Category: Song of the Day
Guest Post by Fluffy: Rachel Baldwin – Spirit
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy, he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to rake the leaves. The Food Guy hates raking leaves because it is boring. He said,...
Christopher James – It’s Neat to be Alive (Live Life à la Mode)
1954: Eisenhower is in the White House, the McCarthy hearings begin, an IBM computer translates sixty phrases from Russian into English, a de Havilland Comet succumbs to metal fatigue and disintegrates in mid-flight, Bill Haley and the Comets record 'Rock Around the...
David Nance Group – Little Bit of Rain
The squatting tenant men nodded and wondered and drew figures in the dust, and yes, they knew, God knows. If the dust only wouldn't fly. If the top would only stay on the soil, it might not be so bad. -- from Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 'Little Bit of Rain,' by...
Mt. Meru – Rose Street
On the very day of their departure Regine in all haste leaves her apartment in Nybrogade and ventures out into town in the hope of meeting her old love. And, as though the final gesture of a generous Providence toward these two persons whose life histories are so...
Meeping – Ultimatum
Sam: Listen to some reason. I don't like you. You don't like me. So, why don't you just let us disappear?Redford: Well, it's tempting, but we can't allow it.Sam: Do not... cross... this... stick.Redford: You’re doomed, Shakusky.-- from Moonrise Kingdom, directed by...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Rainsticks – Cut the Corners
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and then he puts it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to help the Food Lady clean up her office and sort out all of her computer...
Low Ceilings – Internet Forever
Internet access is a basic human right. The words of my friend -- a charter member of the Wokenoscenti, those who have been placed on this Earth to provide the rest of us with the correct opinion on every social issue -- was a Statement of Fact, engraved on a stone...
The Soods – Oh, Mersey Days
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self... Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival. -- Mikhail Bakhtin We are each the weighted average of every person who...
Six Songs for a Better Friday
Without government intervention, 90 percent of independent clubs don’t believe they can survive another six months of coronavirus shutdown. It could cause a near extinction of small music venues, said Jim DeRogatis, music critic and co-host of the nationally...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Crowded Shoulders – No Mystery
When I get up in the morning I go straight back to bed again. I feel best in the evening, the moment I dowse the candle... Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat....
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