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It's a sunny day ...

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:41:58 -0400

SMiLE

What can I say? It's a sunny day. All things considered, I'm feeling pretty darned good.

Thanks to Peter for this. I am smiling, too.

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I couldn't resist ...

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:38:17 -0400

Liverpool airport

On the Beatles theme (see previous post) ...

How could I forget this?

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A little rediscovery ...

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:58:01 -0400

The Other Side of Abbey Road

I'll go out on a limb here. The Other Side of Abbey Road is/was the best George Benson recording. I just rediscovered this interpretation of the Beatles and was again blown away. Great singing and some wonderful musicianship.

Oh, back in the day, when I had finished writing a paper this was the recording I used to wind down. Well, the vinyl wore down. Eventually a CD replacement was discovered at HMV but it migrated to the basement to collect dust. Now it's on the iPod. Look for it.

Mmmm, I think I will relax to it now.

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Stuck in my brain ...

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:59:55 -0400

Cave man

Updated with more silly details ...

OK, this is a sort of mental exorcism. Have you ever had a song you can't identify just stuck right there in your brain? It happens to me from time to time. This most recent occasion was particularly annoying and painful because it was only a scrap of a song ...

If you've seen the Geico commercials with the cavemen there is one where the fellow is in an airport and on a movable sidewalk. It's the airport music that got stuck in my head. What's the whole song? Who is singing?

Royksopp - Remind Me

A big thanks to my main music source, Jennifer! The song is Remind Me, by Royksopp, vocals by Norwegian Erlend Oye. There are, of course, multiple mixes of the song. I like this video best (an English "day in the life") although the mix is kinda old techno. The Geico mix is a bit lighter and is in this video. It features the gratuitous use of expensive cars. Why?

Anyway, here is a lyric sample ...

It's only been a week,
The rush of being home in rapid fading.
Prevailing to recall
What I was missing, all that time in England

Has sent me aimlessly,
On foot or by the help of transportation,
To knock on windows where
A friend no longer live, I had forgotten.

(chorus)

And everywhere I go,
There's always something to remind me
Of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me.

We stayed outside til two,
Waiting for the light to come back,
But hid in talk I knew,
Until you asked what I was thinking.

(chorus)

Brave men tell the truth,
A wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles,
A woman holds her tongue,
Knowing silence will speak for her.

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Vox Hunt: Latest Read

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:46:27 -0500

Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received.

An Equal Music: A Novel

"... a brave attempt to fathom the world of deafness as well as the high-strung milieu of performing artists." Reed Business Information, Inc.

This is one of the books I received when I was in the hospital. I'm just getting to it now. So far so good ...

Update

Finished this yesterday and was sorry to see it end. I will look for more books by Vikram Seth at the local library.

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Vox Hunt: Song In The Key Of Life

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:18:27 -0500

Audio: Share a song that fits the moment you're living right now.
Inspired by cherè.

Parliament Funkadelic - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off)

I am in the groove right now. There is only George Clinton for this!

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Canada's first music video

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:12:24 -0500

The Esquires - Canada's First Music Video

"From 1964, Capitol Records artists, The Esquires video for "Gee Whiz It's You" (Cliff Richard & The Shadows cover), featuring lead vocalist Bob Harrington. This is considered to be Canada's first music video. From MuchMusic's "BackTrax" show, 1990."

Thanks to Richard Patterson (the drummer) for passing this along!

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Mood music ...

nobody@vox.com(jp) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:55:07 -0500

Susheela Raman

Susheela

The Times
A jazz-pop vixen, she exudes an erotic charge far sexier than anything we have heard from the demure Ms Jones. Fuses indian exotica with late-night jazz bar moods.

The Times review is true but somehow there is more to all of this. Ms Raman combines both the sensibilities of her Indian roots and British home. It's all somehow the "new Europe". World music or music for the world? At the right time or in the right place the songs are priceless.

Susheela Raman - Love Trap

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