Everything except the rain...

Playlist
Laura Pausini - 20: The Greatest Hits [Deluxe Edition]
Kronos Quartet - Winter Was Hard
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Six Degrees
The Champs - Down Like Gold
Dÿse - Das Nation
Armand Margjeka - Hummingbird
Valgeir Sigurðsson - Architecture Of Loss
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris
Easter - Innocence Man
Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox - Connected
The Revillos - Attack Of The Giant Revillos
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth

Listening today comprised yesterday's purchases, in order of their purchase...

Out under threatening skies and, right enough, by the time we'd parked the car and started the walk along to the East End, as we passed Charlotte Square, the heavens opened...

Your correspondent, having foolishly exited the house without a brolly or hat (unlike his Exec Producer, who was in possession of a handy one person rain defender) got a right good soaking as we made our way along to Hanover St and Ashoka for their excellent Indian buffet lunch - in part, a celebration at the loss of yet another pound by your overweight ambient music creator...

As we exited around an hour later, the rain continued so we took refuge in Fopp, Anne purchasing two DVDs...

Out and through St Andrew Square...

...to the Stand for Stewart Lee's "Work in Progress" show - we saw his erstwhile (and unpictured) partner, our other Fringe fave, Richard Herring walking past the queue in the rain...

A superb, relaxed show from Mr Lee - he's great in this small room - trying out stuff for his 2015 TV series, much of it, which might seem slightly strange - but it worked, urine related...

The audience didn't mind , in fact (spoiler alert) it was like a child's urine off an old man's face...

Still raining as we emerged so we caught a tram back to the West End, utilising their free WiFi to check on today's score re Hearts away to The Rangers at Castle Greyskull...

Anne's wee smile tells it all...

2-1 for the JTs - The Rangers equalised in the first of seven minutes of injury time, only for Hearts to go back in front again straight from the kick off - the The Rangers' manager seemed to be complaining later on that his team "wasn't ready" when Hearts restarted the game...

Today was Count Brodski's birthday and I suspect he may well have been in Glasgow for the game - it wasn't clear from our text correspondence - The Rangers are his other team apart from Alloa Athletic...

Not a great weekend then for Brodders footie-wise, with both his teams going down to CBQ/Exec Producer supported outfits...

Brother in Law Keith and Nephew Craig were definitely in attendance, hospitality being enjoyed...

They went, it appears, expecting a funeral...

It is, of course, only a game though...

Back home, we enjoyed one of today's purchases (French film "Populaire" being held in reserve)...

Richard Curtis' latest "About Time" was very good indeed - with music in places from Paul Buchanan and, i noted in the credits, music supervision by kind of chum from thirty years ago Steve "Chick" McLaughlin...

I suspect there will be a few posts around Curtis' theory of time travel over on nitpickers dot com, if indeed that site still exists (it does and there aren't)...

We also enjoyed some good coffees today from our previously neglected coffee pot...

And, post the film, some of the new LPs were given a spin (yes they are still LPs even though they are on CDs - because they play for longer than a single)...

...and generally relaxed...

We enjoyed Valgeir Sigurðsson's "Architecture Of Loss", Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason's "Sólaris" and Easter's "Innocence Man" but some of the more outlandish sounds on Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox's soundtrack to Chunky Move's ballet "Connected" proved a little too much for the EP...

But the ballet itself, it was agreed, did look good...


I left Anne watching "The Village" and retired upstairs to listen to the Revillos and David Sylvian to round off all the albums (or long players) from yesterday and to write this up...

Highlight of the Day : Indian lunch, Stewart Lee, Hearts winning and enjoying a DVD and some LPs's with Anne - everything except the rain really...