Thursday 29 December 2011

A menu of delight and despair

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I keep dropping and lifting the magical needle to hear the same '45 play over and over - 'it's all relative' - whilst at the same time knowing I am absolutely not a relativist. Does this make me a card-carrying hypocrite or merely reading the street-sign entitled 'confused'? I am rather unsure. Er, so, belated good tidings for Christmas and tentative greetings as we speed towards yet another New Year, and all that kind of m'larky. I guess I should offer up my sincere apologies for having very little to say just now. Sorry! I mean, I can't even provide you with a 'best of 2011' type of mix. Ooops. I might get to that by summer 2012, if my current workrate is anything to go by (but, I did post another mix over at 8tracks today, pop-pickers, and some of those songs were released this year!). But, unarguably, I will be a little more miserable during the next twelve months and thus, I am certain, have something more - something potentially interesting - to write about. As a dear friend reminds me, often, I am a fountain of absolute nothingness when not unhappy. Och, really, I can barely find the w... [edit]
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Standard Fare - 'Nuit avec une ami' (3.05)
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'You're a postcode lottery'. Oh no, that's another song. Anyway, buy this album as it is really good. It came out in March 2010, and all that, but I am just catching up.
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PS. The last post, written many days ago now, was eaten whole for DMCA reasons. Apologies for offending, er, Pearl Jam? :(

5 comments:

  1. Happy New Year comrade.

    Here's to many more musings in 2012. And great tunes too of course

    Duckskin is the word verification. A bit quackers if you ask me......

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  2. First, love that Standard Fare song.

    Second, I hope you're still alive? You've been terribly quiet.

    x

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  3. Thanks Jim - belated (electronic) New Year greetings to you as well!

    Still alive, Niki. Thanks for your thoughts. Just been a little under the weather and incapable of finding time or the words. It can get that way sometimes with me. x

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  4. Oh yes, for all of us. I hope you are feeling better now you have your words back! x

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  5. Ah, well, not sure I have the words back, really. But, I'm not giving up that easily.... not this time. ;) x

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