Movement

"I walked from the blinding sunshine into the chill, air-conditioned gloom of the studio building. A shadowy figure was roused from a couch. He ambled towad us with an unfortunate air. He was an American who had been hired as second engineer for our sessions. Despite the lack of light in the lounge, he was wearing mirrored aviators. As we came face-to-face, he offered his introduction: 'My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades,' quoting a maddeningly catchy Timbuk 3 single from years before. He accompanied this with that twin finger-click and pointing gesture that you last saw executed by the Fonz on Happy Days. I fired him on the spot. I hadn't come to Barbados to fool around.
(Elvis Costello, taken from the insert booklet for Kojak Variety)

I left the record store with Elvis Costello's King of America. "Indoor Fireworks"? Such an amazing song. "We play these parlour games. We play at make believe when we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave. Everybody loves a happy ending, but we don't even try. We go straight past pretending to the part where everybody loves to cry. Indoor fireworks can still burn your fingers."

I also left the record store with The Gram Parsons Anthology because "Hot Burrito #1" tears my heart out and I needed to have a copy of it in my collection. When I saw that Gram's cover of the BeeGee's "To Love Somebody" sent me over the edge and I more than willingly spent over $30 on the set. The soul in that track is above and beyond all. It makes my heart fly.

Guerilla Philanthropy

I think this is one of the greatest things ever.

Random 1

I wish the world was filled with that.