Wisdom which goes against the grain...

Playlist
Wuorinen - Works 1969-2008
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2016 Vols 1-52
Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
Rufus Harley - A Tribute to Courage
Alice Cooper - Killer
Various - You're The Guy I Want to Spend My Money With
Various Composers - Music Before Revolution

Started the day with some piano music from new to me composer and recommendation from The Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson via his page on The Fleecebook, Charles Wuorinin...

Nice and oblique...

Good views this morning as I made my way down the hill on a particularly cold day...

I was out around an hour earlier than usual to enjoy a talk from Brian Wesbury, over from the USA on a visit to talk about how things are not, actually, all doom and gloom and how QE did not save the world, how government intervention just slows everything down and ends up making everyone poorer in the long run...

Watch this to understand...

Seldom have I ever heard someone talk so much sense on matters...

On his first ever visit to Edinburgh, he'd even gotten up super early to visit the grave of Adam Smith...

Anyone who does that is ok in my book...

Here's a link to his blog - take a look at the videos to learn how stuff actually works, as opposed to the pish people peddle on the Twitter and the Fleecebook...

But don't think he's a supporter of Trump, he knows Trump's a moron - he also knows that higher taxes and higher government spending are not good...

This the day after Trump's election...

Elsewhere, a walk to Fopp at lunchtime and took a chance on this, noting that Mr Harley was playing the bagpipes in a jazz context...

On reading up on him, I found it was Rufus Harley who supplied the bagpipe content on Laurie Anderson's classic 1981 debut, "Big Science"...

Truth be told, this album's not that great when he's bagpiping, but side two, where he reverts to flutes and saxes, is excellent...

On telly, we finally finished "I Know Who You Are"...

Not sure if it was good or bad how things turned out - and not sure it was worth the time invested over the piece but, hey ho, that's watching stuff on TV...

Ended the day with more listening, a classical box set from 1972 featuring Morton Feldman, John Cage and Christian Wolff - and a double LP I'm pretty sure I used to have but it's not in my records, featuring Laurie Anderson, William S Burroughs and John Giorno...

So, some interesting listening today...

That was it...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Wisdom which goes against the grain...