Overkill...

Playlist
Various – Hit Singles 1970-1975
Various - Hit Singles 1976-1980
Various – Hit Singles 1981-1986
Various – Hit Singles 1987-1999
Miles Davis - Circle in the Round
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child
Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky
Andrew Hill - Grass Roots
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Water Babies
Johnny Bennett – The Violet Hush
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast I
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast II
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast III
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast IV
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast V
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast VI
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast VII
Various – Cloudland Blue Podcast VIII
The Thing - Now and Forever

Aow!

The Michael Jackson show went into full swing immediately this morning – excruciating interviews with all and sundry – anyone who’d ever spoken to him or even been in the same room...

Mid afternoon, people started to realise it wasn’t all good...

I received my first MJ joke mid morning...

I think comedian Richard Herring summed it up well on his blog last night – it’s not MJ who needs to be ridiculed, it’s the media and the friends and acquaintances who “can’t stop crying” or “can’t take it in” but can somehow give an interview to boost their profile...

By early evening, sanctification beckoned and rumours of foul play circulated – but you'll know all this unless you’re a hermit...

Not quite Princess Di but getting there – at first you do feel a certain sadness but then the unending media coverage bludgeons you into not giving a flying fuck about the person who’s died and you wish it could all just get back to what passes for “normal” as soon as possible...

I don’t expect HMV and FOPP will still be selling his Greatest Hits for £3 tomorrow...

Anyway, back in the real world we drove to Arnold Clark this morning and picked up the new Cloudland Mobile (can’t be the Cloudland Blue Mobile anymore because it’s black)...

Out with the old...



In with the new...



Shopped for lunch and my dinner on the way home...

At four Anne was off over to Fife for a works night out – planning to return on the last train plus taxi from Haymarket – since I can’t drive at present...



Spent time compiling initial MP3 CDs (each contains around seven hours of music) for the car, comprising hits from the US singles charts from 1970 to 1999 – by the time I got into the 90’s, the hits I like were few and far between...

A book recommended by ex-co-Capital Model and USA listener to “Soundingfall”, Mr Nicky Hind, which was duly purchased from e-bay, arrived – “The Mezzanine” by Nicholson Baker...



An offer of a gig in October was accepted – I should be ready by then but will also invite some chums to be Cloudland Blue Quartet for the evening...

Cooked dinner – a sirloin steak with onions and mushrooms in a pepper sauce – tasty...

Listened to the podcasts of CDs purchased so far this year as I spent the evening surfing and avoiding the so-called King of Pop...

Watched the incredible noise making of The Thing on DVD prior to Glastonbury coverage...

So BBC - why the useless performances at the campfire - why the prattling between act idiots - the hopeless rambling of the very sub-John Peel Mark Radcliffe, the utter nonsense from Laura Laverne and the grinning idiot that is Jo Wiley? Just show the music with captions for intros - it's the music we want after all isn't it?

Neil Young was ace - killer cover of "A Day In The Life" and seemingly never ending version of "Rockin' in the Free World"...

The Exec Producer finally returned after midnight, somewhat the worse for wear but having had a very enjoyable evening in the company of her workmates - from whom she has been absent for a few weeks now after being relocated to Edinburgh...

All in all then , apart from the Jackson overkill by the meedja, a good day...

Highlight of the day : New car...