I’m not altogether convinced that today wasn’t just Monday all over again. Certainly it’s possible that today was this mythical creature called “Tuesday,” but I want to see the evidence before I’m convinced of that.
Month: June 2010
Song of the day
Today, just because it came up in my shuffle, it’s “Let’s Get Out of This Country” by Camera Obscura. As it happens, it’s another title track, from their 2006 album of the same name. It’s a catchy tune, but I think it’s the lyrics that I really like:
What does this city have to offer me?
Everyone else thinks it’s the bee’s knees
What does this city have to offer me?
I just can’t see
I just can’t see
Another song from the same album, “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken,” was a contender for my recent Band Songs mix — it’s a response to Lloyd Cole’s song “Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken” — but it seemed a little too obscure. (It’s only now, in double-checking this, that even I have heard Cole’s original.)
Anyway, here’s the song:
Tuesday various
- Keith Phipps revisits Dick Tracy: “Inescapable in 1990, it’s become at best a hazy memory.”
- Doctor Hoo – Doctor Who In Owl Form. Because of course. [via]
- Well here’s something that might make me change my (mostly negative) thinking on 3D movies: Plan 9 from Outer Space in 3D?
- Great Literature Retitled to Boost Web Traffic [via]
- And finally, Winscape, the virtual window. [via]
The longest day
Today is supposedly the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, but I can say as I noticed. It was mostly an unexciting day, despite its being my first back at work since last Thursday. I’m feeling a whole lot better, though I can’t quite shake this cough.
Today’s Forgotten English is “puthering,” meaning “pouring with rain,” but it was bright and sunny all day long, so it’s not exactly appropriate. Last Friday’s calendar page, however, offered “inexpressibles” as “a euphemism for trousers,” and I think I’m going to try using that more often in conversation. I think more perfectly innocent words like trousers should have euphemisms that make them sound naughty.
I am a little sad that tomorrow will have just a smidgen less daylight in it, but them’s the breaks.
Song of the day
It’s no secret that I like sharing music. I put together a monthly mix of new stuff, or at least stuff that’s new to me, and I’ve participated in several mix CD exchanges. But today, walking home from the train station, iPod buds in my ears, it occurred to me that there’s a whole lot of older discoveries that won’t necessarily turn up on those mixes that I’d still like to share.
So, the song of the day. No real commentary on the song, unless there’s something I feel the need to share. Mostly just good music. Today’s is the song that got me thinking along these lines when it came up in my shuffle: Pink Martini’s “Sympathique.” I’m a big fan of their 1997 album of the same name, which I first heard streaming on their website sometime (maybe a couple of years) after its release, but this is easily my favorite track from it. I love this description of the band from band leader Thomas Lauderdale:
If the United Nations had a house band in 1962 hopefully Pink Martini would be that band.
I can totally see Dag Hammarskjöld or U Thant grooving to this song.