Here's one for Deer Friend

It's a modern folk song. Zoot won't like it because there's no guitar picking. Or guitars. It's Éamon Doorley, Muiréann Nic Amblaoibh, Julie Fowlis and Ross Martin singing Pe in Eirinn I, from the fantastic Dual album. I think this song's in Scots Gaelic rather than Irish, but the difference is marginal anyway. I'm sure Emma will correct me if I'm wrong.

It's good news for me too: some Habermas and a Diana Jones album in the post. I spent my parents' generous birthday present on a Nikon 55-200 vibration reduction zoom lens and some cycling gear.

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Jump into the pool of books

Obviously I have loads to do, so I've been ordering books. Not, thanks to my iron will and steely resolve, all the ones I want from the three weighty newspapers I eviscerated this weekend, but some. All this furrowed-brow treatment of the Jackson story in the formerly serious press (presumably feeling that it's their chance for redemption after ignoring Hendrix and Presley's deaths) has given me a thirst for some theory, so I've gone for some classic Habermas - The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Theory of Communicative Action (only in translation), Philip Reeve's prequel to his wonderful Mortal Engines series, Fever Crumb, Nick Turse's book about the militarisation of corporate life (or the corporatisation of military life), The Complex (nothing new: the Roman Empire became a tax machine to keep the army going, leading to its collapse), and for some light relief mixed with adult morality, Le Carré's A Most Wanted Man.