Login HereI've lived in Los Angeles for over twenty years now and I've never even considered buying an air conditioner. I pride myself on toughing out the usual two weeks in late August that get close to triple digits, but I've never experienced such a hot summer here.
I'm trying not to let it freak me out in an "Inconvenient Truth" kind of way. Public Service Announcements are telling me not to use appliances during peak hours to avoid what is already happening here in California, rolling blackouts. (Bad situation, great band name, some local band grabbed it...kudos!)
I'll be in the studio recording this week, thankfully with an air conditioner, but suddenly I realize that I've only been boogie-boarding twice this season. Summer is half over people! If you haven't already... get on it! Lake, river, ocean, creek, get in there.
I remember in my junior high years, unable to drive and bored in the suburbs of Chicago, my friends and I would engage in our favorite summertime heat quencher...pool hoppin'. This activity had to be done under the cover of darkness. First we'd get an older sibling or someone's "cool", irresponsible uncle to buy us some shitty beer (two cans was pa-len-ty for me). Then, we'd find houses in our neighborhood that had pools, plan our route and get to it.
Now, and this is important, this must be done with your clothes on, including sneakers. We would, at all times have an exit strategy. If we saw those bedroom lights come on, or the screen door suddenly fly open with someone's dad yelling at us we would get out of the pool, hop the fence, and run for our lives!
The Spin this week are some songs of my summers. I'd love to hear about the songs of yours in the comments section. Stay cooool!
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Fitz!
Zero?
Fountains of Wayne has some great summer songs, including “Red Dragon Tattoo,” and “It Must Be Summer.”
PeteCO:
Doesn’t The Mark of Zero really belong on the previous thread?
Donita:
No AC for us for exactly the same reason. I’m not looking forward to late August. Hang in there!
Love fountains of wayne! Okay, this is cheesy, but one of my ALL time favorite summer songs is DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince’s “SUMMERTIME”. I absolutely have to listen to that every June, otherwise its just not summer yet.
last summer central air in my house gave out bigtime — until I could afford to get it replaced, I bought a cheapie $70 window unit for my living room — it knocked the edge of the heat off and dehumidified too — I used it for the rest of summer.
Aint China great?
More effervescent summer fun from my end of the blogosphere:
“Feel the Way That I Do” - Shoes (well, there’s references to having sex outdoors–in my part of the world, that’s a summer-only thing)
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
T-Shirt Weather - The Lucksmiths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaksJNIkA9s
Summertime
“Like a red rubber ball” seemed to be playing every hour one summer.
“This Diamond Ring”
“Satisfaction”
“Hot Town, Summer in the City”
“Indian Lake”! Remember listening to this song on my little transitor radio. And the Cowsills had a summer replacement show I thoroughly enjoyed.
Just read their wikipedia entry. Boy, they had a high death count!
great summertime band: the dirtbombs. so much fun. just good rock n’ roll. and the singer has some amazing pipes.
“Respectable” —Summer of ‘78 ahh yes ;-)
Just read their wikipedia entry. Boy, they had a high death count!
One died in Katrina. I think another one is touring with Todd Rundgren and the New Cars this summer.
Thanks, Donita, for the Ditty Bops vid last time—I’ve been playing it ever since. These posts are so welcome on a Friday, when the week has worn everyone down.
NYMary, I’ve been wishing I could buy “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from iTunes, but no luck so far.
Thanks for that clip! I think I saw it contemporaneously…
A Boogie Board in every pot.
I had to explain to my teenage daughter about Tina Turner the other night because we were watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
(There A’int No Cure for the) Summertime Blues!
hey donita
fabulous spin list!
your pool-hoppin’ story took me back to my childhood—the entire summer spent at the public pool, with the AM radio blaring
“in the summertime” by mungo jerry over the loud speakers. Here are some other great summer tunes:
dancing in the street - martha & the vandellas
sunny afternoon - the kinks
summer wine - nancy sinatra & lee hazelwood
summer lovin’ - the movie GREASE
summer wind - frank sinatra
I’ll need something REALLY good to pull me out of a mad/depressed funk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Very sorry to be hit and run and OT, but time is tight and even with it tight – I have to vent.
Read this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00619.html
with Bamford RS piece http://www.rollingstone.com/po.....e_next_war from yesterday:
Then go check Laura Rozen’s other, earlier pieces on the Italian connection.
The go read this a Larry Johson’s blog
http://noquarter.typepad.com/m......html#more
It’s not his piece and he’s not saying a yeah or nay, but it would give some insight into why Hastert had such a strong objection to the Jefferson office raid, wouldn’t it? Although Hastert is also getting questioned on the NSA leaks. IL need John Laesch in the worst kind of way.
Margot@10
Yeah that organ in “Red Rubber Ball” is totally summer to me too
my favorite dreadfully-hot summer musical memory is working as the sound man on an outdoor production of Bizet’s Carmen in an old football stadium (complete with galloping horses) — sweat, cheesy production, glorious music !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFOmnAfyF5o
All for you
elbee@12
thanks for the tip, I’ll check them out!
weeder@15
I’m so glad that you dig The Ditty Bops, they’re so good
Love that Breeders track “Saints” —
“Summer is ready / When you are” and the crunchy guitars. Wicked awesome.
And of course NYMary’s pimping of FoW is justified. “It Must Be Summer” is one of my favourites.
I’ve been wishing I could buy “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from iTunes, but no luck so far.
Hmm, I see that. Strange. Do you think they pulled it after last summer?
“Afternoon Delight” is seared into my memory as a summer carnival song, though I have no idea why.
you’re welcome, donita…i think you’ll dig ‘em…and thanks for yer list…
okay, only minimally related via MUSIC: i have sunk into another layer of disbelief upon reading that W is meeting with american idol contestants today. wtf.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na.....ome-nation
my favorite dreadfully-hot summer musical memory is working as the sound man on an outdoor production of Bizet’s Carmen in an old football stadium (complete with galloping horses) — sweat, cheesy production, glorious music !
Mine is helping “tune the cannons” for a performance of the 1812 Overture.
Hot Fun in the Summertime — Sly and the Family Stone
Stoned Soul Picnic — Laura Nyro
Grazing in the Grass — Hugh Masakela
What’s Going On (entire album) — Marvin Gaye
Neighborhoods (album again) — Olu Dara
ditto on the Hot Town and Dancing in the Street, in fact, just about the entire Holland-Dozier-Holland catalog. As I recall, Heat Wave helped me learn to accept what I couldn’t change.
elbee@29
wow, American Idol and the Pres, that is bizarre and yet so par for the course.
I dont recall Tchaikovsky specifying “pitched howitzers” for that opus … maybe you are thinking of Pachelbels Cannon ?
Dancin’ in the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas)
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Sugar Magnolia and many others here:
http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/
ummm…The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)…first song on first album:
” See that girl, barefootin’ along,
Whistlin’ and singin’, she’s a carryin’ on.
There’s laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet,
She’s a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.
Well everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun
Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find out where it’s at.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.
Take a vacation, fall out for a while,
Summer’s comin’ in, and it’s goin’ outa style
Well, lie down smokin’, honey; have yourself a ball,
Cause your mother’s down in Memphis, won’t be back ’till the fall.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.”
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Agree w/’Summertime’ above.
‘Promised Land’ (Chuck Berry) played in the upside down tunnel travel in MIB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXDBTKVpMU
Boom
prostratedragon@31
ooo, Stoned Soul Picnic, I love that one and Grazing In The Grass too!
I dont recall Tchaikovsky specifying “pitched howitzers” for that opus … maybe you are thinking of Pachelbels Cannon ?
Nope. Last movement. It was news to me that cannons had to be tuned, but we shot them off ten or twelve times each.
How about “The Heat Is On”! Who wrote that shitttty song? Glen Frey? Pool hoppin with your cloths on……come on Donita…..take it off. I promise I won’t look.
Stay cool
Sid
“Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn’t it a pity
Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city”
And as much as the Lily Allen hype is now getting on my tits, ‘LDN’ is such a summer song.
the low ri-der, rides a little higher now
anybody else tired of Gnarles Barclay’s “Crazy”?
(not a bad song, just overplayed)
Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
punaise, by accident I deleted your comment about l’été et la vie est facile. sorry. really …
Currently can’t get enough of Super Furry Animal’s “Psyclone!” (iTunes link) Is that a bari sax during the intro?
need a drink? me too.
Zep’s “Dancing Days.” Preferably the live version from “How The West Was Won.”
Or the Who’s “Going Mobile.”
Hot and damned humid here in Maine today. Had the Cooper’s roof open and windows down while driving around Portland with Led Zeppelin blasting this morning. Felt like a teenager again! Well, a teenager with trifocals and slightly arthritic shoulders…
*ilson - by accident I deleted your comment about l’t et la vie est facile. sorry. really …
no problem - (summertime, and the moderating isn’t easy?)
here it was:
“summertime, and the livin’ is easy” (Porgy and Bess)
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
Off the top of my head, “Venus”, by Air, does that in spades. Especially with the buzzy insect noises towards the end of the song.
OT but needs to get out:
via CNN.com
Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.
Don’t it just figger? (Ted Kennedy is speaking out against this move.)
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
XTC’s “Grass.”
another memorable musical summer evening was sitting outside with frozen daiquiris listening to Sam Barbers “Summer - Knoxville, 1915″ and Berlioz “Les nuits d’été” …
Sly!
“Hot Fun!” indeed. Great sounds.
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“Pipeline” instr. by Surfari’s (?)
Dan and Jean “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena”
http://www.jananddean.com/ (click to see shirt)
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ummm. Beach Boys. (”Wouldn’t It Be Nice” - just cuz ‘Roger and Me.’)
http://www.cdquest.com/bands/beach_boys.htm
But, really, anything outta this quote:
“he result was massive popular success for the group during the first half of the 1960s, starting with their first chart entry, “Surfin’ ” in 1962. “Surfin’ ” was released on a local record label. Subsequently, the group signed to the major label Capitol Records, where they stayed for the rest of the ’60s. But their early recordings have continued to turn up on one discount label after another ever since. To date, the most complete and best-quality version of the material is to be found on the 1991 DCC album Lost and Found! (1961-62).
The Beach Boys’ first Capitol single, “Surfin’ Safari,” was released in June 1962 and became their first Top 40 hit. It was followed in October by a debut album of the same name. Similarly, in March 1963, Capitol released the single “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” which became the group’s first Top Ten hit, and the Surfin’.”
word to the wise
cooking FDL lurking= burnt food
oh well nobody would have like these home baked chocolate cookies anyway (yeah right!)
Mary 11:26 am — crap. Not exactly Turkish Delight, n’est-ce pas?
How does Plame fit into this mess? I still believe that she was outed for more reasons than getting at Wilson, and the Turkish mess certainly looks like a reason.
But maybe I’m giving Cheney and his evil posse more cred than they deserve.
beau@44
I really like that track. Oi Frango sounds really good too.
Thanks for the turn on, never heard it before!
make that cooking fdl lurking
ok how do make a plus sign stay where it belongs. geez -what a way to kill a joke
better than working fdl lurking! and I burnt cookies last weekend doing the same thing.
G. Love and Special Sauce: “Willow Tree“
Us3: “Lazy Day”
Cuba LA: “El Manisero” (the peanut vendor)
Mungo Jerry. “In The Summer Time”
Now that’s SUMMER.
“When the weather is fine
we go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We’re always happy,
live’s for living, yeah, that’s our philosophy
Sing along with us , dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
da-da-da-da-da…”
Lo — for some weird reason you cant post a plus sign here — dunno why — a coupla days ago several of us tried a variety of nerdish workarounds — none worked except to simply say ‘plus’ …
Seriously OT:
Looks like a fight is going to break out over Bolton. Both Chafee and Hagel (via Steve Clemons) are officially undecided on Bolton’s nomination. If the mustachioed one doesn’t make it out of committee (again), I’d like to think that’s the end of the line for him.
Or will Bush recess appoint Mr. Destroy the UN again? I’m sure there’s some kind of signing statement thingy Bush can use to do whatever he wants when it comes to Presidential appointments.
The Sunday talk shows should be vewy, vewy intwesting this weekend.
Spin I’m in: DAMN IT’S HOT all-funk edition
Sharon Jones - Damn! It’s Hot (Desco)… c’est funk.
Ella Fitzgerald - Too Darn Hot. articulation.
Ohio Players - Fire. Really wrecks my nerve.
Body Heat - James Brown.
The Heat is on - Isley Brothers. (also, their version of “Summer Breeze” rivals even the Main Ingredient version… but this isn’t about breezes. this is about stifling heat!)
Fuego - Mongo Santamaria
Hot, Funky and Sweaty - The Soul Lifters. (New Orleans? Here!).
Aftershower Funk - Joe Bataan.
(Brooklyn FDLers check out Bataan & Sonora Poncena tomorrow in Prospect Park)
Pool Hopping bonus beat:
Drowning in the Sea of Love - Joe Simon
How do you say “blitzkrieg” in Israeli?
-GSD
Summertime by War.
“Yes it’s summer, summertime is here. Yes it’s summer, my time of year.”
-GSD
lo @ 12:08 pm - Percent signs don’t work, either. Apparently, FDL has been designated a math free zone.
Endless radio Summer days - Joe Walsh
revisiting this old (90’s) album for warm evenings
Nightmares on Wax- Smokers Delight
Van Morrison - Common One
David Bromberg - various bootleg stuff
Albert King - I’ll Play The Blues For You
Pat Metheny Group - Travels
JJ Cale - Really
Bud Fletcher Politics and Politicians - Americas Foremost Authentic Cajun Entertainer my favorite cuts
1. LBJ in Pick Up Truck, Drunk in Washington D.C.
2. Opening, Hippie Expo 68, LSD, Voting Machine, Names in History Book.
GSD — dont you mean to ask about blitzkrieg on Lebanese ?
% too ?
thanx for the tip *ilson. If you get a chance i left a comment at the last thread i’d like you to see. its way deep in EPU territory #340 or something like that. Didn’t want to mess with the light convo here me thinks everyone needed these feel good posts today.
Mungo Jerry. “In The Summer Time”
Now that’s SUMMER.
‘Have a drink, have a drive’, though… not recommended. (And used in an anti-drink-driving ad in the UK.)
On a Cole Porter tip, ‘Too Darn Hot’, especially as done by Ella Fitzgerald.
doesn’t have that summertime groove, but:
Nirvana - All Apologies
“Under The Boardwalk” by the Drifters. Another goodie. Me and my buddies we’re singing that tune in our teens. Sleeping under the Santa Monica pier, surfing in the day. And at night… girls, girls, girls.
Pool hoppin’ reminds me of a John Cheever story called “The Swimmer” and now I want a g and t.
I think “Summer In The City” describes summer in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. pretty well. It really is positively awful outside that time of year, particularly if you’re not used to it.
%, indeed.
Fond memeories of Ike and Tina Turner doing Proud Mary on tv when I was growing up. I just loved it when Tina would just let loose and really roll it.
She’s amazing, and at the time I knew it was all her and not Ike.
Lo, checkout what I also said at this link and also on comment #98 later on … http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....ent-210106
riiiight…NO own Neville Bros. “Fiyou on the Bayou” is the CD. Song (whole thing is GREAT) is medley thing:
“Iko Iko/Brother John” good stuff.
Where’s my gumbo?
…of course any number Creedence Clearwater (maybe ‘Out My Backdoor’?
- Allman’s ‘Live at Fillmore East’, ‘Eat a Peach’.
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Derek (Clapton) Dominoes “Layla”
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Elton John - 11/17/70 - “Burn Down the Mission”
and Tumbleweed Connection - “Where To Now, St. Peter?”
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
For me (born in 1966), the song that will always be associated with summer in my head is Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good,” played incessantly on the radio the summer of 1977.
As always, many good suggestions here. May I second Mongo Santamaria! oh oh oh and Willie and Lobo.
Something appears to have changed. Maybe part of the fix that got rid of the format characters? Let’s try it in a sentence: 100%.
ON topic “plus” very current:
“The Israelites” by Desmond Dekker and The Aces.
Not a great song but I remember it playing incessantly on the radio in ‘69, I think it was.
‘nother of fav summer songs: “Idi Amin is My Yardman” by the Uranium Savages.
Blank Kludge, How was Grissman? Any special guests?
Sur-re-e-eh!
Sur-reh!
And not just Low Rider, but again just about the whole War catalog. The complete City, Country, City. Beetles in the Bog. Gypsy Man. What a band! Saingin’ like you seldom hear.
Song of the Wind — Carlos Santana
I Want You (complete) —Marvin Gaye
OT/EPU’d
Dial-up, AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
On the plus side, my suitcases with $21,000 of surgical equipment for the children’s hospital made it through 3 airports and 2 customs checks. I may now officially breathe.
Inspiring/funny movie: Blues Brothers. They keep getting destroyed, they get up and dust themselves off and keep going. They are on a mission.
Am 11 hours ahead of pacific time, so good day to you, but I’m going to sleep soon.
Eureka -
Wish I knew. Haven’t been able to find a review, online. Whatever that said would be MY opinion. If ya know what I mean.
:(
At risk of hijacking this thread, footage from Condoleezza Rice’s piano gig in Malaysia is just in on YouTube. There are almost no words for it. Those shoes alone…
For me it was summertime when I was heading to a Bruce concert. One of my greatest feats, there was a mail order lottery for 5 of his shows in Philly one year. I turned 4 tickets for one of those shows into 3 shows for myself.
Nothing like jamming to Rosalita with 20,000 other fanatics in the heat of the summer.
Summer of ‘78??? Had my own pool by then. But in the summers of ‘49 thru ‘52, when my family lived in Toluca Lake (where Universal Studio is located). A very few blocks away lived Bill Holden, the wonderful actor, and he had a great pool with access from the street. We wemt pool hoppin’ so often that we got to know him. Now that was a GREAT man!
Burl Ives was also a neighbor who, when he moved into a different home only a block from his old one, he and some friends pushed his upright piano down the street to his new home. Loved that guy’s style, too.
Santana - indeed.
Abraxas. ‘Singing Winds, Crying Breezes”(?)
Bummer, thought you were in the in crowd last night. Used to usher the Warfield and many nights with him.
egregious!
if any of you missed it, IIRC, egregious is in Russia on a humanitarian mission to perform heart surgery on l’il kids.
“Sunny Afternoon” The Kinks
I wonder what Janis Joplin would be singing if she were here?
Well if you count associative memories of songs that conjure up the scent of your teen years dancing on hot summer nights I’ll have to go with “Satisfaction” - Rolling Stones.
Never mind if I liked the song then or appreciate hearing it now. That was just THE summer song way back when. :)
Cry Cry Baby
way to go egregious!
Hilde sez:
It was impossible not to bounce up and down to that song. Loved it!
Blank Kludge…
CCR, “Out My Back Door”. Got to see these guys a couple of times! Wonderful stuff! Trouble is: Now I see a “Bad Moon Rising”.
egregious is on a mission from gad. I bow to you egregious.)
Lesley Gore, That’s the Way Boys Are
Bobby Parker, Barefootin
Maxime LeForestier: “San Francisco”
c’est une maison bleue
addossee a la colline
on y va et on y vient….
(someday i’ll figure out those accents)
The Great Decider said he was a “uniter not a divider”. He may be healing the Shia-Sunni rift as we read and write.
(Snip)
And many of the countries’ citizens seem to have put aside Shiite-Sunni animosities to concentrate on the common enemy: Israel.
“Oh, Sunni! Oh, Shiite! Let’s fight the Jews,” a crowd chanted outside Cairo’s Istiqama Mosque on Friday. “The Jews and the Americans are killing our brothers in Lebanon!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....b_response
Heckuva job.
-GSD
Santana did a killer cover of The Zombies “She’s Not There”
how could I forget?
Sublime: Summertime
“Summertime and the livin’s easy
Bradley’s on the microphone with Ras-MG
All the people in the dance will agree that
we’re well qualified to
represent
the LBC”
Donita, the Supersuckers’ “Gato Negro,” is my theme song of the week.
Pools. Went to the pool at my apt. two weekends ago but a kid had just puked in it 15 minutes before. It was closed for two hours, and then it was closing time anyway.
This past weekend I tried to go, but it thundered once seven minutes after I got in… and so they closed it until closing time.
Damn it! Maybe this weekend will work out.
What do others think of the bad ImpeachPAC ad going to be run in CT? I think it might end up hurting Lamont:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....151644/102
jaycee@89
I love William Holden! What awesome memories
thanks for all of your comments people. I’m off to make some music, I’ll check in later
I will always remember the original Derek and the Dominoes Layla as the ultimate so-hot-you-can-feel-yourself-sweat summer song — particularly at night when it was too hot to sleep.
The unplugged Layla reminds me of hot and steamy summer in another way with Mr. Kirby on the coast of Maine.
addosse a la colline?
Dr. Bong 12:46 pm- Indeed, that version kicks some butt.
Quicksilver,
That Condi performance was appalling. I know that was Condi on the piano. I can only assume that was Nero on the fiddle.
-GSD
Dan Whitworth, yes that’s where the accent should be (the first “e”, accent grave)
…yup Bad Moon Rising indeed
Lawyers, Guns and Money PLUS Werewolves of London
(the late Great Warren Zevon)
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basically the whole soundtrack to “Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?”
First side of Elton’s “Madman Across the Water’ on autorepeat. For hours. Nobody complained (freshman orientation weekend, Salem State College, Aug ‘74)
Around Thanksgiving same year: Elton at the Garden w/many same folks from that weekend. WHAT A SHOW! Goodby Yellow Brick Tour…opened solo; single spotlight on him/keyboard. “Funeral/Friend>>Love Lies”
Not bad.
previous thread; 238 punaise says: “I was feeling a lot more optimistic about the Giants six days ago, before their recent losing streak. Can’t they just give Armando Benitez his walking papers? The guy is like that Bowie song from Cat People: putting out fires with gasoline”
punaise, as a long suffering Giants fan i completely agree. Everything seemed great last week and then, BOOM!, the bottom starts dropping out. And to make matters worse Armando had that lame finger-pointing excuse for the last blown save. I’m paraphrasing, but something like “hey i got two ground-balls, i did my job”, or some such. Yeah, that’ll go over great in the locker-room. sigh.
And then there was the Beatles concert at Candle Stick Park, summer 1966. Talk about summer time electricity in the air. It took us almost two hours to get from the parking lot to the Bayshore after the music.
I don’t always know why, but these songs remind me of summer:
Name - Goo Goo Dolls
Wild Horses - The Sundays
Badfish - Sublime
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Wash Your Face in My Sink - Dream Warriors
hi everyone and just to top it off there’s this about Condi:
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With the Australians out of the picture, top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice took the stage by storm with a piano recital of a Brahms sonata, titled a Prayer for Peace.
Rice, wearing a red dress and pearls, was in a sombre mood after her crisis trip to the Middle East and decided to stick to the concert-grade piano skills she mastered at college.
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what a sick joke.
hapkidokid
*grrrr*, indeed. I was at the game last Saturday where they beat the Padres to capture first place, ever so briefly. What a contrast.
Rice, wearing a red dress…
So the devil does wear a red ress.
That Sunday, That Summer by Nat King Cole brings back memories. Also Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer
Listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan brings me peace. I was searching for him on YT and found this:
Peter Gabriel & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing Signal to Noise
“…and in this place, can you reassure me
with a touch, a smile - while the cradle’s burning
all the while the world is turning to noise
oh the more that it’s surrounding us
the more that it destroys
turn up the signal
wipe out the noise”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rch=nusrat