Crispycat Recordings: Avoiding bourgeois stuff...

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Avoiding bourgeois stuff...

Albums of the Day
Grandaddy – Sumday
Grandaddy – Excerpts from the Diary of Tod Zilla
Tony Williams’ Lifetime – Believe It
Tony Williams’ Lifetime – Million Dollar Legs
Wetton/Downes – Glasgow Setlist
Shadow Gallery – Room V
Tool - Lateralus

Been trawling e-bay again but only bought one CD so far, the latest from erstwhile David Bowie guitarist, producer and co-writer, Reeves Gabrels – which I expect to arrive any day...

Mainly I’m looking to buy the new CDs by The Church and Grandaddy and, possibly, Tool’s new album – hence the recent listening to Grandaddy and Tool...

Came home tonight to find Anne in the house with a strange man. Turned out she’d been persuaded to change our Gas and Electricity supplier from British Gas to Scottish Power. Some kind of convincing argument had been made on the doorstep apparently...

Being an artist and musician, I don’t get involved with bourgeois stuff like where the heat and light come from so I let Anne get on with it while I took over preparing the evening meal, a very tasty indeed, pasta dish...

Watched the European Champions Cup final between Barcelona and Arsenal. The game was robbed of any real meaningful footballing content after around twenty minutes when the Snel’s goalie was sent off for a foul on the edge of the area – during which incident Barca had the ball in the net but the ref had already blown for a foul....

Twenty minutes later, Arsenal scored after their right back took a dive just outside the box and Thierry Henry (for me one of the best players in the English League, Europe and the World) sent in a pinpoint cross for Sol Campbell to head home...

From then on it was Barca attacking and Arsenal defending for the remainder of the game apart from a couple of breakaway chances for the latter...

Eventually Barca broke them down and scored two goals in five minutes and spent the last ten minutes of the game holding on to possession...

So a brave fight by Arsenal, my favourite English team since 1971 when, during their bid to win the Double of League and Cup, everyone else in my primary school class was supporting Liverpool for the Cup final...

Ah how I remember Charlie George’s superb goal that day 35 years ago...

Stayed up to watch a Bill Murray film but deemed it rubbish and went to bed around midnight, 30 minutes in...

Highlight of the Day : Taking over the prep of and completing the evening meal

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