I got ten hours sleep last night, fuelled by water and paracetomol. It wasn’t ten hours of continuous sleep, but it went a long way to ridding myself of whatever it was. I’m still not 100%, but I’m nothing like as out of it as yesterday, I’m pleased to say.
I did take it easy today, though, catching up on magazine reading. I also spent more time with the SW radio, enjoying, if that’s the right word, brief snippets of
- Africa service of Vatican Radio
- Autotuned Arabic Pop Music
- Radio Romania International
Oddly, I do have a couple of cds of Lebanese pop music, some autotuned, that get the occasional play. How did that happen? Because there is a 2013 Jim Jarmusch film I like called Only Lovers Left Alive, the end of which features a performance by Yasmine Hamdan.
I also caught up with the 1970 music posts for October, and am pondering what to choose for tomorrow.
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I had a walk this afternoon and spoke to several neighbours who were also out and about. One is a doctor and we were swapping thoughts about the current situation. I wasn’t taking notes, but we were in agreement that the current policy response is lacking. I mean, no shit Sherlock? But it was nice to find someone closer to the frontline who thinks much as I do. What I do remember her saying is that in an average year they get about 75% uptake of flu vaccinations based on the target population; signs are it’s going to be 90+% this year.
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Sadistic Mika Band
Music: What was the random draw from the cupboard this evening? Why, it was long-forgotten Japanese prog-funksters The Sadistic Mika Band. I suspect only one of my regular readers will remember them, but there we are.
I can’t remember a great deal about them, except that they were well regarded. I haven’t played these albums for quite some time.
The clip below is from The Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast a couple of days after my sixteenth birthday, forty-five years ago last week. I can’t imagine what it was about Mika that grabbed my sixteen-year-old attention, but the band are pretty tight, and remind me a bit of Isotope, another one few of my readers will remember.
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