If you feel like dancing, dance with me.

So every year on my birthday I go to the local cd store and buy a cd. Not just any cd, one I've never heard of before. I buy because the cover is cool, the songs have quirky names, or based on a highly scientific round of eeni meeni minie mo. Some years I end up with a less than steller choice. (I got Panic! At The Disco's debut a week before that god awful wedding song hit the radio) but some years I hit musical gold. This was such a year.

It was the cover that got me. It was pretty and simple, a nice soothing blue cover. There was also an 'and' inbetween the band and album name, and little touches like that always tickle me. So, I put back the cd I had been considering and bought Bishop Allen's 'The Broken String.'


Light and pretty songs. Crisp and fresh like a summer's morning. The lyrics are deeper than the music would sugest, which is great because I can't work with lack-lustre lyrics. And while the songs share a similar sound, they are each distinctive in there own way which stops the album from becoming boring. Plus, trumpets and bells and castanets.

It's really just a delight to listen to, not too light and not too dark.

The Moniter
And you think I'd understand
That a rock-n-roll band
Doesn't mean a blessed thing

Click, Click, Click, Click.
I wasn't someone they'd invite
Because I didn't know the groom
Or know the bride
But when I stood next to her brother
For the photograph
He was laughing

Work Mix

A smattering of songs to help you make it through the working week...

Work Is A Four Letter Word - The Smiths

On My Way To Work - Bright Eyes

It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career - Belle & Sebastian

Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello

I Can't Wait to Get Off Work - Tom Waits

Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan

She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer

Manic Monday - The Bangles

I Never Go To Work - They Might Be Giants

Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants

Why Don't You Get a Job - The Offspring

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Fred Astaire

Work Song - Nellie McKay

Working On The Highway - Bruce Springsteen

You Ain't No Picasso - Bishop Allen
I would like you better if you had a job...