Good Morning

Friday Focus

Despite being cool we did have some sunshine today, but not warm enough to say it is spring just yet.

I pooped out early to the local store to get some food and wine. Lunch was chicken roast with stuffing washed down with a very nice Spanish Rucio Blanco Vino.

I had won a fifty-pound gift certificate to Amazon from an online forum I took part in. So guess what I did - get some music - and these arrived today and yesterday in different packages via the Marketplace.

Elliott Carter - Chamber Music (Arditti String Quartet)
Brain Ferneyhough 2 - 4th String Quartet etc (Arditti String Quartet)
Morton Feldman - Durations / Coptic Light (CPO)
Shostakovich Symphony No.13 "Babi Yar" (CBSO/Okko Kamu) (Chandos)
David Murray octet - Hope Scope (Black Saint)
The Hypeion Schubert Edition Vol. 12 (Hyperion)
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive (Virgin)
Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise (New World 3CD)
Mordant Music + COI - Misinformation (BFI DVD)

So yes, I have been busy listening to all this music.

Sold another four items via eBay as well. Posting tomorrow.

Seen It Before

The Friday Five

For all you foodies out there -

How do you feel about cooking?

How often do you cook a meal (from mostly fresh ingredients, not something ready-assembled that you just heat)?

How many people do you usually cook for, when you cook?

Do you have a favourite recipe book or chef?

Kitchen tools: use the fewest possible or gadgets are your friend?

Friday Freakiness

Tome for some outer limits -

Mordant Music - Inn Ohm the Lake

Nurse With Wound / Stereolab - Simple Headphone Mind

Pauline Anna Strom - Marking Time

Mordant Music - The Hauntological Song

ENJOY