Feeling not groovy
Summer cold of some kind, just want to go lay down and read, but who cares. So I will go lay down, though I have 2,000 things to do. My second book of poems is available from BlazeVox, also through Amazon, and I think from Barnes and Noble on line, though I haven’t checked. One of the 2,000 things I need to do is get some review copies sent out, but that will have to wait for a bit.
173) Van Morrison: Keep It Simple
I have a record of Van’s from the 80’s, he looks like Sheena Easton, there is a swatch of pastel purple and some Kandinsky lines migrating around the background… and it sounds like hell. This CD does not, good to see he rediscovered good taste. “Don’t Go To Nightclubs Anymore” and “Song of Home” really stick out.
174) Fabulosos Cadillacs: La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario
Cool soundtrack music, Thelonius Monk, ska, bossa nova, all put in a blender. Less rocking and more jazzy than Calaveros, but still excellent.
175) David Byrne: Feelings
Byrne hasn’t lost his way with a pop song, but this CD isn’t as focused as his best work. Maybe he tries to hard to have the whole package seem unified–cover, production, other multi-media tie-ins–and loses track of a few songs, ends up writing 2 or 3 versions of the same one, etc. “Miss America” is great, satirical and heartfelt.
176) XTC: Singles, 1977-1982
I never made any plans for Nigel, just so he knows.
177) Harry Nilsson: best of
Purchased in a gas station somewhere in Tennessee. Nigel, I did put the lime in the coconut. Harry’s version of “Sail Away” is not quite as good as Newman’s, but still is good, and sad, and right.