time, ambition and inertia.

This is the first post in what will  hopefully be a regular series.
 I thought that since I had some free time at the moment I might as well do as has been suggested and try to do something with this blogspot blog that I have. I first set this up in 2006 thinking that I might try and get something going on then didn't really do so.
Since then I have actually done a course in web design which should have got me back on here but hasn't until now. At the time I was thinking that this site would inevitably have been usurped by an advertising space as seemed to be happening with all the music blogs I was looking at regularly at the time. Maybe they weren't as attracted to an unused space as they would be to one that had already got some degree of traffic.
It seemed that if people didn't update for any period of time they would get back to find out that they had to fight off squatters.But this place looks as mimimal/open plan as I left it back at that time.
 So time for some extreme messing with CSS methinks.

Other than that what goes on in this life of mine. As i write I have just screwed up a 6 month course that I was taking in Autocad. I had grown to enjoy using that tool and would have liked to continue but at the moment this computer is nowhere near as powerful as I would like it for that purpose. Not to mention only receiving an offer of a work-placement when it was way too late to accept it.
 If I can find a way of doing it I think I may devote some time to attempting to do some DWGs of fantasy/custom vehicles as designed by Gerry Anderson, Ed Roth and Tom Daniels etc etc.

At the moment the season is changing from what was at times a warm summer to a so far sunny autumn. Today as I type it is pouring with rain on the plants I have on my balcony. I have grown those from seed for the main part and have been wondering what I do once the seasons change. There is for example very little protection out there from wind which has already lead to a few plants being wrecked. I think the frequency of gusty days can only increase at this time of the year. & i have a load of plants, bedded in compost in containers out there and I'm not sure what space in here.
 But it has been great watching plants grow on a balcony that i had been out on very infrequently in the 6 1/2 years since I moved in here. I think if I continue the experiment next year as I hope  to that i will have at least noted what should be avoided going into the same pot together. I thought it would be nice to have a great deal of biodiversity going on but that ignored the fact that taller plants tend to block the light of shorter ones when placed in too close proximity. & my continual desire to expand meant that I may have crammed too many things together in to small a space. I have managed to get some things I hadn't known could grow to grow. I have pomegranates, pear and apple trees all at infant stage but no sign of the kiwi plants I thought i might get.

But what I intend to write about here most is the music taht has been my main interest for years. Whether this be psychedelic rock, jazz, country, avant-noise, folk or funk . I will be trying to write reviews of a lot of material I have encountered on here plus posting images relating to that.
What interests me especially now?
Earth, Wind & Fire up to the late 70s
Waylon Jennings
Meat Puppets
CArdinal Fuzz releases
Laughing Clowns
Saints
Sonny Burgess
Panther Burns - especially with George Reinecke
James Brown 68-74
John Coltrane
Electric Miles DAvis
Sun RA - especially spaciously electric around 78-82
Jackie Wilson
The Ronettes
The Stooges
The Birthday Party
Loop
Playn Jayn
High Tide x 2 (70s & 80s - 2 entirely different bands)
Pentangle
Faust
Can
Grateful Dead
Orchestra Poly Ritmo di Cotinou
Associates
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker
Fela Kuti
The Gun Club
Hawkwind
Television
New Kingdom
Pentangle
Einsturzende Neubauten
Pretty Things
Joy Division
Tim Buckley

and several others