Groovy

Despite the fact that most of the music I listen to these days comes in portable but soulless mp3 form I still love my 'old school' vinyl collection and dust off some of my favourite waxings from time to time for a spin...

Actually, my record player is one of those clever ones which can be plugged into a computer and convert analogue tracks into mp3s so it allows me the best of both worlds - if I can be sufficiently bothered to faff around with it. I usually can't.

Today I finished reading 'Paradoxical Undressing' by Kristin Hersh. It's based on a diary she kept when she was 18 and 19 and her band Throwing Muses were just starting to take off. In the introduction she writes,

"This wasn't a year when a whole lot happened, in my opinion. It was a year when many things began, which is probably important. It was also a year I tried very hard to forget, so I know it was worth remembering."

Don't believe her when she says not a whole lot happened... the book makes for a gripping read. I'm the same age she is but if I'd kept a diary when I was 18/19 it wouldn't make for gripping reading at all. My teenage diary, had I kept one, could be summarised thus,

"Sat in my room again listening to depressing but worthy music and reading depressing but worthy books. What's the point in going out? Everything's stupid and we're all going to die in a nuclear Armageddon any day now anyway..."

As Bob Dylan said "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

So, anyway, I've been listening to Throwing Muses as an accompaniment to my reading and this is a picture of the 10 inch single of Dizzy.