Day 788

Aka Friday 29^th March 2019

Today I walked 6.02km (3.74miles), which took 1 hour 30 minutes and 39 seconds and burnt 717 calories and took 9,061 steps, mostly by walking into town to do some food shopping and to pick up the re-issue of Keith Richards’ ‘Talk Is Cheap’:

…which, on first listen isn’t bad, but isn’t as good as peak Rolling Stones (basically when Jimmy Miller was producing them),but what is?, it’s just missing that certain something. Knowing the history of the Stones, you could say that this album was keeping the Stone’s rock ‘n’ roll flame alive while Mick went off experimenting with the latest music trends. Putting that aside, ‘Talk Is Cheap’ is a fun listen (with 'Rockawhile', 'Whip It Up' and 'It Means A Lot' being highlights) partly because the songs are in the classic rock ‘n’ roll mould and partly because you can feel the joyfulness from the band in playing rock ‘n’ roll songs and jamming together. And in that regard it reminds me a little of the ‘Blue and Lonesome’ album, especially the bonus disc of outtakes (which includes a few covers of older songs). 7/10.

…when I got back home, I built a Lego snowmobile (which I brought with the idea of combining it with my Lego MacReady from 'John Carpenter's The Thing') :

 

…and then I listened to ‘Everywhere At The End Of Time: Stage 2’ and ‘Everywhere At The End Of Time: Stage 3’ by ‘The Caretaker’ and the glitches are more common and feel more like the sound of the mind being burnt down by Alzheimer’s (or a similar disease) or the sound of memories grown old and brittle and breaking under the weight of old age and/or disease.

It’s weird to think that a fairer simple concept - take an old 78rpm ballroom song, keep the dust and crackles on it and electronically mess with it a little (e.g. added echo and glitches) – doesn’t grow old/boring and can elicit real emotional depth and transport you out of the everyday into somewhere different. 8/10 for both albums.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which goes worse than Thursday’s crossword, as I needed to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 26). I think that the little grey cells are a tad tried as they should have gotten most of those five – ‘machinery’ from ‘powered equipment’ and ‘earwig’ from ‘pincered insect’! – but I did learn that the ‘Beluga’ is  a ‘white whale’ and that a ‘absolute belter’ is a ‘humdinger’ and I liked 11 down – clue: ‘moving as hands do?’, answer: ‘clockwise’.