Fabruary 2014

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Fabruary? Who am I kidding?

Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons
And alter our stance. ("Machine Messiah" - Yes)

Yes, things are so grim I'm listening to prog rock again. A deadly cocktail of a bad back, insomnia and trouble at 'mill (i.e. work, which looks like going to court in the very near future) means I have not been running at all lately, have my biggest pot belly in many years and feel somewhat miffed with it all.

I need to run, I want to run but am so incredibly tired I am barely able to function at even a remotely normal level. Hence the fall-back position of immersing myself in the music of my formative years ... Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and ... Yes. Restorers of sanity, all of them, providing (as they do) a small dose of life-giving resilience with each track played.

I played Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" the other day and it was like playing it for the first time - a sense of amazement at the sheer quality of the thing and a burst of adrenaline and endorphins that got me through the next day or two of w*rk.

Not to worry - all this will come to pass, as George Harrison said so eloquently way back in 1970. I knew then, even at the tender age of 9 that George's solo double album was going to be immensely important to me throughout my life, and so it has proven to be (although I still can't abide "It's Johnny's Birthday").

Anyway, nothing is quite so gloomy as I'm making it sound. Soon enough my troubles will pass and I will once more with my Brooks Adrenalines run through the wilds of Sydney's north shore suburbia.

In the meantime, I'm maintaining my enthusiasm by reading of all your adventures in Almeria and beyond.

Best of luck, Almerites!

If you could see all the roads I have travelled
Towards some unusable last equilibrium
Run like an athlete and die like a dead beaten speed-freak
An answer to all of your answers to-yes ("Tempus Fugit" - Yes)


Ooooh, nearly forgot the TdJ ... reckon you'll love this one, Sweder, SP, suzie et al! A great Aussie self-deprecating punk band who never made any money but toured the world anyway and influenced bands far-and-wide who *did* make money (including Nirvana!) ... great fun.