Schrodinger's Cat

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Is the purpose of the Perfect Pop Song (PPS) to make one want to hear it repeatedly, become locked into an embrace with it? There’s a song doing that to me right now, which few others have touched. Dylan, Velvet Underground & so on league. Jim White’s ‘Static on the Radio’. He and Aimee Mann sing it together and her voice is heart-melting. I get a sudden yearning to hear more of the Carter Family and early Joan Baez (the folk singer Joan Baez, before the Dylan covers / descent into bathos). I got around to Johnny Cash in 2004 – amazing how he was so far ahead in the 50s in terms of lyrical content. It’s perfect rock & roll, totally for real and it’s got good words.

I also finally listened to Wild Bill Hicks, courtesy of Amy thank you. I’d always shied away from him – I’d read some of his key quotes and on the page they’re not exactly funny. Plus it was highly political which definitely steered me away. But listening to his recordings is brilliant. A brave man shining a light in dark corners.

I’ve got a pile of books from the library which I may or may not get around to reading in the next couple of weeks – John Barth, Janet Frame, JG Ballard and a non-fiction one trying to explain ten-dimensional space.

& is Derek Bailey the world's ultimate guitarist? In terms of purity? In which case Ballads is maybe the ultimate guitar album. I hope he's still alive & playing in Barcelona when I get there. Gimme another year or two Derek...

New Year was good, I saw some fireworks from a spot in the Botanic Gardens. I walked home after sunrise.

The artwork arrived for the ddpp album! Thanks Paul.

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