Silver Lining

Just a short post today. I woke up finding that the pain in my abdomen hadn't passed so, due to no local doctors being on call at the weekend, had to go to A&E at Raigmore. Finally I saw a doctor who thinks its some sort of acid reflex and gave me some tablets. Thus far the tablets have had literally no effect, and currently my skills include walking hunched as I can't stretch to a proper posture, breathing awkwardly because deep breaths feel like being stabbed with a chainsaw and walking really slowly. But its not all bad news: I found a fiver in the pocket of a random pair of trousers I put on to go to the hospital. This pretty much balances everything out in my eyes. Song of the day should really be another Oingo Boingo one because they're all I'm listening to just now, but a different track came along on my ipod as I was writing this: Messages by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. It has an immediate pang of eighties-ness from the first synth sound that kicks the track off, but I like that, and imagine how groundbreaking it must have been for people back then. It's this that I find disappointing about modern music; there's hardly ever anything truly new. A not-so-rare occurence is a band or artist putting their own twist on something or combining genres in a new way but I really struggle to think of anything genuinely never-seen-before in music of the 2000's; pop and other genres. It's a shame. Though if someone disagrees it'd be awesome if you discuss it on my Facebook. I'd love to have something to give the 'noughties' some identity beyond commercialism ruling.