I finally got my turntable working, and now Tower of Power's Urban Renewal is playing in the living room. I'm so pleased I'm headed out the kitchen to make some chocolate chip cookies.

uisinger is out of town for much of this weekend. She's going to be spending tomorrow with grownie, who is going to be having a baby any minute now. That means I'm up here in Madison by myself, "bach-ing it" as the men in my family say.


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The most popular jukebox selection in England over the last 75 years: Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." It's a pretty cool song and all, but that's just insane.

I cannot, for the life of me, concentrate on studying for my Russian Lit. final, which starts in two hours.

Help me, Glenn Gould; you're my only hope.

No PotD today; instead you get a selective update of what's going on with me. Keeping in mind that this post is the most I've written on LJ in quite a few months, I'm going to put it under a cut to keep it from clogging up folks' flists. PotD should be back tomorrow.

( Subjects: Weekend, School, Wedding, Life in general )

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I've been walking around all day with the guitar riff from La Grange/Shake Your Hips/Boogie Chillen in my head all day.

It has been fabulous.

I love it when iTunes serves up a tune that suits my mood or frame of mind. Winamp was fairly good at the empathetic symbiosis, better than iTunes has been historically, but I've come to like other features of iTunes too much to switch back. The occasional prescient musical offering, even in lower frequency, is simply butter on the banana bread ( Read more... )

I absolutely love Mal Waldron. He might just have become my favorite jazz musician.