Friday, January 25, 2008

HAPPY TIME!

It's Friday! The weekend's here, and let's just enjoy ourselves with some music! Everyone loves Beatles songs, and everyone loves Emmylou Harris, so when she covers this classic, it's bound to be cheerful, right?



Okay, I admit it. We're not here to be happy. It's depressing music day around here, so let's try something from Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Lovely but...yeah. You'll see:



And if you put Kate & Anna in a collective that includes Emmylou and Kate's son Rufus Wainwright--and have them do an old Stephen Foster song--well, you might as well pass out the razor blades. Damn beautiful, though.



And here's Kate's ex, Rufus' dad, Loudon Wainwright. Painfully honest:



Ahhh, enough with the sorrow. Here's Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot. I'm pretty sure I use the word "breasticaboobicle" at least once every single day. And I'm only moderately embarrassed to admit that!