Music and the Moon

Brought down my sound system from the loft the other week. It had been up there for just over a year, after we had a makeover for the house, so it needed cleaning and checking. Got it all set up in our second bedroom and once it was working and sounding how it should I was just unable to take it apart and put it all away again. Just sounded too goddamed good. Nothing fancy just solid English audio technology; Nad amp and CD player, Tannoy speakers, that's it. Fantastic.

Since getting it down it has meant that each evening I sneak off into the second bedroom stick my head between the speakers whilst sitting on the edge of the bed and get lost in the sound of music. Over the last few days this has comprised of Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs, Paul Weller's 22 Dreams and the deluxe re-maseter of his early '90s Wildwood album. I tell you, at the moment, nothing beats sitting there in the dark with my head bewteen the speakers, window open, moon shining in, thinking the thoughts you tend to think when you're listening to really good music (and c'mon, Bobby and the Modfather, ya don't get much cooler than that).

Thoughts of life and my position in it...just what are we doing running around the planet constantly, tiring ourselves out, looking for things to blame when things go wrong. Every day countless numbers of us come and go, come and go, and yet we all seem to blindly carry on with little time given over for introspection. Well too much introspeaction is not so good of course, I know that I have been guilty of that almost on a daily basis over the last 25 years, ever since I as able to properly walk and talk, but still a little introspection is good.

The dark of the evening, the cool October wind blowing in through the window, the faint moon shining above, an illusory shine of course as it it is just a ball of dead rock, long dead rock illuminated by the sun to give it the appearance of life. But still even when that is taken into consideration the moon is still a mighty powerful object to have sitting there over our heads. Pulls the seas of the world this way and that, has affected profoundly the way man lives on this planet ever since he too could get up and walk and talk properly.