2013 — 14 April: Sunday
It's again managing to be both grey and bright this morning. The initial cuppa is already a distant memory.1 I suppose I should get dressed at some point. As sleep came and went several times I'm in no great hurry. I'm retired, you know. And it will soon be time to tune in to Cerys.
I've already spent some of my self-allotted MP3 download fund, too. I found a Ry Cooder track on one of those old "Word" magazine free CDs yesterday evening. From an album ("I, Flathead") that must have been released in or around September 2008. And which passed me by at the time. Down it came.
Very nice it is, too. It's vaguely alarming to consider how long it has been since my "first" album by Ryland P Cooder...
Lemonses? What, already? OK, put kettle on, Mother. [Pause] Lunch? Well, I suppose it is 13:47, after all...
Not that I...
... ever am, but were I asked to sum up the apparently now-saintly Mrs T I would simply recommend people to read the Observer's nicely-balanced editorial. While staying far away from the readers' comments sections on any of the other related "news" items. Watching the great British public being divided in various degrees of incoherent and inarticulate rage at one another is not a pretty sight. (Link.)
Just never ask me to discriminate my degree of, erm, feeling, for say Mrs T versus Mary Whitehouse. Any attempt to discriminate among the various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous, to misquote Kai Lung.
I've just been bewitched by Spanish Moon on the August 2008 "Word" CD. It's a new studio version by "Little Feat and Friends". Incredibubble. Hence my next download:
Inara George is the daughter of Lowell...
Jarvis Cocker has...
... just reminded us of a bit of wisdom he picked up from the Highway Code of yesteryear. It's easily on a par with that advice about continuing to keep reading a chainsaw's Instruction Manual "until you understand it". Namely — "Always give way to trains." Sound advice, that.
Just watched...
... a surprisingly gripping film called "Margin Call". Be first. Be smarter. Or cheat. What a philosophy.