iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Black the Sun — Alex Lloyd — Live at the Wireless

At lunch today at Spinelli’s, I spied an attrac­tive young woman at the next table, doing home­work. She had spread her work across the table meant for four. Her work con­sisted of sketches and drawings […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: I Still Call Aus­tralia Home — Peter Allen — Singer-Songwriter: The Anthology

I’m baaack.

To my right was a table of youngish look­ing expat look­ing women, one of whom had a lovely Labrador leashed to her chair, sleep­ing on its side. An […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Gold­berg Vari­a­tion (aria) — Alexis Wes­sein­berg — A chance of sunshine

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I last met ‘Red Under­wear’ Ang Teck Hock last year dur­ing In-Camp Train­ing. It was the first time we had met since I ROD’d in 1991. I walked […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Crazy Love — Aaron Neville, Rob­bie Robert­son — Phe­nom­e­non [Orig­i­nal Soundtrack]

I am hav­ing one of those days. You know, the ‘life is a series of dis­jointed and unre­lated events’ days, where those said events are con­nected by fate only if you imag­ine them […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Freda (With The Nat­u­rally Curly Hair) — Vince Guaraldi Trio — Jazz Impres­sions Of A Boy Named Charlie Brown

There’s this friend of mine who plays pool as poorly as I do. Our phi­los­o­phy behind our game (or lack of) is ‘the path of least resis­tance’. We […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: La Danse de Mardi Gras — Balfa Broth­ers — Orig­i­nal Sound­track — Passion Fish

No money, never mind, sponge off friends for a bit. They don’t mind very much, espe­cially as you pro­vide such scin­til­lat­ing com­pany as I do. And I do.

Me and the boys went to […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Grand Mamou — John Delafose & the Eunice Play­boys — Orig­i­nal Sound­track — Passion Fish

At the sub­stan­tial risk of putting another tune in her head, here’s one that’s stuck in mine. Shar­ing the love:

Ski­damarink a dink a dink,
Ski­damarink a doo,
Bee […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Let Me Light Your Fire — Jimi Hen­drix — The Sin­gles Album Volume 1

I had lunch and din­ner al fresco today. Big mis­take. I for­got we have a fes­ti­val enjoyed by the super­sti­tious, the super­nat­ural and the super­sti­tious arsonists.

I’ve been asked sev­eral times today, is […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: The Red Rooster — Howlin’ Wolf — Moanin’ At Mid­night — 20 Blues Classics

Pssst. I have pirated eggs. You want? Sell you cheap. As good as the real thing.

The egg rationing cri­sis is more severe than I […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Under­stand­ing — Joe Louis Walker — Labour Of Love — The Music of Nick Lowe

A friend from KL is in the process of set­ting up a modelling/acting/entertainment agency, and she called again today to ask for expert advice. Seeing […]