If Monday is the play yard bully nobody (in the weekday work-a-day world) wants to see, Tuesday is like the bully's tag-along friend. The lingering shadow character that follows the bully all around the playground. When he shows up you're relieved simply because it's not Monday, but Tuesday is almost as far away from the next weekend. Still, when any weekday kicks off with this much golden sunlight they're welcome in my book regardless of their distance from the next weekend!
Pearl Django perfectly captured the top-down sun-filled spirit of this morning's commute with the lively bit of Django Reinhardt swing Bella Savoy.
Marco Benevento's piece this morning is a percussive bit of piano solo that I can't honestly say is in any way beautiful to listen to. It is a technical indulgence on the part of the musician, sounding like an angry young man has been told to take his tantrum out on the keyboards. The only giveaway that this is a talented musician is that the arpeggios stay within a chord structure and this tantrum has rhythm. In places.
Benevento gave way to the beautiful tune Alibi by David Gray as I write this up this morning. Totally opposites as tunes, but for some reason the one followed the other perfectly, with Gray making musical order on my ears where there has just been discord. I also hear something in these lyrics that reminds of the felt-fragility of life:
Stone blind alibi, I will eat the lie
Find the word, could break any spell that binds you
Prayers like ammonites, curl beneath the lights
How I long to bite any hand that feeds you more
Where'd it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant?
But that is a story from a different time and place, thankfully.
Today's full playlist:
- The Guggenheim Grotto: Cold Truth
- BMW Band: Gentle Man
- Pearl Django: Bella Savoy
- Marco Benevento: Bye-Ya
And, in the office:
- David Gray: Alibi
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