2,000 : The apple of your eye...

Playlist
Various Composers – The Most Relaxing Classical Music
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Splinterheart
Sumner McKane – Something Very New England About This View
Tim Arnold – Sonnet 155

My 2,000th post...

Up at five and to the PC to work on a new idea – a song based around a Bach piece...

Also worked on two other pieces, one based on a Ginastera Loop and one on an acoustic guitar loop – both of those came to nothing but the Bach loop became the eleventh song on the new LP...

It’ll be the last track on the album I think, inspired by my dad - he was a big lover of J S Bach - quite fitting really as the end of this month will see the seventh anniversary of his last day...

Title is currently “The Apple of Your Eye”...

Breakfast at home with Anne...

Then, as she tended the garden...



...I cycled to the store for stamps...

Another beautiful June day...



In the afternoon, as Anne watched Japan lose to Holland in the World Cup, I continued to work, eschewing the sunshine...

I took a break and listened to the two new CDs which arrived in the mail this morning - a 24 minute EP from my new favourite, Sumner McKane – No 57 of a limited edition of 100 3” CD-Rs in a hand made sleeve...

I love this man’s music...

The other was the new album by Tim Arnold – a song cycle based around what might have been Shakespeare’s 155th sonnet - it rocks in a kind of rock plus string quartet kind of way...



Whilst listening, I joined Anne in watching the second game of the day, Australia v Ghana – I lost interest half way through though and went off cycling again...

Then more work on the new track, tweaking the mixing etc – prior to the first part of the series finale of “Dr Who” – how time has flown – it’s hard to remember what David Tennant was like in the part and Matt Smith now is the Doctor...

Everything’s coming together nicely but I really hope next week’s second part is as good as tonight’s...

The moon was out...



...as I drove home from collecting a Chinese meal from the New Happy Palace...

This was enjoyed as we watched the third game of the day – an exciting match which saw Denmark come from behind to beat Cameroon and make the Africans the first team to be definitely out of the tournament – makes a change from Scotland...

Skimmed through last night’s Jonathon Ross, watching Al Green’s performance, a trio from “Glee” and Scissor Sisters...

“Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow” also entertained, before the day was rounded off with an up to the usual standards “Law and Order”...

Another 18 hours of fun today...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Despite completing my new track, and receiving a brilliant CD in the mail, it has to be Dr Who...