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I'm now up to my 89th video on Youtube.
The title of this one is "Beautiful freak" and it comes off the album of the same name which was put out in 1996 by the band "The Eels". It is an album that I've always loved. I think their lyrics are brilliant and the style of the music at the time was pretty current. I've got my eye on covering another one of the songs off the album. The music is very much the same except I only used Piano, Bass, Cello and Strings. This is what I came up with:

Now the tenth installment of my father's story.

My dad part 10.

When I finally caught up with my dad, he was involved in a relationship with a lady called Sheila, who was the mother of two children called Sima and Kashif. She originally came from Tiger bay in Wales, although she certainly had asian roots. The two children absolutely adored my father. From my perspective it seemed like a strange relationship, but then maybe it was just me. His side of the family criticised the relationship, but as I saw it, if they were both happy then it must have been ok. I have always believed that people have a right to live their life the way they want to, and make friends with people that they like themselves. Sheila resided in Southall with their dog Ruffles. Southall being west of London. For those who don't already know. The population in southall is mostly Asian. I experienced a number of negative comments toward those Asians in southall from my father. You could be fooled into thinking he was bigoted. Yet he was romantically involved with an Asian. I can only think that the comments were drawn from the people he mixed with in the past, because he obviously wasn't a racist. He walked proudly with them among the streets of southall, as did I.
It is more likely that his disdain for the Asians in Southall was more to do with the walks he took with the family he lived with, because he told me on several occasions about the dirty looks and insults he received from Asians in the street because he was with an Asian woman. That is something I experienced too. Just from walking with them. So if there was any racism, then it was coming from the Asians in the street who in my opinion were narrow minded to even consider such insult. We are all human beings. They just have a better tan than I do

To be continued......

I got out the feather duster and started to do something with my Myspace page. Seeing as it's been sitting there for a few years now. I thought I'd let people know it's there So here it is if you want to add me:

Jeff Edwards Myspace page

Also I'm going to try and do something with my Facebook page. When I first joined up, it was a very quiet place. Not like now This is my Facebook page if you fancy adding me:

Jeff Edwards Facebook page

Now for an update on the last week or two on Youtube.

My Subscribers have raced forward to 1,061.
The total viewings for my Youtube channel stand at 24,867 and the overall viewing figures for all my videos are 442,298.

Coming up next. I'm not really sure. I've got that other Eels song in my mind at the moment, but I have a habit of changing my mind

Now to the 88th video. This is one is called "Lost" and is one of Coldplay's latest. A lot of people have asked me to sing this one so it's a popular request.

Have a listen:

My dad's story will resume in my next post, because there was something I wanted to cover that was quite current. If you are in Britian then you might be familiar with a television show called "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here". One of the celebrities in the show is a man called "David Van Day". I was at a friends house when I first saw that he was in there. My friend asked me who he was. I just said that he used to be in a successful band called Dollar in the early 80's, and that my opinion of him was not that great, to put it kindly.
I came to that conclusion because of an event when I was younger. When I was about 17 I worked in a shop called CRS (Co-operative Retail Services) in Uxbridge. On my lunch break I went shopping in WH Smith to purchase some music. One of them being a song called Videotheque by Dollar. Quite by chance, as I was about to pay, who should walk in but David Van Day and Therese Bazaar. Both halves of Dollar. They happened to be there to sign copies of their new release, Videotheque. David was vertically challenged, and Therese was even shorter than him. Therese came over to me and picked my records from the counter and rifled through them. She told me that she thought I had good taste in music. Then we chatted for a little while. David grew more and more impatient, and asked her to get on with the signing. So she signed my copy of their record, and took the disc over to him and more or less demanded that he sign it too.

After paying for my records, I said farewell. Therese smiled and said goodbye. David just ignored me. I got the impression that he was a selfish individual.
From watching "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" I see that he hasn't changed much. Therese made time for people. I think she enjoyed the conversation, and that made me feel happy.

OK. Youtube time.
At last I've passed 1,000 subscribers. The figure now stands at 1020.
The views for my channel are now 24,010 and my total video viewings are 414,193.

I'm not sure what I'm doing next, but it may well be another cover. There's a few to do. I've also got a duet coming up