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MP3:VessantaraThanks for listening! This blog entry simply provides a feed for the iTunes podcast. If you'd like to get the full scoop about this song and many more, please visit the marble tea webthing at marbletea.com. Rock on.
*MP3:* Listening to Richard Brautigan Thanks for listening! This blog entry simply provides a feed for the iTunes podcast. If you'd like to get the full scoop about this song and many more, please visit the marble tea webthing at marbletea.com. Rock on.
MP3: Quebec City
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MP3: Carry A Lamp
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MP3: A Little Like Elvis
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MP3: You Are Like the River
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MP3: 1-2-3 Sew!
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MP3: Classic Cars (2.3 mb)
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MP3: Never Trust a Seagull in Penguin Pajamas (5.8 mb)
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MP3: A Great Moving Wave of Bliss (6.3 mb)
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MP3: One Snowflake for Your Thoughts (6.1 mb)
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MP3: Tryptophan (6.3 mb)
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MP3: Zombie Love (5.9 mb)
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MP3: Painting A Cat (Earwig Version) (4.3 mb)
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MP3: Meet Me at the Gulf of Mexico (iPhone Demo) (1.8 mb)
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MP3: Petri Dish Demo (2.7 mb)
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MP3: The Buddha or the Bomb (6.1 mb)
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MP3: Asleep & Dreaming (3.5 mb)
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MP3: Sunny Afternoon (4.2 mb)
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MP3: Travel Light on Your Road (2.9 mb)
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MP3: I'd Rather See You Than Avatar (2 mb)
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MP3: 9 Stories (2.2 mb)
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PS: There's a video with this song at the marble tea site....
MP3: Masti Love Theme (3.6 mb)
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MP3: Let It Snow (2 mb)
I love snow. Probably because, growing up in the Deep South, there wasn't a lot of it around. Oh sure, we managed a flurry most years, but accumulation was a rare and meager thing: one inch and the whole town shut down. White Christmas? I didn't know what that song was about until I was a teenager, since having snow on Christmas Day was never even a remote consideration.
Living in New Jersey these past nine years has allowed me to get to know snow better, and I still love it. Yes, it comes on big and brawny sometimes, and shoveling it is a royal pain, but as long as it's cold outside it might as well be pretty, says I. And it is, at least until it gets mucked up along the roadways with all the dirt and grime of life and travel. Ah, but we must take the black with the white. Always.
Here's a view out my window when I was recording yesterday:
And that brings us to this month's song. Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in July 1945 (in Hollywood of all places), it's always been one of my favorites of the Holiday Season. But that's kind of a shame really, that it's so closely associated with Christmas...there's no mention of that joyously celebrated day anywhere in the song, its authors were Jewish, and it was written in the middle of the Summer in Hollywood, CA for Pete's Sake!
As lauded as the these two songsmiths are, I know that I'm not the only person to think the opening couplet should have been written slightly differently, and I took the liberty to do just that. You're welcome.
So - while I present this version as a Christmas song, even though the tone is more somber than festive - remember that it's okay to sing it whenever snow may appear throughout the year. Even if you're noshing Gefilte fish by a pool under the bloody red sun of phantastic L.A.
Happy Holidays to you!
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MP3: Is Tom Hanks Giving You A Hard Time? (3.7 mb)
Thanksgiving came and went without so much as a burp, if by burp you mean song (and I do). This song was intended to be a song for that holiday, but well you know me and so it's moved along and become probably just what it wanted to be all along: not that at all. Oh there's still some Thanksgiving in it - we haven't finished all of our turkey, after all - but it's mostly Tom Hanks giving you a hard time, not me. Just let it go....
Coincidentally, if you believe in that sort of thing, Mr. Hanks appears on David Letterman tonight. I did not plan that.
IS TOM HANKS GIVING YOU A HARD TIME?
Tom Hanks is a movie star
Cadillac is a fancy car
The Pavilion was my favorite bar
But it's gone gone gone
Tom Hanks in a rocket ship
Section 25 From the Hip
Can't kiss if you got no lip
It's just gone gone gone
It's gone, all these things have gone
But I'm happy for the other things
That keep coming along
Bosom Buddies and a face like mine
Slice of pizza and a jug of wine
Skinny-dippin' back in '89
It's just gone gone gone
It's gone, all these things have gone
But I'm happy for the other things
That keep coming along
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Just let it go, let it go...
Ol' da Vinci never had a clue
That I may be more than quarter Jew
Or about the things you like to chew
He's just gone gone gone
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Just let it go, let it go...
Tom Hanks on a fated trip
Jungle dancing in a sexy slip
Give me one of those I'd like a sip
And we're gone gone gone
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