She's wrapped up in caffeine

Today I eschewed my usual visit to the 'Buck for a brew and a cinamon swirl and replaced it with a visit to Nero for a caramel thing and a slice of tiramasu. For two reasons: the 'Buck has stopped doing the great cinamon drink it once did and it's still way too early for the gingerbread latte and second because I was over at the Outlet anyway with Ryan. The tiramasu thing was superb though and may even replace my usual slice of white and dark cheesecake from there.

Round at my Dad's today to install my old CD player in his car. Wire it up and I suggest that he'll need a CD to test it when music starts playing from it - my Asides from Buffalo Tom cd that I thought I'd lost! While I've got most of their albums anyway now (including the recently raved about Three Easy Pieces) I was still thrilled to find it again - it's one of my favourites. I bought it on the back of Tailights Fade and loved every track on it. Unlike many Best Ofs the sequencing is done by mood rather than chronology so it flows like an album. A fucking great album infact. Although it would be perfect if it included Staples, for that you'll need to get Let Me Come Over. Though that's another amazing album. I might just have to order me a copy of Smitten next.

On the subject, once again, of music I heard the new Radiohead album In Rainbows yesterday. They took the brave step of offering it up in its entirety for download (as they had no label) for whatever price people wanted to pay for it. The person who had it on their i-tunes at work paid 50p which I thought a little cheeky. It is, frankly, amazing. A beautiful album that erases the memory of Hail To The Theif and would work perfectly as the end of the trilogy after Kid A and Amnesiac. I think I'll wait though until the physical version drops in December if only for the sake of the higher sound quality.

Still no joy finding the new Rogue Wave album yet. Ugh. I may end up just going to the label site and giving up my sulk with them. Morons.

Musical Sunday tomorrow which means the first BrokenOrchestra session in a couple of weeks which should help with the songs I'm working on. Like sex: it's not so great when it's just you. Back to the mighty Buffalo...