Look at this:

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It's really nice to get "Luminous Groove" (the new collection of Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians recordings) and put the "Element of Light" disc on the turntable. I had forgotten how impossibly lush his voice is.

(Oh, one other thing: this statue is of Adamastor, and is in Lisbon. The statue is a central part of the setting for The Year of the ( Read more... )

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I can't tell you how often the thought runs through my head, "There's something I'm supposed to be doing right now -- someone I need to meet or to call -- I've forgotten something at home that I said I would bring with me..." Just now I had the unsettling thought: What if these instances are cumulative? At some point in the future it will come to ( Read more... )

Never been a big fan of Cocker, but man, this is all right:

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Who is that playing guitar? He is amazing.
...Aha! It is Leon Russell.

The Boswell Sisters have got 'em; now thanks to Heebie-Geebie, I've got 'em too:

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There are a bunch of good Boswell Sisters videos on YouTube. Eddie Lang on guitar.

(No twindowlicker, I'm not stealing your alphabetical Choosday Chunes idea :0))

Meme passed along from The Luddite Robot:

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.

2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.

3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.(I added "2a. Make sure they are all ( Read more... )

Wow.


by BluBlu.

Come over to my place and wish me a happy one.

So I go into the breakroom this morning to get a cup of coffee; next to the coffee machine is a box of Chips Ahoy® cookies. As I help myself to a chocolate chip cookie I say in my best sailor voice, "Chips, ahoy!"