“Tu t’laisses aller” by Charles Aznavour

Screencaps from Un femme est un femme (1961).

As far as holidays go, the end of the year is full of build up and burn out. We’re getting ready for our New Year’s Eve soirée and burning CDs for our guests. Here’s a sample of the playlist for the evening.

“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” by The Housemartins

I love this version of this song. I can’t get enough of it. Oh yeah. Repeat.

“Air Travel” by Chris Farlowe

“Tired of Trying, Bored with Lying, Scared of Dying” by Manfred Mann


Pretty much how I feel right now.

Here’s a list of my favorite blue-eyed soul singers. I love music that’s boiled down to the simplest form while still retaining the essence of emotion and soul.


1. The Spencer Davis Group (Steve Winwood)


2. Paul Weller


3. The Animals (Eric Burdon)


4. Dusty Springfield


5. The Yardbirds (Keith Relf)

Paul Jones singing “I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Boy” from Privilege. A very cheeky performance. I should be sleeping, but I just had to watch this video again to ease my research paper blues.

I could listen to this endlessly.

Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon)
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, reflected from the moon’s surface via earth–moon–earth radio transmission. Read more and listen to Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth piece here.

A player piano renders the familiar strains of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, but the melody contains errors, missing notes, incomplete phrases. Without a human hand to perform these mistakes, one can only surmise that the score has been somehow nibbled at, like a moth-eaten sweater. Indeed, the piano in Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) (2007) plays a tune that has undergone a series of absurd and poetic transformations. Beethoven’s notes (strictly speaking, their letter names) were translated into Morse code, then transmitted via radio to bounce off the surface of the moon. The returning signal was reconstituted as a musical score and the piano programmed accordingly. Though the tune is instantly recognizable, such transmutations, along with the player piano’s mechanized rendition, quash the sonata’s romantic nuances. The degradation has occurred in the void between earth and moon, but the enduring image is that of the missing notes abandoned on the moon’s surface, echoing through its craters and serenading unknown life forms. (via)

littlepotato: carl sagan, a glorious dawn. this is worth your time, sincerely.

Song of the Day: “A Legal Matter” by The Who

Song of the day: “Zoot Suit” by The High Numbers (The Who)