Not So Good A Morning

Dull and overcast morning. Very dark with rain forecast. Yuk! Plus, i have an induction this morning to do with a course i was thinking about doing. Now i feel less sure i want to do it.  An appropiate morning song by Billie Holiday is in order .

DJ Gigs

My previous post may have been somewhat lachrymose but now, like that excellent track by Pharrell Williams i am happy. Two reasons, did not need the induction for the course at all and my experience means , that i want to do the course, i move in straight a level two,  Secondly, and more important, is the fact that i have secured two DJ gig dates with the Northern Lights in Brighton.

The first gig is this coming Wednesday which happens to be our lunch club date at Bellota. I shall playing groovy funky music from 7 pm - 11 pm and if anybody is in town that night they are welcomed to come along.. The venue has a good range of flavoured vodkas, and the food is great too!

Jazzy D is back in town!

The second gig is in May on Thursday 29th May at the same venue and time.

Thus i think it is time to play this happy tune. Enjoy.

Mellowness

For lunch i had a couple of the Yeastie Boys Tea Leaf IPA (6.5 % ABV) before meeting the HR officer in the Office. It only took no more than thirty minutes and i was free again to do what i usually do, which was a final pint of this New Zealand ale - well at only a penny less tha two quid it had to be done.

I bought some cold meats for a salad. Lovely slices of beef and pork to go with the jacket potatoes and salad stuff.  Yummy feel good food.

Picked up Paolo Nutini's first CD for 25 pence today. Not bad, but nowhere near as good as any Bill Fay album. I think it will need more plays for me to appreciate  it more.

I feel quite mellow now so there is a possibility of  falling asleep.

Meanwhile, here is a track from that first album,, These Streets,   a track called New Shoes.

Enjoy.

Birthday Greeting

Happy birthday to gillpolack and persephoneplace .

Book 35 - J .G. Ballard "High Rise"

J .G. Ballard "High Rise" (Flamingo)






This is the story of a high-rise in London, a huge building with hundreds of apartments, and things like a school, supermarket, hairdresser, swimming pools and a play ground for the resident. It is obvious that the higher up you get, the higher up in class you go, with the richest people (including the architect of the building) living high up, and the lower class living on the bottom floors. The mood the in building changes over a few months, first subtly, but later quite drastically. A war is starting to get to the top, with the bottom floors aiming for the top and the top ones coming together to keep them out. Pretty soon no one is leaving the building anymore or cares anything about the outside, the world in the high-rise is all that matters.

Even though the things that happened in this book aren't nice by any means, I couldn't stop reading because of some morbid fascination I had with the story. I just had to know how bad it could get, and how the main character ends up eating a dog on his balcony (the first line in the book). The story was pretty fascinating, but because this was a bit too unreal (no police or family ever investigates? no body has any qualms about fighting, starving, stealing or killing?), I couldn't really connect. However, i will read more novels by J. G. Ballard in the future.

For Galactic Hitch Hikers

From You Tube part one of the Hitch Hikers Guide from the classic BBC TV series - Enjoy!