Off to Bangkok for my monthly meeting with my thyroid doctor. After a couple of months of heavy hyper thyroid reaction, the blood test finally shows the thyroid plummeting towards inertia in a radioactive induced death spiral. Good news and good riddance.
Doctor pronounces that I may now stop taking the thyroid suppression pills that I have been chucking down my throat for more years than I can remember. And now we wait a month to see how the thyroid will react. It will either settle down and act as a normal thyroid should, now that it has been given a good kicking; or, equally as likely, it will continue to fade and die at which point I will return to a daily pill intake, but this time of the much more benign thyroid hormone.
Happy with the result, I am rewarded with a drive home in the most appalling weather conditions which seems to incite everyone else to drive just a little bit quicker. I am comforted on my journey by the latest musical suggestion by The Son, All Day by Girl Talk.
When I wanted to put a musical compilation together, usually to impress a member of the opposite sex with my excellent choice in music (with a tendency towards the romantic stuff rather than a selection from John Cooper Clarke), I would compile a mix tape (later CD) with selected tracks played in sequence. Old school. Nowadays, I would have to offer a “mash-up”, several tracks cut and blended together to create a new sound.
All Day is an hour and seven minutes of mash-up, with up to seven tracks at a time being stuck together; and it is bloody good. Best bits (for me) are when classic tracks are overlaid with stuff I have never heard of to produce a surprisingly effective new sound. U2 and Simon and Garfunkel being sung over by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz? Cream, James Brown, King Floyd and The Notorious B.I.G. simultaneously? And to finish the album, John Lennon’s Imagine which should never be touched; being touched and sounding sublime with UGK, Gucci Mane, Rich Boy, Lil Wil (none of whom I have ever heard of) laid on top with due reverence. I think John would have approved.
Get it here, or listen here with details of all the components. Warning: Not for the rap averse.
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2012-07-09| genuinej saysI think a stronger warning for the (c)rap averse should be in place. This John does definitely not approve.