Friday On My Mind
Roll on the weekend - it's been a crap week. Tossing and turning at night, imagining the worst about absolutely everything. Strong urges to scream "I TOLD YOU SO !" into the smug but bewildered face of George Dubya. Hospital appointments, uncertainty, loved one's health. Yes life can be a bitch - but hell, it's the only one we get.
Watched a couple of online concerts from the recent Cambridge Folk Festival. Steve Earle I've always been a fan of - and if he can shed the pounds the way he has done then there IS hope for me. As well as Mr Earle, I thought The Waifs were excellent. No wonder His Bobness has endorsed them. Eliza Carthy once again proves that *traditional* music doesn't have to be the cultural cul-de-sac that the finger-in-the-ear, its-not-folk-music-if-its-accompanied-by-an-instrument brigade are striving for. On top of this there is the magnificent fusion of the Afro-Celts and the front-porch, deep-south country blues of white-boy John Hammond. Check it all out at the BBC's superb website Go on - you pay your licence, get some benefit (although you will need a broadband connection).
Got a funny feeling Dubya's "well-thought out plan" for automatic re-election come November 2004 may have been derailed. The good ol' "Road Map" has failed its readers. Where once there were perfectly legible motorways, A-Roads and service stations, there are now only great, blank areas that are marked: "Here Be Dragons".
It was Twenty Years Ago Today........
Simon's taxdodger hit the big 20 today. Happy Birthday to you and congratulations to Simon and Tracey. These are the landmarks that pepper the goulash of parenthood. (Don't you just love mixing metaphors ?)
This post has been brought to you by Yes (Long Distance Runaround, Yours is no Disgrace, Going for the One and We Have Heaven), Mark Knopfler (Why Aye Man!), Bruce Springsteen (Jersey Girl, Into the Fire) and Francis Vincent Zappa (Village of the Sun, Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo). Oh...and a few deserved Long Island Teas ;-).
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