Last Week of Summer № 7 ● Music | Rae & Christian ft. Veba Swan Song (For a Nation)

Random thoughts. Random remembrances. Yes, what was that song? “Northern.” “Soul.” “Northern Soul”? Can hear it. Can see putting the CD in a player. The light in the room was… yes, there were two possible locations with that light. Actually, just one. So the year must’ve been 1996? No. Later. 1997? Breathing. Something to do with breathing… Exhale? Swan? A name “Rae”? What was the other one? “Christian”?

Artist/s: Rae & Christian, Veba

Album: Northern Sulphuric Soul

Year: 1998

Song: Swan Song (For a Nation)

So close!

Inhale.

Next summer is only nine months away.

And there is always the equator and the southern hemisphere.

Last Week of Summer № 6 ● Entertainment | Cramming it!

Bill Hicks – Mandatory Marijuana | The Streets – The Irony of It All | Lil Kim feat. Mr. Cheeks – The Jump Off | Richard Pryor – First Black President | Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop – the “Amen Break” | Eddie Murphy – Italians & Rocky | Margaret Cho – Beautiful | Zoe Jakes - Tribal Fusion Belly Dance

Last Week of Summer № 5 ● Music | Feel Good Hit of the Summer courtesy of Queens of the Stone Age

It’s the last week of summer. It’s Friday. Do I really need to add more?

 

Last Week of Summer № 4 ● Music | Luscious Jackson Naked Eye

What ever happened to…? Named after a basketball player active in the 60s, they quietly reactivated in 2011. Matthew Perpetua wrote about it in February 2012. Now, that is definitely a quiet reunion – 2011 and we hear about it in big music press in 2012?! Rockers! In true fashion of current times, and to be honest very much in line with the ethos they have always exuded, Luscious Jackson released their new single “Are you ready?” via internet and bypassed dealing with a music label. Very luscious! This is how I got hooked:

Last Week of Summer № 3 ● Music to the Rescue | So the summer romance is over? Cee Lo has the remedy.

Cee Lo Green with Purrfect
Portrait by Art Streiber

There is a lovely, i.e.censored, version of this song that Cee Lo Green also performed live
on Jools Holland’s show, but the original is just that more satisfying.

 

Last Week of Summer № 2 ● Movies on Music | Human Traffic’s Koop – the Ultimate Vinyl Pusher

Now let’s perk up a bit. It’s not over yet, and Tuesday is a prelude to Friday night, yeah?

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New record anyone?

Yes, know what you are getting.

Know the artistic economics of the goods.

Know their high potential to corrupt.

Last Week of Summer № 1 ● Music | Cibo Matto Sugar Water

According to the calendar, September 22^nd is the first day of autumn north of the equator,

but to all intents and purposes, last week of August is the last week of summer.

If the academic year hasn’t started for you already, by September 1^st there will be no mistaking that summer play is over –

it’s school time. New classes. New teachers. New students. It’s just different.

If you work at a place where it’s all about the Quarters and Fiscal Years, September 1^st marks another change.

If you live north of the ~45-degree latitude, the weather would typically start to change in an unmistakable way.

It might start slowly. Or not.

So here is № 1 for the last week of summer.  A week of something-somethings to ease into the season change.

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In Italian, it is crazy food, but the ingredients were two New York City-based Japanese expatriates – Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori (the latter was the first voice of Gorillaz’ Noodle). No longer together, but Yuka was nicely Zen at the time of disbanding –

“Cibo Matto broke up, because it was time. We felt the need to move to the next step. It was a healthy decision, though it was sad at the same time. Things just need to grow out of things sometimes.”

Have a mellow mid-90s start to the week J