Cold Facts

 

Gaps between posts seem to be getting longer and I have to find the time to come up with something new each time. So today is more of a personal news bulletin of sorts. My Dad has been ill again and has caused my mum a certain amount of worry and wasted time. I have been continually updating my digital music collection and to a large degree I have been helping my wife finish our Country Cottage garden project which has been an ongoing joint effort since I singlehandedly dug up about a ton of old broken tarmac about 3 years ago. I have then joined forces with my neighbours to fight the ‘Great Old Town Residents Parking Battle With Our Local Council’ and I am on the committee, so let battle commence !

I have also watched some great documentaries recently, a couple on BBC4 regarding the life and times of soul singers Charles Bradley and Bobby Womack. Then I finally caught up with ‘Searching For Sugarman’ the award winning film on the obscure Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriquez which deserved it’s critical acclaim and to finish off my cultural tour I saw the documentary on war photographer Don McCullin whose exhibition I saw a couple of years ago in Bradford, again I recommend this to anyone who is interested in politics, art and history.
 Then I have watched two films that left me slightly perturbed 'Kill List' and 'Valhalla Rising', I think I understood them but I've not quite convinced myself, following those I then watched the Coen Bros 'A Serious Man' a film I have been hoping to see for quite awhile and to be honest I thought it was piss-poor and I've still yet to see their version of 'The Ladykillers'.

Listen boys if your reading this then just film the Big Lebowski II and I'll be happy again. Plus a big thumbs up to Modern Toss, god you make me laugh, check them out, just Google it and make them even more money to not pay their taxes on (that's Google not Modern Toss !)

 

 

Enjoy

 

 

Charles Bradley - Hurricane

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

Rodriguez - Inner City Blues

Dolorean - Violence In The Snowy Fields

The Game Of Life

The sun continues to shine, work is still a chore and I stopped taking my medicine. So that's a summation of my last few days. I have been getting headaches like my brain is stuffed with cotton wool, I've felt nauseous and have gone off beer, so all in all I have been feeling a bit sorry for myself.

I have even lost the urge to hurl my wrath at an unfair and cruel world but I haven't lost the urge to find and download music across the "interweb". This past week I have been filling the gaps in my Van Morrison and Flamin Groovies mp3 discographies and now that I am satisfied I can move on to someone else. I am addicted to collecting music. always have been always will be (I'm typing this listening to Bobby Whitlock - 43 tracks).

I've collected LP's, cassettes, mini-discs, CD's, singles, books , tickets and magazines. Over time though I have let a lot of this go mostly for money not for free because I had found my modus operandi I found the computer music library a fascinating and useful tool. My preferred software is WINAMP I use this to select my play lists and monitor all my music libraries. I keep everything on external hard discs , I now have three in case anything terrible happens. I'm on nearly 75,000 tracks and rising I have so much I can't possibly ever hear it all but I keep collecting it's my drug. I just feel better knowing I have a track or album that I can refer to at any given moment, it comforts me, it is my passion. Yes, I often doubt myself, question whether it is all ultimately pointless but I won't stop because the next band, the next song could be the best music I have ever heard, so my road goes on forever.

By the way I still have about 1000 vinyl albums these are my own big red book, as Eamonn Andrews used to say The Man That Time Forgot (me that is !) ' This Is Your Life'........

Enjoy  

Bombino - Amindinine

The Nite Riders - Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Socks)

David Byne and St. Vincent - Road To Nowhere (Live)

The Nomads (Sweden) - Showdown