Playlist
Vitamin String Quartet - Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico
Cloudland Blue Quartet - String Quartet Songs
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Taylor Swift
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs The Eagles
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Van Morrison
Vitamin String Quartet - Exit… Stage Right: VSQ Performs Rush
Vitamin String Quartet - The Gay Wedding Collection
Midnite String Quartet - MSQ Performs The Beatles
Vitamin String Quartet - Rusted Moon: VSQ Performs Neil Young
Vitamin String Quartet - Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Beatles
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs David Bowie
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Dido
Vitamin String Quartet - Vsq Performs Elton John
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Kiss
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Pink Floyd
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs Velvet Underground & Nico
Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Performs The Doors
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room
Grandaddy - Blue Wav
Haydn - Symphonies: Le Matin; Le Midi; Le Soir
Rash Behari Datta - The Art of the Indian Sitar
Dualist Inquiry - When We Get There LP
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Saturday morning and a reasonably busy day ahead...
...including a restart of the laptop...
...to maintain this upward trend...
Started the day with second of the 1971 CDs from those I put into my dad's CD rack...
Post breakfast, out to the Saturday place...
...and a walk to meet Dr Prog for coffees and chat...
On the way, popped in to the Shelter shop and bought this for £1...
...not realising that, firstly, it's a DVD not a CD and, secondly, it contained the wrong DVD (it's now in the bin)...
But £1 to a good cause so no worries...
Then, in the cancer shop, spotted this for £3.50 (paid £4)...
First published in 1972 (this is a reprint from 1973 - so, 51 years old but in good nick) - it only covers Kubrick's first four films, "Paths of Glory", "Dr Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey" (which, it turns out, is both my and Dr Prog's favourite film) and "A Clockwork Orange"...
Anyway, finally to Summerhall for 10:30 to meet the Doc...
Coffee and some measure of unpictured sustenance enjoyed...
I surprised him by being able to explain the end of our favourite film, having found something on t'internet re Kubrick himself explaining matters...
Turns out the formless aliens put Bowman in a zoo and replicated, as best they could, an environment they thought he'd like, in much the same way as we do with animals in our zoos...
Upon Bowman's death, the beings turned him into the Star Child and sent him back to earth - back in 1968, no-one knew what happened after that...
And the doc surprised me by giving me the pink Sony Walkman I witnessed him buying a few months ago at the nearby Bethany shop as, he advised "I dropped it and now I think I can hear a high-pitched noise in my right ear and I've bought a replacement in a more manly grey"...
I tried to try it out (which was when I discovered the Chinese disc was a DVD) but was sure it'd be fine...
Here's Phil's new one...
...which is exactly the same as the goosed one languishing in my drawer and the one I had prior to that, which the goosed one replaced...
An American lady, Beth, with her Romanian rescue dog, Missy, sat at the end of our table and we got talking about music and investments and corruption and Scottish Independence - she came up with a stat from one of her Indy friends (she herself is neither her nor there about it) that Scotland has 96% of the UK's natural resources...
Hmmm...
I looked this up later - England has 78% per the Office for National Statistics (who I would believe over the SNP any day of the week) and, in any case, natural resources accounts for just 0.59% of the UK's GDP so, even if what she'd been lied to about were true, it would hardy be a case to shoot yourself in the foot...
Anyway, a nice convo all round and then we bade her farewell and exited, past this jawbone with gold teeth...
...the fluorescent tubes...
...and a message from Mrs Prog that milk was required at Prog Towers...
To the above mentioned nearby Bethany shop and Phil partook of a handful of CDs, while I took these...
The Haydn, upon being inserted into the pink machine, confirmed it was indeed fine and dandy...
To Till's bookshop...
...of which we like the ambience...
...but nothing purchased...
Farewells said and, while Phil went off, ostensibly to swim at Fountain Park but, in the event, straight home to see Mrs Prog, whom he found to be asleep, I went back to the Cancer Research shop to purchase this, which I'd spotted earlier in their window...
Again, £4...
Nice...
Then, back to the car and to the hospital to find my mum...
Both main car parks were full so I parked at what is the farthest point from A&E and walked there, gaining new views of the infirmary...
Mum had been moved to the Acute Medical Unit while they try to ascertain exactly what's wrong with her this time...
She has a band on her wrist indicating she's receiving anti-epilepsy drugs, re her morning shakes, and an antibiotic...
The bruising is down to multiple attempts to take blood...
In general, she was much better than she has been for the last week - communicating almost normally in fact...
So, a nice improvement to witness - even if she looks dreadful, so much so that I would not post a pic here...
Out and back to the car, with more views...
...and home for a late lunch, comprising items brought home yesterday from mum's house...
Anne was at Tynecastle watching a glorious 2-0 win against Motherwell (Queens were 1-0 up on 70 mins against bottom of the table Edinburgh City but the hosts equalised in the 96th minute)...
To today's acquisitions...
...with Hadyn being enjoyed on "The Pink Machine"...
Dr Prog never removed the price tag and the red ink has seeped through onto the thing...
Oh well...
Later on this evening, the 3rd of the 1971 CDs enjoyed via it...
...post "Michael McIntyre's Big Show" and 3 episodes of "Leverage", taking us to the end of Season 3...
To bed with more ELP on the cans...
A reasonably good day...
Highlight of the Day : A meet up with Dr Prog and mum a bit better...
Today's New Music:-
1 comment:
Who you calling a fluorescent tube? Hope your mum gets better. Nice to read about your Saturday.
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