Saturday, February 29, 2020

Three cats...

Playlist
Samana - Ascension
The Entrepreneurs - Noise & Romance
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin!
Vincent Gallo - Recordings Of Music For Film
Various Artists - Cream Anthems 2002
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
Various Composers - Classic Experience IV
Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul
P.P. Arnold - The First Cut
Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
The Byrds - The Byrds Play Dylan
Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

A twenty nine day February is over...


Up early to record and upload the podcast - of course Luna was on hand to help...

Here she is in the widow with Crispy the Kitten and Meg the Black Cat...


The beast reached a new low today...


Luna said well done...


...but you've still got a long way to go...


..then she explored...


Uptown with the EP before she headed to Tynecastle with her mum to watch Hearts dump Scotland's newest club out the cup...

Quattro Zero's mushroom soup was excellent...


...and I, probably rashly, had my second pizza in 8 says...


I resisted the temptation to finish off Anne's mac'n'cheese though...

Leaving Anne to enjoy the match, I headed to the library for a meet up with Dr Prog and some jazz from the quartet, "After the Rain"...


Mostly standards, in fact, all standards, it was deemed "no bad" by the two musketeers...


Post the Doc obtaining some smash, with his gloves and water looked after...


We trawled a round a couple of charity shops for music - these being eschewed...




However, I picked these up for a quid each at the closing down Sally Army shop at Greyfriars...







...and the Doc got some Bryan Ferry singing Dylan, Santana and violin concertos...

Post farewells, I walked over to this stretch, which encompasses a plethora of thrift shops...


An accidental pic was accidentally taken...


...before these joined the collection...




An hour long bus journey home to rip and listen...


These too had been borrowed from the library - turned out I must have already borrowed the Haas a while back...


I noted the three large boxes of CD-Rs under the desk and wondered how many "needed" to be added to the hard drives...


Another project...

Some telly in the evening and some listening and some Twittering...

Par for the course...

Anne was cock a hoop at the Hearts cup win...

I was very pleased too, despite once having been a fan of The Glasgow Rangers (as opposed to The Rangers)...

Not so good though, was Queens being thumped 4-0 at home by Morton...

Relegation beckons...

Mind you, we're only second bottom, Hearts are bottom of their league...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Out with Dr Prog - and Hearts progressing in the cup...

Friday, February 28, 2020

Scratching, eating, perching...

Playlist
Building Instrument - Mangelen Min
Egbert Derix - Paintings In Minor Lila (New Music Inspired By Marillion)
Shostakovich - Jazz & Ballet Suites, Film Music
To Rococo Rot - Cars [Single]
Mackey - Tuck & Roll
Aroah - El día después
Dawn Upshaw - Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Dave Samuels - Dave Samuels Presents Tjader-Ized (A Tribute To Cal Tjader)
The Pines - Tremolo
Sebastian Reynolds w/Anne Muller & Alex Stolze - Solo Collective Part Two
Samana - Ascension
The Entrepreneurs - Noise & Romance
Vincent Gallo - Recordings Of Music For Film
Chris Morphitis - Where To Go
Siskiyou - Not Somewhere
Afenginn - Klingra
Foo Fighters - One By One
Thom Sonny Green - High Anxiety
Paganini - Sonate & Ghiribizzi For Guitar
Diana Torti - On A Cloud
Various Artists - Cream Anthems 2002
Various Artists - Renaissance Ibiza
Betts(JP) - Ogushi
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights [Single]
Thomas Köner - Motus
Jon Hopkins - Scene Suspended [Single]
Sparks - Self-Effacing [Single]
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nightports With Matthew Bourne - Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne

Up early to compile this week's podcast, which will comprise, in the main, tracks from the Manchester acquisitions...


Luna was up too to help but wanted to be around Anne, scratching at the bedroom door to let me know...


Breakfast...


...for Luna too, it was eating time...


This evening, some perching with books by the guest cat entertained...





Highlight of the Day : A cat in the house...

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Moon and planet, out...

Playlist
Edgar Froese - Dalinetopia
Edgar Froese - Solo (1974-1983) The Virgin Years
Dave Samuels - Dave Samuels Presents Tjader-Ized (A Tribute To Cal Tjader)
The Pines - Tremolo
Sebastian Reynolds w/Anne Muller & Alex Stolze - Solo Collective Part Two
Building Instrument - Mangelen Min

Playlist wise this week, I have been making my way through the albums purchased in that Manchester...

But first today, I enjoyed some Edgar Froese - I'd kept seeing his CD "Dalinetopia" in the collection as I prepped each morning so decided to give it a spin this morning, followed by some of his older stuff...

Out into the cold and sun...



The beast was about its business, earning spondoolies for cat food...


This evening, on the way home, the moon and a planet were out...


...but were not always toply pictured...


This is better...


Hoem to Luna mucking about as cats are wont to do...





Eventually, of course, she settled down...

Being with Anne seems to be her place...




...which is fine...

Highlight of the Day : New music, guest cat, moon and planet...

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Return of the chef...

Playlist
Val Doonican - The Very Best Of Val Doonican
Joe Harriott - Abstract
Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
Capital Models - 2020-02-25
Capital Models - 2020-02-09
Dawn Upshaw - Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Dave Samuels - Dave Samuels Presents Tjader-Ized (A Tribute To Cal Tjader)
Egbert Derix - Paintings In Minor Lila (New Music Inspired By Marillion)
Shostakovich - Jazz & Ballet Suites, Film Music
To Rococo Rot - Cars [Single]
Mackey - Tuck & Roll
Aroah - El día después
Various Artists - World Circuit Presents...
Soft Cell - The Twelve Inch Singles
The Amsterdam Chamber Music Society - Treasures of Russian Chamber Music
Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare
Various Artists - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl
Satie - L'Œuvre Pour Piano
Geminiani - Concerti Grossi, Vol. 1
Sweet - Blockbuster! The Best Of Sweet
Rod Stewart - Storyteller - The Complete Anthology: 1964-1990
Various Artists - The Brazilian Funk Experience
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Chopin - Nocturnes, 4 Ballades
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - The Very Best Of Elvis Costello
Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection
Various Artists - Ska Party

Up early to edit last night's session and get it out to the boys in the band...


"Where are you going Uncle Dave?" asked Luna again...



"Can I come with you?"


"Your mum says you're not to go outside"...

"OK I'll just walk around the house all day till you get back" ("actually I'll sleep for most of it")...


Home this evening and, while I was not out, as had been planned, Anne was...

And so some cooking ensued...






Very tasty...

meanwhile, Luna pretended to have her first sleep of the day...


...before waking up as Anne came home...


"Who's that Uncle Dave?"


"It's Auntie Anne"...

OK that's enough talking cats...

Highlight of the Day : Cooking with Luna...