I love that line. It's from Nilsson's 'Everybody's Talking At Me' and it's been very apt today. I woke up feeling hungover and groggy and it wasn't self-induced. I guess I should drink more water before I go to bed. I've also got a bit of a hacking cough and a cold that won't budge and I awoke to a November rainstorm - in June. I really struggle to get up at 6 am in these conditions. Where's my frigging medal?
Luckily retail therapy tends to cheer me up and I had good reason to shop. I'd recently purchased some CD racks to house the overflowing collection that had built up around my living room. Foolishly, I thought space for an extra 800 CDs would have been ample room and then some. Yesterday I sorted out all the ones I didn't previously have room for and have filled both racks - completely filled both racks! Have a look, I think we're going to need a bigger boat.
Ah well, at least I could break my self-imposed ban on buying new music (a ban I have repeatedly flouted, I'm ashamed to say). My first trip for what seems like ages to Rough Trade was good fun and I picked up the following new titles:
Sophie Barker - Seagull [She's a collaborator with Zero 7]
Secret Cities - Strange Hearts
Jim White - Sounds of the American
Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
Trentemoller - Late Night Tales
Lee Scratch Perry - Rise Again
and the following albums that I should have bought ages ago:
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Unklesounds - Edit Music For a Film
I was reading the sleeve-notes to the Elliott Smith album, it's a 2 CD retrospective lovingly compiled by friends who really knew him, and I did well up a bit. It's a very honest account of the man and his music. It does seem odd that I miss him so much when I never ever met him, I only saw him in concert a few times and he's been a long time dead but his music got me through some tough times.
All in all, it's a pretty mixed bag music-wise and I hope to review most of these soon. Let's leave tonight on a happy note. Can it get any better than a 1981 video of Debbie Harry performing 'Call Me' on the Muppet Show? I don't think so.
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