Signal to noise...

Playlist
Various – 185 Classic Albums on Shuffleplay

Cheered up this morning – after all, life could absolutely definitely be a lot worse than wasting your Saturday doing nothing of any seeming import...

Absolutely freezing but (subjectively) "Good Music" (rather fittingly, one of the best tracks of the day came from Peter Gabriel's last album, "Up") on the jukebox buoyed me as did a pep talk from the Exec Producer...

Still spent more time today sorting (or trying to sort) the new jukebox – seems it’s got new "firmware" on it (says the seller) which means it only operates with Windows Explorer and doesn’t react to the Creative software – a bit of a pain – I think I now need to overwrite the software in the machine – which will wipe its memory of thousands of songs...

Just as well I have a back up on the hard drive...

Out to my mum’s in the early afternoon (after updating the memory card for her digital picture frame) and we took the opportunity to pop to Ikea for a new supply of their excellent coffee (a kilo for about £4 I think)...

Also bought some strange Swedish chocolate cake/biscuit things, three of which were enjoyed at me mam’s hoose...

She was on good form which is pretty good considering she’s off into hospital in a week or so to have her gall bladder removed...

Apparently we used to need our gall bladders but we don’t now...

Family commitments were rounded off with a visit to Anne’s mum’s where Ollie and kitty were in good spirits, Maureen advised she likes the King Crimson CD I compiled for her (“The Acceptable Face of King Crimson”) and Bobby was very much looking forward to listening to his new 2CD set, “An Introduction to the World of Progressive Rock”...

Back home and back to the PC for more buggering about trying to sort stuff – to no avail though and I caved in at 10pm for “Match of the Day 2”...

Later, wrote up the blog and checked out details for Simple Minds in Glasgow on Thursday, for which your correspondent is on the guest list (accompanied by Mrs Your Correspondent) - we shall do our best not to accrue any more parking tickets...

And so, on the last day of November and the release date of the final volume of my thirty year 10CD anthology, my last recommendation is “The Angel’s Kiss” from last year’s CBQ album, “Ersatzreal”, the second or third last song I wrote before moving onto the current project for 2009...

ANTHOLOGY 2007
CLOUDLAND BLUE QUARTET – THE ANGEL’S KISS


Highlight of the Day : Getting up again...