Looking good's a state of mind

This is a perennial favorite, and one that I hadn't thought of for some time until today, the roots of which spread deeply and unexpectedly.

See, a Swedish singer-songwriter-rapper turned Londoner (with a visual cameo in a Big Audio Dynamite video) scores a worldwide hit, gets robbed (literally) of a Grammy, records, performs and collaborates around the globe, and lands in indie-darling heaven (hell), file under Reinvention (but not).

I just think this is a great song. I scored a used copy of the CD and hung onto it for quite some time but eventually ditched it in some move or other. Nonetheless, I'm going to check out the recent outing, The Cherry Thing, toute suite.



And the performance in the clip is rad if only because she's strutting and fronting seven months pregnant on TOTP.

On Repeat: Bird upon the wires

And I never lost one minute of sleeping

[lyrics redacted]

Happy Birthday 2 U


Prince - Head 1986 by Melanie_Greene

We’ll take the road that leads down to the waterside

And set out on the journey.



Continued unbidden treasures from the soulful (in more ways than one) Gerry Rafferty.

You really pick me up

I discovered new favorite driving-around-in-and-all-over-LA music, and I didn't even have to bring cds to play in the rental car (which I didn't).

HOT 92.3 OLD SCHOOL did the job, and did it well.

And, thanks to this track, I discovered what that DOING! (or DOING-oing-oing) funk sound is.

I've got one in my Amazon Wish List right...now.

There's someone on your shoulder

On the way to becoming the most re-posted track on this blog, when I hear it, as I did this morning when it came up on shuffle, I dearly wish I could do this on my birthday this year, too.

Around, around, around, around, around

Sister Birthday Edition.

In my Blakean year

So on I go.

It's not so simple as I try to wish. But then again, what is?

Adam. MCA.

beastie boys i don't know from jack on Vimeo.