Cloudland Blue Quartet Leonard Cohen EP...

Spent the majority of yesterday recording this...

The Leonard Cohen EP by Cloudland Blue Quartet on Mixcloud

A day in the studio...

Playlist

Various - Magic Moments 7 : The Sound of Surprise
Leonard Cohen - The Best Of

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Leonard Cohen EP

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Kinokophonography at the Whitworth

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Library of Congress

Rheostatics - Best of Rheostatics

Rheostatics - Melville

Rheostatics - The Last Set

Up late, at 9...

And to work...

I spent the entire day recording a 15 minute EP of three Leonard Cohen songs...

...and making a bit of a mess...

Kitchen not pictured...

Here is the result...

With which I'm reasonably pleased...

The Leonard Cohen EP by Cloudland Blue Quartet on Mixcloud

Finished around six and ordered an Indian for collection and enjoyed that, whilst recording "Dr Who", which we'll watch on Anne's return...

Then realised the EP required to be remixed, as the vocals were just too loud...

To bed at an unrealistic 3am...

Meanwhile, in that London, fun was being had by two ladies...

Highlight of the Day : Recording...

Experimental spaghetti...

Playlist

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

The Shangris Las - Best of

Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names

Various - Dub

John Lewis - Jazz Abstractions

Leonard Cohen - The Best Of

Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen - Various Positions

Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man

Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs

The new feed station is certainly popular with this squirrel...

Uptown, it was sunny but cold...

A walk to Dalry - part of recent orders fulfilment which continues apace...

Back home to an empty house, Anne having made her way with Jane to London on the 10am train...

So, some reggae music...

...some 13 year old Rioja...

...and some improvised spaghetti, given a distinct lack of various required ingredients for a non-experimental spaghetti...

Turned out tasty...

Watched the recent documentary on The Amazing Randi - in the fifties and sixties he went further than Houdini regarding escapology....

In the 70's he worked with Alice Cooper on their illusions and also exposed many frauds and charlatans - it's one thing using the wrokings of magic to baffle and entertain but quite another to deceive (Uri Geller)...

His long-standing offer of $1m to any "psychic" who can prove their "paranormal" abilities under strict laboratory conditions has never been taken up...  

Then, red wine, King Crimson and Queen of the South - a lacklustre 0-0 draw at Falkirk...

...some ahead of its time music from John Lewis (not the department store)...

...and into the night, listening to Leonard Cohen songs and finding a third I might like to do instead of one of the two originally chosen for the Cohen night on 20 November...

To bed at 2am - as is the way when the Exec Producer is away...

Highlight of the Day :  Experimental spaghetti...

The eyes of the eagle...

Playlist

Stanley Turrentine - Look Out!

Various - The Lost Grooves 67-70

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton

Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits

Tomorrow, the Exec Producer may be a last minute accompanier of sister in law Jane to London re Bobby's 99 year old granny having been hospitalised re a broken hip...

We'll see...

Meanwhile...

Rain...

...and sun...

Later on, Anne was out this evening with chum Debbie - I took the opportunity to watch "Eagle Eye" which must surely have been an influence on "Person of Interest"...

Shia laBeouf always reminds me of Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan...

Late on, taxi duty for Anne and word that she's off to London tomorrow morning...

Highlight of the Day : Eagle Eye...

The pie of the shepherd...

Playlist

Rheostatics - AGO First Thursdays Rheostatics Tribute, September 3, 2015

Bidiniband - The Land Is Wild

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Ornette Coleman - New York is Now

Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
Rheostatics - Melville

Rheostatics - Massey Hall, 30 March 2007
Ant Law - Zero Sum World
Miroslav Vitous - Infinite Search

The view from the office this morning...

Little to report today -  a trip to Fopp and a couple of jazz compilations swithered over...

Noted a Blue Note Stanley Turrentine album I thought I didn't have...

Just as well I abstained...

On the way home, Autumn arrived today...

In the evening, a tasty Shepherd's Pie from the Exec Producer, a little bit of live "Coronation Street"..

Further work on uploading the Canadian photos to the blog whilst also writing up the present for future publishing...

More rehearsing of the two Leonard Cohen songs...

Lights out at midnight, pics still uploading...

Highlight of the Day : The pie of the Shepherd...

A cat, a squirrel and a holby triple...

Playlist

Martin Tielli - Operation Infinite Joy

Max Richter - From Sleep

Rheostatics - AGO First Thursdays Rheostatics Tribute, September 3, 2015

King Crimson - DGM Live Hot Tickles

More good views this morning, kind of...

...and then, as I made my way down the road...

...this...

Later, some young ladies taking advantage of the clement weather on the last day of summer - five floors up...

Things started clouding over at lunchtime...

The Beast on the bus...

Back home, the animals have finally gotten over their fear of the new feeding station perhaps...

A second evening of Leonard Cohen rehearsals...

...and two Tivo'd and a "live" "Holby City" - very good...

Highlight of the Day : A cat, a squirrel and a Holby triple...