Do you know who this is?

Gilad Atzmon...

...was on the kitchen stereo. BLISS was pulling faces. Like a child forced to eat something healthy. Organic. Something not accompanied by a novelty toy and served in a box by a namebadge. Something, possibly, consisting of fresh fish and fresh vegetables.

“Do you know who this is?” I said.

Before I could say he tours with the Blockheads (as in Ian Dury and the...), has released some superb middle eastern influenced jazz albums and published some books, she said:

“Whoever it is, he needs to listen more to what the others are playing...”

Well, he's the Atzmon in Wyatt, Atzmon and Stephen:

That's him there, with the very wonderful Robert Wyatt:

What I don't understand, is that she doesn't understand. The most human person I know, how does she not get the music that is probably the least technical and the most human of all.

That and hip hop. She don't like hip hop, either. Or Animal Collective.

We're one of three...

...EU nations opposing the cap on bankers' pay and bonuses. That's what the headlines say. I'd dispute the 'we' as in 'the UK'. 'We' probably are all for capping their pay. I'm for capping them. As in popping a cap in their ass. The we, I think, means our government and mega-rich chancellor, who naturally want to stick up for their cronies and buddies in the banks.