I Did All My Best To Smile

Northern Line chaos this morning. The elastic band broke.

I'm becoming increasingly fed up with work and the weather and the sheer desparation of it all.

Still, Amazon came good with my Cherry Ghost, Nick Drake and Chris Squire CDs. Are you listening CD-WOW? Four days it took, not 5 weeks.

Shuffle All:

Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley
Forsaken - Dream Theater
White Rum - Various Artists, from the first Trojan Dub Box Set (Disc 1)
Cold As Ice - Caravan
Unwritten Answer - Epsilon Indi
Harold Budd - Rothko
Hands - Andreas Vollenweider
You Don't Need Anyone (Moles Club Demo) - Marillion
South Side Of The Sky - Yes
Wedding Nails - Porcupine Tree, from XM
Just For The Record - Marillion
Polonaise - Jon & Vangelis
Lady Writer - Dire Straits
Misunderstanding [Live] - Genesis

Apparently, the Sunday Times made Robert Fripp's latest release CD of the Week. That cheered me up. From DGM Live:

Sunday Times CD Of The Week All Over The World
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Aug 12, 2007

Who’d a thunk it - Robert Fripp’s latest album grabs the CD of the week accolade in the Sunday Times! Giving it a fullsome five stars here’s what reviewer, Mark Edwards, has to say.

"Even if you think you don’t know Robert Fripp’s music, you do. That unearthly guitar sound that swoops and soars through Bowie’s Heroes – that’s Fripp, played through Brian Eno’s sonic treatments. Fripp and Eno developed this “You play, I’ll tweak” system, which they called Frippertronics. More recently, Fripp has evolved the idea alone. These days, he calls the results Soundscapes. Churchscapes are Soundscapes performances in churches. There, that’s the terminology sorted. Fripp plays slowly evolving improvisations next to a huge rack of effects processors covered in lights and dials and buttons, but I strongly suspect that this is all for show and, hidden round the back, he has a small box with just one button on it, and that button is marked “Wow!”. I would suggest that you turn out the lights, put on the headphones and lie back in wonder."