Music and Books

[jazzy_dave]

Weather started misty and cool during the morning and was overcast for most of the day becoming warmer and sunnier mid-afternoon. I tended to listen to music CDs most of the day, read the Guardian and chapters from some of my books in my reading or to be read pile. I did notice with a wry smile one book on music calling the Wire magazine a "new music anorakzine". I did not know whether to be in a state of apoplexy or own it with pride. I opted for the latter.

Having said that , my musical listening today spread from the the 19th century via the sixties to now with the following listens -

Nina Simone - The Blues
Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 3
Orbital - In Sides
Buffalo Springfield - BF
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Bedřich Smetana - Má vlast
The Comet Is Coming - The Afterlife

That book on music I am reading is The Land Without Music: Music, culture and society in twentieth-century Britain.





Oh and here is another pic of some books in a pile. My reading or to be read pile.




The book on the history of computers and the digital landscape  - Turing's Cathedral - is fascinating.