Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Fehlfarben - Glucksmaschinen
Various – Top 60 on Shuffleplay
Roger Waters - Desert Island Discs
Meg the Black Cat to the vet this morning for more medication and a check up – pronounced well but blood tests to follow...
This afternoon, old hero (actually, he’s only 28) Stephen Dobbie, ex Queen of the South, after having helped Blackpool into the English Premier League last year but not having gone with them since he was on loan from Swansea City, was at Wembley again today...
This time he was playing for Swansea in their 4-2 win over Reading...
Now I’ve always had a soft spot for Reading as, when I was a lad playing in the under 11’s, 12’s and 13’s at Eskdale Boys Club, they supported us with coaching – presumably in the hope that they might stumble across some talent...
They didn’t as far as I’m aware...
However, since Mr D went to Swansea following Queens glorious cup run of 2008, I’ve had a bigger soft spot for the Swans...
Dobbie scored a quite excellent goal to put Swansea three up before half time, having already created their second (their other two goals were penalties)...
Reading came back to 3-2 early in the second half but it wasn’t to be...
And so, a player whom I’ve seen many a time down at Palmerston Park will, next season, be playing in the EPL...
Well done the Dobmeister...
Elsewhere, strange skies...
...and almost being run over by the Exec Producer on her way to Keep Fit class...
Tivo’d the second in the trio of Adam Curtis films while watching a live “Corrie” – on every night this week whilst a few issues are “resolved”...
Listened to Roger Waters on “Desert Island Discs”...
Watched the above Tivo of "All watched over by machines of loving grace" part 2...
After having bebunked the idea of a self righting/self balancing financial system last week, this week Mr Curtis debunked the notion of a self righting/self balancing ecological system...
The problem being that the original ecologists pre-conceived their idea/theory that nature balances itself and then reduced the available data down to a point so low that it eventually fitted in with their theory...
Any study which used extensive data showed that there is no eco-system and that nature does not in fact rebalance itself when something goes wrong - e.g. after a forest fire, yes the trees grow back but not in the same way they existed prior to the fire...
So, over the first two weeks, he's tried to show that, while it was hoped that the advent of massive computer power would allow much more freedom from government control, what has happened is that power has been transferred to companies and certain individuals, while the vast majority of the populace are probably worse off than they were before...
For example, banks have been bailed out by governments and taxpayers have picked up the tab - it happened in SE Asia in the nionties and in the USA and Europe in 2008/09...
That’s it methinks...
Highlights of the Swansea game and then bed...
Highlight of the Day : Dobbie’s goal against Reading...
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