Watched "Minority Report" - excellent SF fayre and a well made film - a couple of nit-picks though but I'll let those go...
Then the latest two episodes of "Rome". All set up for a fine finale...
Then, on to the computer and, carrying on from yesterday's art theme, created this...
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I prefer the black to yesterday's white...
Once Anne woke up, we had breakfast and watched an old CSI episode, clearing yet another videotape...
Then I compiled a King Crimson compilation containing around 10 minutes from each of the 8 CDs in the two "21st Century Guides to King Crimson" I acquired this year and, whilst listening back to that I compiled my list of albums of the year in various categories - five albums in each (in alpha order)...
New Albums
Adrian Belew - Side Two
Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth
Coldplay - X&Y
Robert Fripp - Love Cannot Bear
Recent Albums I Missed When Released
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - 15 Neue DAF Lieder
Fennesz - Venice
Francoise Hardy - Tant de Belles Choses
Neal Morse - Testimony (2CD)
Rheostatics - Night Of The Shooting Stars
ReIssues
Bruford/Moraz - Music For Piano and Drums
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Relayer
Live Albums
Bruford - The Bruford Tapes
Dream Theater - Live at Budokan (3CD)
Kiss - Kiss Symphony : Kiss Alive IV (2CD)
Lou Reed - Animal Serenade (2CD)
Tangerine Dream - Royal Albert Hall 2/4/75 (2CD)
Jazz
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat
Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique
Jackie McLean - Action
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Medeski, Martin & Wood - End Of The World Party
Classical
Beethoven/Warintsky - Oboe Trios
J S Bach - Complete Oboe Concertos
Janacek - Piano Sonatas
Mozart - Complete String Quartets (8CD)
Vivaldi - Complete Oboe Concertos (3CD)
Collections/Anthologies
Isaac Hayes - The Man (2CD)
Allan Holdsworth - The Best Of : Against The Clock (2CD)
King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Vol 1 (4CD)
King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Vol 2 (4CD)
Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous : Anthology 1967-73 (2CD)
Various Artist Compilations
A Deep Blue Conception
Chilled Out Euphoria (2CD)
Lennon & McCartney Jazz Collection
Out Of The Blue
Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal:An Island Anthology 67-72 (3CD)
I like a list...
For lunch I make toasties with the Toastie Bags. Despite raving about them when I first bought them all those months ago, I think this may well only be the third time I've used them....
Back to the video box and we clear even more tapes by watching the "Only Fools and Horses" Christmas special from two years ago - never got round to it before - the second episode of "The Worst Week of My Life" (we watched the concluding episode of the series last night) - and "Open Wide" a one off semi-comedy starring Alexander Armstrong - who used to be one half of Armstrong & Miller along with Ben Miller from "The Worst Week of My Life" - what a coincidence...
In the evening I started work on a new orchestral collage, this time using the slow movement from Bruckner's 3rd symphony. It's not as succesful as the Elgar based pieces though...
Watched "The Return of the Goodies". Interesting to see where they came from and also to note the vast number of ideas they had which were used by subsequent comedians and shows - for example, I can see a direct influence on "The Young Ones" which I hadn't noted before...
Phil Collins was on Room 101 and managed to get everything he suggested consigned to the pit of oblivion, including TV Evangelists, the Gallagher brothers, skimpy swimming trunks and "list" TV shows, of which there has been a particular glut this year and especially over the Xmas period....
I too hate these pointless shows - despite actually liking lists themselves - I think it's the myriad non-entity talking heads spouting off about stuff upon which they really are not qualified to have an opinion that makes my blod boil...
In bed by 11 tonight, which is unusual...
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