What are you listening to right now?

Martha Wainwright - She is phenomenal!

hawksley workman - you and the candles

You and the Candles

wow it's canada night here

two by kathleen edwards

Six O'clock News

Copper on the corner and he loaded two rounds
And I can't cross the line to talk you down
And Peter, sweet baby, where'd you get that gun?
You spend half your life trying to turn the other half around

And I tried to come clean, but I guess its no use
Your face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside

Did you lose your head when the FARM went down?
or was it when your daddy died after he moved to town
And I know your mama calls you good for nothin'
She says her baby is a Failer and she don't want you callin'


And I tried to come clean, but I guess its no use
Your face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside

and Peter, sweet baby, there's just something that I gotta say to you
I'm gonna have your baby this coming June
We could get a little place down by Gilmour Park
You could do a little time and save my broken heart

And I tried to come clean, but I guess its no use
Your face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside

I tried to come clean, but I guess its no use
Copper went ahead and he just shot you through
Now you're lying dead on the avenue
I can't feel my broken heart

And I can't feel my broken heart


In State

I can spot your kind a million miles away
Buckle down boots and a bloodshot gaze
You talk so sweet until the going gets tough
The last job you pulled was never big enough

Don't say you'll change after the next time
You wouldn't even be yourself if you weren't telling a lie

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know when you're going down

You only call me honey when we're alone
Hiding at your place up on slack road
You've got an answer for every little thing
You can't even tell me where you've been

My face couldn't make you leave it behind
Maybe 20 years in state will change your mind

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know when you're going down

Don't say you'll change after the next time
You wouldn't even be yourself if you weren't telling a lie
Maybe 20 years in state will change your mind

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know you'll never change now

I know my love was good enough
I know you would have shed my blood
I know you can't shut me up
I know when you're going down

a selection of songs from "69 love songs" by the magnetic fields

Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West!!

MARVELLOUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLKaLvrtn-8

Petrouchka, three Movements (Stravinsky) - Maurizio Pollini

I've been watching THIS video, in anticipation of Gogol Bordello's mid-December show in Chicago with the AC/DC-esque Valient Thor.

Why Does Your Love Hurt So Much - Carly Simon

Great Aunt Ida

and now Stuart's on to some Bruce Cockburn

Laughter

A laugh for the way my life has gone
A laugh for the love of a friend
A laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world
The love that will never end
Ha Ha Ha...

Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world
Who thinks he can make things work
Tried to build the New Jerusalem
And ended up with New York
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the sun redballing
Through the thermal inversion haze
A laugh for the nuclear good-time boys
Numbering all our days
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the newsprint nightmare
A world that never was
Where the questions are all "why?"
And the answers are all "because."
Ha Ha Ha...

A laugh for the dogs barking at our heels
They don't know where we've been
A laugh for the dirty window pane
Hiding the love within
Ha Ha Ha...

Tapping our feet to an ancient tune
A laugh for the time gone by
A laugh for me and Kitty in the delivery room
Waiting for the child's first cry
Ha Ha Ha...

The Bebop Cowboys

I need to get myself over to Hugh's Room sometime soon and check some of these acts out.

Do I Creep You Out - Weird Al on JibJab

I listen to her "Torch" album a lot

"The Jazz Decades" on NPR. DJ Ray Smith playing the top hits from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. It's about over and "Riverwalk Jazz" from San Antonio is about to come on.

Bengali Song - Nitin Sawhney

Have you got a link for that, hingehead?

Best I can do Beth is a 30 second sample of the Amazon entry for the album I ripped it off. It's Track 7

a collection of klf cd singles

right now, it's grim up north (part 1)

Saigon Hooker - The Nads

I'm rediscovering the amazing Tracey Chapman at the moment...

What a coooool woman!

This one's phenomenal, considering she's live, totally on her own and in front of a massive crowd...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNPgGkNL1A&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqiosM1MbsM&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-ENKpfDTk&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTIfk6iN60&mode=related&search=

Yeah, I'll drink to the health of Tracy Chapman all right, all right.