Entry for August 08, 2007

Day 19 of The YES Experiment
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I received a letter from Help the Aged today which asked me to send a donation of £12. I suspect they have been reading this blog. Either that or the Salvation Army have told them I'm a soft touch. Them or the man who asked me to buy a Big Issue yesterday.
My Yes! CD from amazon arrived today. (I bought the first CD from my list of recommendations that I didn't recognise). It is a bit...well...challenging. It is a brand of music called New Prog.
As I currently understand it New Prog involves a number of unusual (and, some might uncharitably suggest, unpleasant) chords played in quite rapid succession. And there's quite a lot of singing about Dancing on the Edge of Forever. And something that sounds a bit like a ZX Spectrum loading a game off a cassette.
And apparently a lot of it's recorded inside a giant milk bottle.
In fairness, I have only got to the middle of track 2. I shall persevere. I have many years to fill now, as my £12 donation to Help the Aged is likely to ensure that I live until the age of 165. I will have no money by then mind you, as I will have given it all to Help the Aged.