A Substandard Page and an Excellent Song

[tealin]

Yesterday's Sketchbook - Drawn while waiting for it to be 8:00 because I got where I was going early ... Notes on Paul Kidby's Watch uniforms, because they rock, and then some more attempts at Angua, including one ugly one made even more ugly by my budging of the scanner.

I heard 'Lucky Me' by Sarah Slean on this morning's rerun of Go on the CBC and was instantly, utterly entranced. It was a year ago I was introduced to 'Eli the Barrow Boy' and I'd reached the point of despairing at ever finding another instantly addictive song, but this! This is something. She's got practically her whole repertoire on iTunes* but alas, none of it has knocked me over the head like this song. I did eventually find her MySpace where you can hear the entire song in its live version which is almost exactly what was on the radio this morning. I feel like I haven't done anything all day except listen to this song.

*Apparently the album Orphan Music is only available on iTunes Canada? I want to get the string quartet version but I can't have an iTunes account because of my unusual credit card. Hey Rawrsie? :D

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah ... all the same, I miss CBC news when I go down to the states and can't find anyone to tell me what's happening in a calm, collected, emotionally detached way. The CBC seems to wear its agenda on its sleeve until you're hemmed in by CNN, NPR, and Fox; then it looks like the pinnacle of impartiality.

I recently discovered that most of their Radio-4-like shows are on Sunday morning, so of course I always miss them... grr. Can't they trade places with DNTO, which always takes up prime Saturday chore time, and which I can't stand? (Because it's all about me, obviously.) Still, they get points for Y and Quirks & Quarks, and Ideas (which has changed my entire perspective on life and the world at least twice), which probably tips the balance against Wiretap which is so amusingly, hilariously trying to be NPR's This American Life.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Ideas (which has changed my entire perspective on life and the world at least twice)

Whoa, that's pretty impressive. Which shows, may I ask?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

A Short History of Progress, the 2004 Massey Lecture, and The Scapegoat, on the ideas of philosopher/sociologist/theologist/literary critic/none-of-the-above René Girard. [points at icon]