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Missed that programme - hopefully they'll repeat it... Here's one for today's weather, hopefully... Cezanne - MELTING snow at Lestaque On Wednesday I tried to abandon my car in a vast empty pub car park in Wakefield and walk, but was told I risked getting clamped - even though the traffic was immobile and there was a blizzard!

Keith Vaughan - Village Under Snow

Me too - reminds me of something like 'Raise Four'

Edward Bawden - Brick House, Great Bardfield

M62 rush hour

Snowed in yesterday, made it in this morning The Calder Valley as I arrived:

I agree - total nonsense. So Picasso hangs onto these papier collé items of enormous historical significance for 60 years and then gives them to his electrician. He was still producing plenty of multiples at the time that he could have given as gifts.

I like it - a fair amount of solo Monk on it - some knockabout stride and some delicate stuff too. Also I like Stuffy Turkey - with the bass sound prominent like on some of the live recordings.

mvandy2010 - if you thought that was odd, ask them if they like Wynton Marsalis... I definitely thought that Aint Got No/I Got Life was too good for a yogurt ad anyway

I think they did - I got a few in the old format - Hawkins, Powell, Parker and Ellington - then they disappeared suddenly and the next one I got was Rosetta Tharpe in the new format, they had Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith there too... a few years ago now I think. I always assumed that the same objections people had with JSP boxes applied to Proper?

Actually I don't mind the Proper packaging - at least the boxes are pretty sturdy compared to the JSP ones, and the booklets are thick and have all the info in one place.... wouldn't want to comment on sound quality, being pretty ignorant in such matters.

I have that box (I admit it...) - called 'The Bebop Years' At the rate I buy, it would probably be another 40 or 50 years til I got round to getting the stuff elsewhere so I love that stuff - (even if it isn't bebop?) His sound is one of my favourites in jazz I think - kind of reminds me of thick honey dripping on dry leaves ... I bought it for the Monk stuff I think - kind of reminds me of a desirable woman kicking the back of my chair in time to the music "The packaging's less than ideal. Comes with a nice booklet." - just like me

itunes - should already be on the Mac? edit - I haven't burned a CD since they changed to Snow Leopard - apparently the 'burn' icon is now hidden(?)... "iTunes (version 10 anyway) now burns playlists to CD, not albums. So you need to create a playlist, (or move an album you want copied to a playlist), insert a blank CD, open the File menu in iTunes and select 'burn playlist to CD'."

My secondary school (1984-89) seemed oriented toward the first idea. We were taught Russian rather than the usual German or Spanish, and my English teacher wore clogs and a Lenin pin-badge. They did trips to the USSR every year - unfortunately I never got to go. The same teacher took us to see Dame Edna but it wasn't the same.

I was only eight in 1981 but I remember it fairly well - I bought my first records that year, including (with my brother) the Specials' 'Ghost Town' which was famously timely, and shortly after, 'The Boiler' which was a reconstruction of a date rape, complete with Abbey Lincoln style screaming (our mum confiscated it but she needn't have bothered - I still have to turn it off at a certain point). The TV shows were equally foreboding around that period - Day of the Triffids etc - but the thing from that period that sticks in my mind more than anything else was 'Threads' about a nuclear attack, and those public information films, and the periodic testing of the warning sirens. It was all strangely eery - there was a scene with a milk bottle melting on a doorstep that stopped me sleeping! I remember at school we decided that the best place to be if the missile came over was right under it so it hit you on the head before exploding

Fell out of my swag bag... I can't decide what to wear for this one - hope I don't clash with Elton again

w-WHAT?? Where's my damned gauntlet...

"Alphabetizing might make me sound a little compulsive, but it actually makes it easy to find whatever I'm looking for" That is a really good idea - you could apply that to other stuff too, like long lists of names in directories etc

I quite like his brand of whiney now and then, a bit like wetting yourself just to feel the warmth...

My brother was a big Smiths fan in the eighties. I saw Morrissey when he was booed off stage at the Madness event in the early 1990s (I was a big Madness fan). Apparently its become a somewhat 'legendary' moment... the papers blew up over it big-time with charges of racism because he had displayed a Union flag and a banner with a photo of two skinheads. Ironically, and somewhat contrary to what the papers were suggesting, he was booed off stage because some of the audience thought that he was encroaching on their turf (a skinhead in front of me was shouting "it's got f**k all to do with you" when the banner was unfurled). In fact, the crowd was hostile from the very start - the skinheads mocking some of the Morrissey fans before he came on (this is what was happening in my immediate vicinity, front central in the crowd). The demands of the audience was purely, as an early eighties Madness t-shirt stated "fuck art, let's dance"... Ian Dury had already been on and provided what they wanted. Morrissey's profile did not suit this philosophy. After he left the stage, things deteriorated and the crowd became a bit out of control, people getting squashed and pulled out by security, someone next to me launched a physical attack on a man who was panicking and shouting "we're all going to die"! - until a bouncer leant over the barrier and strangled him until he gave up. Then Madness came on and went straight into 'One Step Beyond' and made it worse. Morrissey got pilloried for flirting with the far right - maybe it was irony but it wasn't the right crowd to try it on - but he was onto a loser before he even started anyway. btw I didn't join in the booing!

Doesn't look like Ida Cox to me - though the confusion is common, Document Records have the above photo on a Josie Miles CD, and an artist's impression of it on an Ida Cox collection! (Talking of Chris A and Ida, this story has a great ending)

josie Miles Wanna set the world on fire That is my one mad desire I'm a devil in disguise Got murder in my eyes...

I like these graphics a lot. The kind of thing that's all too easy to do a vector-based rip-off of with things like Illustrator... but his work shows where the tool ends and the designer begins