Thursday, April 30, 2015

Worse things happen at sea...

Playlist
Creek - 2015
Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet - Ferdinand Ries & Franz Limmer Piano Quintets
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Art Blakey - Like Someone In Love

Adios April...


...and no-one even noticed that I only uploaded four of the promised seven April podcasts...

I'll only be doing one in May - if I can be arsed...

As if to add insult to injury, this bonce was put upon today by what can only be described as guano...


Oh well, worse things happen at sea...

This evening, to Tynecastle for the follow up on the Football Fans in Training I attended for around 10 weeks towards the end of 2012...

I am over a stone lighter and my waist is diminished by just over four inches...

Pwoud, vewwy pwoud - as "Sir" Alex Ferguson might say...


Home for a celebratory home made chicken curry...



...and watched the leaders of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats face questions from the audience for half an hour each on "Question Time" - much better than the so-called debates where the politicians merely talk over each other...

They each faced difficult questions from the audience but I think even impartial viewers would agree Cameron came across the best of the three...

I felt for Nick Clegg though as he showed his exasperation with people who plainly have no comprehension that coalition means compromise...

Good too to see Miliband rule out any deals with the Scottish Nazi-onal Party...

He doesn't need to make a deal as they've already stated they'll never side with the Tories....

The naivete and duplicity of SNP supporters is amazing - talking about the democratic will of the Scottish people being ignored whilst ignoring the democratic will of the Scottish people themselves re the Referendum result...

This is the United Kingdom General Election not a Scottish election and if that part of the UK electorate located in Scotland is stupid enough to vote for a party whose sole aim is to see the UK destroyed and which cannot possibly wield any power (and which, incidentally, has failed miserably in its governance of Scotland - mainly due to being economically illiterate and obsessed with Scottish Independence), they cannot surely complain if their MPs, even if there are 59 of them, are ignored in the UK parliament...

If they hate the Tories so much (the sort of government, by the way, which an independent Scotland would actually need to succeed - right of centre, business backing) but want a voice at Westminster, they need to vote Labour because, then, they might actually be in government and have a little influence...

"We're voting for a strong voice at Westminster" they bleat...

This time round it seems Scots will be happy to have even more backbenchers than they've had for the last five years...

Idiots...

Oh well, worse things happen at sea...

Highlight of the Day : Confirmation of long term progress...

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Creeking with the count...

Playlist
Klaus Schulze - ...Live...
Klaus Schulze - Body Love
Creek - 2015

Home this evening in the not very warm sun...


...and who's this?


None other than Count Brodski...


Here to do some Creek work...


His first participation in almost 10 years...


Some burbling...


Some swooping...


Some bleeping...


Some burbling...


Some squawking...


...and generally...


...all round...


...weird noise-making in a traditional Creek stylee, ensued...


...and the five thus far being worked upon new Creek tunes were added to by the last of the quartet of Creekers...

Then, coffee and chat in the living room with the Exec Producer...

Just like the old days...

As it should be...

Highlight of the Day : Creeking with the count...

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

I would walk 500 miles...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex
Various - Last 70 Acquisitions on Shuffleplay
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Udo Lindenberg - Gaensehaut
Udo Lindenberg - Belcanto
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music
Klaus Schulze - The Essential Klaus Schulze 1972-1993
Rollin' Bunkers - Invasion EP
Klink Clock - We Don't Have The Time To Do Love All The Time
Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag
Klaus Schulze - Timewind

I've never understood the popularity of The Proclaimers - never liked their music with their ridiculous Scottish accents - and their allegiance to Scottish Nazi-onalism has endeared them to me even less...

Accordingly, today, on a visit to Fopp, when their new LP started to pollute the atmosphere of the shop, I was happy to have ELP wipe them from my conciousness...

Indeed, I would walk 500 miles to get away from their awful "music"...

You know it's been a slow day when I'm writing about The Proclaimers...


This arrived - a 16 track compilation on which 5 are ones I didn't have already - just as well it only cost a couple of quid then...


"Two Broke Girls", "Ballot Monkeys" entertained...

Along with German and French music...

That's all folks...

Highlight of the Day : When Jerusalem blocked out the bespectacled twins...

Monday, April 27, 2015

There is a hat and it is cocked...

Playlist
Crazy Wisdom - The Reptile Tapes
Madredeus - O Espirito da Paz

A cold day...


Deceptively cold...


Another package arrived and one will be sent tomorrow...

Incoming comprised this from Portuguese faves Madredeus...


Late on, very much enjoyed the latest two episodes of "Person of Interest" - it knocks the very good "Agents of Shield" into the proverbial cocked hat...

There you go...

Short and sweet...

Highlight of the Day : Person of Interest...

Sunday, April 26, 2015

I think we may need a skip...

Playlist
Udo Lindenberg - Atlantic Affairs
Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps
Various - iTunes Shuffleplay
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Peri Urban - 29.V.96 & 6.VI.96
Crazy Wisdom - A Death Junkie's Last Peep Show
Crazy Wisdom - The Reptile Tapes

Up at seven going through all the DVDs we've watched and kept and deciding which ones I wanted to retain, which I could sell on Amazon and which should go to the British Heart Foundation...

The last of these three lists was by far the biggest...

Breakfast, then to the attic...

Some old lights were found...


And some other blasts from the past...



...including directions for Crazy Wisdom live mixes....


And the case taken to Bavaria in 1983....


Golden slippers and a plastic champagne cork...


..and my mum's Uncle Bill's bowler hat - a little too small for my mis-shapen head...


..and, in  an envelope of cherished photos from Uncle Bill's house, this of your correspondent and much missed Sister Pam....




Some progress was made but there remains much to do...







To Stockbridge and piles of books and DVDs donated to the BHF...

A quick lunch at the local market and then out to my mum's...

Although a little under the weather, still on good form at eighty four and two thirds...


To Anne's mum's for the first family tea since February....

Kitty ought to have read this book by now but was under pressure being just over half way through it, with a test on its content tomorrow...


Various birthdays were celebrated...


A young man and two old men...




Cake was provided...





..with strawberries and unpictured ice cream...


Kitty tried a new hairstyle...


A sprightly eighty two year old artist had a new work based on this picture taken on a Bavarian holiday to the place to which, thirty two years ago, the previously pictured suitcase was taken...



Kitty drew comparisons (when she really ought to have been reading her book)...



Back home and some more going through stuff from the attic, including this from 1996...

The first release to include the CBQ moniker...


...and this rather splendid EP from 1993...


...upon listening to which, I brought the five hours of Crazy Wisdom archives into iTunes and started on a listening marathon...

Five years which came to nothing - like the majority (or, actually, all) of my music all exploits - condensed into five hours and destined for a skip...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Discoveries...