BONNE ANNEE 2007!
I was going to write this essay about how a new year is like a naked model playing a bassoon but then I found this photo and I thought, that says it all. Really. This is how I want to feel in the coming months. Like all is well in the world, I'm beautiful, healthy, and can play all pieces of score in the Bugs Bunny cartoons that indicate when someone is sneaking around.
I recommend for listening:
Shinri EP--myspace.com/shinri
Turn Back the Years: the Essential Hank Williams Collection
The Wrens: Meadowlands
NRBQ Live WHFS Broadcast from 1978. This is a 'fan' recording...look around
Deerhoof: The Runners Four on Kill Rock Stars
Tapes 'N Tapes: The Loon
Lee Scratch Perry -- Best of...which is actually a collection on Island of his productions, so technically it's a comp. Is Police N Thieves by Junior Murvin the best falsetto vocal of all time? I think so.
Carpenters--Gold --I should take offense at the fact that this is revisionist history, Richard C. went back and overdubbed and remixed and thus tainted the historical record...but...I had this handy. The gripey song about Richard's boss at Disneyland, "Mr. Guder" is pretty cool...it's like the least aggrssive protest song ever...truly a bizarrely American occurence. By the way...they are associated with Downey CA...they prob. were just slightly off in their searchin' USA for the Beach Boys' hometown (Richard would say the Carpenters were an homage to the 3 B's...Beatles...Beach Boys...and Bacharach!--which really could be called the 5 B's, no?) but these two kids were from CONNECTICUT! Yes, they are east coast marble mouth preps...it makes so much more sense when you listen with that perspective. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise...
Love
KS
Paris
Such joyous sounds swelling with life!
