Also some other stuff I got but never blogged about:-

Dylan's Live 64 - pretty nice, friendly, warm, succint performance one Halloween night in 1964. Also has Joan Baez guesting on four songs, which was a nice indication of what things would be like if they worked together on an album. She guested on Live '75 as well but not quite as magical, probably cos they were an item in '64.

Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years - the least melodic of the Frank trilogy but the most musically diverse. There are some painful spots, as on "I'll take New York" where he sings atonally. Otherwise, a damn fine album albeit my least favourite of the trilogy.

Also got three CDs for review - Bjork's Volta (which is quite hard to listen to), Maroon 5's forgot-its-name (lite funky stuff) and Republic of Brickfields (which I tot was ska but is actually reggae (Mento/rocksteady)). Jus asked for Brickfields cos it's my old haunting grounds.

Managed to procure some DVDs, one of them El Topo, which is a damn weird cowboy flick by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Recommended by pugs, no less. De Palma's The Fury is quite nice, though, and a precursor to Cronenberg's Scanners.

Might be going to Genting for Merdeka (Independence) Day celebrations with that hot hotelier chick, Amy Lee.