Ivy - Long Distance (2000)

So good, especially on a lazy, lonesome, rainy day as this. Think smooth, melodic pop with a certain Nineties flavor. (And nevermind that the Nineties were musically horrible; Ivy got it right.)

I don't much update this page these days; I rather forgot I had it for a while. Hello, any followers I may have here!

"Weird Al" Yankovic - First World Problems

Pixies tribute, from 2014's Mandatory Fun.

Russell Morris - The Real Thing (via Gadget)

via Jasmine — credited to "VectorBelly.com"

From the pages of MAD: IF LIBRARIES SOLD ADVERTISING SPACE

Somebody in greater Facebookland finally posted this, and I'm sticking it here for reference. Sadly, it omits both the credits and some more "books", mostly on the right. But, as it happens, I also found my physical copy of this, so I will list the omissions here as I have them in The MAD Bathroom Companion; the Mother Load. Otherwise, click the image to enlarge.

Volume Sales Dept.
Today, all over the country, libraries are closing due to a lack of funds. MAD suggests a way to make up those deficits, mainly, there'd be plenty of money...

IF LIBRARIES SOLD ADVERTISING SPACE

Artist: Bob Clarke
Writer: William Garvin



Titles omitted from the image:

the old man and the Seagram's 7 Crown
The Spy Who Came in From the COLD POWER
Strange (Fruit of the Loom)
The Last Angry MANISCHEWITZ
Anna and the <Chun King> of Siam
FOR WHOM THE Bell ☏ System TOLLS
THE COUNT OF MONTE Crisco
THE lemon fresh JOY detergent OF SEX

Jason Crest - Black Mass

As long as I'm posting songs that I actually uploaded, the season is exactly right for this record. Absolutely nothing else Jason Crest ever did sounded remotely like this. In fact, absolutely nothing else anybody has done sounds like this.

Happy Halloween.

Joni Mitchell - Trouble Child → Twisted

I just discovered that I had actually uploaded this to the 'Tube about three years ago (almost to the day) and left it unlisted. Timeless classic, as with all of Court & Spark.

Sending this one out to Amber.

Steve Goodman - Election Year Rag

"The loser is always us."

An outtake from the late, great, Chicago-based singer-songwriter best known for penning "City of New Orleans". I have a low-digital-fidelity recording of him performing the song solo on XRT — something I forgot I had until today, when, in the midst of the stormy political climate around me, the above lyric surfaced from whichever crevice of my mind it was inhabiting. Turns out it extends beyond that every fourth year.....