Saturday, April 04, 2015

Misquote but, spookily, quite apt...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex
Brian Eno - ENOBOX I / Instrumental
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 04 04 04
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Aftersilence (Soundscapes)
Haydn - String Quartets Op 76, 77 & 103
Haydn - Symphonies 1-20
Amboy Dukes - Marriage On The Rocks / Rock Bottom
The Animals - The Animals
Die Ärzte - Die Ärzte früher
Die Ärzte - Planet Punk
The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down
Atlantis - Atlantis
Atomic Rooster - The Best Of Atomic Rooster
Bad Company - 10 From 6
Syd Barrett - Barrett
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
The Beatles - Live At The BBC
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Ant-Bee - Ant-Bee With My Favorite "Vegetables" & Other Bizarre Muzik
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
Lucie Bílá - Uplne Naha
Biosphere - Nordheim Transformed
Björk - Debut
Björk - Post
Björk - Telegram
Black Sabbath - The Black Sabbath Story
Black Sabbath - Past Lives - Live In Manchester & London 1973
Björk - Homogenic
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'Album Di PFM
Black Widow - Come To The Sabbat: The Anthology
Ashra - Sunrain: The Virgin Years
Blumfeld - L'Etat Et Moi
Bonnie Prince Billy - Greatest Palace Music
Tim Booth & Angelo Badalamenti - Booth And The Bad Angel
Miguel Bosé - Lo Mejor De Bosé
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day

Up early...


...and listened to CBQ's "04 04 04" at exactly the same time of the day as it was recorded live 11 years ago today - time flies...

Breakfast at home and then to Ikea for it opening at 10 - to secure a wardrobe order...

Other stuff was looked at...



Mmm, storage...



Then, to my mum's - today was the 60th Anniversary of her marriage to my 12 years gone dad - at Williamwood Parish Church, Clarkston, Glasgow...


She was in good spirits today - had just had her MOT done (on her car, not herself) and there were no chores pending for her favourite son, so the three of us just enjoyed coffee/tea, biscuits for the ladies, and a bit of a chat, including me quizzing mum about her wedding...

Mum and dad took a sleeper to London then on to Bournemouth for their honeymoon - my mum's dad had told her to go somewhere where they might never get to again...

In the present day, mum will (tactically) vote against her better nature for the first time in her life, to try and ward off the encroaching SNP...

Hopefully, many in Scotland will take such difficult idealogical decisions to block the patently hopeless in government but strangely populist (due to being able to blame all Scotland's woes on "Westminster" without ever doing anything themselves to aid matters) national socialist party...

"We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths."

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."

Oops, sorry, quoting the wrong national socialist party there...

Outside, the annually visiting starlings were back...


Back home, the afternoon and evening involved a new project - to ensure every CD I have is ripped to a hard drive...

This is how I waste my time, when I ought to be out delivering leaflets for the Lib Dems...

I now have several piles of discs awaiting ripping...


On telly, "CSI" entertained...

And, in footie, Queens unexpectedly beat Hibs in 1-0 Edinburgh, while main rivals now, Falkirk, beat Raith Rovers by the same margin - leaving things standing the same...

My run in predictions for today were a defeat for Queens and a draw for Falkirk - so a point better off than expected...

It's going to be close though...

Highlight of the Day : A good mum visit....

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