Nick Drake Via my referrers I discovered the weblog letting loose with the leptard with a transcription of a monologue Nick Drake had spoken into a tape recorder in 1968 after having been to a party. I couldn't have put the analysis of Drake's words better myself: "I posted the Drake monologue yesterday because I'd heard it for the first time the day before. Sitting down and listening to it was something of a revelation. First impression was that there was something faintly eerie about it, but that's only because I'm a fan of Nick Drake. To anyone else hearing it, they'd probably take it at face value: a young man, well spoken and well educated, having come home from a party a bit buzzed, staying up to play a bit of piano (as you do!) and watch the dawn come in, finally rambling into a tape recorder at five in the morning, enjoying the view. Even as he's sobering up he minds his p's and q's. And so to bed...." Discovering people with similar interests who can write better about them than myself is always a revelation for me. That is what I like so much about the internet. That it connects my brain with other brains out there. And even if I am not able to write about the music I love as I would like to I at least often can find someone on the internet who can.