Not sure what to say this post is about. There's a lot of bad things happening , mostly to people fairly far removed from me. It's therefore easy to write about stuff complaining about the bad , and lets face it it's always easy to find something wrong or to complain about stuff , without having an idea how to fix it. Anyway I always lokk for good stuff , positives , things to make me smile. I love seeing pics of my daughter Juliet and her fiance Paul's cat and the fantastic meals they make and my daughter Kirsty's music and gaming posts and her and Mark's dogs' Moll's pictures and videos. There is a lot in life to enjoy.
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| My Music Boxes - Abba , Roxy , Little Feat etc |
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Anyway a couple of things I was looking at a small part of my record collection , particularly the Original Album series and other boxes and realised than the starting with Madness - The Lot and finishing with Little Feat's Original Album series contains around 100 CDs which is approximately 100 hours or four continuous days of (though I say it myself) excellent music. And that's just a single row on a rack. I'm still ripping this lot to hard disc so I can listen through my home network.
This week I was introduced to the attrociously named Deezer , which has an equally attrocious sign up process expecting a Facebook account these days , but once you're on it is effectively a music library service. You never own the music but for a fiver a month you can listen to anything they have , although the excellent Tempest by Bob Dylan is missing from their base , but I have been listening to the new
British Sea Power album courtesy of Deezer.
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| My home studio - now operational |
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The other thing is that I finally have my home studio working consisting of an
iPad with Garageband and a couple of other music software things, plus an
Alesis I/O Dock and Q49 Keyboard , all now working after months of trauma getting things to talk to each other.
The
I/O Dock lets you plug things into it like guitars and microphones so expect to have something online this week , just a bit of ambient improvisation , but that has made me really happy as well. Just hope the noise that comes out thats good.
I finished
EH Gombrich's A Little History Of The World , the book I'll be distributiong for
World Book Night 2013 and think I write a piece and put together a video montage of this years books. But we shall see. Any the book is excellent and fantastic for any parents with children under twelve who are open to learning about history. Well written and jargon free. Recommended for anyone.
Finally next week have tickets to see Omid Djalili at
The Stand in Newcastle so things are generally good.
