Lord have mercy but it's hot outside. And humid. And hazy. It basically feels like a hangover. It's going to be pushing 100 today here in Dallas. I hate summer. Hate it. If I won the lottery, and never had to work a day again in my life, I'd buy us a cottage on the Norwegian seacoast, or some other cool place, and we'd stay there until All Saints Day. I fear and loathe summer. I think air conditioning is mankind's greatest invention. Just so you know.
If we must have summer, though, at least there's good music to be enjoyed (as well as grilled meat, fresh salsa, rose' wine, and frosty vodka cocktails). What are you listening to this weekend? Me, it's my old favorite lads, the English Beat. Though the video is pretty bad, "Save It For Later" is one of the Greatest Songs Ever:
I've also been driving around today gathering Memorial Day backyard supplies, listening to the Specials at top volume:
Crazy Marc Caplan Eighties, baybee! Let's go tubing down the Tangipahoa River, and forget about the damn heat...
So, what are you listening to this summer weekend? What needs to be on everybody's summertime mix tape ("tape" -- heh)? Surely Jesus Alemany and Cubanismo. And Albita! I hope one day to hear Albita sing in free Havana. Love me some Cuban music:
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I'm still listening to the same thing for the last couple of months, Joe Jackson's fine new album, "Rain" (last summer it was Graham Parker's "Don't Tell Columbus"). I could only listen to Elvis Costello's new album "Momofuku" a couple of times, the only song I really like on it is "Turpentine". Oh yeah, and I surprised myself this past week by getting back into Devo's "Oh, No! It's Devo" and "Freedom of Choice" after a couple of years listening hiatus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE1KfORCHR8
I hate summer. Hate it. If I won the lottery, and never had to work a day again in my life, I'd buy us a cottage on the Norwegian seacoast, or some other cool place, and we'd stay there until All Saints Day. I fear and loathe summer. I think air conditioning is mankind's greatest invention.
Rod, move your family to New England. It's a lot closer than the Norwegian seacoast. And a lot cooler at times.
;)
You sure do have a Norwegian among you, from Oslo. I've been listening to Hank Williams Jr. sing about Dixie while working in the garden today, so if you're listening to Tre Sma Kinesere down there in Texas, it's a good trade-off.
Speaking of the Norwegian coast, the nicest part is between Oslo and Stavanger; George Kennan spent fifty or so Summers in a cabin outside Kristiansand with his Norwegian wife. New England is nice too, of course, but then there's those fjords...
Miserable heat here in Texas? Time to pull out the Mental as Anything albums. Seldom heard outside of Australia, the Mentals are the perfect pop antidote for soggy heat. I heartily recommend their "Creatures of Leisure" LP for quality beer drinking at dusk.
I'm a lurker here, but figured I was destined to post today.
Yesterday I enjoyed The English Beat at a free Earth Day concert on the banks of the Charles River.
They opened the set with "A Message To You Rudy". (One of The Specials was performing with them.)
The finished the set with "Save It for Later".
BTW It was a very comfortable 70 degrees.
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