Sing it with me now...

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Cornflake Girl




"Never was a cornflake girl
Thought that was a good solution
Hangin' with the raisin girls
She's gone to the other side
Givin' us a yo heave ho"

Tori Amos, "Cornflake Girl" from the album, "Under the Pink"

I have no idea what those lyrics mean. But I'll call it a synchronicity that it popped up on my iPod random play list as I waited for my MARTA train at the Candler Park Station. Why would that be synchronicitous? Because most days one can smell the aroma of the Edwards Baking Company just across the tracks from the station. Smells exactly like the entire city of Battle Creek, Michigan, home of the Kellogg's Company, oh, and my birthplace.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Lush Life




"I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life...
From jazz and cocktails."

Billy Strayhorn "Lush Life", 1949

I have the Queen Latifah and the Ella Fitzgerald versions of this song but I'll listen to just about anyone's version. A little scat never hurt anyone! Everyone's done a remake of this song so check em' all out from John Coultrane and Johnny Hartman to Sarah Vaughn. What's not to love?