Sumner McKane - Select Visual History
Alice Cooper - Killer
Various - Possible Covers
Brian Eno w/ Jah Wobble - Spinner
Various - Random Music Loaded Randomly by iTunes into my iPod
Norman Lamont - New Ideas
David Ackles - American Gothic
Donald Byrd - Royal Flush
Up shortly after five - and the first five hours of my day was spent trying to sort out iTunes...
Luckily, a wee chum was on hand to help...
Ended up wiping my iPod back to factory settings and managed to load in one LP, "Killer" by Alice Cooper..
That was fine for now...
Off we went out for breakfast, to be followed by shopping for jumpers and shirts - a whim having taken me yesterday to do such a thing today...
First though, to Leith...
...and an attempted 10:30 breakfast at the King's Wark (supposedly the purveyor of the best brunches in Edinburgh) only to find it still closed...
..while the nearby Granary was only selling coffee...
So we did some shopping then ended up at the trusty Patisserie Florentin for a cheeky wee petit dejeuner...
...an hour or so later we were back on the road...
...and a goodly number of outlandish and not so outlandish shirts was acquired along with a snug as a bug in a rug cardigan and a nice cloudland blue jumper...
Home to "sync" the iPod and I decided to allow iTunes to randomly fill the 16GBs with anything it wanted from the 11,000 albums in my library...
...which it did quite happily and without complaint from either me or it...
Then, to choosing some items of clothing to be replaced by the new stuff - all this instead of attending a record fair, having received no missives from either Count Brodski or Dr Prog advising their presence would be on hand...
Many shirts and a couple of pairs of trousers were said goodbye to...
Meanwhile, Anne was at Tynecastle, to watch Hearts take their fifth defeat in a row - this time at the hands of Motherwell - while Queens beat East Fife in Fife by the odd goal in five...
Perused a few blogs around the net...
Listened to some of Norman Lamont's new ideas and pondered stealing them...
Sid Smith led me to listen to David Ackles...
While, on reading Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus's blog - which took me to some tasty Donald Byrd - I came across a link to 25 pieces by Frederic Rzweski for free download...
I, of course, partook...
The site itself, The Petrucci Music Library, is an excellent source of non-copyright classical material, boasting over 22,000 performances...
So I enjoyed some avant garde piano music as we prepared for tonight's night out, a get together at Impossible Songs' new place over in the Kingdom of Fife...
The Reillys, Mackays, Lamonts and Barclay-Grahams enjoyed an excellent evening of much food and drink...
...and entertaining chat - including whether we were going to apply for the Mars trip and just how far you can wind a flatwound G string on a guitar - doing d'doing doing doing doing...
Clint the Ginger Cat (who we first met as a tiny kitten) was not impressed...
Much to the Exec Producer's delight, at no point did we undertake a sing song...
Our taxi arrived to bring us back over the bridge around 12:20 and we were tucked up in bed by 1:30...
Excellent evening...
Highlight of the Day : Top notch dinner party type thang...
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