rack off edith

 

This is a photograph of the last time I touched this book (I put it in the Kensington street library, if you hurry it might still be there). I read about two-thirds of it and decided Edith Piaf was such an immensely irritating person that once the context of her origins (interwar Paris) was gone, she herself was not worth reading about. That Simone Berteaut is so incredibly besotted with her does not make it an easier read, in fact, it makes it a less comprehensible one. So rack off Edith. 

Now an Edith Bliss book... that's something I could really take on. 

hello singapore and sheer bliss

I am told by blogger that over 5000 Singaporeans looked at this blog in the last 7 days, something that I actually find extremely hard to believe, extremely. But hello Singapore. 

I have nothing to report. I have been working hard on various conference-journal article-book chapter projects. Well, I suppose I have that to report but that's all. 

I did get this in the mail today:

I have wanted it for some time, and it has been curiously elusive. I thought I had found one in Hungary (!!!) and then the guy said oh he'd sold it and forgotten (or something). Then I found one in New Zealand but the guy didn't sell to people like me with slightly less than perfect buyer ratings (I don't know how I got to have a slightly less than perfect rating considering I always pay upfront and the bullshit people on discogs had put me through... but... whatever). So I retired my account and started a new one, which had a perfect buyer rating by dint of having been used to buy nothing from no-one ever. What a system! That's how I came to get a copy of Sheer Bliss.

Well, it's not the greatest record ever made, but it does have a song called 'Silent Number' on it, so I'm pretty pleased to have it. Oh also bizarrely it has a real all-star-cast-you've-never-heard-of of players on it - including, most surprisingly to me, Jarryl Worth/Wirth who was in Babeez/News and this seems to have been about the last thing he ever played on, so strange. He's on two tracks. Then there's a lot of people who'd been instrumentalists in Air Supply. 

Also, I made some good looking bread, but not hungry, I don't know if it is actually good or just looks good.