(Not Exactly Happy) Happy Hour

 " I need a 12-step program to quit you, baby. "

Nick Lowe

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 I am currently in a blogging slump with a touch of emotional flu. I will see you when I am more inspired.

Love, peace and groovy things,

Pagan Sphinx

Happy Hour Friday - Sam Phillips

The video I really wanted to share with you won't allow embedding, so I'll link to it here, in the remote chance that there is anyone else out there who is a Sam Phillips fan. She is this Sam Phillips, no this Sam Phillips. It gets  a little confusing...

Here is a video I did find by Sam Phillips for a song off the album Martinis and Bikinis, from 1994.

 When I Fall by Sam Phillips

Musique Noire - Fade to Black - Dire Straits

Music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler

Music for Sunday

 This is one goes out to Ginger, who recently referred to the T.S. Eliot poem.
With love.  

For I have known them all already, known them all:— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,         50 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.   So how should I presume?

For the entire T.S. Eliot poem The Love Song of J.A. Prufrock, click here

What is it that makes me just a little bit queasy?

Theres a breeze that makes my breathing not so easy
Ive had my lungs checked out with X rays
Ive smelled the hospital hallways

Someday Ill have a disappearing hairline
Someday Ill wear pyjamas in the daytime

Times when the day is like a play by Sartre
When it seems a bookburnings in perfect order
I gave the doctor my description
Ive tried to stick my prescriptions

Someday Ill have a disappearing hairline
Someday Ill wear pyjamas in the daytime

Afternoons will be measured out
Measured out, measured with
Coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot

Maybe if I could do a play-by playback
I could change the test results that I will get back
Ive watched the summer evenings pass by
Ive heard the rattle in my bronchi...

Someday Ill have a disappearing hairline
Someday Ill wear pyjamas in the daytime

Afternoons will be measured out
Measured out, measured with
Coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot (2x)

Music for Insomniacs - Leslie "Sam" Phillips

This week has been no-sleep hell. At least this morning, it was already 4:00 a.m. when I woke up. Earlier in the week it was 1:00 and I couldn't get back to sleep.

You'd think I'd be choosing lullabyes but it never seems to work that way when one's mind is going and going and going...

I need love

not some sentimental prison

I need god

not the political church...

- Sam Phillips 

Music for Insomniacs - The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms

Music for Sunday

 This one goes out to Cloudia and her Comfort Spiral, out of Hawaii.  The band Poi Dog Pondering began in Hawaii and now out of Austin, Texas, it sounds like.  In the 90's, their debut album was on my top five favorites for whatever that year was. Yeah. The 90's are starting to sound like a long time ago!  :-)

Aloha, friend!

Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

Kay's Seven Deadly Sins meme tempts me this week with Gluttony.

From the Australian band Crowded House comes their interpretation of American excess from 1991. They seemed to think that if our national gluttony is to be named after a cake, it had to be chocolate. Oh, the 90's.