ITunes

Latest version of ITunes, for those of you using it, includes the ability to get album art from the ITunes store whether or not you bought the music from there to begin with.

Sweet.

I'll update this once I discover how well it works.

Weird factoid

Browsing the Wikipedia, which should be a euphemism for something...I came across this....and no, not my computer keyboard.

Death Cab for Cutie is an American rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band takes its name from a satirical song performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla. The song was also performed in a striptease act in The Beatles's film Magical Mystery Tour.

Note the Beatles reference in the end. My memories of MMT, the movie are of me as a child thinking it was too weird, though I liked the music.

D'Artagnan..waaaay after the fact

Just struck me, as the song came up in my random shuffle, that D'Artagnan was the main character in The Three Musketeers (a movie I saw, I think, after our original comments on Themeless, The New Black). I went back and checked out our comments. It appears that Mixdorf had already discovered the connection.

This is just a factual correction, then. Mixdorf mentions that D'Artagnan "was the principle character of The Three Musketeers, but not an actual musketeer himself." On the contrary, in both the fictionalized account and in real history, D'Artagnan was, in fact, very much a Musketeer-their captain, even.

Thursday's Slow (Hand) Commute

"Sunshine of your Love," Cream
"Promises," EC
"Pretending," EC

Better Choices

So, in searching for the title and artists for the two crappy Superman songs, it stuck me how many better Superman songs (or songs that simply mention Superman) there are out there.

"Waitin' for a Superman," Flaming Lips
"Superman's Song," Crash Test Dummies
"Superman," REM
"Fire Escape," Fastball (need to listen to that album again)
"Sunshine Superman," Donovan

I know there are more. Got any?

Also, I came across a reference to one that potentially could have been included on Volume 9. It seems Iron and Wine have covered Flaming Lips "Waitin' for a Superman." Actually that song almost made the cut anyway. I have a version of it, also by Flaming Lips, that is just piano and vocals.

Clark Kent's Monday Commute

"Superman," Five for Fighting
"Kryptonite," Three Doors Down
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim," Jim Croce

Hmmm. Those first two were back-to-back on Cities 97. Blech. Why must I suffer for my art?

Monday Commute's Cheatin' Heart

"Hey Joe," Jimi Hendrix
"Always the Last to Know, " Del Amitri
"Take a Letter, Maria," R.B. Greaves

(Finding a common thread through three songs on the way to work is easier than it seems it should be.)

Thank God--It's the Friday Commute

"My Sweet Lord," George Harrison
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (Rattle and Hum version, U2
"Is This Love," Bob Marley.