Most of the Time, Ani Di Franco

last night she picked one of my all times favourites movies, High Fidelity... it features Bob Dylan's Most of the Time, but Ani Di Franco's is her favourite version, I guess for the beginning: "It's serious shit now, I've got the banjo out!"

To a night well saved...!

Florence and the Machine, Dog Days Are Over - Taken by the Trees, Lost and Found

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run



I took myself out walking
by the evening I was running
I hadn't done this for a long while
My friends said cheer up
it was high time

Tom Waits, Jean Michel Basquiat and the Swagman

it's been a while, such a while... almost three months... it seems ages... well, I'm certainly a few years older since then, consumed to say the least, a feeling similar to Waits' sand paper vocal cords, rusty, painfully deep and haunting.

A lot has changed, but nothing was planned and, ultimately, the real change won't happen this time either.

The last post had Tom Waits in; it's only fair to start again (!) with Tom Waits. This song is part of the soundtrack of Basquiat, a decent movie - not completely original and daring though (it has actually a scene identical to Pollock, with the artist painting the canvas on the floor and walking all over it).
The soundtrack is good though, actually very good. Tom Traubert's Blues accompanies Basquiat in a nightwalk the day he's told Andy Warhol is dead; it also features bits of "A Walzing Matilda", the most popular (I've been just told) Aussie folk song, that features the Swagman, the foot traveller looking for work and going from farm to farm.

Well, I'm not going anywhere with this, but it's use(less)ful information; a bit like those British quiz programs...