I have swapped the bike for feet this week now that it's daytime for a little longer. It means 30 minutes walk instead of 12 minutes cycle each way which I am hoping help in the exercise department because I get past the 20 minutes benchmark. It means I get more daylight which should improve the mood all round. I have taken out the old walkman and rumaged trough some old 80s and 90's tapes (not upgraded to portable cd player or mp3 yet) and picked more or less randomly so far. Some tapes which I thought would be great companions have turned out to be really annoying after a day at work and some which I thought would lack umph have been really quite good. So far: Happy Mondays (pills + thrills...) - bad; The La's live - good except the looking glass ; Bill Pritchard (Jolie) - quite good; House of Love (shine on) - mostly good. Random thought brought on by listening to too many old tapes: I had never noticed before how the La's version of Alright sounds so different to Cast's version. Same song, same lyrics yet they seem to take on a different meaning through interpretation. While the Cast version is definetly in the 'upbeat - I am over you' category the La's version is more a 'I still love you and I know I'll never have you back" sort of a song in a Leonard Cohen way. I prefer the Lee Marvers' interpretation.
Walking companions
10.3.04 00:07
