After une petite fight with the #music streaming services and public pushback, Macklemore’s Hind Hall has been added, stream, download, you know what to do; all proceeds go to #UNRWA to help Palestine:
Heard Kalkadoon Man on ABC classic this morning, and I love it. It sounds really familiar, but I can’t pick what it reminds me of. Can anyone help me out? #music
So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has been placed under a court-ordered conservatorship as a result of his dementia. Rolling Stone reports that his publicist/manager and business manager will be in charge of his personal and medical affairs, and that his children will be consulted on all major healthcare decisions. [Story may be paywalled]
I might skip tomorrow, but this evening I had enough energy to tackle two more ukulele sheets:
"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley (1917) is an old jazz standard and still played today, so perhaps it doesn't matter that I couldn't find Cliff's version online (I have the album it's on, but nobody seems to have YouTubed it).
I had a nice long convo with a neighbor yesterday, and one of the things we talked about was my music. The way I described it reminded him of the first electronic music soundtrack for a feature film, that of Forbidden Planet in 1956.
Inspired by a thing I saw on Reddit earlier today, I’m going to try listening to more complete albums this year. Maybe daily? We’ll see how it shakes out.
#AnAlbumADay 130/366: Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police
I think “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” is the only thing I’ve ever heard off of this one; it was certainly inescapable on the radio and MTV. Time to see if there’s anything else interesting here…