Silence will fall...

Playlist

Hawkwind - Parallel Universe

Kat McKenzie - Demos

The Velvet Underground - Scepter Studio Sessions 04-25-66

Golijov - Tenebrae

Marshall - Fog Tropes II

Schnittke - Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief

Basinski - The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1 (orchestrated by Maxim Moston)

Greg Haines - Where We Were

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal

Frederic Rzewski - Beethoven Opus 57

Frederic Rzewski - Various Compositions

Up early and working on turning the Velvet Underground LP into a CD...

At eleven, out with the Exec Producer to Roseburn and walk along the banks of the Water of Leith...

...complete with wildlife...

...and not so wild life...

A new view of the cathedral...

..as we decided to cross the Riverleaves Bridge into the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art...

Sarah Lucas...

Picasso...

Ernst...

Magritte...

Beuys...

The silence...

The felt suit...

Stinky flowers from Neto...

Weird video from McCarthy...

Duchamps...

Abramovic...

Outside...

Gormley...

Past the second gallery...

Back down along the river...

...to Stockbridge...

...and brunch at Maxi's Bistro...

Tasty salads...

To the nearby market...

...where tasty home-made bread was purchased for later...

Then, the long walk back to the car, which happened to be parked outside a coffee shop...

...where cappucinos were enjoyed...

Home to find Meg the Black Cat exactly where we'd left her...

In the evening more work and catching up on the Tivo recordings from when we were away...

Highlight of the Day : Out for a walk...

Birthday of the beast...

Playlist

The Velvet Underground - Scepter Studio 04-25-66

Miles Davis - Live in Europe 1969

Tosca - Odeon

Wizzard - See My Baby Jive

David Bowie - Drive in Saturday

Alice Cooper - No More Mr Nice Guy

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Agnes Obel - Philharmonia

Rollin' Bunkers - Invasion!

Nanoohm - Nanoohm

Klink Clock - We Don't Have the Time to Do Love All the Time

Rainbow - Rainbow Rising

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

Thomas Koner - Permafrost

Spock's Beard - Snow

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Hawkwind - Parallel Universe

Today is the birthday of the beast...

I've been blogging daily since March 2005...

Here's me on my birthdays through the blogging years...

Don't seem to have aged too much - but, of course, I have really...

I had plans for today - things I could do...

Go to a record fair...

Go to Coatbridge to see Queens play their last game of what has been a triumphant season (they won 1-0)...

Go to the Arches in Glasgow with Dr Prog tonight to see Spock's Beard...

Or go to St Mary's Cathedral (the one much featured in pics here over the last few years) for a day of Bach, from 8:45 in the morning till midnight...

Firstly though, to podiatrist Helen to have my feet done...

Lovely...

Then, with Anne, a wee walk to Jacobs Cafe at Haymarket, past the former deaf school - I don't mean it can hear now, I mean the building used to be a school for the deaf...

Breakfast...

Back to the car...

...and home to open my cards...

...and finally break the seal on the Velvets album purchased two weeks ago on "Record Store Day" in London...

...to transfer it to mini-disc and then, to CD, for future listening - vinyl is rubbish...

And then I did, for want of a better term, nothing really...

I didn't venture out again - wasn't feeling that great anyway really, the lingering lurgi from a few weeks ago continue to linger annoyingly...

However, I did have a good time - sorting out CDs and listening to music and surfing the interweb for nonsense and watching the footie scores progress - much like any other Saturday really...

In the evening, Annie cooked probably my fave tea - Spaghetti Bolognese, which was enjoyed with a cheeky wee bouteille du vin rouge...

"Dr Who" entertained, as did the final two episodes in the current series of "Person of Interest"...

All in all, a fine and indeed, dandy, birthday...

Highlight of the Day : Being the birthday boy...

Rather drookit...

Playlist

Various Composers - The Ultimate Baroque

Whilst I attended the funeral of chum Margaret's dad, who died suddenly last Sunday, Anne was playing host to a landscape gardener type man, who is working on what passes for our back garden...

With Anne out later on at Zumba, I started bringing this up to date as the rain battered against the windows...

Consequently, it was a rather drookit Annie Milannie who returned from exercising with chum Lynn...

The evening was spent with more updating...

Highlight of the Day : Writing up the holiday...

Rough cuts...

Playlist

Francoise Hardy - L'Amour Fou

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

The weather continues to hold...

This evening some rehearsing and recording of my guitar parts for Kat's album...

TV catch up continues with "Big Bang", "New Girl" etc etc...

Highlight of the Day : Recording roughly...

Spirits up it seems...

Playlist

Queens - End Times

Benjamin Damage - Heliosphere

Metabowman - Ja : Noe

Schnittke - Chamber Music 1

Franck - String Quartet in D Major

Vivaldi - Piccolo Concertos

Trio Papillon - Gaubert Koetsier Komma Schumann Zehm Delanoff

Ensemble Kontraste - Milhaud, Hindemith, Bartok

Bischoff - Audio Combine

Lund Quartet - Lund Quartet

Johan Verminnen - 60

Reasonable weather for the first day of May...

This evening, to my mum's to find her in good spirits and improving by the day...

Yesterday she was outside for the first time since going into hospital in early March...

Her brain is unaffected - here she is considering her tax code...

...and her MoT - hopig to drive again soon...

Back home, the TV catch up continued...

Highlight of the day : Mum improving...