If a lifetime can be likened to a day, then this is Happy Hour!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack
From that new Norah Jones CD I bought... a song about the wages o' sin:
Miriam That's such a pretty name I'm gonna say it when I make you cry Miriam You know you done me wrong I'm gonna smile when you say goodbye
Now I'm not the jealous type Never been the killing kind But you know I know what you did So don't put up a fight
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Miriam
You know I know you done me wrong
I'm gonna smile when you say goodbye
You know you done me wrong
I'm gonna smile whenI take your life
Mmmm...
I fuckin' LOVE that.
Update, much later that same day: Here's a professional review of the album. An excerpt:
Norah Jones is rich, beautiful and has one of the most gorgeous voices
in popular music. None of that makes her immune to a broken heart.
Sad for her, good for us. Jones channeled her hurt into a
collaboration with Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton with 12 reflections on
love gone wrong.
It’s no pick-me-up, obviously. But Jones does
more than wallow. She’s angry, defiant, wounded, all-too-willing to slip
back into a bad thing and even entertains a murder fantasy — in short,
the full range of emotions that anyone feels when a serious relationship
ends.
This album might could be the sleeper in the six new additions to my collection. I find myself listening to it a lot and indulging... once again... in murder fantasies along with Ms. Jones. Fantasies. Key word, that... there's no need to alert the authorities.
Did you know that Sweet, Sweet Connie ran for Mayor of Little Rock once upon a time in the 90s? No. Seriously -- she did. Tried to run for Congress, too, and lost 2 races for the City Board of Directors. She lost the mayoral race to the incumbent after getting a DWI, but she got a healthy number of votes!
Yikes.
ReplyDeleteWe gotta get you some Grand Funk Railroad, stat!
An American Band.
DeleteShe has the most compelling voice.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Sweet, Sweet Connie ran for Mayor of Little Rock once upon a time in the 90s? No. Seriously -- she did. Tried to run for Congress, too, and lost 2 races for the City Board of Directors. She lost the mayoral race to the incumbent after getting a DWI, but she got a healthy number of votes!
I didn't know all that. But SSC would have gotten MY vote, too. ;-)
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