Saw Ginger from The Wildhearts play an acoustic set at a bar in Old Town last night. The room could probably hold about 15 people and Ginger and Conny Blom (Electric Boys, Hanoi Rocks) sat in a corner under one of the speakers while about 40 of us were crowding around trying to see something. The set was really good and they played mostly Wildhearts tunes but threw in Abba's S.O.S together with a Prince cover they improvised as Purple Vein. Anna and I each had a Spitfire Ale and then we tried one called Canterbury Jack Pale Ale that was really good.
Right now I am reading Jack Kerouacs On The Road - The original scroll, and I must say that I am slighty bored. Jack is a great writer and he really has an amazing flow in his writing and the story just speeds by. But the problem is that I read this when I was a teenager and since then I have read to many of the copycats so that now I feel like I have read the story a hundred times. Not Kerouac's fault.
I will see whether I finish it or if I start something else.
The amazing thing is still that he wrote it on an actual scroll and that you can tell when you read it. There are no pauses or anything just this constant urge to move forward with the text, I have honestly never really read anything like that.
Listening to: Sonny Boy Willamson
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