Almost blue

Time flies when you're having fun. I see I haven't posted anything here since Sunday. ;-) Most of the fun this time was in downloading all the great lp records in my collection that I didn't listen often enough since I started listening most of my music through my computer. But now I have them again! Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Carole King, Simon & Garfunkel, Thin Lizzy, The Replacements and so much more!

Right now listening to Almost Blue by Elvis Costello. Great!

You Are Free

Bought another cd today: You Are Free by Cat Power. It's as beautiful as its cover.

The beekeeper

Listening to one of the cd's I bought at the record fair. It's good I've rediscovered Tori this year.

Bought some very cool clothes this week.

A man from South Africa called today at work. And I started to learn photoshopping which is fun!

So far it's been a great week! The only sad thing is that my mum's ill.

And this blog is still as pointless as it was when I started it, which is a good thing! ;-)

To Kill A Mockingbird

Yesterday I watched To Kill A Mockingbird. Based on one of my favorites novels ever, a wonderful story about two children growing up in the thirties in a small Southern town and their dad who is defending a negro man falsely accused of raping a white girl. I liked the book much more, but the movie is still quite good.

Right now listening to Ohio by Over The Rhine. Last weekend I came home from trading cd's with three new ones: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, and The Animal Years by Josh Ritter.

The weekend was very nice, by the way. ;-)

Rain

Today it was raining, raining and raining, so much that my raincoat couldn't stop it all. It's lucky I don't mind rain. ;-) And one of my collegues gave me a lift, so I didn't have to bike through the thunder storm that passed by in the afternoon. And I was home 40 minutes earlier than usual. ;-)
It was a nice day.

And now I'm listening to Jason Mraz. Still one of my most favorite records ever!

Cd's I bought at the record fair last weekend

Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors
Dar Williams - Mortal City
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
Ron Sexsmith - Blue Boy
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls
Elliott Smith - Either/or
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open
Damien Rice - O
REM - Around The Sun
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

It's interesting my musical habits are changing again. ;-)

Lyrics

One of the records I bought at the record fair is Dar Williams' Mortal City. A very nice cd that features this hilarious song:

The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of a Co-ed

I'm not a leader, I'm not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one,
But there was a time way back, many years ago in college, don't laugh,
But I thought I was a radical, I ran the hemp Liberation Group with my boyfriend,
It was true love, with a common cause, and besides that, he was a Sagittarius.

We used to say that our love was like hemp rope, three times as strong as the rope that you buy domestically,
And we would bond in the face of oppression from big business and the deans,
But I knew there was a problem, every time the group would meet everyone would light up,
That made it difficult to discuss glaucoma and human rights, not to mention chemotherapy.

Well sometimes, life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging,
And so I found him in the arms of a Student Against the Treacherous use of Fur,
And he gave no apology, he just turned to me, stoned out to the edge of oblivion,
He didn't pull up the sheets and I think he even smiled as he said to me,
"Well, I guess our dreams went up in smoke."
And I said, No, our dreams went up in dreams, you stupid pothead,
And another thing, what kind of a name is Students Against the Treacherous Use of Fur?
Fur is already dead, and besides, a name like that doesn't make a good acronym.

I am older now, I know the rise and gradual fall of a daily victory.
And I still write to my senators, saying they should legalize cannabis,
And I should know, cause I am a horticulturist, I have a husband and two children out in Lexington, Mass.
And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out, because he's in a cult.
And he's not allowed to talk to me.

Annie Hall

Had a very nice weekend. Saw Espers live, went to a record fair, bought loads of cd's, and just saw Annie Hall. Maybe more about all this later. ;-)