11:28L 03 June 2004

Today let me assert that leopard print is a friend to every woman. It's versatile and can be found on scarves, blouses, skirts, thongs, bedroom linens, purses or the strip of fabric across a woman's instep on a pair of high heeled mules. You needn't worry, leopards are seldom harmed in the creation of most leopard print stuff, the manufacturers are more likely to hunt for lycra. It's never out of style, flattering and promotes awareness of endangered species. Studies show leopard print wear-ers tend to be happier.

shit. more to come later, got summoned to lunch. I'll try to steer clear of long black cigarette holders but really have an enthusiasm there too.

14:21L Ok, back from lunch. Just a couple of hours away from the start to my weekend. Nasty telecon with a big customer this morning. Need to whoop some folks in purchasing. The responsible person is leaving the company and is out on vacation today... I'm seeing the motivation slip away to follow up on things and someone else is going to have to take over anyway so I need to get them working the transition.

Thought I'd throw some thoughts...No way am I gonna start like that. Ahem.

Music is very important to me. While I am not a technically gifted musician, I have a well developed appreciation for many type of music and I can bang a few things out on the piano and guitar. Often I get caught in periods where I explore a particular genre and perhaps I'll try share some of those explorations from time to time. The bottom line I suppose is that music is a vehicle to express ideas and to a greater extent emotions in a non verbal way. For me music captures moods better than other art forms. Film, literature, painting or scupture, live performance stuff like theater or dance all have their place and I often enjoy them but it's music for me first. I tend to enjoy music with a narrative element - such as the The Cure's, Like Cockatoos. I also enjoy songs composed of many fairly simple melodic structures layered and added to create a more complex overall sound. A lot of early Cure demonstrates this but for an extreme example from another artist, John McLaughlin's (Mahavishnu Orchestra) Birds of Fire probably fits the bill. Other songs simply capture a compelling mood in a way that words cannot. The love theme from the Wild Orchid soundtrack by Paradise simply is that heavy humid feeling, looking into someones eyes, probably as part of a goodbye or remembering an incredible lover now lost. Finally my collection probably has some lifestyle music that to me is more of a soundtrack at the ready to put in the background should I suddenly become become a skinny tie clad 1960's jetset-er, a black 1950's delta bluesman, a cuban trumpet player, a carribean based pilot/smuggler, only cooler than Jimmy Buffet (no offense parrot heads but come on, his dad is Warren Buffet)

Song, currently stuck in my head: Horizons by LTJ Bukem, from The Chill Out Album (this is a must have if you're into electronica at all or find you like bands like Everything but the Girl (chick singing: and I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain)...)