The downy, milk-scented, chunky-knit cardigan of Habit is always in fashion. Earl Grey at three, Kir Royale for tea, and a good rogering by a Duke in the morning; heaven is a reclusive roost called Routine. Hence my softly sighing satisfaction at discovering Pandora Radio: enter a song or artist and it’s Music Genome Project will build a custom channel of similar sounds. The comfortingly suicidal Just A Thought by Gnarls Berkeley Radio is wrapping tranquilising tendrils about my wits as I write.
Obviously, therein also lies the little stagnant sleep of death, so the spike-heeled skin-tight playsuit of provocation is equally essential. Popping closed the final stud, I like to switch to the Forgotten Melodies podcast, a rejuvenating bit of audio archaeology in which charming and talented young ivory-botherer Daniel Grimwood discusses and performs little-known piano pieces from major, minor and mislaid maestros. This month’s Improvisation on Two Norwegian Folk Songs (Op.29) by Grieg is my stonking, strident yet sweetly soulful soundtrack of the week.
So, deviation and discovery win the day. She dances, squeaking, into the night.
