Wednesday 20th January
Wednesday, as you loyal readers know, is boxercise day. Yes Glen, I do go to boxercise, it’s very enjoyable. Or it was.
It would appear that the boxercise woman had had a very poor week. She decided to take it out on us. We punched, we ran, we crunched, we ran, we skipped (not me, I can’t), we ran, we punched again, we ran, we ran, we ran. I haven’t exerted myself that much for years.
Wednesday also let me have a more considered listen to the new Vampire Weekend album, Contra. It’s really quite special. I really like their debut album, and would have been happy with more of the same. But it’s so much more than that. They’ve taken all of the good bits, and attached them to even catchier, cleverer songs. It runs such that you think, no, that’s it, they’ve run out of ideas and then a killer moment will grab you firmly by the throat and not let go. I can even forgive them rhyming ‘horchata’ with ‘balaclava’. Try it, you’ll love it. Album of the year for me, already.
