4 Days to Go

I went to B'ham again today for orientation into the job. There is a christmas fair in victoria square so I am hoping to get mom another novelty christmas ornament, I seem to get her one every year and this shouldn't be the exception. Our tree must be looking quite schizo, unless the theme is something old, something new, something borrowed, something glued lol. If I recall, 2005 was a porcelain globe from Amsterdam. 2006 was a crystal snowflake from Montreal. I guess one for every christmas I am away from.

I am feeling a bit better, I spoke to my dad about some worries I had.

Today's song of the day is a tie between Elton John's Your Song, Blackstreet's No Diggity and Frank Sinatra's Moon River. Yes. We, today, shall cross music in all its marvellous representations of social strata and culture. Oh and sexual orientation.
I listened to the Klaxon's version of ol EJ, and I find it a lot more palatable because its not him singing it. I have peace, I do not have nicole kidman flashing her glittery knockers at me, or a dead princess Di walking over fields of grass. Bazz Luhrman bastardized a lot of good songs in moulin rouge and I can't get that bleeding giant elephant out of my head. I have mixed feeling about cover versions and songs that tie into movies; The Klaxons, as I have demonstrated, have just saved elton from my bin, but screwing with the beatles and frank sinatra is blasphemy. NO ONE should do covers of sinatra. Every performer attempting a cover should march out there and before even breathing, apologise. Imitation is NOT the sincerest form of flattery when the original artist is dead and the backstreet boys come back with another flipping version of unchained melody.

If it all comes to naught, something old school. No one is too cool to throw away a whole genre of music, even if its pop. There are some hip hop songs out there that are not about niggas, hos and yo momma. Bob marley is cool. He didn't plug anyone's lungs full of lead.

Blackstreet : No Diggity