Plans I know that it is a mistake to announce something in my weblog but I cannot resist. To limit my purchases of CDs, books and other media items I set myself the task to write on any new stuff at least a hundred words before buying some more. This won't apply to my whole collection as that would be a Herculean task with probably close to 1,500 CDs in the back catalogue. And I want to try not to buy/order more than two CDs at once in the future. I will start with the CDs I bought in the last two weeks. Those were:

• Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
• UB40: Present Arms in Dub
• Dakota Suite: Songs for a Barbed Wire Fence
• Califone: Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People
• David Bowie: Low
• Curtis Mayfield: Superfly (not the album but a best of)
• Thin White Rope: The One That Got Away
• Patti Smith: Land Any wishes with which album I should start?

What the others have to say

• Josh suddenly sees colours when listening to the Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin. That makes me want to listen to it again as much as to read josh blog.
• There will be two new Tom Waits albums out May 7th: Alice and Blood Money: one song as mp3 from each album (thanks to badger and happy birthday if it is not too late yet)
• Hydragenic on the equilibrium between routine and spontaneity: "Too much routine can be mind-numbing, just as too much spontaneity can be disorientating."
• I am getting a little pissed off by blogspot (yes you are so bloody right Phil R.). No blog hosted by blogspot can be reached right now. Additionally Google is letting me down by going back to a stone age cache of my site dated February 3rd. The internet is not what it used to be.
• Sorry that I don't have the time to analyse your nice rook sacrifice Phil (from eyes that can see in the dark) in depth. But I guess it's correct. Nevertheless the notation of the moves seems erroneous. Shouldn't 26. ... Ke7 read 26. ... Be7 and 33. Rh3+ read 33. Rf3+? I'd like to play an online blitz game with you. On which site do you usually play?