Honestly warm sunshine in the morning in San Francisco is so fantastic an event it makes me forget I love the fog. The city erupts with copious amounts of irresponsibility when the sun shines bright. People freak deep in their San Francisco conditioned to be cold hearts when they are awoken so warmed by sunshine through the window that they are sweating. Here in this city by the ocean and the bay we can go outside all year and hike and play (with coats and hats and rain gear, it is really never too cold to play…even if you have to wear earmuffs on the tennis court.) But, it is rarely warm enough to lay on dry grass comfortably in the park without three hoodies. So when it is honestly warm – out comes the blunt and the 40 of Miller HighLife (or perhaps the edibles and a bottle of sparkling rose) and with it out goes the to do list…there will be a foggy chilly day for that.
But with that celebration and warmth inspired invincibility I always feel this tinge of sadness, perhaps it is the massive amount of Libra in my chart that makes me need to give all things their due..but i can’t lounge in the glory of the sun without giving sadness its due….and today i found the perfect duo..to sit on the back deck and do laundry by.
oh any trick in the book….Donovan done some massive justice in an Apple Scruffs re-rub. xo
and Ambassadeurs Unofficial remix of Feist’s ‘The Water’ – this is soooooo lovely – perfect dash of longing on a sunny day.
And happy birthday Sun Ra….brother from the stars.
love you.
~m
Raul Seixas! Yes Sir Brother! Shirley Brown belts it!
April 30, 2012
Okay.
Hands down I am in love today.
With these two songs.
Over and Over on repeat.
Sunshine. Windows. Playing Loud. Raul Seixas Metamorfose Ambulante! ….
And then this Apple Scruffs Edit of the Shirely Brown Belter has got me singing louder than the hoover roars.
sunshine love.
xo
~m
rainy day songs in the letter B…almost.
April 10, 2012
When it rains I just wanna sit inside drink tea smoke roll ups and run amok through the records. This is what happened…minus the roll ups. Enjoy.
For some reason this song makes me want to jump in huge puddles and splash the passers by.
Black Sabbath – Hand of Doom
This tastes like smokey tea.
Really the Blues – Bechet
Oh. dear. Billie, it cannot be a rainy day without you.
Come Rain or Come Shine – Billie
(there is a B here. and One needs Gypsys in the rain.)
Gypsy Stepper – zeB the spy from Cairo
(lost the B….but it is Uriah Heep…weird wizzard lovers sweetly singing about rain.)
Rain – Uriah Heep
okay. thanks. love you. enjoy the rain.
m
Back in 1982, 70-year-old May Booker wrote to the BBC expressing her admiration for Thin Lizzy and saying how lovely it would be if she could perform with them playing keyboards…and this is what happened…nothing short of awesome.
Thin Lizzy – Hollywood
Power to the People!
Woodie Guthrie & Stickypod vs. Scott Walker Blazin Fascists (Matt Haze & U9Lift Pullup)
love.
~m
Rain…New Order, Craig Mack and Al Green.
March 14, 2012
Thankful for the rain that washed San Francisco today. Sent me into soft space, calmed the nerves and let me finish a book.
On my way home from dropping my son off at school I ducked out of the rain for coffee and on the turntable was spinning round New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies. How I love that album. Rain, an over priced molassas-guiness-pear donut to sweeten my coffee and unmistakable grey wet sunshine of New Order.
Your Silent Face
The Village
But as the day wore on and the rain fall continued I had to shake myself free of the blanket of calm give a little piece of my mind to the administration at my son’s school for some classroom craziness. The need for clear slow diction and good metaphor sent me to my hero. Craig Mack. best word maker-uper ever!
“slabbbajabba dinosaur.”
Funk Wit Da Style
And now its late and this is what I so happily have landed upon. Sweet Rain Dreams.
AL GREEN “SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL” (KING MOST REDIRECTION)
love
megan
Mr. Smalls hope the sun is shinning someplace upon ya. Wish you were still here with us. I would like to know what you’d say today. Peace.
Another Day another Struggle
And this Buffalo!
Rock hard in the sunshine this stuff is hawtasstuff!!!!
Suzy Sunshine
Dead Forever
(this is so good can’t stop playing it! – need to find it on vinyl!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Love everyday – each one!
~m
cozy in the winter summer with Nina Simone and Feeding People.
February 18, 2012
Sometimes San Francisco sends you for a doozey confusey. Warm sunshine day will find you in a little bright skirt with tights and boots, a tank top and a jacket and little bisty sunkiss on the nose and shoulders…then night comes along and the heat gets put on the hoodies come out….and it sounds a little like Nina Simone
and feels a little like this….
Feeding People – Summertime Dear
luvs
~m
valentine’s eve bobby d, gil scott-heron, amy winehouse whiskey and left over halloween candy.
February 13, 2012
Valentine’s eve.
San Francisco is damp and beautiful. The whiskey is warm. The candy is a little dated. And love is rolling on like the consistently inconsistent weather in this town.
1st off Gil Scott-Heron.
Was reminded of this song today from Bob Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind. His old man voice slays it perfect like a sweet pommello.
Make you feel my love
Adele nails it.
But, Neil Diamond covers it like the champ he is.
amy and tony <3
just amy
nuff and night.
xo
~m
JPOD, the 5 blind boys & graditude in the year of the dragon!
February 9, 2012
I am lock stock and buckshot smokehouse pheasant in love with this.
the five blind boys of alabama – deep river (JPOD remix)
nuff said.
FRIDAY 2/10 check JPOD @4am! see ya there!
And I luckily I was love struck at the most best moment …. cause running round my head on repeat due to a moment in the sun and a loud truck stereo was this… its the one with lyrics – just in case.
xo
~m
RIP Etta & and lets us celebrate you the rain and sad love songs.
January 20, 2012
Etta James. How your voice has soothed my heart many a times. Thank you for the invitation to feel and get wrapped all up in the blanket of love’s hopes and falls.
The rain is finally falling here in San Francisco. Not quite hard enough to wash away the massive piles of barf outside my front door, the sound of its emergence accompanied by a rattling shopping cart and bits of song awoke me at 4 this morning…or all the poop on the sidewalk. San Francisco, to your core you are a city of fair and graceful beauty, intelligence and soft light snuggled up and fed by a deep dark underbelly of shabbiness, loneliness and transient carelessness… looking out the window at long neede rain in it seems a perfect day to celebrate Etta James and a few other sad love songs…which fate dropped in my inbox.
Etta James….so many songs to celebrate but these are my favourites:
Come Rain or Come Shine
Sunday Kind of Love
oh etta. oh <3
If you want me to stay.
landed in the inbox.
Stephen Marley – Someone to love
Bambounou – Fake Jake (128)
