It has been one of those nights where I went to bed early, then awoke later, and now cannot get back to sleep. So I am listening to my recent finds from my traveling yesterday.

Right now, I am listening to a CD my brother gave me. It's a collection of Thelonious Monk's best-known jazz tunes.


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... is a kind of genius putting so many strange compilations and getting artists from all genres to cover music by Nina Rota, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill, and this one on vintage Disney movies.
Oh yes, thespian15


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This morning I was mainly doing some mystery phone calls and then it turned sunny - so I went out to pop into town for a while. I took some old paperbacks to sell at Past Sentence, looked around the market, popped into my local [ub and then the charity shop next door, and found more cheap goodies -

Vinyl LPs first -


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It has been another sunny day and a bit warmer than Sunday.

I deferred my visit to Ramsgate for tomorrow now, as I had to pick up a CD tower that I purchased on Sunday for a fiver. I have been filling it up today. Shoe boxes are not ideal for CD storage on the whole.


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It has been a lovely sunny day and also a long one. I did some train journeys again and this time around the Tunbridge Wells area down to Etchingham. So after leaving this morning at around eight I have just got back at eight this evening ( Read more... )

Well, after the sodden wet day just gone, today was back to sunny weather and blue skies. It made me feel much more ebullient and bouncy. Sunshine makes me feel good. Full stop ( Read more... )

CD packaging woes -

Music Rant: Appalling, Annoying, Atrocious CD Packaging

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These are recent finds and purchases -

First off CDs -

Yep,classic soundtrack music and an opera from the ragtime composer.


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Well, that was quite a productive day. I left home this morning at none ad completed three mystery covert visits in Canterbury first, and then Folkestone, ending up in Ashford, before finally getting the 666 beastly bus home ( Read more... )

Back from my excursion to Westwood Cross and Canterbury and just finished a very large mug of tea!

Whilst in the cathedral city I picked up three brand new Blue Note jazz CDs from HMV for £3 each  and all are reissues. Playing one now -

Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrents.


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