the crystals

back to work today and it was surprisingly easy to wake up at 6.30 this morning. i thought it would be a struggle but it wasn't in the slightest. added bonus is that its a tuesday today and there are only 3 more full days before the weekend. 

weather today is cloudy but bright as opposed to dark grey, and its mild. thanks for being shit weather on the 4 days i had off from work. first day back at work and its nice weather. ain't it always the way. 

will go training tomorrow night as i only got 1 session done last weekend as the gym was closed for easter. i also missed a session last week so in the last week and a half i have only done 1 session. am feeling like my body is not my own and it feels like i am shrinking and going soft. 

today i have mostly been listening to the crystals - then he kissed me. phil spector got found guilty of murder yesterday and this is one of the songs he is famous for producing. dude sounds like a bit of a nutter. 5 other women testified that he had pulled a gun on them. jesus!, he makes chris brown look like a saint. 

at school i had a friend who rather bizarrely was a bit rascist but also really into soul music from the 60s which he got into because his dad had lots of old records. on the one hand he would say some rather unpleasant things about 'ethnics' and 'blacks' but on the other side he would make us  some really cool mix tapes of sam and dave, wilson pickett, aretha franklin and otis redding. he was more into atlantic soul rather than motown artists. later i discovered stevie wonder, smokey robinson, marvin gaye and the supremes, but for the first few years they were unknown to our group of friends that played football together and all we knew were the artists on atlantic records. 

(the crystals were not signed to atlantic). 

on that rather odd anecdote i bid you farewell. take care cali girl. have a good week. 

Xx