impossible songs

These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...

Friday, October 31, 2008

Shakey

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Neil Young never sleeps and plays an Em on a Gretsch possibly thinking towards his big night in, on the Beeb tonight from 9.30. A strange c...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Still

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Here in West Lothian the previous week's winds and rain showers have gone leaving a cold, still atmosphere and a thickness evident in t...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ross, Brand and Tennant.

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Ambient and absent. The news creates the news, particularly on the BBC (who still have the best set of TV and Radio Channels) when it's ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Louie Louie is played on the radio.

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"He's a good enough song writer but could he have written Louie Louie?" So said Frank Zappa and I agree up to a point and mayb...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's

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After a day spent mainly pottering, taxi driving and frying sausages I escaped into the whispy world of Sky Plus and watched a few things I...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Perthshire Amber and the rain

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Perthshire Amber In something of a genre shift for us we played a few songs the Perthshire Amber Festival in Pitlochry today in the rather n...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

A day in the life

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I'm not at work this week as the kids are on half term so today has been a laundry and recovery day following our trip up north. I did s...

I don't remember the 50s either

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Now that another birthday is over I can reflect quietly on what little I can recall from the 50s, a decade arguably best forgotten. The funn...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Stormy Sunday Blues

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Leaves blowing everywhere and rain spattering windows and windscreens, wet and cold and very much the seasonal turning of the weather. Down ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

No possessions

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I've been doing a lot of scampering around thanks the wonderful airline Flybe this week. The pleasant grey and concrete city of Dusseldo...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Intermittent Stimuli

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Not quite the truth about the Big Lebowski I find the BBC's Robert Peston a bit irritating these days, his face and expert opinions are ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Capitalism in action

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Today we are all a little poorer and further in debt to the public sector and ourselves. The sub-prime market stretched out of shape by or...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

The Existentialist Factor

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A weekend in which the vital ring was sorted, shepherd's pie reinvented, accounts settled, grass cut and various interesting or vacuous ...
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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Ring a ding ding

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Today we shopped without any obvious dropping for the engagement ring. The well chosen model being an antique (pre 1837) Georgian diamond an...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Brotherhood of the Cougar

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That strange and mystical bond does exist, between man and machine and between Cougar owners and other Cougar owners (male or female). It...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Bad Robot

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As mentioned previously we received this fellow as an addition to our many pets, strays, creepy crawly and wild animal collection. He needs ...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Beecraigs, trout and sausage.

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Saturday was spent mostly wandering around in circles at Beecraigs Country Park, West Lothian, quite pleasant really. I was offered two larg...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

My mind's a blank

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This is a sunburst Telecaster. More pictures in the occasional series of rambled oddities called "things I like". This is a red Me...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Towns

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On Monday I was back in Livingstone admiring the clarity of the road signs but still trying to understand what the planners had been thinkin...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Fair Game

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A man makes curious shapes from timber and cookie dough with the aid of (what appears to be) either a chainsaw, a tiny guitar, or a Steely ...
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