"It's hot - damn hot!"
Nov. 2nd, 2009 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pathology_docActually it's 22 degrees (Celsius!) and 50% humidity or so, a far cry from a couple of weeks ago when I could rely faithfully on needing an electric blanket, warm pyjamas and bedsocks every night.
Oh, and it's nearly 10pm.
What better way to pass the time until sleep lies heavily upon my upper lids than to create a music post? Mostly of stuff I've been playing randomly while I wait for literary inspiration to kick in (no, I'm not doing NaNo this year - too much else on my plate).
First up, The Wallflowers - if one Dylan is pretty good, two must be better; yes? Jakob Dylan decided (like so many 60s legends' sons) to try to take up his father's mantle, and while he'll never be the living legend that Bob is, I thought he did a pretty good job with this. He also did pretty well with this soundtrack cover - even better, IMO, than its creator, who is a living legend.
That is not to say that the Wallflowers or their legendary-by-descent (maybe) lead singer can hold a candle to Bowie in general; I think they can't, except on that one very good day. He's a cut above most, even if some of his best known works are tragic, depressing or just plain weird (Warning, potential body horror/nightmare fuel from 2:18 to 2:26 and again from 3:25; but oddly enough, safe for work).
Of course just after I'd finished watching the last one, YouTube threw this up as a suggestion. I've always loved the song, melody-wise, and the filmclip for its imagery (although if the posted comments are right, I've only just discovered what the song's actually about and whoops, I used to like this song when I was twelve? *coughs nervously*). And that leads on to Always the Sun, which as far as I can remember was their swansong, or at least the last I ever heard of them on Australian radio.
And with the title of that song increasingly representing the weather these days, that seems like a pretty good point at which to wrap up. Goodnight, all.
Oh, alright. Encore. Note: Herpetophobics should give watching the clip a miss and just enjoy the audio. Don't say you weren't warned.
Oh, and it's nearly 10pm.
What better way to pass the time until sleep lies heavily upon my upper lids than to create a music post? Mostly of stuff I've been playing randomly while I wait for literary inspiration to kick in (no, I'm not doing NaNo this year - too much else on my plate).
First up, The Wallflowers - if one Dylan is pretty good, two must be better; yes? Jakob Dylan decided (like so many 60s legends' sons) to try to take up his father's mantle, and while he'll never be the living legend that Bob is, I thought he did a pretty good job with this. He also did pretty well with this soundtrack cover - even better, IMO, than its creator, who is a living legend.
That is not to say that the Wallflowers or their legendary-by-descent (maybe) lead singer can hold a candle to Bowie in general; I think they can't, except on that one very good day. He's a cut above most, even if some of his best known works are tragic, depressing or just plain weird (Warning, potential body horror/nightmare fuel from 2:18 to 2:26 and again from 3:25; but oddly enough, safe for work).
Of course just after I'd finished watching the last one, YouTube threw this up as a suggestion. I've always loved the song, melody-wise, and the filmclip for its imagery (although if the posted comments are right, I've only just discovered what the song's actually about and whoops, I used to like this song when I was twelve? *coughs nervously*). And that leads on to Always the Sun, which as far as I can remember was their swansong, or at least the last I ever heard of them on Australian radio.
And with the title of that song increasingly representing the weather these days, that seems like a pretty good point at which to wrap up. Goodnight, all.
Oh, alright. Encore. Note: Herpetophobics should give watching the clip a miss and just enjoy the audio. Don't say you weren't warned.