One O'clock in the Morning. JP, then reflects on the rise of his inner hermit crab as well as the writings and long form cinematic masterpieces of Roberto Saviano - author of Gomorra and Zero, zero, zero.  Time Stamps: 03:00 - We No who U R 13:50 - The Red Hand Files Pt. 1 21:26 - The Red Hand Files Pt. 2; Was Bukowski a jerk? 26:30 - One O'Clock in the Morning with Charles Baudelaire  34:15 - Washed Up in Wolverhampton with JP Hummingbird  40:00 - The Nick Adams Stories with Hemingway 43:00 - Gomorra Evennings with Roberto Saviano  56:00 - "Focus on what you can do!" C McGregor 58:00 - Outro with snippets of Nick Cave, JP Hummingbird and The Soul 

Musings on Happiness, Haiku (inspired by Simon Armitage), Sonnets (inspired by Luke Kennard), San Sebastian and wine (inspired by Hemingway), and the Grand Olympics (Inspired by Gianmarco Tamberi and Mariya Lasitskene). Enjoy. Be good to yourself. Fare thee well. 

The summer sun is melting the very fabric of reality here in Middle England as worlds collide and life turns one way then t'other. There's also a Bird On A Wire and the sweet sweet feeling of wine and song. Be kind, Unwind and fare thee well.