CDR full moon

i seem to be getting more spam...

of the four emails that thunderbird delivered to me this morning (after taking away what it thinks is spam) one was from a real person, one was an email from blueyonder that i get every day telling me that my webspace is full... i find it comforting... the other two were spam...

the first opened with the line:

dear friends of the chang...

(am i a friend of the chang?)

and the second was from some company saying:

We supply our customers stainless steel pipes and flanges...

... and i guess it's just daft trying to work out why i in particulr have recieved these 2 pieces of spam... but try and work it out i do...

anyway, it's good friday, and this year has been the first year that i've noticed the full moon in the week before easter and linked it with the knowledge that easter always comes on the weekend after the first full moon after the equinox... trying to place what easter means to me and not getting much... egg rolling... pistachio nuts... christ born again i guess... just not that that engaged with that story these days, i do remember it being a good story...

started in on the absynth yesterday afternoon with hilda... me & dinah brought it back from prague, hilda brought the complicated ritual with the sugar and the burning...

then another one a little later in the early evening with spski... then another, then the three of us deported up to my room to wade through acres of photo's & video's (spski in particular somewhat nonplussed at the amount of camera action...)

then a tom & jerry, then half of the station agent, then i went out onto the streets of london with my book of haruki murakami short stories which i was not really in a state to read... tubed it down to shoreditch to meet producer G (& dinah) @ plastic people for CDR...

G & various students of mine have been telling me about CDR for a little while now, it's a club night where you can take your tunes... in whatever state of undress/readiness and they get played on a big system... very nice sound system it is too down there... you might have to wait a long time to hear your tune... producer G's tune (with my improvising keys on it) was played at around 12:45 am, G said this was good, the stories i've heard from my students have been their tunes being played at around 2am or later...

mad mix of tunes... very loud sound system... various different qualities of mixing so occassionally some harsh, very loud sounds coming to your ears... dinah patiently waited with me until the tune was played... long suffering but elegant... saw a couple of students (one of whom is no longer our student)... met an interesting producer called darko who had a couple of tunes being played there, one of which was directly after G's tune and it captured me & made us linger awhile longer...

then me & dinah made it out into the night and bussed up to crystal where we ate a little before returning home...

a slice of london after our prague break...