Origin of the species...

Playlist
Sumner McKane Group – Night Blooming Cereus
Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas
Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon
Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Alice Cooper – Alice Does Alice
Alice Cooper – Singles Real & Imaginary
Fripp & Eno – Paris Olympia 1975
Fripp & Eno – No Pussyfooting (Backwards)

Up late at eight...

And, before and after breakfast, at the PC working again on the revamps of three early songs re possible inclusion in my proposed “downbeat” live set – eight songs, one from each of the CBQ song LPs:-

This Is All There Is pt 1 (Callingstill)
You Taught Me How to Love You (Doveloveshawk)
Twenty Twenty Vision (Ampersand)
I Rearranged the House (Anotherhappyday)
Very Small pt 2 (Deeperdown)
Lights Out (Ersatzreal)
Blend (Soundingfall)
Never or Now (Splinterheart)

Five hours later, I had some, albeit less than satisfying, results...

Lunch with the Exec Producer, now returned from a (probably fortuitous given my musicking) four hour Zumba and extended natter session with Lynn...

More work post lunch...

Then, at Anne's suggestion, a lovely walk in our “garden” – Corstorphine Hill...



I descended from the hill inspired to doing things other than this music nonsense - but then I asked the Exec Producer’s advice re my quandary on what and how to play re this upcoming set...

Her advice was simple – “play your happy-go-lucky” songs...

I advised "I don’t really have any “happy-go-lucky” songs"...

So her advice was amended to “well, play your faster songs then”....

Brilliant – why didn’t I think of that?

It is for this reason that everyone should have an Exec Producer...

And so, on our return to Crispycat Towers, although Meg the Black Cat had usurped the artist's chair...



...my non-music plans were set aside and I commenced work on a new, Exec Producer inspired, setlist, which may well include such songs as:-

A Nice Job in a Small Town (Doveloveshawk)
The Crocodile Song (Deeperdown)
Blue Eyes Across the Room (Ersatzreal)
Splinterheart (Splinterheart)
Please Stay With Us (Soundingfall)
Dirty Men in a Red Car (Callingstill)
Perfectly Simple (Anotherhappyday)

...plus “upbeat” versions of:-
You Taught Me How to Love You (Doveloveshawk)
Twenty Twenty Vision (Ampersand)
Blend (Soundingfall)

...and, the Exec Producer’s one song choice which she opined I must play:-
Never or Now (Splinterheart)

[of course, all these songs can be found on the players at each of the individual LP websites – click on the LP titles above – or use the links to your right]

So, to the kitchen - and, soundtracked by Herr van Beethoven's superb Piano Sonatas, I created a pasta dish formulated in my head yesterday – comprising onion, chilli, tomatoes, chorizo and crème fraiche (and penne pasta)...

Served with lashings of parmesan and black pepper, some freshly baked ciabata and a cheeky wee Pinot Grigot – success on a plate...



Post this, to the back room to listen to (for the first time in a very long time) Brian Eno’s “Thursday Afternoon” in its entirety (one 61 minute track), while I perused the new Ikea catalogue (in search of CD storage solutions) and the “Interior Design Atlas”...

I like books with pictures...

There was a time when I had only one CD (as opposed to 6,000) – and “Thursday Afternoon” was that CD...



The book browsing continued with side two of Eno’s 1975 album “Discreet Music” – three variations on Pachelbel’s Canon in D...

Ended the day with some surfing, soundtracked by the Coop, before heading to bed with backwards Fripp & Eno in the cans...

Another happy day...

Highlight of the Day : Inspiration from the Exec Producer...