Point, shoot, post...

Playlist
Bidiniband – The Land is Wild
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Doveloveshawk
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Anotherhappyday
Various – Weird Jazz Downloaded from "Destination Out"
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Potential Sampler
Groundghogs - Who Will Save the World

Up at what I thought was 7:15 – at 10:30 I realised it was only 9:30...

Over those three hours I updated the last three days of this; listened to my new CD from Canada and more of my own stuff; and rediscovered Destination Out and downloaded almost 50 tracks (over 4 and a half hours) of far out jazz, man...

I’ve not downloaded anything from here for 14 months and had forgotten what an absolute gold mine it is...

Listening to this uplifted...

Post breakfast, a posting by Alex Ross on his new blog “Unquiet Thoughts” alerted me to these films commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, NY re their performance of Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”...

Part One / Part Two

...also uplifted...

Then, of course, I got sucked into watching other less rewarding nonsense...

Spent another long period researching a new “point and shoot” camera...

Then I went and bought one...

This is why you should always insist on being shot from above...



..when you're a fat ugly (that's enough - Ed.)...

Took an age to work out that the new beastie couldn’t be detected via the hub and so needs to plug in directly to the PC – which is a bit of a pain...

Took some pics...



A run through the set...

A lovely casserole for tea...



A film about Canada...

More pics..

The shelf...



B&W portraits of our trip to New York in 1999...



More surfing while Anne watched “Emma”...

“Match of the Day 2” and it’s all over for another weekend...

Highlight of the Day : New camera...