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Track of the Day - Phosphorescent: Ride On / Right On

Something I awoke to this morning ...

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Leonard at Eighty

Leonard Cohen is 80 years old.  He tells us that the time has come for him to return to an old vice and again smoke cigarettes.

Yesterday, he also released his new album, Popular Problems.  I think I like this one even better than his Old Ideas from 2012.  Here's one of the tracks, called "Almost Like The Blues":

Sia

Recently I started to update my list of best-liked TV series.  Friends and relatives always seem to be asking.  One of the most firmly-entrenched entries would have to be HBO's Six Feet Under, and I may well watch it again, perhaps when its ten-year-old anniversary occurs next year.  In contemplating this, the music of Sia came to mind.  Here, for old times' sake and for anyone who hasn't heard this before, is her "Breath Me" that was featured on the Six Feet Under soundtrack:


And here's another of my favorite performances, despite Sia's protestation about her voice:

Puddles the Clown - Puddles Pity Party

Spent a good deal of weekend time watching videos of Big Mike Greier, mostly covering pop songs in his sad-clown seven-foot-tall near-operatic-voice lonely-guy cabaret style of performance art.

 


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Low Rider

Friend Herm reminds me of this utterly terrific-ness from days past ...

Chromecast and V.J.

Just installed a Chromecast device on my TV, along with the requisite Google Cast extension for my MacBook Pro's Chrome browser.  Since my primary purpose was to play YouTube music videos, I cranked up one of my favorites for a test, Valerie June's year-old recording at the Seattle KEXP (a great public radio station, by the way) studio:

The video quality was excellent on the HDTV, even though I only used the middling quality option in the Google Cast settings.  The audio, likewise, was decent, running through an attached ZVOK.

I'm not so interested anymore in watching vids like this on tiny screens. At least use good headphones.