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Playlist
Various – Classical Jukebox on Shuffleplay
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxgene
Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet

Up early again...

It’s good to be up early at the weekend – the intention is always not to waste free time – of course at some point time is, for want of a better word, wasted – or is it?

I decided to take all the classical tracks I deleted from the main jukebox back in April 2006 (but which I, of course, backed up to 2 DVDs) and load them up into what has thus far been the jazz jukebox...

Annoyingly, while the first DVD went without a hitch, the second failed miserably in every attempt at being recognised by the computer and so half the collection, all tracks with titles commencing with a “P” and beyond, remain in limbo...

At 10 we were off out post a quick home breakfast of coffee, toast and juice – the new regime means the takings at Patiserie Florentin will be down I’m afraid – our target was Cineworld, scene of many enjoyable movies in the Summer during the Film Festival but, today, for a preview screening of the Reese Wihterspoon produced “Penelope” starring Christina Ricci and James McAvoy...



Quite an enjoyable film but a strange scenario re location and accents with half the cast being American and the other half British and with stock footage of New York combined with scenes obviously shot in London with cars driving on the left – but maybe that’s being picky – it was a fairytale set in an unreal world I suppose and it was OK (for free)...

Back home and some lovely home made vegetable soup for lunch followed by more trying to get the content of an MP3 DVD onto the computer (while Anne watched Rangers beat Inverness with a last minute goal)...

I even found a programme which claimed to allow me to convert the soundtrack of a DVD into a WAV file – of course it didn’t work either – so an afternoon of frustration...

Bought The Mail On Sunday purely for the free Jean-Michel Jarre – a remastered recording of his classic first album “Oxygene” – I’d forgotten just how good it is....

Finished off the day (after Anne had watched “Ice Dancing on Ice with Celebrities”) with “Match of the Day 2” while I recorded both “Messiah : The Rapture” (episode 1 of 2) and “Alien v Predator”, both for future viewing – and of course I still have the dreadful “Primeval” from last night...

Highlight of the Day : Classical music back on the agenda