cooltunes

They have been digging, drilling and powersawing a portion of a telephone pole in the backyard for a couple of hours now. Every once in a while, one will break into a song. In the rain. I don’t know what it’s about, it being in his native language, but it’s a happy song. Maybe if I wait long enough, they’ll start dancing.

It’s that kind of day, carnage on the stock markets and a landslide in SF very near where a family member works. I need a song and dance team out back here to relieve the stress.

Note: don’t ever plant anything expensive around a telephone pole.

The bird that can moonwalk. No, really.

The sneezing season is too early this year. Despite taking a massive (for me anyway) amount of antihistamines, I still had to sit upright several times last night to blow my nose. Which affected my dream cycle, or maybe it was the pills.

So it was that I dreamed of trying to sell the idea of Netflix to my dad, who died ten years ago. (’$20/month. Every month?’) And I woke up with ‘Lush Life’ in my head.

I often get music first thing, no outside source - the mind keeps churning out the odd song as I stagger toward the bathroom. Most times, it’s some banal piece. This time, I got to consider the ‘twelve o’clock tales’ and ‘troughful of hearts’ lyrics as I brushed my teeth.

There are worse ways to start a day. The version I listen to most is Queen Latifah’s from her Dana Owens Album.

The ‘can’t take my eyes off you’ song from the film ‘Closer’.

It was Rice’s first big hit.

It’s been 10 years since the last Maurizio release.

Moritz Von Oswald has ended the drought by putting out a new remix of Tony Allen’s “Ole”, on Honest Jon records.