Two of my CDs have been missing for ages, so today I am sorting out the 'corner' of the studio that used to be my studio.
It's a disgraceful mess.
Owning over 1000 discs requires far more managerial skills than I possess, particularly when many of them don't even have sleeves, let alone cases!!!
And worse than that (why am I so CRAP???)
loads of them don't even have anything written on them at all??

I don't even have a decent list of what I am supposed to have.
So much music has been blagged from all over the place that I really need to keep a better handle on it.

Most likely they will turn up in the kids Make-and-Do cupboard sometime, but they are certainly NOT HERE.
It's been a valuable exercise tough and I've thrown away several million sheets of paper.

While doing this I am listening to
The Tenement Symphony by Marc Almond

This is the second Almond album that I have played in the last four days - the first being Jacques on the weekend when I copied it for Louis Gordon's Deep Electric Blue Ep. Someone in Devon somewhere I think...

While its not a 'great' album, TS does contain some excellent songs. The standout songs being My Hand Over My Heart, Champagne and the singles Jacky and The Days of Pearly Spencer.
it's perhaps best known as being Almond's pseudo-Soft Cell album as many of the tracks are co-written with Dave Ball and produced by The Grid.
Apart fromt he rather overblown tracks that are typical trevor Horn productions (What is Love, I've Never Seen Your Face etc).
maybe Mister MArc is making a belated comeback into my consiousness.

To counter this, I successfully downloaded the latest two promo tracks from Foxx uploaded to his 'myshite' site over the weekend. these are the very wonderful 'Friendly Fire' (which sounds like Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll aka Goldfrapps Ooh La La!!!) and the rathe rmysterious and indefinable ballad 'Never Let me Go' which sounds like something Laurie Anderson might have conceived but decided not to go with.
It's a bit like "The Forgotten Years' on Shifting City and will need a lot more listens.
So now I have six tracks off this 'new' album already!!!
Don't quite now what is going on.
Admittedly three of them are on The Hidden Man as extended versions or 'full' versions?? but that means there are only five new songs to buy the disc for?
It's all gone so crappy with his releases lately.

Far more exciting is the announcement that he will appear live at the Brighton Film Festival in November palying the Tiny Colour Movies soundtracks to a DVD od the super-8s! Should be awesome.
I'm going to that in favour of the live gig announced in London a week or so later.
This is part of a three date set which includes two in Manchester.
Why am I not interested in any of those???

Nora 'smiled' today (as much as three week old babies are able to...) and I have also chucked several hundred unwanted images of this ere computer.
They don't even interest me once I've looked at them for a second.
There is no thrill there - its more the 'harvesting' that was fun somehow rather than the owning.
Weird - what the fuck was I thinking?

Anyway, la-di-da.

Trx is out at cell with baby.
The others were in bed as usual by 7.30.
Two of them are reading Jacqueline Wilson like there is not omorrow, and Stan is enjoying the stories of Biff, Chip and Floppy the dog.
He loves reading.
We had 'Where the wild Things Are' for bedtime tonight - probably my own favourite.
LC cracks us up. She also insists n having a skwillion books in her bed and 'reads' then at arms length above her head.
Every night we have to go in and uncover her, or take the pointy corners out of either her cheek or her eye.
Its' a dangerous business, reading in bed...