another love like mine... You'll keep searching and searching your whole life through..."

Cancer Claims Singer Lou Rawls at 72

"Now, I'm not braggin' on myself, baby, but there's no ifs and buts or maybes..."

Whilst looking for this,

http://www.morecowbell.net/2006/01/05/belle-sebastian-new-pornographers-in-mpls

---which is fantastic!---

I found this

http://www.morecowbell.net/2005/12/28/3-nick-drake-covers-by-beck/

---which is also fantastic!

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I am planning a mixed CD right now.  It will almost definitely include Nick Drake, The Waterboys, Cowboy Junkies, The High Llamas, Belle & Sebastian, The Incredible String Band, Bright Eyes, and Fairport Convention... 'cause that's what I've been listening to of late...  Will probably also include The Mountain ( Read more... )

Some random things that have been on my mind in the last few days:

I started reading Don DeLillo's White Noise on Wednesday---actually, I should say I started reading it again, since I had attempted it once before and never got past the first chapter, then a friend borrowed it and I never got it back---and I am impressed.  It has no real ( Read more... )

A Christmas present for all my friends who are Tom Waits fans:

http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=u56axNKILKc&search=SNL

I just ran across this, and had to post, 'cause I was trying to remember this quote the other day and I couldn't!  Pure hilarity!

Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this crazy sugar scheme?
Homer: Never, Marge. Never. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy ( Read more... )

A.) Go to musicoutfitters.com.
B.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function at the upper left and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
C.) Bold the songs you liked, strike through the ones you hated. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

1. Look Away, Chicago ( Read more... )

( This one's for you... I learned it from you in the first place.... )

I haven't listened to this song in quite some time, but it really hit me while listening to it on the way home from a very, very, unhappy day at the bakery.  The idea of the song is so familiar to me... I feel like I've had these same sorts of conversations with so many people over the years---back when I was at Manchester College, with different ( Read more... )

I bought the new Sigur Ros album, Takk, and I am simply dumbfounded by their music.  I have the previous---I think it's the previous album, anyway... the one with the foetus on the cover?---album, and I like it well enough, but this one is different.  Obviously, Kelly and I going to see them at the Chicago Theatre in September had a big impact on ( Read more... )