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

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

That's really funny -- I was struck by that same song while listening to Go this morning, and so was my husband. I'd heard of Sarah Slean but never actually listened to her music before, and until I read your post I didn't realize she was the artist of "Lucky Me". So thanks for the pointer!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No problem! I'm glad to know someone in the world listens to the CBC besides me – and the people in the audience, of course.

So addicted.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Actually, this is really nerdy, but we got out of the car before I heard the end of the program, so I'm going to beg you to tell me -- WHO DID DAN PICK AS HIS ROOMMATE?! :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I DON'T REMEMBER! Odd, as I thought I listened all the way to the end to catch And Sometimes Y (alphabet nerd liek woah). Last I remember was calling that girl's friend to see if she was lying about country music. I must have been too busy looking up Sarah Slean on iTunes. ;)

Darn, that's going to bug me now... It actually reminded me a bit of my former roommate's and my search of a replacement roommate after one got engaged. Maybe we'd have had better luck if we went on national radio.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

And Sometimes Y was cool too -- I'd never heard it before. CBC seems to be coming up with a lot of quirky, fascinating shows lately. Pity their news reportage still makes me want to spit nails.

[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]

[rawrsie.livejournal.com]

Well if you want I can make it happen. Just email me or something! :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think I'm actually going to buy the CD as your girlfriend is rather enamoured by several songs on it and that makes the hard copy worthwhile. Or maybe she'll work her charms on you this afternoon. :) Thanks though!