CD Player!

YES! I AM SO EXCITED!! WEEEE-HEEE! YES! I BOUGHT A CD PLAYER FOR £11.99 FROM ARGOS. Wow! So now I can listen to Kate Bush: The Whole Story, Beauty and the Beast (Original London Cast Recording), Judy Garland: Best of and Gnat King Coal: Best Of.

I cannot actually remember where Beauty and the Beast came from. I think it was lying on the street or something where I picked it up. Having tried to play it, the entire thing comes out so quiet ... maybe the disc is faded?

Judy Garland and Gnat King Coal I bought for £1.99 each in anticipation of buying a CD player about two years ago ...

Kate Bush: an old junkie friend gave it to me. I quite like Kate Bush although in some of her younger recordings she does sound like a witch ...

Then I decided to buy a CD. Which entailed queueing up at the post office for an inordinately longlongLONG time ... Surely at least 20 minutes. Usually I am heartened as I progress down the line and 20 or so people more miserable-looking than myself pile in behind me. Not today. Although I was amused to see an 80 year old woman, who looked like a retired prostitute complete with blonde Dolly Parton wig and a lower-class version of The Queen's clothing take up flirting with two big black men about fifteen places behind me (the line curled round so they were only standing a couple of feet away - hence I heard everything). She stared pointedly at the biggest of these men's crotch and repeatedly looked him up and down before launching into a rant: "Be careful because they'll steal your money you know!" "Who?" said one of the men, probably thinking, as I was, that she meant the kind of robbers who rolled Valium Marilyn in the self-same place only two weeks ago. But no! She was talking about the post office staff... At this moment I switched off and wished I had something to bang my head into... only to be perked up by the arrival of an attitude-ridden young black single mother who fractiously said "Excuse me!" to anyone who dared come within a two-foot radius. She was pushing a young boy who looked to me to be at least 14 years old in a toddler's push chair! Seriously! Some people do coddle their kids...

Thank you everyone for proving you are more crackers than me.

Bloody personality tests. I did do one that seemed especially interesting (and potentially enlightening) two weeks ago... only upon finishing and giving my email address I was informed I must send $20 to some paypal site thing ... oh no. So my mystery character-flattering 50 page report must bite the dust now ... (I mean, let's be honest. No-one does these tests except to hear back self-validating gobbledygookridden personal flattery: do they? This one did ask some quite pertinent questions about how you ran with an idea and developed a project (even if you don't work in the kind of job where you have heavy responsibility the questions would still tease the same info out of you. Shame they were so stingy. And I never got the complimentary "free" email report promised ...

O yeah I got my CD it was a 1970s extravaganza of Barbra Streisand easy listening! Wahey!! Think what you like about my dodgy taste but you don't have to listen to it ... (or Beauty and the Beast Original London Cast Recording ...!) Barbra Streisand has certain connotations with me of pre-drug-using days (and remember I said I was buying these things to help come off drugs? ... THAT is the connexion, if you really want to know. So there.

DOES EVERYBODY LIKE my new fixture of Tune of the Day? I.e. you can clickonit and have shiny happy sounds drifting throughout my blog.

Seeing as I was yesterday informed I'm an obsessional paranoid schizophrenic I've chosen as Tune of the Day Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me ... (Vocal by Michael Jackson) ...

Also I've taken to posting up an ENTERTAINMENT CLIP of the day ... which will be under the tune ... The one I'm thinking of putting up today has been in my Animal Crackers Blog for a couple of days ... but I don't think many people bothered with it. It is called Black and White. Not much happens: but it's very cute to watch ...