It's about time...

Hooray!!! The Specials 30th Anniversary Celebrations!

Coming Home

For two months now I've been listening to K.D. Lang's Watershed. I can't even begin to describe the little flutter within me when I hear the opening strings of Coming Home. The magic of music, right?

Well, just a few minutes ago I received a phone call from D with the wonderful news that she's coming home! Magic! Flutter! My dearest friend, I am so happy for you! Yay!

I couldn't help myself, this is too perfect.

Coming Home {Lang/Pitch}

oh sweet sorrow
let's write the book
tomorrow

for I caught a glimpse
been obsessed with it
ever since

my eyes no longer weak amongst the clarity that you pronounce in me

won
you have won
my illumination has begun

I'm happily indifferent to the ones who have consistently been wrong
and all that once confined us like minutiae at its finest now is gone

oh sweet sorrow
let's write the book
tomorrow

my eyes no longer weak amongst the clarity that you pronounce in me
I'm happily indifferent to the ones who have consistently been wrong
and all that once confined us like minutiae at its finest now is gone

and all that lies before me like the asphalt lures me forward towards home

home
coming home

all kinds of everything

sunshine and holidays
postcards to write
budding trees
autumn leaves
a snowflake or two

all kinds of everything
remind me of you.


By Dana. All Kinds of Everything won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest.

Our lips are sealed...

The Specials, Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, The Lightning Seeds -- some of my favorite music.


Terry Hall is the common thread.

Roman Hol{l}iday

Roman Holliday. 1983. Happy high school days.

Roman Holiday. 1953. Gregory Peck. Audrey Hepburn. Eddie Albert. Happy Vespa.

This post was inspired, in part, by the rediscovery of a long-lost favorite on wexford girl.

Bebel Gilberto performing at Bimbo's 365

C, Bebel is playing 2 blocks away tonite, at swanky Bimbo's 365 club, at the bottom of the hill from my apartment.

Give a listen, to those not yet touched by her smooth bossa nova, do you speak Portuguese?

(Actually, I didn't score tix, but it's a thrill that she's performing only 2 blocks down the hill on Columbus Avenue!!!)

Bio: At age nine, Bebel performed with her mother and legendary Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz at a Jazz festival in New York's Carnegie Hall. Back in Brazil Bebel performed and recorded in the soundtrack of the children's musical 'Os Saltimbancos' written by Sergio Bardotti and Chico Buarque which created a major impact. Later on Bebel joined an experimental theatrical group and was a member of the founding team of the performance space 'Circo Voador' (Flying Circus) at Ipanema Beach. In this group she met singer/songwriter Cazuza, who became a close friend and soon a major rock star in Brazil during the '80s-2007.