Had a couple more cold days, excuse to stay inside. Kitty cat had babies this evening, looks like a couple of solid colors in there. Hafta wait and see what they look like. Got knocked up
'fore I could get her fixed. Going to vet near end of month, nothing more bad should happen before then. Not having a pregnant cat around be nice.
Started reading these years ago, think I got to
Fateful Lightning
and got into my busy with work phase and didn't read as much for a few years. Pretty good, modern people get time/space-warped into a more primitive world. We're talking Civil War
technology here, going up against ten-foot humanoids that eat regular humans.
Forstchen
is a history professor more recently known for
One Second After. He's written a good bit of history (including an alternate Civil History with
Newt Gingrich) and some SF. Think I'll try to run down the rest of the series and
probably read the whole thing since it's been so long.
Thursday 11 April 2024 21:54:00 1712890440
About to start Rage. Tomorrow evening, spend the weekend. Raining a lot and still cold so might as well
hibernate a few more days. Old Charter, maybe do a Red Baron pizza in the new oven. These days it's half one day and half the next, especially since I'm not getting much exercise. Meant to
put up a pic of the kittens, but might as well wait til their eyes are open and they runnin' around. Two light orange, one looks almost all black and one black with white feet. Couple mixed.
Kittens are fun.
New trees looking good, looks like 90% gonna make it, except for the pines. Turns out a little thinner may be better anyway as they get bigger. Finish trimming those bigass cedars out in the
north corner and I'll photo them.
Sunday 21 April 2024 22:20:21 1713756021
I keep forgetting about the second high-quality Alan Parsons live set in my library. It was released about three years ago and I was in a coma and it took a while to to
get interested in things after I woke up. The recording from German TV was in 2014 so it was a few years before ONS. I got a fair number of others but all are rather
inferior quality - these two are nice. Looks like here may be another I've missed. Nice that the new stuff is on DVD as well as CD. My only complaint is they're too
short. I know in an hour and a half you can just scratch the surface of the Project, which is why I routinely listen to the first ten (the last one doesn't really fit)
sometimes in alphabetical order and sometimes in chronological order.
Alan Parsons is not only talented but charming. The Project is easily on par with Pink Floyd, ELO, Jethro Tull, you name it and Alan is one of the most brilliant stars
in that universe. I read the comments on the Youbube videos and find people commenting that they were introduced to these groups by their grandparents. I can believe it -
the last concert I was able to go to was Priest in 2021 and there were people there young enough to be my grandchildren and everything in between.
Here's the setlists and personnel for these two:
SWR TV
01
Luciferama
00:02:23''
02
Damned If I Do
00:08:54''
03
Don't Answer Me
00:14:04''
04
Time
00:18:41''
05
Psychobabble
00:24:38''
06
I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
00:30:19''
07
Old and Wise
00:35:15''
08
The Turn Of a Friendly Card (Part 1)
00:42:15''
09
Snake Eyes
00:45:04''
10
The Ace Of Swords
00:48:20''
11
Nothing Left To Lose
00:51:10''
12
The Turn Of a Friendly Card (Part 2)
00:55:44''
13
Fragile
01:01:09''
14
Prime Time
01:05:21''
(Piano Solo)
01:10:22''
(Introduction Band)
01:12:45''
15
Sirius
01:14:21''
Eye In The Sky
01:16:32''
16
Breakdown
01:21:37''
The Raven
01:24:13''
17
Games People Play
01:27:22''
Personnel
Alastair Greene
Guitar/Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Tom Brooks
Keyboards
Todd Cooper
Saxophone/Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Danny Thompson
Drums
Dan Tracey
Guitar/Backing Vocals
Guy Erez
Bass
P.J. Olsson
Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Alan Parsons
Keyboards/Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Tel Aviv
1. One Note Symphony
2. Damned If I Do
3. Don't Answer Me
4. Time
5. Breakdown / The Raven
6. Miracle
7. Luciferama
8. Silence and I
9. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
10. Don't Let It Show
11. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
12. Standing on Higher Ground
13. As Lights Fall
14. I Can't Get There from Here
15. Prime Time
16. Sirius / Eye in the Sky
17. Old and Wise
18. (The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
19. Games People Play
Musicians
Alan Parsons
lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Thursday 25 April 2024 20:22:50 1714094570
Just learned that Mike Pinder has passed on. He was the last of the
founding members, and I'd forgotten that
Grameme passed a couple of years ago. He and
Mike did pretty good, making it to 80 or better. Justin and John who came later are still with us. I would attribute it to clean living but don't know that
to be the reason - plenty of those guys are in their 70s now and did a lot of the sex-and-drugs stuff. Apparently the Moodies did some of the drugs but I never
heard how much, they just seemed to have a more clean-cut image like the
Hollies. They did do the
guru thing
like the Beatles and whoever else was doing that
back then. Dunno it that's still a thing or if it eventually faded. I still find myself puttin on one of their albums now and then, especially the early
stuff (Days of Future Passed through Seventh Sojourn) but the later stuff is pretty good too. Have two or three nice live sets as well.
