Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Neener-neener weather

It's Tuesday already/only?  At 6:00 AM, dark, wet, and pockets of foggish mist.  The weather forecast has been playing neener-neener with the promised sunshine again this week, with each day's forecast pushing it out one more day and substituting another day of rain instead.  This does not instill warm fuzzy feelings toward the weather, for the record.

[Aside: it appears nobody knows the etymology of the word/phrase neener-neener. Is it pre-cultural, common with children across cultures, or does it have a specific origin?  If the latter is true, then it has been spread around the world.  Now there's a thought: of all the things to spread from culture to culture....a children's taunt-noise.]

Today's playlist started out with a track from one of my favorite jazz albums.  BeatleJazz is a group augmented with talent such as John Scofield (guitar), Michael Brecker (saxophone), Randy Brecker (trumpet), and Mike Stern (guitar), and which (as the group's name suggests) covers wonderful jazz versions of Beatles' tunes.  This comes from the album, With A Little Help From Our Friends. Really good stuff.

It was also nice to get a Fountains of Wayne track this morning.  Considering how many of their albums are scattered across my iPod, it's been a surprising little while since I've last heard from them.

All in all, a nice play list today:

 - BeatleJazz: Chains
 - Fountains Of Wayne: Bought For A Song
 - Alice Smith: New Religion
 - Carole King: Loving you forever
 - Joel Frahm & Brad Mehldau: Away From Home

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