Free and fat...

Playlist
Grant Green – The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
Kenny Werner – Lawn Chair Society
Donald Byrd – Royal Flush
Donald Byrd – Free Form
The Revolutionaries - Channel One Dub Room 1974 -1980
Ornette Coleman – Sound Grammar

An annoyance first thing today re the new security software...

There was me thinking I’d downloaded for free...

This morning it was asking me to pay $50 as my “trial period” (erm, one day) had expired...

However, they had a deal whereby if I took a subscription to one of their advertisers, I’d get the software for a year for $0.00...

So of course this was what I did – giving my card details to something called “e-music” which offered me 25 free downloads in a short trial period with them and, so long as I unsubscribed before 2 February, they wouldn't start charging me a tenner a month to download tracks...

And off I went out into the cold morning...



At lunchtime, armed with my “List of Blue Note Albums I Have”, I headed to Fopp and purchased my 200th Blue Note album, trumpeter Donald Byrd’s December 1961 recording, “Free Form” which also features Wayne Shorter on tenor sax and Herbie Hancock on piano – I’m sure you’ve heard of them...

Tasty...

Back home in the dark...



...and, while Anne was off out at Keep Fit with Lynn, I fixed the bathroom door (to the best of my ability – I am an “artist” after all...), did a bit of “book sorting out” and then settled down to finish off this morning’s nonsense...

There were some good albums available via e-music (but then there are also 1,000s of good albums available on MP3 Blogs for free)...

So, to fulfil my 25 track allocation, I nabbed a superb dub album by The Revolutionaries (Sly and Robbie anyone?) and Ornette Coleman’s award winning live LP, “Sound Grammar”, before, sadly, but then they did offer, unsubscribing and saving myself £10 a month...

So I got my security software for free - and two tasty albums as well – much better than paying $50...

Ah the internet – where would we be without it eh?

Later, “Horizon” entertained, with an experiment on trying to make thin people fat by making them eat double their required calorie intake for four weeks...

In between the weekly reports of how they were doing (they were putting on weight, some more than others, and getting fatter, some more than others) various theories were expounded as to why some people (like me, for example) are fat...

The programme came to the rather depressing (for fat people like me that is) conclusion that your body has its own idea of how fat you ought to be and tries its damnedest to make you that fat, no matter what you do...

All fine and dandy I suppose (kind of), and I do believe that genes have a certain amount of influence – after all if they can determine whether you're tall or short, the colour of your hair or your eyes, or the length of your....arms etc, than why not whether you're thin or fat?

Ornette Coleman and Donald Byrd finished off the day, post the watching of the highlights of Saturday's Hearts win...

Highlight of the Day : Free music and software...