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I know this is crazy but the song of the day is Highway Star by Deep Purple.
Have you heard this song where the car is the woman and the woman is the car?
It is crazy! And it rocks! Why aren't there more songs about women and cars?
Every year on the 5th day of May if it is a good year we listen to ISIS by Bob Dylan.
I suggest that every one who is so compelled to add it to their list of things to do on Cinco de Mayo. Have a margarita and give this treasure a listen.
Bob is amazing in his ability to capture longing, uncertainty, life and death and the wilderness we find ourselves in when we trust another human with our fate. Love and peace to Bob and all Bobs!
"I married Isis on the fifth day of May,
But I could not hold on to her very long.
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong."
Flight of the Conchords Business Time. This fun and wacky song has been running in the background of my mind this past week. When I'm down to my socks you know what time it is. It's business time!
I admire this song because it succeeds in capturing some of the most common stereotypes around how men and women function but also holds up these differences in a sweet and adoring way at the same time.
How we come together to do the important things like recycling, but still how important it is for us to seek each other out for the needful whenever we can in our busy lives.
LET'S GET LOST by Lloyd Cole. The sun was shining today and this little song made me want to go get lost and work on a farm, the change of weather couldn't cause us no harm...thjis little song made my day.
Have heard of the Weepies before but didn't get to really give them their due and fair time listening.
Cute couple playing sweet and rich tunes.
I love Hideaway---even the stars sometimes fade to gray...even the stars hideaway.
I am definitely going to check out their Rumi inspired CD "Say I Am You" which is a lovely collection of love songs.
It is okay for us to hideaway sometimes----
Mohawk Lodge Wear Em Out
The lovely idea that we have our bodies, our eyes, the strings on the guitar, the chords, the lines of the songs, we wear em out. Yes, we wear em out.
Let's live it all fully so when we retire our bodies, our eyes, our ears, the whole package...let's have worn em all out!
Yeah!
Heard this song today and am a sucker for fun song writing and some horns thrown in. I wanna shine like a TV inspite of myself...when it is a hard time.
Haven't we all stewed in our own perfume just a little lonely? I can relate...
The Gourds...How Will U Shine?
Jammin’ on the old cartoons with the swagger of the immune
Sleeping like a fat raccoon/ diabetic on a honeymoon
O baby when it’s a hard time, ooh baby how will you shine
After all the pretty plans I made I been befriended and I been betrayed
Now I’m stewing in my own perfume lonely as a weather balloon
You wanna smell like the roses you wanna ring like a bell
U wanna shine like a TV inspite of yerself
U wanna drink like a chimney u wanna smoke like a fish
U wanna sing like a satellite but here’s the thing about this
Go cry me a river and roll like a wheel
Sit down with yer woman tell her the way that you feel
In honor of the great show last night at the Doug Fir...the song of the day is Juxtaposed With U.
We have to tolerate all the people that we hate, I'm not in love with you, but I won't hold that against you. We need more of this sentiment in the world.
Last night at the Doug Fir, Portland OR, the Super Furries crew offered up some delicious offerings from their latest CD Hey Venus! Stand outs for me were The Gift that Keeps Giving and Run Away. They also did a great job playing some of the older favorites...Calimero (song about a chicken), Do or Die, Juxtaposed With U, Golden Retriever, Rings Around the World.
Super fun was the interactive event where everyone put their hands on top of their heads in a wiggly antennae fashion to help move the crazy cosmic music from the front of the stage all the way to the back of the Doug Fir and perhaps it is still reverberating around the world.
They played a solid and fantastic set.
I love you SFA and thanks for the absolutely great time in Portland OR!!!
Song of the day...by the Portland punk songsters The Obituaries...Inside The Womb.
When the world is scary and uncertain and we don't know what is coming next...try this song. It stands the test of time as a beautiful rock classic. Monica's delicate and subtle lisp is sweet but her voice is strong and reassuring. We all want to go to a place where everybody knows our name and wants to know more about us and cares about us. Warm and secure. Where no one will laugh at us. Perfect!
To my glorious surprise this can now be purchased on itunes...the song and or the whole CD...I highly recommend it...
On this dark and cold day of December...I leave you with Sparklehorse Shade and Honey...they sing in summertones:
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Where the sun will be
Made of honey
I'm dreaming of drippy honey sunshine coating us with a blanket of warmth.
