(semi)-weeklies

It has been a long time friends, but they are back:

The music is Thievery Corporation on KCRW. Emily's brother introduced me to them years ago and I haven't kept up, but they are always good when I hear new stuff. This recording has them producing their loungy-world-beat sound, but there is a Doors track in there as well that they did more than justice to.

The place is a new "shopping district" in Woodbury to which we went this weekend. It is a really creepy place and, as Emily's ma noted, looks like it is trying to be a shopping district similar to Santa Cruz or Monterey. The difference, however, is that it is in close proximity, not to the ocean, but to corn and soybean fields fertilized with pig shit. Kind of takes away from the magic, I think. This is a new form of strip mall that faces inward on itself into a main-street atmosphere which, I must say, is a good deal nicer than the standard, but it still seems to be kidding itself and the people who go there.

And finally, the thing may have been the musical selection had Thievery Corporation not been on Morning Becomes Eclectic today, but thanks to NPR (yes, National Public Radio) for leading me to this... shall we say... showcase of the triumph and majesty of the human instrument. Songbirds ain't got nothin' on us!

Walk well, brothers and sisters. More to come...