VOX CONTINENTAL...... How Cool Is That

Brilliant.



Mike Barson of Madness used it.

And yearsanyears ago so did Ray Manzarek of The Doors. Like so.....

Timeless ....

I had one of those going nuts in Axbridge days today.., or as I said to someone a couple of years ago.. "I feel like I'm dying here..".

So I had a little drive into Weston-super-Mare, nothing in particulur to do .. though I did take my camera. A week or so ago, I'd seen something and thought.. "Well, they've done a really good job of that...

The new Grand Pier..

And about 100 yards from the Pier entrance..,

The Regent Cafe. The cafe scene in the film of Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go'. I did some work in this film, almost at the spot where I've taken this photo. I haven't seen the film.., unfortunately I read the book. Has it got a happy ending? Uh.., not exactly.

But anyway, just a little behind me, and along a bit is where the filming of the video for something else was done.....in 1981. Loved em...

Rise Up

It's a new day....

Time For A Big Mac

Well, my ancient laptop finally went clunk for the last time a few weeks back. Of course I have still have my Asus Eee PC netbook, the original netbook, no crappy imitators here.

The Eee is brilliant for when I wake up up at 6.00 am and do a few hours work before I exit from bed.

However, sometimes I need to see the bigger picture.

I considered the options. I'd come to hate Windows and all the security stuff, malware avoidance, and electronic counter-measures necessary to just switch on and do something. And I'd installed Linux on my now deceased laptop, but I'd never tried an AppleMac. So I looked around.

All my internet access is done through a USB broadband stick, so I kept that in mind. I decided that a second-user iBook G4 might be OK. However, I didn't particularly want to spend £250 on computer hardware. Next option, an iBook G3. Cost would be about £150.

However, the USB ports on the iBook G3 are the old USB 1.1 non-high-speed variety which meant that internet performance would hardly improve over my old laptop. Well. I could live with that, for a while.

Then I remembered. I'd read that sales of desktop PC's had plateaued, or slightly declined, while laptops had continued to increase. So... "Laptops, popular., That must be keeping the prices up." I wandered off to... and found a thing called an eMac, deeply unfashionable, designed for the educational market, same performance as an iBook G3.

£30.00 on eBay. A gallon of diesel. £5 for a new internal clock battery. And a quick dunt with a heavy hammer to re-align a loose panel. At last, 4 decades after Elect. Eng. years at one of the best engineering universities in the country.... Fruition.

Very individualistic styling, I love it..., it looks like a space capsule. I can almost imagine climbing in , to re-appear through the other side in another world..., like Ewan MacGregor in Trainspotting, head down the toilet...

I Change Shapes Just To Hide In This Place

There's an End

I watched the Jim Jarmusch film 'Broken Flowers' a few nights ago. Liked the first piece of music on it, and googled on the film later. Came up with the song There is an End by a band called the Greenhornes and with vocals by Holly Golightly. I googled on her and came up with this, her own version of the song.



Beautiful. Think that bass is electric bass, very double-bassy, woody and electric.

Kenneth Bager - Fragment 8 - The Sound of Swing

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