Tuesday, August 03, 2021

When your mother might be mistaken for something she is not...

Playlist
The Hollies - For Certain Because...
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling
Grandaddy - Last Place
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
David Bowie - Low
Lonely Robot - The Big Dream
Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
(Albums of the Month: August 1959-August 2020)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jackie McLean - Makin' the Changes
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Dexter Gordon - Go
Oliver Nelson - Full Nelson
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Stereo)
Jeff Beck - Truth 
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Roy Wood - Boulders
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Harmonia - De Luxe
Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Chic - C'est Chic
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Yes - Drama
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing
The Durutti Column - Another Setting
Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
Dio - Sacred Heart
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Sparks - Interior Design
Earthworks - Dig?
Extreme - Pornograffitti
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day
Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
The Divine Comedy - Fin De Siècle
The Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre
Spock's Beard - V
New Order - Get Ready
Spock's Beard - Snow
Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
The Blue Nile - High
OK Go - Oh No
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Happy Apple - Happy Apple Back on Top
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Moby - Wait For Me
Eels - Tomorrow Morning
Yes - Fly From Here (Alt Version)
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
Sigur Rós - Kveikur (Deluxe Edition)
The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
The Bad Plus - It's Hard
Alice Cooper - Paranormal
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Yello - Point
Then
Big Big Train - Common Ground
The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
The Moody Blues - Octave
William Parker - Trencadis
Various Artists - LPs of the Day 2021 Playlist

Up...


Skies...



CDs not records...


I wonder when the EP will start painting again...





Coffee...


Radio (off)...




...and clock (above) and nectarine (below)...


Fridge...



Coffee ready...


Work - soundtracked today by, mainly, my LPs of the Augusts of my lifetime (so far)...


Anne still slept...


...as did the world...


Later, breakfast outside again...








Our recently deceased neighbour's house is for sale - I took a look over the wall into his garden - first time in 34 years I've seen this...


WFH then, to my mum's around noon to take her for an outpatient appointment re her troublesome toe...

A wee walk around the environs first - she did not mind having her pic taken here...


All done with no complications and saw chum Lynn too who works next to the are we visited (until she retires at the end of this month)...

Took mum home then back to my desk for more WFH...

"Holby City" entertained as did "Kimmy"...

Late on...


Lights out...


Highlight of the Day : Getting outside...

Monday, August 02, 2021

We can listen to the sounds of nature...

Playlist
Son Volt - Electro Melodier
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Various Artists - 20 Star Tracks
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky
Capital Models - 2021-07-25
Capital Models - 2021-06-27
Capital Models - 2021-07-08
Capital Models - 2018-09-23
Capital Models - 2021-06-13
Capital Models - 2020-01-12
Capital Models - 2021-04-25
Capital Models - 2021-06-06
Capital Models - 2019-04-28
Capital Models - 2020-03-10

A better rising time than yesterday's extreme tardiness...

I flipped a pic from last week...


...creating my final choice cover for the new LP...
That's better...

Ready for the day - even though I was not "going out"...


Good skies...


Breakfast in the front garden - it's a thing of relaxation before the trials of WFH...


The Japanese flowers, some of which appeared on the cover of my 2010 LP "Splinterheart", are once again in bloom...


...seen here with a beast...


...and without...



I like this time of day...


It's very quiet apart from the sounds of nature - and the feet of the beast...




Back inside, a nectarine awaited its fate...


Most of the day sent listening to Capital Models as I drew up four possible set lists comprising our entire current repertoire...

At lunchtime, some Kimmy (although the Olympics appear to be in the background here) and a tasty roll....


This evening, a visit from one of the local foxes...


And, advice from the internet re a shaky headphone connection to my phone was taken and this gunk was extracted, which did for the shooglyness...


We came third at "University Challenge" - St Andrews scraped a win, the very final question putting them 5 points in front, having been behind for the entirety of the game beforehand...


Some late night listening to a good box...





...although the EP wasn't so sure of the weird sounds...


To bed...


Highlight of the Day : Breakfast outside...

Sunday, August 01, 2021

A crisis of confidence can end with something better...

Playlist
Various Composers - Essential 20th Century Classics
Mozart - Mozart Momentum 1785
Niklas Paschburg - Post Svalbard
Niklas Paschburg - Svalbard
Arthur Hnatek Trio - Static
Various Artists - Grand 12-Inches 7
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky [DeLuxe]

Sunday and, for the first time since March 2020, I slept beyond 8am...


Slightly overcast...


Ted was up but not about - he is not alive...


Cage remained in its packet...


Crispy was on the window ledge...


Out to do the weekly mum-shop...


...and home for an omelet based breakfast...


...and, following having listened in the car to a couple of tracks from the upcoming LP, a crisis of confidence was experienced and I set about remixing "Here We Go Again"...


...which took a lot longer, all told, than I'd expected...

A visit to my mum was included in the day's proceedings...

Turned out I had missed a few things from her list and had to do further shopping for her...

Such is the way...

Home and took a break from mixing and listened to this...


Finally, having finished for the day and being reasonably satisfied with the new "improved" version of the track, we watched the proms...

Three Mozart symphonies (his final three) played by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, including Anne's cousin Alison Green on the bassoon...



Lovely...

We probably also watched a few episodes of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"....

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Relaxing with the proms...