I finally got myself a USB turntable, a Numark PT01USB. CDs and vinyl become one, this will be a life-changing purchase!

Stuck in my head all day.

The Thin White Duke all coked up on Soul Train in '75. Happy 65th, David Bowie.

My car got wrecked a few weeks ago, been dealing with the other driver's insurance. They are accepting liability but trying to lowball with the amount they are trying to offer me for my car. I am fighting back hard but it's a stressful experience.

Totally unrelated, here is a song from one of the most underrated bands of the sixties, The Pretty Things:

One of the greatest film/music pairings ever.

"This is the most upbeat song I've ever written. It's about death from cancer."

-Robyn Hitchcock

Trying very hard to be good about actually updating this thing. It has been hot as fuck here recently, humid, like 80 percent. Today I finally started driving one of my project cars, an '89 Saab 900, that I'd blown up the transmission on two years ago. I had to pull the engine to replace it and while that was out things kind of snowballed and it sat apart in my garage. But it's all back together now and I love it, the air con is nice in this miserable weather.

Tomorrow I think I'll go for a long bicycle ride, I have my Trek 1000 road bike all sorted and it's been a lot of fun to ride. Although I've fallen so far out of it what used to be a warm up ride now kicks my ass! Baby steps...

I'm working on a mixtape of music from 1980, the year I was born. Quite happy with it so far, here's one of the tracks from it, "Careering" by Public Image Ltd.:

It's been hot as fuck out, just in time for me to get back on my bike to commute to work. Been trying to get 50 miles a week that way.

I got Pixies tickets today!

So I've started cycling again and it's been hot as fuck outside. Been commuting to work, trying to get about 50 miles a week that way. Heat rash sucks. :-(

I got Pixies tickets today. Yay!

Quadrophenia sounds so much better on vinyl. So much better.