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Well now, Saturday...
Views...
Morning tasks done...
As we breakfasted, a wee visit from Rocky, via the back door...
Such a lovely wee cat - she has no desire for Dreamies and performs no slashing...
Back to the machines...
...and relocated the two Blue Tooth speakers to these spots, for playing recent stuff without the crackles re being connected to the internet, were I to listen via the laptop...
Super frustrating but this is a solution of sorts...
The sound is very good indeed...
At 10:30 over to Mary's care home and out for a spin...
...before coffee and cake...
Back home and recording the garden...
Today's CD Box, No 144, is actually tomorrow's...
Sun Ra to Mike Taylor...
Chose a top 1992 disc by John Surman on ECM, supported by Paul Bley, Gary Peacock & Tony Oxley...
Bought 11 April 2014, finalising a credit note at Record Shak with the late lamented Dave Gass....
...our wee Meg the Black Cat gave up the ghost...
The wee monkey...
Anyway, lunch - a tuna roll, with spring onion and gherkins to boot...
A post on Blue Sky re an Ornette Coleman album took me back to our visit to Ontario in 2015, to see Rheostatics in Toronto...
I read back over our visit, very enjoyable, and played the Coleman disc, along with two others of the many purchased on the holiday...
Also this afternoon - watched some of the Scottish Cup Final - Dunfermline Athletic beaten 3-1 by Celtic - disappointing but expected - the Pars gave a good account of themselves, considering the 124m squad budget afforded to the Glasgow team...
Oh well...
Chicken based tea...
...and a visit from Rocky's "brother", Fang...
Dreamies were enjoyed and a "slash for no discernible reason" was attempted, before he headed off...
Inside, we enjoyed episodes 1-3 of Season 2 of "Citadel", although, once again, Anne was found to have nodded off and so, some element of re-watchiug is required...
Dishes...
...then, upstairs to end the day with an LP...
“The Best of Francoise Hardy”, a 50 minute 2LP set on Marble Arch, with 10 tracks in English, 10 in French...
An argument often put forward by Luddites who promote listening to music via vinyl, is that it encourages uninterrupted listening...
I don't get it...
There's nothing to stop us from listening to a whole LP on CD (there's often more info in a booklet than there was on the LP), other than a lack of will - or the music not engaging us....
The art of listening is a mindset regardless of the medium. Plus, surface noise...
On the first detection of surface noise on an LP, I put the CD on or, if no CD, the download and continue via that cleaner mode...
CDs were invented to allow music to be listened to as intended, i.e. with no extraneous noise...
Impossible via vinyl...
Thus, vinyl listening usually leads to an interruption...
Surface noise drove me to the CD-R I compiled from official CDs…
This is why a CD (even a CD-R) beats vinyl, hands down…
The cover was nice to look at though...
...and I enjoyed a dip in to Ms Hardy's autobiography as I listened...
...and I enjoyed a dip in to Ms Hardy's autobiography as I listened...
Bed, pre 11...
A reasonable Saturday...
Highlight of the Day: Looking back to 2015...
Today's New Music:
1 comment:
Garden's looking nice. Can't recall if I've met Rocky. Sounds like he's "good boy". Cup final was fine, we turned up but should've really had the half time subs out from the start. Why Lennon chose that starting line up beats me.
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