Music

Date: 16 June 2007 00:58:17

After the glorious music of last weekend, I'm looking forward to some more at St James' Anglican Church tonight and the concert raising funds for a church's homeless support programme I mentioned in the last paragraph here.

Music of a very different kind before-hand though: Bollywood! Several Bollywood films are showing, or about to be shown around here: off to see Jhoom Barabar Jhoom this afternoon. It was going to to go last night, but, after a four hour (!) lunch with the people who look after our telephony at work [perks of being IT Co-ordinator -- and it was great to get out of the office with all, these on-going website issues]: and a glorious Chinese lunch it was, over the bridge at the suburb of Crows Nest. I complained about some specific consultants some posts back: these people are an example, and I'd say the example par excellence, of the majority of consultants I've had the pleasure of working with: intelligent, informed, willing to admit when they cannot do something [but then supplying the name of a competitor who can], and genuinely interested in our business, and in us as people: to me, this means far more than the price -- if only I could convince management not to look at the $$$ all the time.

Unfortunately, as we finished around 16:30, it was then a three-hour battle in the traffic to get back home [I have no idea how people do that every day!] I was rather stuffed and went straight to bed. Looking forward to seeing the movie this afternoon [yes: I am going alone: I need some downtime, a laugh, and some time to myself after a stressful week. And the wet and windy weather has returned, though not as severe as last weekend, so it's a good day to catch a movie].

Another sort of music I'm listening to: Enrique Iglesias' Insomniac. I do like Enrique and his songs and have for a good many years -- the style is unique and he does ballads, and also some more up-tempo songs, very well. And the lyrics tend to, as much as they can in pop, be thoughtful and not banal. Not being a fan of rap [he has a collaboration with someone called Lil' Wayne, who I'm sure everyone else knows except me!], after two listens through I think I'll skip Track 2 each time, but the other 16 keep me happy. I love the album [album? CD!] : it has, in my humble opinion, great songs and a great variety -- and it's good to hear from him again, it being four years since his last CD, Seven, was released. And I love the the video for Do You Know?: like many of Sophie Ellis Bextor's videos and Kylie Minogue's Did It Again, I love video clips with good doses of humour.