rrrabadoobadimbabumbadimrrrumbabado...

It's such an intricate sequence I don't think it could have been improvised, in which case how do you go about thinking through your rrrabadoobadims in such detail? My mind is boggling.

This track should definitely be used to teach children how to roll their 'r's.

Apparently Fu Manchu is the main villain in a racist series of 1930s novels. Not sure that will help anyone to interpret the song's lyrics, though it could be that they make no sense at all...

a bird or a big cow's eyes

The whole concert is here

autumn albums

 The new Laura Marling album is streaming here

 and the first new Tom Waits song is here

What do ya think? 

Some new music that I like!

A fairly rare happening. Thank you Wendy Roby!

on the topic of stylish simplicity...

Jimmy Cliff is another person who has it

you just picked up a hitcher...

This is my favourite song at the moment. The bit about looking a coyote right in the face is so cool: that edgy-but-unafraid look that surprised animals have is the most intriguing thing to play with in your head and try to put on humans. Apparently it's about Sam Shepard, who wrote the screenplay for the awesome and kind-of-similar-in-tone film Paris, Texas. Yay!