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Not Enough Morphine
Just one dose of the late Mark Sandman (and capable company) is not enough for a day like today, so have another.
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Omens And Portents
The laundry room is downstairs, just off from the dining room, in the addition we created from a backyard deck a year or so ago. Currently, the dining room is serving as a seamstress’s haven, a place for Alyssa and Nikki to manufacture dresses for the upcoming production. You are coming to see it, yes?…
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File Under: “Pleasure, Guilty”
Nice day outside, eh? Pity you’re stuck in here. I mean, wherever here is, you’re there. And where you are is probably not the same as being out there. Unless, of course, you’re sitting on the deck or patio of some techno-forward thinking bar or coffee shop. Only then could you actually be here and…
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Tryin’ To Get Over …
A quick twenty-one tracks from the almighty Shuffle for Tuesday. “Dusty Morning” – Jonathan Edwards “Lifelong Fling” – Over The Rhine “Gone With The Wind” – Frank Sinatra “Steppin’ To The Bad Side” – Hinton Battle, Jamie Foxx from the Dreamgirls OST “Bring It On Home (Live)” – Sam Cooke “The Big Guns” – Jenny…
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Not If You Care For Me
Chet Baker was 22-years old when he recorded the song that would make his career and establish him as the prince of West Coast cool. The take was spare, almost tentative in approach, as Chet was a trumpet-player by trade and not a crooner. At the hard-won age of 58, Chet played “My Funny Valentine”…
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Thou Noble Upright Truthful Sincere
I don’t know what your Valentine got you for Valentine’s Day. I just know that mine got me Final Fantasy III for the DS. Because she’s awesome like that, you see. Me? I got her a neat-looking bag that she’s been wanting for a little while Maybe she’ll post about it later and show it…
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Thy Good Intent
The holiday is here. It’s cool to dismiss Valentine’s Day as just another Hallmark high-mark on the calendar. Some hate the 14th of February outright. But why? Leave the date alone. It did nothing to hurt you. You say you’ve got no date? You say you’ve no bouquet of flowers? Then go out and find…
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Thy Tousled Hair
Or maybe I was wrong … Even though “My Funny Valentine” was written by Rodgers & Hart for the stage production of Babes In Arms … and even though the character on stage later played by Judy Garland in the movie sings the song on stage to the character on stage later played by Mickey…
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Thy Vacant Brow
What’s the first line of “My Funny Valentine?” It starts with the title, right? My … funny valentine … sweet, comic valentine … Wrong. The song was written for Babes In Arms by the songwriting team of Rodgers & Hart. In the 1939 Busby Berkeley film of the same name, 17-year old Judy Garland sings…
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A Tuesday Twenty
Been awhile since I posted one of those … “Somewhere” – Tom Waits “Seems So Long” – Stevie Wonder “Welcome To The Black Parade” – My Chemical Romance “With Me” – Soul Miner’s Daughter “My Torture” – Esthero “Power Child” – Soul Miner’s Daughter “Tender” – Black Tie Dynasty “Cuts You Up” – Peter Murphy…