Saturday, July 31, 2021

Not being beaten when you expect to be beaten can be the best thing for a while...

Playlist
Joseph Capriati - Metamorfosi Remixes Vol 1
Joseph Capriati - Metamorfosi Remixes Vol 2
Silver Apples - Contact
Zé Ramalho - 20 Anos - Antologia Acústica
Legião Urbana - Como É Que Se Diz Eu Te Amo
Various Artists - Grand 12-Inches 7
Maconchy - Elizabeth Maconchy – The Complete String Quartets

Once again I find myself writing this over a week on from the day...

Anyway, here goes...

July?  Gone...


Up stupidly early but, you know, it was the weekend...


Listening to new stuff...


Uploading the podcast...

First thing views...




Enjoying dipping into this...


Generally speaking, I dip into books - it's been a very long time since I read a book - there is something stopping me from investing too much time into anything - mortality perhaps...

I am a dilettante it seems...

We need some work done - a picture was taken (or, rather, some pictures, of which this was the best, were taken) with the "big" camera...


Out and over to the Saturday place...

And parked by the wooden squirrel...


Then, a walk re the not mentioned here but recently having occurred and still extant problem with the Exec Producer's knee...

Our route took us past the old Scottish Widows building - a Basil Spence work and, therefore, protected but, in reality, a bit of an eyesore for a lot of people...


It sits opposite the Commonwealth pool - built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games and scene of much fun and malarky in Mr Quartet's formative years...


It too is a bit of an eyesore for many...


Onwards and round to Newington where a visit to almost every charity shop was made as part of the "walk"...

A handful of items was partaken of at the BHF - all others proved fruitless...

A coffee (and shortbread) at Kilimanjaro...


...followed by a further walk down to Blackwell's Books where £15 was shelled out for a half price 3CD set of Maconchy's Complete String Quartets - I already have the first disc as a separate release...


Then, back to the car, past this old school...


...and this Wine Merchant, the owner of which also owns one of my paintings from 1993...


I wonder if he still has it...

The wooden squirrel had protected the Cloudland Mobile well...


Home, to rip, to listen...



I have decided to keep my single CD of Maconchy - most probably due to finding these cuttings inside it, which I had not noted before...


Anyway, today's bounty comprised a 2CD set of Brazilian singer songwriting, famous (in Brazil anyway)...


A 2CD live set of a Brazilian post punk band whose singer died of aids in 1996, post having left the group in an earlier fit of pique.  They were, apparently, huge in Brazil - this live set was released 5 years after their break up...


The above counted as "3 for £1"...

A 4CD set of 12" mixes from the late 70s and early 80s - worth the entry fee of £1.98 for "Spacer" alone...


And, here, the Maconchy...


13 String quartets written between 1932 and 1984...

Excellent...

For tea tonight, a trip to the chippy - and discovered that "Roberto's" (son of "Benny" - actually the establishment was/is called "Bene's" - as in "good" - our chip shop of choice when living at St Mary St off the Royal Mile back in 1979/80) has been bought by something called "Passion"...


Their method of cooking and presenting fish suppers urned out to be good...

Later, out and a walk to Tynecastle....



...to the field of dreams...


The Exec Producer was fully expecting her beloved Jam Tarts to be right royally humped by the Glasgow Celtic...


...post the presentation of the trophy for having won last year's league in which Queen of the South remain (for now)...



But, no, Hearts scored first...



...and, when Celtic equalised in the second half, the EP advised she would "take the draw"...

But the the JTs scored again - deliciously, in the final minute, leaving no time for a come back (apart form the nerve wracking 4 extra minutes added on for stoppages)...



..and a glorious triumph was celebrated...


Best time she's had in the last 18 months the EP opined...


The team applauded their "12th man", the crowd...


And then, it was all over...


A walk back to the car and a drive home...



An excellent end to a good day...

Highlight of the Day : Hearts 2 Celtic 1...

Friday, July 30, 2021

The trumpets of Satan, back onstage...

Playlist
T Rex - Electric Warrior (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Various Artists - Jackie The Album
Gary Glitter - The Ultimate Gary Glitter
Various Artists - Wow! That Was The 70's
Various Artists - Jackie - The Annual 2010
Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002
Donna Summer - Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits
Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1978
Various Artists - 100 Hits: Boogie Nights
Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1980
Various Artists - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials
Various Artists - 101 Power Ballads
Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1987
Bryan Adams - Ultimate
Various Artists - The Ultimate Movie Album
Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1997
Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
James Blunt - Back To Bedlam
Various Artists - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years
Various Artists - Wendy's No 1 Records 1971-2021
John McLaughlin - Liberation Time
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Neu! - Die Zweite Neu!
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
The Fugs - Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
AMM - AMMmusic
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Black Art From The Black Ark
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky [DeLuxe]

Friday!!


Early morning views...




WFH of course though, so zero enjoyment going on till close of play...

For me anyway, Anne was out and about...

To cap things off nicely, the night out tonight was cancelled, as grand nephew Kerr has contracted Covid and so everyone is having to self isolate...

So, instead, an Indian Takeaway - the Bombay Feast seems to have introduced a phone system that stops people from ordering anything, so, a trip instead to the Delta...

Let's just say their Vegetable Sambar, while tasty in the extreme, was responsible for the Trumpets of Satan taking the stage later on...

Something which did not seem to trouble Fang, of course...



Nothing troubles Fang...



Highlight of the Day : Tasty Indian but not the after effects...

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Ahead of the game, in some things not in others...

Playlist
Kozmodrum - Strobe [Single]
John McLaughlin - Liberation Time
Tarentel - Ephemera
Aleph Guitarrenquartett - Aleph Guitarrenquartett
Nordic Affect - Clockworking
Capital Models - 2021-07-25
SLIFT - UMMON
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Bacewicz - Piano Works (Joanna Sochacka)
Emperor Quartet - Beamish & Beethoven: String Quartets
Black Midi - Cavalcade
Joseph Capriati - Metamorfosi
Coloray - Future Static
Dream Theater - Awake
Rush - 2112
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky [DeLuxe]
Kozmodrum - Kozmodrum
Susumu Yokota - Love Or Die
Joep Beving - Henosis
Arthur Hnatek Trio - Static
London Symphony Orchestra - Six Degrees of Separation
A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet
Concerto Köln - Concerto Köln 10CD Box Set
Various Artists - Excursions in soul reggae funk & dub
Coldplay - Coloratura [Single]
Edward Spark - 1.9.7.FOUR > #F28500 CBQ Remixes
Pauline Kim Harris - Heroine
Josh Sager - interlopers
Quincy Jones - Walking in Space
Luke Schneider - Altar of Harmony
The Jack Silverman Ordeal - The Jack Silverman Ordeal
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Johno Wells - Gotham Child
Nils Frahm - Tripping With Nils Frahm

It's Thursday - and I am within a week of being up to date again...


Scenes, first thing...



Again, the soundtrack of the day was podcast content...


WFH was followed by a tasty tea...


Then, I actually made some notes re the podcast and was able to record the links with the computer off and, therefore, no background whirring - which made a change...


Now, if I could only learn to read my own handwriting...

Scenes, last thing...


To bed...

Podcast done a day early...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...