For some reason, today took forever. It also seemed that I didn’t get anywhere enough done. From waking to breakfast from heavy shopping to lunch, from record store to dinner, from tidying up and hoovering and making it as nice as a building site can be for Olivia’s return, everything took forever. Suddenly it was late and that prompted me to not waste the day, and so I watched the ‘long’ Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream. A must for fans, unseen footage and lots of philosophical thoughts as well as lots of music.

It was hot out there, so I thought I’d go out first and get a shower when I came back in, it ended up being a great plan in a hot city with heavy bags and millions of light-hearted happy tourists, happy and light-hearted because when they were at home with their holiday catalogues, they chose Porto instead of Rhodes, they chose Portugal instead of Italy, Spain or Greece. What a sad thing for everybody, the locals, the tourist dollars in areas that need them, the lost houses and lives, the displaced residents, the evacuated tourists, what a mess.

I never liked Blur, so I bought the new album. I got it home and put it on only to find that it was a dodgy pressing, some annoying distortion, I tried. Whilst I was at the shop, I remembered that I’d read a review in Shindig! of the latest Zappa release, Funky Nothingness. It said it was the unreleased follow-up to Hot Rats (1969). Olivia and I went to Manchester on her birthday and saw Razorlight one night and Dweezil Zappa the next night performing Hot Rats live. It’s an instrumental album bar one track that Captain Beefheart sang. One of the great Zappa albums, so I’m interested to see if he’s still on that great compositional roll at this point, just because he didn’t release it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t any good. Zappa released 62 albums when he was alive and 64 albums when he was dead…so far.

We’ve reached €67 short of €9,000 on a €10,000 goal for all this work setting the place up for the arrival of all the records. So thank you for supporting this idea and please come and visit. I should issue special gold membership cards with the In Deep logo, haha. Phase 3 will begin when we have budgeted out the costs and what we need to make up with the shortfall because there surely will be one. But getting rid of the UK storage costs will help a lot, having said that we will need storage here too for boxes, guitar cases, road cases, and the like, but hopefully, with this space taking the records, it will be cheaper than England.

Last but not least, if you are wondering about Ariel, we are also waiting for an update. Last we heard, the second attempt at getting the right part was successful, but it wasn’t in the best condition, so we had to have it cleaned and checked. The part we paid for before this one…didn’t fit…agggghhhh.

Music today has been the final David Bowie album, Blackstar (2016), leaving us with his ever-searching vision. Bowie died two days after the release of the album, aged 69.

Music Of The Daze