Monday, 17 December 2012

Flying phones


Feed the birds, ring if you're still hungry

In the process of lobbing some stale bagels out for the birds, BLISS threw her phone, too. Not smart enough to fly, it landed on the wet grass. Unfortunately, I was there to witness it. Often the way with these things. There was, however, a perfectly logical explanation:

“I don't have any pockets”, then, “look, now it's all muddy.”


Inherent Vice...

..was an emergency book, stranded trying to get back from London Bridge a couple of week ago. Pynchon is a great writer, and this is a wonderful book. So full. Every page weighs a ton.


Miles Davis, Cellar Door Sessions

Like a lot of Miles-heads, I suppose, every so often you find something new has turned up. Either it's been long lost or newly remastered or you missed it first time around. Or whatever. The Cellar Door Sessions (I'm halfway through the third of six albums) records a set of live gigs, played with a fantastic band, at the stage where Bitches Brew experimental jazz was starting to evolve into the electric jazz / rock / fusion phase of Davis' output.

Today's listening taken care of. Along with the first season Treme soundtrack. Combat the Sunday blues with New Orleans music.


Intercepted texts

Gazidis to Wenger: “messi? messi? y u say messi? r u totally insane? lol, ivan”

Wenger to Gazidis: “can u stp kicking me under the table pls”

Gazidis: “when u regain some composure”


My New Jam...

...is Ooh Poo Pah Doo by Trombone Shorty and James Andrews, it's fabulous, worth a listen:



Found a turkey recipe...

...that'll work for me: don't go mental, don't cook so long that it's all dry and crumbly. Coat with butter laced with salt, pepper and garlic, slam in the oven. Halfway through lob in some aromatics: bay, rosemary, whatever. Towards the end add some onions to caramelise. Make sure the butcher (for that's where you buy a turkey, not a plastic shrink-wrapped battery farmed monstrosity from the supermarket, boned and rolled is right out, dark meat and bones = good, anything else is (1) lazy and (2) childish) includes the giblets, neck etc. because that's where proper, tasty gravy comes from.

OK, that's my recipe.

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