Crispycat Recordings: Twenty two...

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Twenty two...

Playlist
Rheostatics - 2nd Last Concert (CD 1)
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death
John Gorka - The Company You Keep
Frost - Milliontown

The Rheostatics fest continued today...

At lunchtime, whilst browsing through my regular links, I discovered that the jazz pianist Andrew Hill died on 20 April...

There is a wonderfully appreciative piece on Mr Hill over at The Bad Plus - Do The Math and, as I read this, I listened to some of the man's great recordings for Blue Note from the 1960's...

You can watch a video of his last performance (filmed on 29 March at Trinity Church in New York) here - worth a few minutes of your time surely...

In the evening we drove out to my mum's for a visit and to sort out her new all-in-one remote control...

This took longer than expected and, while we did so, we watched the Man Utd v AC Milan game. It seemed every time a goal was scored though, we had the TV off or on a different channel whilst trying to sort out the remote...

When I went to make coffee for us, while looking in the fridge for the milk and the cupboard for the sugar, it occured to me how lonely it might be to be old and living on your own. My mum must love it when sister Pam comes up to stay with her every so often...

All-in-all though, she seemed in good spirits...

Back home and joy for Anne as her arch-rivals Hibernian FC had been defeated in the Scottish Cup semi final by bottom of the league Dunfermline (Dr Prog's team). It ended 1-0 via a late penalty, which was cheekily "dinked" into the centre of the net as the goalie dived to his right...

Chum Spike advises that Hibs have now played over 330 games in the Scottish Cup since they last won it in 1902...

Hearts fans and their Hibs stats eh?...

Highlight of the Day : A visit to my mum's...

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Sorry - waaaay off topic. I've not been able to log into blogger for ages. Phew! that I can again. So, Hello!!; 8:59 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Welcome back Ms Low - As you'll see, you've not missed much - as the new blurb over at Crispycat.co.uk says..

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