Lunch

I am going to North Ryde today for lunch. I am meeting one of my good friends for lunch… I have not actually seen him since, um, november I think. We have spoken since then of course, but mostly emailed. Whenever I get packages from him they always contain a little mars bar or something like that. It will be a good chance for us to catch up. It has been too long.

Unfortunately my father will be at work at the time, otherwise I would have dropped in on him at the same time. My father lives just up the street from where I am meeting my friend, and I have not actually seen my father since christmas day, although I have spoken to him on the phone a number of times since. I probably spent about an hour on the phone with him when I was in New Zealand at the end of January, since he was in Thailand the week before hand with his wife.

Music:

One of the options on the MP3 Jukebox is for it to favour un-played music when it does the random selections. This allows me to get some different music than if I choose to listen to an album or artist. In a few weeks when I have listened to it all I am hoping it will favour the tracks that I have not heard much of.

So right now I am listening to Neil Diamond with his song ‘America’. I love a whole lot of his music. Bob Dylan has also appeared on Random Play recently. Then I find other strange music – such as Pieces of You by Jewel which has lyrics like “She’s an ugly girl… Does she make you want to kill her… does make you want to kick in her face… Do you hate her because she is pieces of you?”. If this was some heavy metal band I could understand, but this is Jewel we are talking about. Not what I was expecting.

And then there is the even stranger ‘Tunak Tunka Tun Dj Akaash Remix’ from the Hemishpheres Album that was released during the Sydney olympics. This sounds like DJ Sammy doing Turkish techno. If you think it is a strange description, you should hear it on CD.

Then there is the 46 minute CD1 from the Original cast recording of Phantom of the Opera which also got random played in the same collection. The reason it is 46 minutes is that for some reason when the CD was mastered, they did not break the album into tracks. Given the cost of mastering a CD at the time I am not surprised, but that does not make it right.