Charity Music

A visit to the Lifeline Book & Music Fair - the first one in a while, as they'd been shut down due to... well, you know

Very happy to find the Weather Report albums - I've had them on old, scratchy LPs for 30 years & to buy them on import CD was always just that little bit too expensive, so to get them for $4 each makes me a happy boy. Ditto the Harmonia/Brian Eno album, which I discovered through Spotify, but not all the tracks were available, so a big thank you to the unknown person who didn't want it any more - I certainly do!!

I used to own the Ladysmith Black Mambazo album on LP, but loaned it to someone who never got 'round to giving it back, so welcome home my Zulus... I've never heard the album by Spiritualised, but I've heard good things about it over the years... & the only Polyphonic Spree song I've heard, was on an episode of Scrubs, where the band turned up to play at the hospital. Lana Del Rey is a recent 'discovery' too - I finally heard one of her albums & this is the 3rd one I've found at these sales. Unlike Tom Lehrer, who I've been a fan of for decades & it's nice to be able to retire my LP of this album... & 10,000 Maniacs? Well, just because of Natalie Merchant's glorious voice...

The sale is on until Sunday afternoon, with new stuff being put out every day, so who knows... this could only be the first haul of the weekend!

Friday Five Time

These questions were written by paintedblue120.

1. Do you brush your teeth at least 2-3 times a day?
Only if I've been eating something that gets stuck in there... Otherwise, it's usually once a day, with mouthwash at some point

2. Do you whiten your teeth?
I use the 'whitening' toothpastes, but I haven't gone for any of the bleaching mouthguard things, or the UV thing. I like my coffee & red wine too much, so my teeth are never going to be the same colour as Donny Osmond's...

3. Have you ever worn braces?
No

4. Do you ever wish you had worn braces, or wish you had never worn them?
My 2 front teeth overlap slightly, which could have been fixed with braces when I was a kid, but I refused back then, having seen the teasing other kids got when they had them... Now I'm in my mid-fifties, so I don't think I'd ever bother fixing them now - they still bite into a steak pretty effectively

5. Have you ever made fun of someone with glasses or braces?
For the above reason, no... never