Power slide

So I went out in the car, not having used it for a week or so.  The battery was flat so had to bump start it.  Bump starting is no problem living on a hill, stick it in second, hand-brake off and then gently dump the clutch and off we go.

Drove out to Redmires and found some snow.  Discovered that I could make a light come on on the dashboard by losing traction when doing a bit of a Clarkson on the snow.  I did this a couple of times.  All in all about 3 or 4 hundredths of a second of motorised hooliganism.  Never seen the 'slippery surface' light come on before, traction control has a lot to answer for.

Earlier on had had a brief moment of depression brought on by listening to football commentators and football interviews on the radio.  The same questions week in week out, asked by bored sounding interviewers of bored sounding players.  The same question to the manager about the opposing team, the same hollow response from the manager about not underestimating the opposing team, being an organised unit, etc, blah, fucking blah, drone.

One day all of us will be cosmic dust and this pointless use of energy will be recycled into some, no less pointless, other event.  In the meantime hopefully we won't bork up the planet too much for the flora and fauna that will inherit it from us.

Compulsive. Memory. Song

Do you have a song or songs that when you hear them that you want to repeatedly play?  The sort of thing you do when you’re a kid but that strange compulsion is still there with particular pieces of music?

Today while dicking about on the YouTube listening and watching bits of classic 70s music I stumbled upon this:

Taste: Blister on the moon.

This song is very familiar to me.  I first heard it when I was given this album in the early 70s:

Here's a track listing:

Side 1

John Mayall - Room to Move

Blind Faith - Well Alright

Cat Mother and The All Night Newsboys - Can You Dance To It

Jack Bruce - The Clearout

Cream - Doing That Scrapyard Thing

Side2

Fat Mattress - Everything Is Blue

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Indian Rope Man

The Savage Rose - A Girl I Know

Taste - Blister on the Moon

The Jimi Hendrix Experience  - Little Miss Strange

The stand-out tracks for me are The Clearout, Doing That Scrapyard Thing, Indian Rope Man, and Blister on the Moon.

The one that I can still listen to repeatedly at high volume until my ears bleed is Blister on the Moon, I have to replay it about 10 times every time.  I can’t resist the guitar of Rory Gallagher teamed with the anger vented at a perceived imposition of control, and the resistance to it, expressed in the lyrics.

That is what I have been doing today.

That is all.