Various - Jukebox Shuffleplay
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
KD Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
A parcel arrived from new dad Macclesfield Craig containing a disc by Berlin low-fi pop combo The Whitest Boy Alive - very good indeed, nay, excellent...
Meanwhile at FOPP I shelled out a fiver for KD LAng's 2004 celebration of Canadian song containing brilliant covers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexmith and Bruce Cockburn - why no Rheostatics? - not to worry...
On telly "Coronation St", "Masterchef" while we ate Anne's latest, a scrummy mouthwatering pork and chorizo dish in a light creamy tomatoey sauce - mmm, mmm - I saved my food points all day for that one, I can tell you...
And the return of "Torchwood" - a much better start than Season One but still something not quite right about it - the trailer for next week looked a stormer though...
Oh well, off to bed...
Highlight of the Day : Anne's cooking once again
2 comments:
I missed the whole return-of-Fopp thang. [Going wildly off-topic from your post, but prompted by your mention of Fopp... so it isn't a completely random comment.] One minute both shops were fully stocked but closed, and then, and very sadly, the Cockburn Street branch disappeared. What happened? And why? You of all people *must* know!
FOPP ran into difficulties paying its suppliers and indeed its staff and servicing the debt it had built up in rapidly acquiring new outlets, the last straw apeared to be the MVC/Music Zone chain, which had already brought down two Music Retail Businesses before it.
See here for the closedown story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stm
An unlikely white knight in the shape of rival HMV bought over the name in July (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6923511.stm) and, since then, has reopened a handful of stores and taken a hands off approach, allowing the FOPP ethos of old re pricing and offers to flourish anew - and long may it continue.
The reopened (but not fully up and running yet) website (http://www.fopp.com/) states :
"The stores have been saved from closure by HMV, but will trade independently of them and we’re delighted to say that everything that has made Fopp’s identity and customer offer distinct over the last 25 years is being preserved."
Hope this and the articles I've provided links to, will fil you in...
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