Day 571

Popped into Town for my weekly food shop, the 2.75 mile round trip is one of my ‘exercise’ mainstays, and listened to Aretha Franklin’s ‘Spirit in the Dark’ album (following its recommendation in the recent Mojo Primal Scream article). 

This is a good album (what do you expect from Aretha Franklin!) and there are a couple of really nice songs on the album that jump out, like the title track, with the rest of the album feeling like a slow burn, releasing their goodness over a number of listens (not sure if that makes 100% sense, but what I’m trying to say is that the more you listen to the album the more you like it. That you could come back to it in a months’ time and be like “damn, why did I not notice how good ‘Pullin’ is”).

When I got back from Town the postman had delivered this:

…Modern Toss’s ‘Tossary of Terms’, with some examples:

…also check out the special packing/parcel tape!:

…then I did the G2 crossword:

…and watched ‘Tru Calling’ S1 ep16-18 (which I’ll write about when I finish the boxset) and ‘24 Hours To Live’:

…which is more less what I expected, a fun action movie with lots of shooting and explosions, but it does have a surprising amount of emotion in the storyline (around betrayal, the death of loved ones and doing the right things), because normally there is none (a just a little to get the story started). Ethan Hawke does a good job of playing the skilled mercenary taking his revenge and trying to make up for past sins. I know that makes it sound like all the other ‘Taken’ style actioners, but ‘24 Hours To Live’ s a little above the pack and is a solid flick.