Just Wondering

Have you ever been to a Renaissance fair?

What do you do for exercise?

Have you ever changed a car tire?

Good Night

Good Morning

Birthday Greetings

Birthday greetings goes to hoobird and poliphilo today. May the both of you have a great day!

Tuesday Tunefest

Some soulful and funky tunes for a Tuesday.


Stevie Wonder - As

Earth, Wind and Fire - Can t Hide Love

Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is

The Meters - Cissy Strut

Idris Muhammed - Piece Of Mind

Enjoy.

The Meters

The Meters were one of the funkiest outfits creating some of the tightest funk, next to Booker t and the MG's of course, and released this Friday is a 6CD full retrospective of their music, recently reviewed in the current issue of Wire magazine. Yep, It is one I definitely would want and it is a reasonable price too.




The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby

The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py

The Meters - Chicken Strut

The Meters - Birds

Yep, a version of a Neil Young song from "After The Gold Rush"

The Meters - Middle Of The Road

The Meters - Funktify Your Life

Enjoy the funk!

Book 6 - David Hajdu "Heroes And Villains"

David Hajdu "Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture" (Da Capo)





The book jacket states that "Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu, the award-winning author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Positively 4th Street, and Lush Life. Eclectic and controversial, Hajdu's essays take on topics as varied as pop music, jazz, the avant-garde, comic books, and our downloading culture."

This describes the book very well in which he writes with enormous confidence and competence across various cultural byways. Not all the essays are in my sphere of interest such as Elvis Presley and The Colonel, but I did find the ones on Harry Partch, Anita O'Day, Elvis Costello, Abbey Lincoln, and John Zorn fascinating and illuminating.

A gift for readers who enjoy erudition seasoned with élan.