Ruby Street

Ain't That Peculiar , Marvin Gaye; Tell Mama , Etta James; Dancing in the Street , Martha and the Vandellas; Papa Was A Rolling Stone , The Temptations; Get Up ... Sex Machine ; James Brown; Walking the Dog , Rufus Thomas; Green Onions , Booker T. and the M.G.s; Born Under a Bad Sign , Albert King; Move On Up , Curtis Mayfield; Rescue Me , Fontella Bass, etc, etc.

Sakura , Susumu Yokota ...

... The Trials of Van Occupanther by Midlake . These are real songs, despite the slightly nutty title.

... I thought the 'new' Beatles album, Love was supposed to be released on Monday (Nov 20th) but my local had it for sale yesterday. So, I bought it. It's a terrific work of imagining, or re-imagining if you want - just like any mix-tape or mash-up or sample-based work. I'm not sure it would mean much (matter much) to anyone who hadn't gotten into the originals, or at least grown up with them. Tho' one of the guys at my CD store, the youngest guy, waxed enthusiastic over it and I'm sure he wasn't born when this stuff was released. So the nostalgia factor isn't the only one (I have most of this material on an old kind of material called vinyl, anyway, some of it 'mono', if anyone knows what that is). The sound is sharp and you can hear things you've never heard before. Some of the originals are alternate takes as well. As I said, it's a mash-up, essentially. So if you hate mash-ups don't go there. I love 'em. It's nearly 8...

... a 1958 version of 'Autumn Leaves' by Miles Davis (well, Cannonball Adderley, strictly speaking) while thinking of Mark's falling leaves for Jacques Prévert ... Solarized by Sola Rosa