w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:

"If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes.
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice.."

Pink Floyd: "The Thin Ice"
From the album: "The Wall"

I've just totted up and realised that, including the current book, I managed to read 40 novels in their entirety during 2005. That must be more than I read when I did Eng. Lit. at 'A' level. Which I just scraped a pass in. As I did in French and German.

Be interesting to see what the score is at the end of 2006?

I've become re-fascinated by Floyd's "The Wall".

A friend has taken a liking to the album track "Comfortably numb" after first hearing The Scissor Sisters' version, then being corrected by listening to the original. I dug out a video'd copy of the film, (recorded at the time of Renault's Papa/Nicolle adverts!), which I'd edited to remove the ads from (and ended up with a very hissy copy.)

Wandering the Virgin MegaStore at Tottenham Court Road when we went to see "We will rock you" on New Year's Eve, what should I espy alone on the racks but a dvd of the film which, of course, I just had to have. Along with a pair of Sennheiser headphones for the minidisk Walkman.

And Number One Daughter and Number One Son bought me the CD for Xmas, so I'll be overdosing shortly.

Shame there wasn't a book of the film...?