[lbo-talk] Blog Post: A Little Night Music

MICHAEL YATES mikedjyates at msn.com
Fri Mar 18 04:53:07 PDT 2011


Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2011/03/17/a-little-night-music-2/

Sometimes at night in our motel room, I put on headphones and listen to music on my computer. I subscribe to Rhapsody, which gives me access to millions of songs. I pick one and go from there. Once a piece is chosen, Rhapsody recommends others; a second song leads to a third, and so forth, until by evening’s end, I have a long playlist, one I can come back to whenever I want. It’s a good way to find music I didn’t know about. Like Talk to Me of Mendocino: “Never had the blues from whence I came, but in New York State I caught ’em.” Or Heart Like a Wheel: “And it’s only love and it’s only love that can wreck a human being and turn him inside out.” One evening, I found Cole Porter singing all the lyrics to Anything Goes. I like the last verse:

So Missus R., with all her trimmin’s, Can broadcast a bed from Simmons 'Cause Franklin knows Anything goes.



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