Look, you think I enjoy this sort of thing? I wish I could write something today, eloquently crystalize my thoughts, lets the words flow like endless rain into a paper cup, whatever. But I got nothin', so it's another cheap, clip-filled placeholder.
Not that there's anything cheap about great music.
Here's the great cool jazz singer June Christy:
Some astonishing guitar from Ry Cooder:
One of my all-time heroes, composer Ennio Morricone, conducting one of his classics:
Finally, some early XTC. "We're going to do a Rita Coolidge number"... Andy Partridge is one of the coolest people in the world:
