Wednesday music is back with a new idea behind it. I often find that two songs somehow match up. For example songs that share a topic. I don't know which radio station it was who sometimes had a special and played only songs about a certain topic for an hour. So for example songs where the title had a number between one and hundred in it or songs talking about trains.
Or songs that were all covered by the same singer. I think especially in Folk and Country songs were pretty often sung by various people. And sometimes this kind of matches up.
One of the songs I've listened to quite often in the last weeks are Matchstalk men by Brian and Michael. The first line "He painted Salford smoky tops..." brings me to Ewan MacColl who was from Salford and sings about it in Dirty old town.. Kirsty MacColl is Ewans daughter and New England is a song I really like.
Todays wednesday music is about one of my favourite pianists; Russ Conway. I could listen to his music almost all day every day. And one of the videos even have cats in it... What more do we want on Wednesday evening?
I was sick last weekend and though I would maybe have felt better when up and about I decided to stay in bed almost all day. Problem was that I couldn't shake this lazynes off on Monday and consequently didn't managed to do anything all week...
I'm quite proud about how the weekend is going so far. I cleaned my whole flat yesterday - not even postponed hovering today, which I normally do - and now it is only after nine and I'm already up, dressed and having breaky with freshly washed hair and polished nails....
These last weeks I always stayed in bed till almost noon when I had no plans for Saturday morning.
My Dad helped me hang up the new catnet last weekend, so I can finally let my catties out without fearing that "Bamse" might escape. We already used it quite much, I let him stay out while I went for a walk and also had the door open all night. it was a bit annoying these last weeks to always fear that he might find another place to slip out.
In and around Zurich next Monday - or sometimes only the afternoon - is a public holiday due to "Knabenschiessen", a traditional shooting match. Hence the name "Boy's shooting" girls are nowdays also allowed to participate. I'm happy about half a day off work ;-)
My new neigbourhood still astonishes me every now and then! When I put my newspapers out for collection I didn't found a pile of newspapers at first... Till I noticed that they were neatly and nicely piled up between two bins. In "my" old house everybody just piled them up carelessly and when the whole pile fell to pieces it was somebody elses problem...
I do miss England! Very much at the moment! My sister is no help, as she is in the same state and keeps sending me texts like: "I want a Pret-breakfast" or "I wish I could go down to the beach, sit in a deckchair and watch seagulls"
Weather report says that today is the last real summers day of this year, so I will enjoy the afternoon on the balcony. But now I must be going to get all the things done I want to do today.
And as there was no music on Wednesday, here is my this weeks favourite.
What about a new category on this blog? Music? I love music! Who doesn't?
So I thought I'll share some random musical facts about Sophie ;-) and a song or two.
My favorite music of all times is Country, mostly Johnny Cash, June Carter and the Carter Family, but also other artists.
I listen to Gold 945 and Juice 107.2. Every now and then it is also BBC Scottland - cause of their lovely accents - or German radio station SWR3.
The last song I bought was "I can't decide" by the Scissor Sisters.
My best friend and I do have "our song" which is "Griechischer Wein" by German singer Udo Jürgens. We heard the piano version of it in a restaurant and it took us ages to figure out which song it was. Ever since we call it "our song"
I associate books with the music I listened to when I read it. "Saving Ceecee Honeycutt" belongs to the Puppini Sisters, "City of New Orleans" belongs to my favorite book of all times and whenever I hear "Call me manãna" by Scooter I have to think of Valencia and Jacqueline Auriol cause I read about these topics when I heard this song.
My first CD was from Kelly family... I'm ashamed... The second was Spice Girls.
I love the soundtrack of "Amelie" and "Mrs Dalloway"
A piece from the "Mrs Dalloway" soundtrack is my all time earworm, together with Manamana.
