If a Hard Rain's gonna Fall ..... it might be Time for the Cocteau Twins

Driving home at night in the rain with traffic. The sound of raindrops on the car. The flash of tail lights as cars whizz by, the glare of headlights as cars approach and disappear - all filtered through the rainwater on my windscreen. Glancing in the mirror at the lights behind.

The Cocteau Twins on the stereo.

I drove an extra hour just for this visual soundscape.

Behind Bars .....

Waiting can be such a difficult task.

With expectation in the heart, but anticipating disappointment. Looking forward to the future, hoping to leave the past behind.Wishing and hoping that all will turn out well ........................

I took this photo in a little court house in Shah Alam. The court handled civil and criminal cases. Some cases were frivolous and really rather a waste of the court's time. Others would lead to people spending time behind bars. The windows in the court house were not bars, they just reminded me of bars - and not the kinds with liquor.

I'm just glad I was there on a frivolous case. At least the time I wasted could be counted in hours instead of years.

the little man wears Shoes ...

14 months in and he wore shoes for the first time in his life yesterday. We've been holding it off as there was no necessity for him to wear shoes seeing as he had only been crawling, but I guess yesterday was as good a day as any.

Melody's Echo Chamber - lovely music, this ...

I haven't gone walkabout in looking for new music for the past few years, so what little falls into my lap is greatly appreciated. I'm not big on what passes for music with teenagers and the young-ish set nowadays but there is a motherlode of great music which exist on the fringes of the musical landscape - in the back lanes and the street corners - and most notably, on YouTube.

So the latest group to catch my ear is Melody's Echo Chamber with a slice of psychdelic soundscape.



Also, check out another one of their songs which immediately made me think of the Cocteau Twins - Endless Shore (here).