A Borodin Post, Now That Is Culture

Okay enough of posts containing dubious music and horse related information. It's time for a little bit of culture I suppose and lets go classical as I struggle through a book on W.B Yeats with

"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

All very deep for a Tuesday morning and as far removed from Cheltenham as possible. I'll be honest I'm using the classical music as inspiration as I trawl through the form pages!

Horses And Dreams of Galveston

Cheltenham starts in about fourteen hours not that I'm counting or anything. The only tip I got so far is for Kempes in the first at half one or so. Cousin Vinny the favourite is reported not to be 100% so a few shekels will be invested in the ex flat horse who should have plenty toe for the normally helter skelter opener. Also the fact that the horse is named after a footballer helps even though same footballer deprived the poor Dutch in the '78 World Cup Final. The song for Cheltenham will be Wichita Lineman (or was it Rhinestone Cowboy, I always get the two horses mixed up) as Glenn Campbell was reported to be flown over by two millionaires as a horse with the same name as the song was running in the Bumper (National Hunt flat race). A week of cigarette butts and the hope that no one takes my thumbs stretches out ahead of me!


Just for the heck of it, i might as well post Galveston too, cracking anti-war tune.

To Silence... Yeah, to Simon

So Manchester United continue their relentless march to the title while the bottom half of the table continue to play the collective game of musical chairs. The excitement to Cheltenham is building as I put away a little stash that I like to call the "investment fund" which in fact is the quantity of money I'm going to lose on horses over the next seven days (I'm using investment fund in the same way that Lehmann Brothers used the term). Take no notice of any tips that may be posted as any money I will have on will no doubt doom the horse to certain failure.

The Okkervil River stuff is really growing on me and I can't believe that the band has been around for a number of years and I had never heard of them. Blame it on the lack of a decent independent radio station in my local area although considering the power of the internet that is a pretty lame excuse. I think The Concretes are going to be my band of choice today with the song that appeared at the end of Its All Gone Pete Tong. Also the lead singer provides vocals on the Peter, Bjorn and John song Young Folks (thats the end of random trivia for today). Doff of the cap to the dog for introducing.