A fan of some things, not a fan of others, so it goes...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Langsamkeit
Dream Theater - Dream Theater

A wee beastie outside the window upon opening the curtains this morning...

I am a fan of the squirrel...

First frost of the season...

I am a fan of the frost...

Good aerials on the way down the road...

I am a fan of the occasional aerial...

I seemed to be being followed...

Cloudless skies this morning...

I am a fan of cloudless skies...

At lunchtime, my salad eating expedition was watched by a crow...

I am a fan of the crow...

The crow enjoyed some cous-cous today, courtesy of Mr CBQ...

Cloudless skies this lunchtime...

I am a...you get the picture...

In the evening, a rehearsal with the Capital Models...

New songs were introduced and old songs were played through...

A good night...

The guys catching the Arctic Monkeys on the telly...

I am not a fan of the Arctic monkeys but they advised I ought to be...

I'm sure I have something on a hard drive somewhere...

Home just after eleven...

Exec Producer waiting up...

I am a fan of the Exec Producer...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Good rehearsals...

Facilitating a prototyping scenario...

Playlist

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings

Loudon Wainwright III - Album II

Loudon Wainwright III - Unrequited

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

Four Tet - There is Love in You

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead

Shiver - Shiver#1

Francoise Hardy - The Way of Love

Francoise Hardy - If You Listen

David Bowie - The Next Day

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

Various - Almost Famous OST

Adams - Harmonium

Various - Aloud Music Sampler Vol 3

Various Composers - 20 Jahre Edition Zeitgenossische Musik: CrossCut Edition

Sunday but no rest for the wicked...

Up early and researching packaging scenarios for the new collection - a difficult task given the full version is envisaged as a set of 24 CDs and a book...

I'm also seeing 4CD, 2CD and 1CD versions though...

each will carry different 10, 6 or 3 minute details of each of the twenty four tracks...

The full 15 hours or so of material created for the project will only be on the 24 CD set version...

Over the last week or so, I've been getting used to the 4CD 10 minute details set...

Early days though...

It could all amount to nothing...

Two coffees and to work...

Meg the Black Cat was helping...

...in between telling me just how much destroying of the new leather suite she'd been doing downstairs during the night...

Spent some time listening to field recordings with a view to possible additions to what I have "in the can" thus far...

Breakfast at home after collecting croissants, along with rolls for lunch post more work...

Also today, downloaded the software for the Virtual ANS Synthesiser - as recommended by chum Peri Urban the other day...

Interesting stuff - another possible project... 

After lunch, shopping for various furnishing type things and a visit to my mum - doing well but frets so easily about the smallest things, always imagining the worst will happen...

Home and the fifth of six episodes of "By Any Means" - all watched this week I think - plus episode two of the very strange but reasonably entertaining "Toast of London"...

Back to the computer post a craving relieving home made toastie for tea...

A couple of things now winging their way to Crispycat Towers for some prototyping...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Making a little bit of progress...

Music is a hungry ghost...

Playlist
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
Shiver - Shiver #1
The Physics House Band - Horizons / Rapture
King Crimson - Asbury Park 1974
Edikanfo - The Pacesetters
Loudon Wainright III - Album II
Loudon Wainright III - Unrequited
Exhaust - Exhaust
Falco - Emotional
The Flower Kings - Unfold the Future
Aerial M - Aerial M
Mogwai - My Father My King
Pan American - Pan American
Fly Pan Am - Fly Pan Am
To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View
To Rococo Rot & I Sound - Music is a Hungry Ghost
Tarwater - Animals Suns and Atoms
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# (Infinity)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Despite a late night, up early and updating this...

The sun was rising over the houses opposite my window...

Two hours later, out into the morning...

Cold...

A walk into town - cat's eye view - down the hill...

...along the road...

...enjoying the leaves...

..and taking the time to record the ephemeral beasts...

..some solo...

...some in piles...

Down to the main road...

..along by the zoo...

The berries from two weeks ago were still there...

...past the strange house...

...and along to Helen the podiatrist's...

...onward past the spot from where I often take a bus home...

..past the no longer school for the deaf...

...to Haymarket after one hour's walk...

A little ahead of time, I slowed to a saunter...

On through Charlotte Square...

...along George St, noting the castle...

...through St Andrew Square...

..and to Artisan Roast on Broughton St to meet up with Count Brodski...

Coffees, then, to the record fair - a new dealer was disposing of his collection - he advised he was of an age at which he'd decided to make copies of the best stuff and sell it off - we both partook heartily, commiserating and empathising as we did...

We both agreed it was a little like looking at part of our own collections such was this man's taste in music...

A lift home through the rain...

I'd even bought an LP I used to have before I sold my own collection via our shop, now over 20 years ago...

With Anne off to see Hearts lose yet again (while Queens unexpectedly progressed in the Scottish Cup by beating top and only once beaten before today team in our league, Hamilton), I downloaded an MP3 version of the LP...

Ripped the rest of today's purchases during the afternoon...

In the evening, a curry and "Strictly" - then a couple of episodes of "By Any Means" and the latest in "Man Down"...

A final update of this and another Saturday bites the dust...

Right you two...

Highlight of the Day : A good haul at the record fair...

Sixteen in your head...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
Klink Clock - We Don't Have the Time to Do Love All the Time
Various - Time Machine  A Vertigo Retrospective
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask

Meg the Black Cat was kind of helping me this morning as I uploaded some pics...



In the evening, a meet with the Exec Producer for drinks at Iglu and the Stockbridge Tap...

..before heading over the road to Buffalo Grill for a celebration re catsitter Joan (sister of Anne's best friend Lynn)'s 50th birthday...

Lynn, Ross, sons Scott and Stuart, Lynn & Joan's sister Sheila and boyfriend Tim plus us and the aforementioned birthday girl in attendance...

The beast and the birthday girl...

...the latter also appearing on a cake...

Wasn't Halloween yesterday?

Aaargh!

Drinks afterwards into the wee small hours, not in the Stockbridge Tap (who would not serve the boys without ID) but in the Antiquary - with good music in the background and a selection of entertaining but unpictured dogs...

Home in a taxi rather the worse for wear, to find CDs arrived by Lou Reed and Shiver...

Lou quickly ripped and I think I heard the first song before conking out...

Highlight of the Day : Birthday celebration...