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It has been hot in the U.K. I mean real hot! High twenties and thirties since friday, London was strangely quiet yesterday, the England vs. Portugal match managing to clear the streets better than a hurricane warning! For those who don't know - which probably means you don't care - England lost in a penalty shootout - again. Okay that was bad. Then as if it is not bad enough that one of my teams gets knocked out - It's all Eriksson's fault! - France, led by a mercurial Zidane, knock Brazil out of the tornament! Now I don't even care who wins the bloody thing!
All this warm weather - hot! - and lovely evenings is make me slightly melanchony. Walking through the park on the way home from work on saturday night and the park was awash with groups pinicing and couples strolling hand in hand, it was summer as seen through rose tinted specs. I was, admittedly tired from going out friday night an being up early on saturday morning, heading home to - unknowingly - watch Brazil get beat and eat Chinese food in my hot little flat. I am not getting used to this single thing yet, but at least I was to tired to really care yesterday. I awoke this morning with an impression from the strangest dream - it is quite unusual for me to remember my dreams - I dreamt that I had hair! Not like fifteen, twenty years ago, the years of afro and mini 'fro, it was more like the Rev. Al Sharpaton, but slightly curly. It was very strange. It's not like being bald bothers me, it suits my laziness, but still, in the dream, I was proud of my suddenly lush bonce. I can't remember anything else about the dream. Very odd. I have lost my Spanish teacher - I have no idea for how long, maybe forever - so I am plowing on on my own. I refuse to be defeated! Every life needs MASSIVE action at some point. I am almost at that point.

I am turning into an insomniac. I was tired all afternoon but was determined not to sleep so as I would sleep tonight. Great plan that turned out to be! It's twenty-five to one in the morning and i'm typing away because I cannot sleep and the dickhead above me insist on coming in at half midnight everynight and playing god knows what kind of music! I'm feeling slightly murderous! I've got to get up in five and a half hours - and I want to train, that'll be quality! - I need to sleep! I wonder if the sugar rush from eating bakewell tarts is keeping me awake? Eating is suppose to make one tired! I even turned off the television at ten past ten! I have just wasted two hours of my life in bed! This is all turning out very positive...poo. On a lighter note the spanish teacher text me at midnight to tell me she had done my circuit and been walking all day. I'm afraid she is going to be in for a shock on thursday when I train her! It bodes well that she is determined to train, it is so much easier to get someone fit who wants to train. I'm looking forward to it. As for my own training...if I don't get some sleep - and maybe stop eating crap - I may just jack it all in and get lardy! I'm talking gut-over-belt, arse-crack-on-show, sweating-when-walking, always-got-a-donut-in-my-face, lardy! It would be a spectacular about turn:D enough already, i'm going to try and sleep....zzz:zzz:

the very premise of this particular blog makes it very difficult. A few hours ago I had pretty much written the whole damn thing out and it disappeared into cyberspace or up some etheral orifice, I don't know, it just...vanished. So, here I am, making a second attempt at a top ten tunes. In no discernable order and - since I've spent the past couple of hours listening to music - somewhat altered list of track that have touched me and why. Deep breath...

1. It's a love thing - The Whispers - this just literally popped into my head as I was thinking which track to kick off with! I loved this track when it came out. I knew ever word and use to sing along at the top of my lungs whenever it came on in clubs or the radio. I apologise if you were near me!

2. Hold me tighter in the rain - Billy Griffith - a real piece of nostalgia for me. This was one of THE tunes back when I use to go ice skating every week - pre-clubbing days - and where I met my first proper girlfriend. A sweet, sweet tune!

3. Don't stop me now - Queen - I love listening to this in my car. It is such a punchy, defiant tune. I only listen to it LOUD. There is no other way. Go Freddy, go!

4. Rainy days and mondays - The Carpenters - Not in anyway an uplifting tune. In fact it's quite dark. But Karen Carpenter had such a remarkable voice and this is one track that really demonstrates that. Haunting and beautiful.

5. Used to love u - John Legend - The best album of 2005. With all the Usher imatators and R&B shit-e which the urban music scene has churned out in the last few years, John Legend's vocal and musical styling was so head and shoulder above the rest it was embarassing. Another boom track.

6. Madgalena - Sergio Mendez - It could have been "Mas que nada" but that's just lazy. This was on the soundtrack of Dance With Me, an enjoyable but piss poor film. The soundtrack is fantastic, with at least two other tracks vying with this one for the list, but this one goes in because it's Sergio Mendez. Nuff said.

7. Vivir lo nuestro - Marc Anthony & La India - in case you've never read any of my post, I like salsa music and all things Spanish. This track is currently on my mp3 player and I am loving it! I like duets anyway, but when they're this good, they should make a film just to put this in! Top, top tune!

8. Don't go away - Affinity - a little known 80's boogie classic. This brings back happy clubbing memories for me. Back in the day when Paul "Trouble" Anderson was still djing on the radio and the weekend started on wednesday, I remember four us listening to Paul's radio show in the car on the way to a club and he mixed this tune in. Man, that car was jumping! I love this tune.

9. It must have been love - Wornell Jones - I spent years looking for this tune back when I used to collect records furiously. The album cost me fourteen pounds - average price was about six pounds new - and I only bought it for the one track! The rest of the album was pretty forgettable, but this track is magic.

10. Lady - Orquesta la Palabra - The salsa cover of the Kenny Rodgers track is a real favourite of mine. When I had the time to go to salsa classes, this was a track i really, always wanted to hear. It's quite sweet lyrically to.

This is my no means a definitive top ten, in fact it's probably more of a four-in-the-morning top ten! I could write a top hundred list and still leave out some splendid tunes. I deliberately did not put any classic soul artist in - Marvin, Stevie, Anita, Aretha...et al - simply because most of those artist warrant their own list, but I love music and the tunes listed above are ones I could listen to ad infinitum. If I get really bored maybe I'll do a top fifty!

i am an impatient person - it's a wonder i've kept up the blogging (it must be the theraputic effect i get from it)- so if i have an idea, and i have many, if i can't carry it out immediately, in all likelihood i'll lose interest. childish i know, but it is how i am. i do fight against it. i should try and carry out more of my ideas to a possible frution, or at least some of them! after all, you cannot act on every impulse you have - i think the prisons are overcrowded enough! i should at least act out the ones which are good - in my mind - and find out if there really as brilliant as i think they are. i just need to make the leap. but i'll tell you, i am determined to learn spanish! i'm listening to tapes as i drive to work and to the internet radio, i'm even picking up the odd word, but i am some way - disappearing in the rearview mirror sort of distance - away from a conversation in spanish. unless all the conversation involves is asking your name and counting to ten, maybe twenty. i think the senoritas are safe from this casanova! i shall endeavour to persevere with it. who knows, maybe i'll write a blog in spanish one day. thay would be cool. well...it would impress me anyway...bueno noches.