Zigzag To A Bank

Tuesday evening watched the “Timewatch” documentary on Eddie Chapman , aka Agent Zigzag. I have read the book and decided to watch the programme to see if I learnt anything new. I didn't but it was still good entertainment for an hour, and there was an interview with Eddie made just before he passed away.

This evening we watched “The Bank Job” on Film 4 ,based on the true story of MI5 hatching a plan to rob a bank full of safe deposits with incriminating photos of a royal princess having it away in the Caribbean , and involving a shady character called Michael X and some nasty bent coppers and a porn king. Wonderful evening entertainment.

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It is great to find somebody on LJ who has similar musical tastes to mine , which is avant-garde,folk,fusion jazz, jazz-rock , krautrock, prog rock and progressive music of all kinds. Perhaps barin99 is a Wire reader as well.I wonder what their tastes in books are?

Downloaded some Elliiot Carter music from the ubu website , which I have yet to listen to. Specifically his “String Quartet No.1”.

I am currently reading Malcolm Gladwell's “Blink” alongside “The Disappearing Spoon” book, and I need to rapid read these two as both have been sold at Play Trade.

I am off to the library soon.Then off to Canterbury for the afternoon.

Going to a busy day i think.

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• Ср, 14:32: Another classic read "The Old Man And The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
• Ср, 15:19: Whole load of Stockhausen from ubu web site , including "Kontakte" and early electronic pieces.
• Ср, 15:20: Downloaded Lucianio Berio's "A Ronnie" to play later, after loading up Pierces CD to laptop from cousin.
• Ср, 15:23: Also downloaded some Sun Ra Arkestra live in Egypt , a fine selection of spaced out jazz that i will listen later. Gosh i will be busy!
• Ср, 16:37: Been listtening to Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse" followed by Spiritualized and then some Coltrane
• Ср, 16:41: Next some Simon Shaheen "The Music of Mohammed Abdel Wahab" (Axiom CD) a Bill Laswell label. http://t.co/h6EvnAST
• Ср, 16:52: RT @Broxted: #OccupyLondon So, bloodshed on St Paul's steps as riot police "go in hard" against a few hippies. We are winning the war, t ...
• Ср, 16:56: A bit of electronica and glitsch music next from mimimalist techno experimenters
• Ср, 17:31: The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article: http://t.co/c0rMYRyd via @AddThis
• Ср, 17:36: Now here is a band i thought which was under rated - LAMB

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