2012 — 3 June: Sunday
It's entirely possible I may have to flee the confines of BBC 6Music at some point this weekend. Their theme is a celebration1 ("Punk Britannia", if you please) of that weird (but thankfully brief) musical aberration. It never really peeled my banana, to be honest.
I'm not saying it was all bad, but that was a pretty good rule of thumb. I don't mind people being ignorant louts in their own back yard, as it were, but when they arrogantly revel in it on a wider stage I admit I can get a tad crotchety. (Not that some of the 'musicians' would have known a crotchet if they'd been smacked over the head with one. In quarter time or not.)
Time for a cuppa, methinks — for a minim or so — while I can assess whether the current drizzle volume is going to preclude a little local stroll later this morning.
[Pause] Looks like the UK's trademark blend of summer sunshine and showers, but we're going to risk it. It's only water, after all.
[Pause] And the car is back on its nest half a minute before the rain starts. It's 12:36, there's another 6.3 (foot) miles of wear on my boots, and I need another cuppa.
Another year...
... means another annual upgrade to my extremely useful 'artworks' software. I bought the first release of this when it was launched back in 1990 and it lived only on the Acorn RISC platform (as did I, in my home computing life). Unlike me, it seems to get faster, more elegant, and more capable with each passing year.
This morning's musical prediction was accurate. It's 20:51 and I've been enjoying a dalliance — an extended one, at that — with Planet Rock.
Having failed...
... to find yesterday's delivery of my latest DVD ("Girl Model") in DVD Profiler's database...
... I was browsing for it on IMDB, when I was sidetracked (it happens) and spotted an interesting list of 29 fashion-related titles. In this, at #29, I found a film Christa and I enjoyed down in the Harbour Lights cinema back in 1996. It was "Unzipped" and took a behind-the-scenes peek at Isaac Mizrahi's preparations for his 1994 'fall' collection. Though I wouldn't mind seeing it again, I find the price of the DVD on Amazon (there's an American import starting at £81-36) just a little too rich for my taste.