A distinct lack of meaningful posts of late seeing as we're in the middle of packing up the house for our move as Cassidy frantically tries to unpack everything whilst shouting "FIX IT!" in an ever higher voice. The mad thing is when you take into account that so far we've only had 4 half days to do it (girls are at college 3 days which we have to take them/fetch them from plus my 2 day hospital appointments couple with dance performances and stuff like cooking, laundry, shopping etc) we've actually done not too bad. 40 boxes packed and a skip half filled and no major breakdowns, tho' Cass is getting there and I'm not far behind. Our house right now. Anyway we've decided to take the girls out of college this week so we can try and fire thru' the rest of the job and finally attempt to clear the terrifying cupboard in their room. A job I'm dreading and excited about at the same time. As an exciting aside it looks like we may finally get to see...
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Tall In The Saddle.
Celebrating the birthday of the person who gave me the big push to start drawing seriously again (then years later slagged me off for listening to him when drunk!), the guy who gave my wife and I our 'comic bonding' experience and the co-creator of the character our wee boy-child is named after. Happy Heavenly birthday to the guv'nor himself, Steve Dillon.
Attack of The Clones.
Me and Cassidy around the same age....who knew cloning technology had come so far?
An Interesting Aside (probably).
A wee aside to break up the monotony of all the moving house horror. One of the most amazing things (to me anyway) about my autistic memory bank is the ability to remember exactly where and when I heard my favourite songs or saw my favourite films for the first time in minute detail. For example Tears of A Clown, 30 April 1975....followed a news report on the fall of Saigon, I was sitting cross legged in front of our old stereo in the maisonette we lived in in Coseley (or Wallbrook as the area was known then). Oh yes, and we had this wallpaper (I insisted). Anyway, enjoy.
I (don't) Like To Move It Move It.
Well it looks like we're definitely moving house. We have a skip and a delivery of boxes and are just awaiting a timetable for the actual move so are currently juggling hospital, college and the usual stuff with packing everything away. The first lot of (packed) boxes are getting picked up for storage tomorrow so hopefully Cassidy hasn't ripped them up and put everything back by then as that seems to be his way of preventing us going to the new house. As you can probably tell he is not at all happy at the prospect. More later.
Smiling At Strangers - The American Scream.
Here for your listening pleasure is the frankly fantastic Blue Azure's rather marvelous monthly music show this time around featuring (around the halfway mark) the spiritual successor to Colour Me Giallo , my tuneful tribute to the cult sounds of American horror cinema soundtracks. Ladies and gentlemen I present... And for anyone interested, here's the tracklist: 1. Goblin - L'Alba Dei Morti Viventi (alternate take). 2. Jay Chattaway - Cry for Mother. 3. Fred Myrow – Phantasm (theme). 4. John Carpenter – The Fog (main theme). 5. Ennio Morricone - Regan's Theme/ Seduction and Magic. 6. Donovan – Season Of The Witch. 7. Rick Wakeman – The Burning (theme). 8. Electric Banana - Cause I'm A Man. 9. John Harrison – The Dead Walk. 10. Pino Donaggio – Telescope. 11. David Hess - Wait for the Rain. 12. Don Gere – Werewolves On Wheels (theme). 13. Goblin - La Caccia. 14. Gus Russo – Basket Case (end theme). 15. John Harrison - The World Inside Your Eyes.